Hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who were laid off on Friday amid the government shutdown were reinstated, according to media reports. The employees were sent “incorrect notifications,” a senior administration official told The New York Times. The official went on to say that as of Saturday, “any correction […]
Soda and other artificially sweetened drinks are linked to an increased risk of liver disease, an unpublished study presented recently for United European Gastroenterology Week showed. Researchers said having one soda a day can lead to a higher chance of developing metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD. The study followed 123,788 United Kingdom Biobank […]
Popular media likes to paint the fentanyl crisis as an epidemic that’s exclusively claiming the lives of young Americans. Now, a new study is challenging the simplified narrative and suggests older adults are just as susceptible to overdosing on the powerful opioid. A 9,000% increase During this year’s meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, […]
Five people were injured after a helicopter in Huntington Beach, California, crashed into palm trees on Saturday afternoon. Footage from local news outlet KTLA shows the helicopter descending toward the street as people watch, before dropping and crashing by the roadway. The Huntington Beach Police Department said in a statement that it responded to the […]
President Donald Trump will depart for the Middle East on Sunday, where he intends to formally usher in the beginning of a ceasefire agreement that could end Israel’s two-year war in Gaza. A “peace summit” co-chaired by Trump and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, will coincide with the first phase of the plan, which includes […]
Former President Joe Biden is going through a new phase of treatment for prostate cancer, according to multiple media outlets. In comments first reported on by NBC News, a spokesperson said Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy along with hormone treatment. The radiation therapy is set to last five weeks, a source told NBC. Biden […]
On Saturday, the defense counsel for Luigi Mangione asked a federal judge to dismiss several charges related to the case. One of those charges, levied by the Trump administration, carries the death penalty. Mangione’s attorneys on Saturday asked a federal judge in New York to dismiss several charges that were brought against their client in […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday said his administration identified funds that could be used to pay military service members amid the government shutdown. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that he’s directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th.” An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson […]
A federal appeals court is letting the National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump stay under federal control, but it also ruled Saturday they cannot be deployed for now. This comes after a federal judge blocked the Guard’s deployment on Thursday. “Members of the National Guard do not need to return to […]
Authorities in Tennessee said Saturday that no survivors have been recovered from the explosion at a weapons manufacturing plant. The incident happened Friday at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant, which manufactures explosives for the military, along with the space, demolition and oil industries. Recovery and identification efforts underway During a news conference Saturday, Humphreys County […]
