WASHINGTON — The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge — pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it. Biden is returning to that…
Two Wilmslow doctors say the NHS is “broken” after they had to drive a patient to A&E themselves.
WASHINGTON – Wes Unseld Jr. is out as coach of the Washington Wizards midway through his third season with the team. President Michael Winger announced Thursday that Unseld would be transitioning to a front office advisory role. The Wizards said they will name an interim coach later in the day and hold a search for…
To watch the singer-rapper Lil Nas X in the documentary “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” is to witness a Black queer man embody a power that still feels very new. Directed by Carlos López Estrada (“Raya and the Last Dragon”) and Zac Manuel, this film, streaming on Max, is historically important given its subject’s…
More Americans filed jobless benefits last week but layoffs remain at historically low levels despite elevated interest rates and a flurry of job cuts in the media and technology sectors. Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 214,000 for the week ending Jan. 20, an increase of 25,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported…
People were mistakenly taken off waiting lists for operations such as knee and hip surgeries.
Pierrette, a gifted seamstress and a mother of three, can’t seem to catch a break. After a hard day’s work at her humble shop in Douala, a busy city in Cameroon, she’s mugged by a motorcycle taxi driver. It’s also the rainy season and her home — and later her shop — is flooded overnight….
Snowballing protests by French farmers crept closer to Paris on Thursday, with tractors driving in convoys and blocking roads in many regions of the country to ratchet up pressure for government measures to protect the influential agricultural sector from foreign competition, red tape, rising costs and poverty-levels of pay for the worst-off producers. Traffic-snarling drive-slows,…
Gene therapy has successfully restored hearing in some children born with inherited deafness, health officials say. A study in China and another at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia documented significant improvements in hearing in treated children. Cochlear implants are commonly used for children with hereditary deafness, but gene therapy offers a potential treatment. Gene therapy…
Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega fight pheromones and cliché in this eye-rolling duel between a teacher and his student.
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