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Marijuana’s Links to Heart Attack and Stroke Are Becoming Clearer

2025-06-19 18:30

Source: NYTimes

The evidence is stacking up that the drug is associated with a greater likelihood of heart problems.

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TikTok Hits Cannes, Where a U.S. Ban Seems a Distant Dream

2025-06-19 18:30

Source: NYTimes

An evening event at TikTok Garden in the Carlton Hotel, where guests gathered for music and networking as part of the Cannes Lions Festival.

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Cannes Lions Festival Plays Host to a Messy Business Divorce

2025-06-19 18:30

Source: NYTimes

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity was held on the French Riviera this week.

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How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country

2025-06-19 18:30

Source: NYTimes

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

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‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid

2025-06-19 17:30

Source: NYTimes

Members of the Little Lobbyists walk through the halls before meetings with senators in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Tuesday.

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The Crane That Ruined Florence’s Skyline Is Gone

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

A crane in front of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, in 2022.

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SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test in Texas

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The Starship experienced a “major anomaly” before starting its 10th flight test. Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket has a mixed record of success.

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Student Who Filmed Himself Raping at Least 10 Women Is Given Life Sentence

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

A photo made available by the London police of an apartment used by Zou Zhenhao, who attacked women in Britain and China. He would lure …

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Texas Might Ban Hemp

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

T.H.C.-infused drinks, like those made at the 8th Wonder Brewery in Houston, are the kind of intoxicants that Gov. Greg Abbott could ban if he …

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A Legal Gamble

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Outside the Supreme Court.

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The Progressive Regulator Winning Over the Populist Right

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Lina Khan wants to overthrow “the autocrats of trade.”

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The Supreme Court Fails to See Transgender Teens

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The retrenchment on transgender rights is fueled by fear: fear of the future, fear of unfamiliar concepts, fear of not knowing one’s child.

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Belgian Nonprofit Papy Boom Is Helping Retirement-Home Residents Hit the Clubs

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Nicole Dekoster, 71, dancing at the Mirano nightclub in Brussels, in an outing organized by a Belgian nonprofit.

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Vera Rubin Observatory Brings Universe’s Darkest Mysteries Into Focus

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The telescope mount assembly inside the dome of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Cerro Pachón, Chile.

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This Oregon Native Went to Kyiv as a Volunteer. He Died in a Russian Attack.

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Fred Grady in California in an undated photo. He went to Ukraine to volunteer with a charity after the United States’ support for the country …

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A Trump Executive Order Could Affect Ukrainian Refugees in Iowa

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Sofiia Hedzhymanova, 12, looking at a family photos on her grandmother’s night stand in DeWitt, Iowa. The Hedzhymanovi family was one of the first to …

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U.S. Heat Wave Forecast: When High Temperatures Will Affect You

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Friday is the first day of summer. And boy, will it feel like it.

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Hurricane Erick Makes Landfall in Mexico as a Major Storm

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

A woman filming waves breaking on the beach in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, on Wednesday.

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On Juneteenth, This Williamsburg Schoolhouse Finds a New Life

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg.

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Zero Interest Rates Are Back in Europe

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The Swiss National Bank lowered rates to zero after consumer prices fell last month. Other European central banks are grappling with uncertainty caused by President …

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How Trump’s Trade War Has Whipsawed the Port of L.A.

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The nation’s largest ports, in Los Angeles County, are a bellwether for the economy. They are being whipsawed as President Trump reorders global trade.

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Fed’s Interest-Rate Approach Keeps It on Collision Course With Trump

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

President Trump on Wednesday unleashed another barrage of insults again Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, shortly before the central bank issued its latest …

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In Appalachia, a Father Got Black Lung. Then His Son Did, Too.

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners than before. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

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‘SVU’ Star Mariska Hargitay on Her Mother Jayne Mansfield

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Unraveling family mysteries for her documentary left Mariska Hargitay at peace: “It’s like a miracle to me to feel this way. I never thought I …

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No Rock Stars, No Mercedes: A Russian Expo Shows the Cost of Divorce With the West

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia on Wednesday. Major American investors once again shunned the conference.

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China Is Hacking Russia to Steal War Secrets

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Russian soldiers marching in the country’s annual Victory Day parade in May. Hacking groups appear to have become more interested in Russian targets after the …

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Court Leaves States to Decide on Trans Treatments for Minors

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The Supreme Court decision upholding a Tennessee ban on gender transition care for trans youths means a state-by-state patchwork of policies will remain.

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What to Know About United States v. Skrmetti

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

A protester outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday after it upheld Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender medicine.

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U.S. v. Skrmetti: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

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William G. Young, a Reagan-Appointed Judge, Is Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Judge William G. Young in the courtroom in Boston in November 1980.

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Trying to Satisfy Trump, NATO Is Running Into Difficulties

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

A Norwegian naval commando hoisted himself onto the deck of a ship during a NATO exercise in March.

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Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

“Don’t have the Republicans own this monstrous debt,” Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, warned this week.

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In Crisis With Iran, U.S. Military Officials Focus on Strait of Hormuz

2025-06-19 16:30

Source: NYTimes

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy ships in the Persian Gulf last April.

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