What Is Spondylolisthesis, the Spine Condition Reported to Plague Luigi Mangione?
This is a MedPage Today story. Luigi Mangione, the person charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly had spinal surgery for chronic back
Trump administration sues New York over sanctuary city policies
The Trump administration sued New York City on Thursday over its “sanctuary” laws, continuing a monthslong effort to crack down on localities that try to
Too hot for Santa as Lapland buckles under record heatwave
After an unusually cold early summer, the whole of Finland has been plunged into two weeks of high temperatures.
Pro-Palestinian convict to be freed by France after 41 years
Georges Abdallah will immediately be expelled to his native Lebanon after his release on Friday.
How a vote targeting ‘pro-China’ lawmakers has split Taiwan
The spectre of Chinese influence in parliament has sparked a movement and fractured Taiwan’s society.
The fractured friendship behind the fight at the Thailand-Cambodia border
The countries have a history of occasional conflict, but this latest fight comes after an old friendship crumbled.
Norway didn’t develop a floating greenhouse called ‘Ocean Bloom’
The purported greenhouse was just another fabrication from a Facebook page that posts about fake scientific discoveries almost hourly.
Another old photo of Trump and daughter Ivanka makes the rounds again
The photo gained renewed attention amid broader discussions about Trump’s past associations in July 2025.
Examining claim Obama said boys need gay mentors
The former president was discussing how to raise “emotionally intelligent men” on a podcast.
No, Project 2025 doesn’t advise government officials to use Signal to avoid recordkeeping laws
The claim spread after The Atlantic reported that Trump officials accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a Signal group chat.
‘Hell on earth.’ A Venezuelan deportee describes abuse in El Salvador prison
A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country’s infamous prisons recounts his months in custody
Astronomers discover new dwarf planet ‘Ammonite’ — and it could upend the existence of Planet Nine
A newly discovered dwarf planet called ‘Ammonite’ (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be another nail in the
Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals
Cut marks on a child’s cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about cannibalism victims.