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Texas Children’s Hospital must create the country’s “first-ever detransition clinic,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in announcing a settlement over transgender healthcare.

A fourth King County resident may have been exposed to hantavirus, and someone in Chelan County is infected with a different type of hantavirus.

The acclaimed actor began to cry as he was presented with an honorary Palme d'Or, the Cannes equivalent of a lifetime achievement award at the Oscars.

The FDA has announced a recall of Straus Family Creamery Organic Ice Cream due to possible metal fragments. Several flavors and sizes have been recalled, so check your freezer.

With Labor Day falling later this year and the NFL wanting to play a Week 1 game in Australia, the opener was moved to a Wednesday for the second time in league history. That might not be a one-off.

WHO learned of potential cases May 5; US CDC said it just heard about it yesterday.

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Beth and Rip are in Texas now, and there are still cows, as the “Yellowstone” universe expands again.

The long-necked herbivore is the largest ever found in Southeast Asia, researchers said.

Meta is opening the door to third-party apps on Ray-Ban Display glasses as the debut of Android XR is right around the corner.

Google has rolled out version 4.69 of Fitbit for Android as the last update before the Google Health rebrand...

Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI company aims to kick off formal marketing as soon as June 4, price its IPO as early as June 11 and list on June 12

The Omaha-based company built a position worth more than $2.6 billion, making Delta Berkshire's 14th-largest holding at the end of March.

The Associated Press implemented a round of layoffs Friday of U.S.-based journalists. The layoffs finish a restructuring aimed at turning the news organization’s focus away from print journalism and newspapers to visual journalism and other revenue sources.

L.A.'s iconic Original Tommy's burger chain kicked off a celebration of its 80th anniversary by offering 80-cent chili cheeseburgers in a one-day-only deal.

OpenAI trial featured a golden donkey, a haunted mansion, and the future of AI.

A new report calls the impact significant and "irreversible."

Here's a must-see video about the company and pilots responsible for repo'ing Spirit Airlines' planes, following the carrier's liquidation.

Ackman Loads Up on Microsoft Despite Wall Street AI Concerns

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone may have a US flag on the rear, but not as we know it.

North America’s largest commuter rail system is facing a potential shutdown as a deadline nears to reach a deal with unionized workers to avert a strike.

A geoengineering company would use tiny specks of silica to block sun rays — and make billions of dollars.

‘If quarterly reporting is crushing American capitalism, American capitalism is hiding it well’

Two new unpatched Windows BitLocker zero-day vulnerabilities significantly compromise Microsoft's ecosystem. The exploits include a critical BitLocker encryption bypass called YellowKey and a privilege escalation flaw named GreenPlasma. The most critical of t…

Believe it or not, Microsoft appears to be rebranding Xbox.

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.

A small issue is having big consequences in Lord of Hatred

Microsoft is testing an update for Windows 11 that will allow users to change the position of the taskbar and resize the Start button.

Here’s every new Apple product rumored to launch this year, with 15+ total spanning iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods Pro, and more.

Google’s new Gemini Intelligence push was announced this week and it has pretty steep requirements for Android devices to support...

One big iPhone Ultra question likely won’t be resolved until September: will the new form factor make the product’s trade-offs worth it?

Forza Horizon 6 makes cherry blossom trees and shrines indestructible — here's why.

The egg hatches in less than a week

You may only get 5GB of storage instead of 15GB if you don't share your digits with the Chocolate Factory

This comes as Subnautica 2 makes a massive splash on Steam and Xbox, boasting over two million copies sold.

CineD tested the Sony A7rVI and wrote this: Sony managed to create a very attractive package with the a7R VI – rolling shutter values with or without the dual gain mode are very manageable, and the dynamic range results show the power of dual gain “ON” – we g…

For over a decade, the ChromeOS desktop has been little more than a glorified wallpaper viewer. While there is definitely an appeal to that distraction-free, minimalist approach, users migrating from Windows or macOS have consistently asked for a traditional …

The native iOS app helps you do much more with your phone.

But it is meant to be substantial, says dev

Microsoft is introducing a new capability that will allow it to remotely roll back problematic Windows drivers delivered through Windows Update.

ASUS launches ROG SCAR 18 gaming laptop with RTX 5090 and first 240 Hz Mini LED display, starting above $4000

ASUS celebrates its 20th ROG Anniversary in style with the launch of the ROG Crosshair 2006 motherboard, featuring modern X870E & AM5 specs.

A fox bit two people in Orange County on Friday, according to the county's animal services.

“They may not be related by blood, but they certainly act like they are sister and brother."

This dangerous combination of movements is throwing out people’s backs regularly.

There’s no indication that the New Yorker was returning to the U.S. But public health experts said the city and state still should have been informed.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health warned residents about a hepatitis A outbreak in New York that has been linked to shellfish.

I found the best way to get rid of mosquitoes after talking with pest control experts. They recommend the best products and methods for making your home mosquito-free.

Some mosquitoes and flies don't mate or lay eggs as much when exposed to a compound found in garlic.

Buffets and shared spaces help make cruise ships ideal places for viruses to flourish, disease experts say. Still, Americans are booking cruises in record numbers.

Doctor Philip Ovadia, a heart surgeon, was warning a popular food that's probably in your kitchen was 'destroying your heart'

The suspected hantavirus case in Ontario County involves a Geneva High School student, the Geneva City School District confirmed to 13WHAM.

Coffee is linked to several health benefits, including effects on sexual health, digestive health, metabolism, and risk of chronic disease.

Most people are holding the plank completely wrong. New research reveals the ideal duration is shockingly short, and pushing past it does more harm than good.

Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable.

While health tech companies are chasing personalized health, the reality is algorithms and features don’t really take chronic conditions into account.

A COVID-19 outbreak in a residential building in Spain during the early months of the pandemic likely spread through shared bathroom ventilation ducts, according to a study published this week in PLO…

Learn how chronic wasting disease spreads, why infected “zombie deer” act strangely, and whether humans are at risk.

Why does a sneeze take over your whole face? And why can light trigger it in some people? The answers lie in brain evolution and sensory wiring.

Thailand has classified hantavirus as a dangerous communicable disease despite no cases having been detected in the country, saying that any high-risk contacts of infected persons must quarantine for 42 days.

Discover how coffee can support liver health by reducing the risk of fibrosis and cirrhosis, lowering enzymes and providing antioxidant protection.

Could spinach extracts be the next treatment for dry-eye disease?

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades of research into the brains, genes …

We share up to 99% of our genes with chimpanzees and bonobos, yet a new study shows DNA “switches” may explain why humans differ.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the "cosmic web" of galaxies, the largest structure in the universe, with unprecedented detail.

On 17 April 2026, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent commands to switch off the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment aboard Voyager 1. The instrument had been operating, almost without interruption, since the spacecraf…

There is a particular kind of adult who, in 2026, still navigates by memory and feel rather than by GPS. They are now a minority. They are easy to identify in conversation, because when you ask them how to get somewhere, they describe the route in terms of la…

The 2022 Tonga eruption blasted something unexpected into the stratosphere, and satellites caught it destroying a powerful greenhouse gas.

A survey of more than 300 mouse strains has found widespread discrepancies between how mutant mice are reported and their actual genetic make-up.

A routine trip underground in southern France turned into one of paleontology's most bizarre finds; giant prints from the age of dinosaurs, hiding in plain sight overhead.

A brainless plant appears to count light like a tiny living machine, and the strange discovery may rewrite what scientists thought plants could do.

Ancient shark fossils uncovered in Ireland are offering scientists a rare glimpse into marine life that existed more than 330 million years ago.