Fetch! Dogs may make us happy in more ways than one Monica Click/Shutterstock Dogs may be man’s best friend, but what if they boost our well-being not just by being our furry companions, but by altering our microbiome? A series of experiments in mice suggests that dog owners have a unique makeup of bacterial species…
Two more nuclear companies have been awarded large grants by the Trump administration. The Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec will each receive $400 million from the Department of Energy to build small modular reactors based on existing nuclear fission technology. The TVA will build one 300-megawatt reactor from GE Vernova Hitachi in Tennessee, while Holtec…
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Mills, President and CEO of BET Media Group, which includes the BET cable network, BET Studios and BET+, is departing after 23 years. Mills, who finalized his exit over the last couple of weeks, just informed the company staff in an internal memo. “Leading this extraordinary brand and serving the Black community alongside…
Traffic on Interstate 80 in San Pablo, California, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The White House will announce new fuel economy standards on Wednesday, according to administration sources. The Trump administration will propose rolling back the standards implemented by former President Joe Biden last year, sources…
Economic and military pressures could force Russia’s hand. Its economy is strained but not enough to do that, analysts say. And President Vladimir V. Putin says Russia is winning the war.
The Digital Markets Act aims to regulate large digital platforms operating in the European Union.
Embed from Getty ImagesAs we discussed earlier this week, Donald Trump issued Thanksgiving Greetings in the form of a hateful anti-immigration post, penned in his signature rhetorical style of unhinged with a wanton use of capitalizations. Contained within that screed was a gross slur directed at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who took the high road…
Israel had agreed to open the Rafah crossing as part of the October cease-fire deal with Hamas but kept it closed. Egypt denied that the border would reopen soon.
Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation concludes, human evolution experienced a regional twist. Ancient southern Africans evolved an impressive array of genetic tweaks largely independently of humans in other parts of…
Terence Crawford has been stripped of his World Boxing Council super-middleweight world title after a dispute over unpaid sanctioning fees, a decision that puts Britain’s Hamzah Sheeraz in line to fight for the vacant belt. The WBC announced on Wednesday that it had removed the American star as its champion, three months after he shocked…
