Heavy drinking has been shown to raise mortality risk — but at lower levels, what’s in your glass may also matter, a new study suggests. In recent research of data from 340,924 participants in the UK Biobank, wine was linked to lower mortality, while beer and spirits were tied to higher death risk. Data were collected between 2006 and 2022, with more than 13 years of average follow-up. The findings were presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session in New Orleans, L
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his views on race and politics have led critics to question his Blackness. "I mean, how stupid is that? Look at me," Thomas said, grabbing his arm. "You know, then they say things like, ‘Oh, black is a state of mind.’" Thomas made the remarks during a Hoover Institution conversation with Peter Robinson that included a discussion about the role of Black Americans in politics. The conservative justice reflected on how economist Thomas Sowell, a Black cons
The impending departure of President Donald Trump's top spokeswoman has speculation swirling in Washington, D.C., on who will be selected to replace Karoline Leavitt behind the press briefing room podium. The 28-year-old White House Press Secretary, fresh off maternity leave, dropped a bombshell announcement on Wednesday that she will end her tenure at the end of August to spend more time with her two young children. Now, with just two weeks left in the month, the race is on to find the next pre
Michigan’s highest-ranking House Republican is crying foul on Abdul El-Sayed's claim that he is not a socialist. "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck," House GOP Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain, R-Mich., told Fox News Digital. "So maybe he's not a socialist. Maybe he's a full-blown communist." El-Sayed, a former public health official, scored an upset victory for Democrats' leftmost flank in Michigan's Senate primary earlier this month. He defeate
Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland was already a big star, seeing as he plays for Manchester City in the Premier League, but his profile rose even more thanks to a strong World Cup showing and the way he embraced American culture. You'd think that would be enough to say, "Yeah, this dude has made it," but I think a more recent incident is proof that he has "made it." Is anyone really a global superstar until their face winds up plastered all over a seized shipment of cocaine somewhere in South
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed Thursday that his country arrested a Russian man hired by Moscow to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen who was "inconvenient to the Putin regime ." Tusk said the suspect was taken into custody Friday, with the alleged target being a man in Poland’s capital of Warsaw, according to a report from Reuters. "Thanks to the truly brilliant action of our services ... we detained a Russian citizen recruited by Russian intelligence services," Tusk was quoted sayin
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Need for Burnham to tackle regional inequality could not be clearer as London becomes ‘educational outlier’ Andy Burnham has put regional inequality at the top of his agenda as prime minister, and nowhere is the need for doing so clearer than in education. As England’s A-level results were published on Thursday morning, students across the country were pictured celebrating a bumper crop of results, with record rates of As and A*s . Continue reading...
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According to experts, you don’t have to wash jean shorts every time you wear them but they do need to be washed more frequently than regular jeans.
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The suspect charged in the stabbing death of a California man in an otherwise quiet East Bay suburb has a history of prior arrests and originally entered the U.S. during the George W. Bush administration, according to records. Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, alternatively identified by DHS as Marcos Valdezusper, was arrested Friday at his home in Contra Costa County, California, after police said he stabbed and killed 68-year-old retiree Todd Stewart during an apparent burglary attempt. "The investigatio
