Trump wants to shake up health care. Many Americans don’t mind
As a nature-loving physical therapist in Boulder, Colorado, Colin O’Banion shops at farmers markets, grows organic squash in his backyard and thought he could never vote for Donald Trump.
The many faces of NEETs
When they aren’t roasting millennials’ outfits or scrolling on TikTok, how are Gen Z-ers spending their time?
Frequent flyers are rethinking loyalty programs and setting themselves free
When SuzAnn Brantner moved to Indiana from Los Angeles during the coronavirus pandemic, she had been a longtime Delta Air Lines frequent flyer, achieving the highest loyalty status the airline offered: Diamond Medallion. The benefits included expedited security screenings, priority boarding and top preference for complimentary first-class upgrades.
‘I was a stranger and you invited me in’
I won’t forget the first time I volunteered for a Nashville, Tennessee, homeless ministry called Room in the Inn. It was decades ago, in 1990, on a cold night in the dead of winter. I drove to my church, walked into the kitchen and immediately started cooking more food than I’d ever made in my life. We were making lasagna for roughly 20 men who were due to arrive at the church at any moment.
A warning from a California marine heat wave
SAN FRANCISCO — They call it “the Blob.”
Biden issues a ‘full and unconditional pardon’ of his son Hunter Biden
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon of his son Hunter on Sunday night, using the power of his office to wave aside years of legal troubles, including a federal conviction for illegally buying a gun.
Auli’i Cravalho is more than a Disney princess
On a chilly November evening, wearing a light leather jacket and a scarf, Auli‘i Cravalho was freezing as she plunged through a pair of gleaming doors into a candlelit bar in midtown Manhattan.
For rising Democrats, the quiet race to lead the party began months ago
In Texas, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer paid homage to Beyoncé, a Houston native, and told a room full of Democratic activists about the party’s successes in her state.
Hoping for allies among Trump’s health picks, pharma faces hostility
Drug company executives had hoped that a second Trump administration would be staffed by friendly health policy officials who would reduce regulation and help their industry boom.
Republicans built an ecosystem of influencers. Some Democrats want one, too
Zackory Kirk, an influencer based in Atlanta who goes by the name The Zactivist and has more than 220,000 followers on Instagram, TikTok and other platforms, has been churning out mostly progressive content for more than four years.
Musk’s Slashing of the Federal Budget Faces Big Hurdles
WASHINGTON — These are frenzied times for the nascent Department of Government Efficiency.
Holiday shopping season separates winning retailers from losers
Shoppers are heading into the Black Friday weekend unsure how wide to open their wallets, retailers say, with many still feeling the squeeze of inflation and also worried that tariffs could make things even more expensive if they wait too long to buy.
Trump team’s rejection of a transition deal adds a wrinkle to its transparency pledges
The refusal by President-elect Donald Trump’s team to sign a transition agreement with the General Services Administration means that despite the team’s pledges to abide by several transparency customs of presidential handovers, it isn’t legally bound to follow through on its promises.
Killer whales hunt and feast on the largest fish on earth
Off Baja California in Mexico, a killer whale named after an Aztec emperor is leading his pod on routine takedowns of the largest fish in the sea: whale sharks.
Crowds turn out for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade despite rain
NEW YORK — They stood in inches-deep puddles on street corners, heedless of soaked feet. They huddled under garbage bags turned raincoats, and sodden umbrellas — but everyone was smiling.
The US is building an early warning system to detect geoengineering
BOULDER, Colo. — In a guarded compound at the foot of the Rockies, government scientists are working on a new kind of global alarm system: one that can detect if another country, or maybe just an adventurous billionaire, tries to dim the sun.
Airlines are padding flight times. It’s not your imagination.
The average flight today from Kennedy Airport to LAX is slower than it was in 1995 in every conceivable way. Planes face longer delays leaving the gate; take more time taxiing before taking off; and spend more time in the air.
Thousands stream homeward as fragile peace begins in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Thousands of civilians began the journey back to their war-ravaged, mostly abandoned communities around Beirut and in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, as a U.S.-backed ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took tenuous hold after more than 13 months of bloodshed.
Obesity drugs would be covered by Medicare and Medicaid under Biden proposal
The Biden administration, in one of its last major policy directives, proposed Tuesday that Medicare and Medicaid cover obesity medications, a costly and probably popular move that the Trump administration would need to endorse to become official.
Judge approves settlement that changes rules for real estate agents
It’s official: A legal settlement that will rewrite the way many real estate agents are paid in the United States has received its final approval from a federal judge.
