July 3, 2025, 4:47 p.m. Eastern time

From Health

A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. But a new paper suggests it might be more a product of our environment.

What Makes Someone Cool? A New Study Offers Clues. Six traits can determine your ‘it’ factor, according to researchers who measured coolness around the globe.

Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.

Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.

How the Risks of Drinking Increase in Older Age Alcohol can present health problems for even light or occasional drinkers.

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The Best Movies of the 21st Century: Readers Choose Their Top Movies The people have spoken. Here are the movies they voted for.

Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated. Trump’s claim that Venezuelan criminals took over Aurora, Colorado, became a rationale for his immigration crackdown. What really happened there?

Diogo Jota, Liverpool Soccer Star, Dies in Car Crash at 28 Mr. Jota and his brother André Silva died in Spain, the authorities said. The crash came two weeks after the Portuguese player’s wedding.

How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy Medicine is now the nation’s largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.

From City Renters to Westchester Buyers, a Young Family Looked for Space to Grow After renting a one-bedroom on the Upper West Side for years, a couple with a baby decided to search for a house outside the city. Which town could they afford?

Once Russia’s Most Volatile Region, Chechnya Is Bracing for Succession Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future.

It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet 3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy.

A Friend Asked to Bring My Ex to My Party. Was It OK to Disinvite Her? A reader was caught off guard by her college best friend’s request of a plus one, considering how poorly her relationship with the ex ended. But did she overreact?

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