3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (263+ words) Voters cast their ballots in the primary midterm elections on Sept. 8, 2026 in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. After years of Google restricting Gemini’s ability to answer users’ questions about major elections, the tech giant is shifting tactics. “We know that voters are…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (273+ words) We don’t often look with suspicion at the plastic wrapping a block of cheddar, the waxed carton containing milk, or the plastic bottle of ketchup. We expect food packaging to be more or less inert—breakfast isn’t supposed to come…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (298+ words) Keen and Eileen Umbehr in A Killer Story Journalist Joe Sexton and director Matthew Galkin Courtesy of HBO The facts of what took place on July 7, 2002 are clear. Harkness and Sisco spent the previous evening at a casino, cameras catching…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (538+ words) Diana Miller and Daphne "Saza" Pouletsos. In 2001, I lost the world I knew. Twenty-five years later, I’m accidentally rebuilding it. “I think people think you’re my mother,” my six-year-old niece whispered to me as we walked through the parking lot…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1141+ words) A head louse on hair As children return to school, families have a lot to look forward to: fresh routines, new connections, crisper weather—and a greater risk of head lice. Head lice is a common childhood condition, with up…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (894+ words) Everyone I know has either deleted dating apps, stopped using them, or is considering it. The icons lie dormant on their phones: technically still there, but rarely opened and no longer expected to deliver anything meaningful. I have used multiple…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (640+ words) People waiting for care in a crowded hospital emergency room in Coon Rapids, Minn. As a result, other hospitals in the area saw higher volumes of patients and more uninsured patients; one hospital’s share of uninsured patients more than tripled,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (297+ words) Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston, Tony Bennett, and Danny Glover have something in common. So do Margaret Thatcher, Norman Rockwell, and Sean Connery. All had been afflicted with Alzheimer’s or dementia—the progressive neurologic disease characterized by memory and functional loss…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) It’s Saturday morning and your boss emails you a question that can wait until Monday. What do you do? If you’re like me, you read the message while walking out of your yoga class and respond before lunch. Being pulled…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) A sign outside a polling location during a primary election in Marblehead, Massachusetts, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. Today, our elections are again under attack. But while some institutions have maintained their commitment to defending democracy, far too many have retreated....