Janice Petty

US life expectancy has rebounded closer to pre-pandemic levels

Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from...

Shutdown watch: Musk barrages GOP to blow up “criminal” spending deal

Elon Musk, one of President-elect Trump's closest allies, railed against the bill to avert a looming government shutdown Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to strike down the stopgap...

Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

Dec 18 (Reuters) - Thousands of Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab workers will walk off the job on Thursday morning, in the crucial final days of...

Trump and Musk unleash a new kind of chaos on Washington

The president-elect and the world’s richest man combined Wednesday to smash a short-term spending compromise orchestrated by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to keep...

Wisconsin school shooter was in contact with California man plotting his own attack, court documents say

The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a...

How To Turn 15 PTO Days Into 51 Vacation Days In 2025

Viral PTO hacks show which days to request off to best maximize your vacation days. Here’s how you could turn 15 PTO Days into...

Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands days before shutdown

President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days...

Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s rebel-held capital and port city after Houthi attack targets Israel

A series of intense Israeli airstrikes shook Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city early Thursday and killed at least nine people, officials said,...

Winter Work for the Gardeners

For people in parts of the world with seasons — especially cold ones — winter might seem like a time to rest and to...

US Supreme Court to hear TikTok challenge to potential ban

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear last-ditch legal arguments from TikTok as to why it should not be banned or sold in...

Google’s Gemini is forcing contractors to rate AI responses outside their expertise

Generative AI may look like magic, but behind the development of these systems are armies of employees at companies like Google, OpenAI, and others,...

The Year in Biology

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. Many types of...

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