A federal judge has ruled that disputed ballots in the still unresolved 2024 race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat must remain in the final count
Chester town official shot a lost DoorDash driver seeking directions, NY police say
A town official in upstate New York has been arrested after state police say he shot and wounded a delivery driver who got lost and approached his house seeking directions
LA firefighters union heads suspended, audit finds $800,000 in undocumented spending
Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union have been suspended
Rescue crews search for missing girl lost in Texas floodwaters while forecasters warn of more storms
Rescue crews in Texas are searching for a 10-year-old girl swept away by rapidly rising floodwaters and forecasters warn that more heavy rains and flooding could be on the way to the Houston area and the state’s coast
How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast
Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific...
Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study
Survey of 164 primates in Rwanda shows how impact of being close to others is affected by group size and sex Human friendship groups are complex – and often fraught – but a study of mountain gorillas has found that their societies can also be head-scratchingly complicated. The study, which...
Online tests revealed I have a multitude of food sensitivity issues – but are they trustworthy?
Three different tests flagged up a long list of potential problem foods, but they failed to agree on a single one The list of foods I should consider cutting out is long and daunting. Meat, mushrooms, most nuts and seeds, milk products, soya beans and potatoes – all this would...
America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before
The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches
A timeline of the rise and fall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of one of hip-hop’s most opportunistic entrepreneurs
Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders
Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term