Alcohol consumption has decreased across the United States in recent years, particularly among adults under age 40, but there is one older demographic in which more people are drinking than before the Covid-19 pandemic – and more are doing so heavily, according to a new study.For the first time since before the pandemic, the percentage … Read more
Decrease article font size Increase article font size At least two people are injured and five are missing after a building collapsed following a powerful explosion in the tourist district of Plaka in the Greek capital, near the ancient Acropolis, on Friday morning. The explosion caused a two-story building to collapse and the two injured … Read more
Some Republicans are increasingly concerned that two key Senate races once considered critical to maintaining their majority are slipping out of their hands. More than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives acknowledge that North Carolina and Georgia appear less competitive than the party once anticipated and that decisions need to be made … Read more
The UN human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist of companies it says are involved in violations of Palestinian human rights through business links with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The vast majority of the total of 214 companies, which are based in 11 countries, are Israeli. Five of … Read more
The Surge is your weekly political sanity check: what matters, what could, and what is just political theater. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Surge, Slate’s political newsletter. Oh, do you think it’s “bad” or “completely and obviously illegal” that Donald Trump used taxpayer dollars to … Read more
Today’s tips from NYT Strands will be easy if you are good at math. Strands, the elevated New York Times word search game, requires the player to put a spin on the classic word search. Words can be formed from linked letters: up, down, left, right or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting … Read more
MMA Fighting has the results of BKFC 94 on the Till vs. undercard. Romero, a live blog of the main event and more from the AO Arena in Manchester, England on Saturday afternoon. In the main event, UFC veterans Darren Till and Yoel Romero collide in a 190-pound fixed weight contest. BKFC Middleweight Champion Dave … Read more
Marine ecologists used to call them “black puddles of death.” Just a decade ago, blue-green deep-sea brine pools were assumed to be oxygen-depleting dead zones, despite the wealth of deeply strange and extraterrestrial “extremophiles” that biologists have found living at their margins. But something was alive inside these phenomenally salty underwater lakes, and now researchers … Read more
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “You need a code of omertà if you’re trying to create an organization that’s essentially like a criminal organization,” Andrew Lohse said. Lohse was talking about fraternities: The 36-year-old is a survivor of fraternity hazing and the author of “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy.” As … Read more