Anti-aging enthusiasts are taking a pill to extend their lives. Will it work?
In March, Robert Berger, 69, a self-proclaimed “better-living-through-chemistry type of person,” started taking a small dose of rapamycin once a week with the goal of increasing his “health span” — the amount of time he might live without serious disease.
Haitian rights group wants Trump, Vance arrested over false claims in Springfield, Ohio
A Haitian rights organization is seeking the arrest of former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and running mate JD Vance for false statements about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, which has led to a wave of bomb threats and other disruptions in public service in the small Midwestern town.
Meta’s AI chatbot to start speaking in the voices of Judi Dench, John Cena, others, source says
NEW YORK— Facebook owner Meta Platforms is planning to announce this week that it has secured deals with actors including Judi Dench, Kristen Bell and John Cena to give voice to its Meta AI chatbot, a source familiar with the company’s plans told Reuters on Monday.
Gunman who killed 10 at Colorado supermarket in 2021 convicted of murder
DENVER — Rejecting an insanity defense, a Colorado jury on Monday convicted a man diagnosed with the severe mental disorder schizophrenia of first-degree murder in a 2021 mass shooting at a grocery store in the city of Boulder that killed 10 people including a police officer.
US sends additional forces to Middle East as tensions soar, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON — The United States is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East given escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Pentagon said on Monday, declining to specify the precise number or mission of the deployed forces.
Lebanon says Israeli airstrikes kill at least 492, residents flee from south
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT — Israel’s military said it launched airstrikes against Hezbollah sites in Lebanon on Monday, which Lebanese authorities said had killed 492 people and sent tens of thousands fleeing for safety in the country’s deadliest day in decades.
Republican bid to alter Nebraska’s electoral system to boost Trump stymied
A last-minute Republican effort to award Nebraska’s five Electoral College votes on a winner-take-all basis — a change that would help Donald Trump’s odds of winning the White House — appeared doomed on Monday, after a key Republican lawmaker said he opposed the proposal despite lobbying from Trump’s allies.
A day after most of his staff resigned, Mark Robinson is continuing to campaign
RALEIGH, N.C. — Mark Robinson returned to the campaign trail Monday in North Carolina, insisting that he will remain in the governor’s race even after most of his staff resigned following a CNN report linking him to numerous disturbing comments on a pornographic website.
US Senate seeks emergency abortion care policies from hospitals in states with limited access
A U.S. Senate panel is asking eight hospitals in states with limited abortion access to share more information about their policies around the procedure after reports of dire results for several patients who received delayed care or were denied care.
US intelligence says Russians created fake California news site to fabricate Harris scandal
WASHINGTON — Russian actors created a fake San Francisco news station that published a staged video this month in an attempt to generate a scandal about Vice President Kamala Harris — the latest example of Moscow’s attempt to denigrate the Democratic presidential nominee in her campaign against former President Donald Trump, U.S. intelligence officials said on Monday.
US to seek attempted assassination charge for Trump golf course suspect
WASHINGTON — The federal government will pursue a charge of attempted assassination against a man accused of lurking with a gun near where former President Donald Trump was golfing in Florida last week, prosecutors said in a court hearing Monday. Among the government’s evidence, they said, was a note the suspect had written suggesting that he had planned the attack.
In a first among Christians, young men are more religious than young women
On a beautiful Sunday morning in early September, dozens of young men in Waco, Texas, started their day at Grace Church.
At least 31 dead in Iran coal mine blast
DUBAI (Reuters) — A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 31 people and injured 16, the country’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni told state media on Sunday.
Sri Lanka’s president-elect breaks a tradition of political lineage
COLOMBO — Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and pledge to fight corruption handed him victory on Sunday in Sri Lanka’s presidential election.
Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire in ‘new phase’ of fighting
BEIRUT/HAIFA, Israel — Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory after facing some of the most intense bombardment in almost a year of conflict.
US House Republicans unveil three-month stopgap bill to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday proposed a three-month stopgap funding bill that excludes an immigration-related measure demanded by Donald Trump, as lawmakers look to avert a month-end partial government shutdown.
Trump says he will not run again if he loses in November, ‘that will be it’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican Donald Trump said that he will not make a fourth consecutive run for the U.S. presidency if he loses the Nov. 5 election, saying “that will be it” in an interview released on Sunday.
Leaders at climate meetings in New York warn of growing mistrust between nations
NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary General António Guterres launched a two-day, climate-themed “Summit for the Future” on Sunday as part of the U.N. General Assembly, where some leaders warned of growing mistrust between nations as climate-fueled disasters mount.
Favorable weather conditions help firefighters increase containment of three major wildfires
Assisted by favorable weather conditions, firefighters continue to increase containment of three major Southern California wildfires that have burned more than 117,000 acres, destroyed 242 structures and led to 24 injuries.
Background checks blocked thousands of gun sales to youth, domestic abusers, White House says
WASHINGTON — Enhanced background checks have blocked thousands of gun sales to people under the age of 21 and those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes in the past year, the White House said on Sunday, a year after President Joe Biden set up a new office to accelerate work on preventing gun violence.
