Drug overdose deaths drop in United States for third year in a row
Experts cite range of factors as overdose deaths drop to nearly 70,000 in 2025, a 14 percent decline over previous year.
Can Macron’s Kenya visit revive French influence in Africa?
France is facing deepening resentment in former African colonies where it once had political influence.
Inspecting hantavirus fact sheet that says virus isn’t contagious
It’s possible the fact sheet was written before human-to-human transmission of hantavirus was first documented in one strain of hantavirus.
11 rumors we’ve probed about aliens, UFOs
The Trump administration’s Department of Defense released its first batch of files regarding “unidentified anomalous phenomena” in May 2026.
Israeli strikes on cars in southern Lebanon kill 12, health ministry says
Two children are among those reported dead after seven cars were struck in separate attacks south of Beirut.
Does same baker make Girl Scout cookies and Dollar Tree knockoffs? We checked
Oven Baked offers a similar — but not identical — flavor of the fan-favorite Girl Scout Cookie flavor Thin Mints.
Trade, Iran and Taiwan on the agenda as Trump arrives in China for high-stakes talks with Xi
The US president says his first request to Xi would be to “open up” China, while Beijing is expected to press Trump on the status
More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise after gastrointestinal illness outbreak
The ship, which set sail from Belfast on Friday, is at port in Bordeaux after 49 people fell ill from gastrointestinal illness.
Deadly Russian drone attacks on Ukraine resume after ceasefire expires
Six people have been killed after Zelensky warned of “more waves” of Russian strikes through Wednesday.
Board of Peace envoy says stalled ceasefire hinges on disarmament of Hamas
The top diplomat overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, said Wednesday the truce hinged on Hamas’ disarmament, a sticking point that has stalled progress on
NYT Epic Fail on Acupuncture
This makes the third time in just two weeks that a major mainstream or scientific outlet published credible nonsense about acupuncture, but I had to
Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Accel led the London chip startup’s round, with Pat Gelsinger joining as an angel investor, weeks after Anthropic was reported to be in early discussions
Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up
The unified Alexa for Shopping assistant absorbs Rufus and arrives in the main search flow as Amazon sues to keep external AI agents like Perplexity’s
France confines over 1,700 passengers on cruise ship over gastroenteritis
The British ship docked in the southwestern French city of Bordeaux reports 49 suspected cases.