A research team led by Dr. Nicholas Koemel, a research fellow and registered dietitian at the University of Sydney, published a large-scale cardiovascular study on March 23, 2026, in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The paper examined how three specific lifestyle behaviors, taken together, affect the risk of major cardiovascular events – meaning heart attacks, strokes,...
Josh Mason, a former police detective and fugitive hunter with nearly 13 years of law enforcement experience, published a February 2026 essay on Medium describing five everyday habits he abandoned almost immediately after becoming a cop and joining the force. Mason, who holds a master’s degree in psychology and went on to work patrol, SWAT, and detective...
Questions about Donald Trump’s fitness for office are no longer sitting at the edge of political debate. They are now trading in public view. On Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market, users buy and sell contracts tied to real-world outcomes, with prices showing the market’s current estimate of what may happen. In this case, traders...
Energy market analysts and economists issued fresh warnings this week that the ongoing Strait of Hormuz closure – triggered by the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran that began on February 28, 2026 – will push any meaningful recovery in global fuel prices back by months, not weeks. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) raised its...
In late November 2025, Michael W. Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management, published a Substack essay arguing that a family of four needs roughly $136,500 a year to cover basic essentials, including housing, child care, food, transportation, and healthcare. That figure sits more than four times above the official U.S. poverty...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued one of the starkest nuclear safety warnings in the Middle East’s modern history on April 5, 2026, warning that continued strikes on Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant could trigger radioactive fallout with the power to devastate multiple Gulf nations. Araghchi stated that the Bushehr facility had been “bombed” four...
Federal health regulators have formally warned ImmunityBio Inc. for making misleading promotional claims about Anktiva, the company’s bladder cancer drug. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the company’s executive chairman, made these claims during a public podcast appearance in January 2026. The FDA determined that the statements were false, misleading, and in clear violation of federal drug marketing...
Iran’s first move through the Strait of Hormuz looked hard, deliberate, and politically selective. After the late February strikes, Tehran signaled that some countries could still move through the waterway. Reuters reported on March 27 that Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi named friendly nations, including China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan. That message suggested Iran was...
Millions of adults reach for sleep aids or anti-anxiety medications each year, but a growing number are looking at what has been sitting in apothecary cabinets for centuries. Valerian root, a plant-based supplement derived from Valeriana officinalis, has been used since ancient Greece and Rome to calm the nervous system and encourage sleep. What is new...
In February of this year, Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, when U.S. Central Command conducted strikes against Iranian military infrastructure. These strikes targeted IRGC command centers, air defenses, and missile sites, coinciding with Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion to mark a historic level of joint military cooperation. However, on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks...
Bad news for some cannabis users: both recreational and medical cannabis use seem to be ineffective in reducing the symptoms of various mental health conditions, according to 2 recent studies. The Lancet Psychiatry published a major meta-analysis conducted by the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use. Researchers went...
Los Angeles, situated in a state with over 39 million residents, ranks as one of the most densely populated urban centers in the United States. The state’s coastal geography profoundly shapes California’s economic and cultural identity. In the past, before the advent of commercial flight, the proximity of a city to the sea was the...
