Martin Parr/Magnum Photos It has ruined a lot of sleep at night, and no doubt a lot of relationships too. Trying to sleep next to a snoring partner is exactly that: trying. Once the engines go away, there are few countermeasures other than a shove, earplugs and the patience of a saint. That’s the thing … Read more
We all bow our heads in memory of Blake Lively’s floral era, which apparently is no longer with us. The actor was seen in New York City with her husband Ryan Reynolds, dressed in all black, perhaps in mourning for the non-stop flowers she wore to promote. It ends with usin which she played a … Read more
by DOUG FEINBERG The WNBA is returning to Portland with the Oregon city getting an expansion team that will begin play starting in 2026. The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise. “This is huge for Portland. We … Read more
WWhen the secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, asked me to investigate the state of the NHS, I thought I knew what we would find. All of us who have worked in the NHS in recent years know that it was under pressure. But, as a surgeon, I am used to … Read more
A Naperville student awarded an Obama-Chesky service scholarship Naperville resident Leland Pan, a political science major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was one of three college students to receive the Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for the public service. Pan plans to work to mitigate burnout and compassion fatigue in social impact organizations, a … Read more
Black women are more likely than white women to die even from the most treated types of breast cancer, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found The findings, experts say, underscore that racial disparities, not biology, drive the biggest differences in death rates between black and white women. While black women … Read more
WASHINGTON — Republicans have blocked for the second time this year legislation to establish a national right to in vitro fertilizationArguing that the vote is an election year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue. The Senate vote was the latest attempt by Democrats to force Republicans into a defensive stance on women’s … Read more
BBC Dame Ruth May was England’s chief nurse from 2019 until she retired in July 2024. Nurses have borne the brunt of the pandemic, with low staffing levels and difficulty accessing protective equipment, according to England’s former chief nurse. Dame Ruth May told the Covid inquiry that the NHS was under pressure in 2020, partly … Read more
CNN — Human-caused climate change has already made heat waves around the world more frequent and intense. Scientists studying the role of global warming on the climate say that every heat wave today bears the fingerprints of the climate crisis. Climate change, driven primarily by humans burning fossil fuels, is making global extreme weather worse … Read more