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China races to unlock secrets of longevity with billion-dollar drive

Longevity labs, 'immortality islands' and grapeseed pills are part of China's national project to conquer aging, despite sometimes shaky science and extravagant claims

UK faces tough economic choices as policymakers confront debt, inflation

The central bank held interest rates steady on Thursday, a decision that came at a time when British policymakers and lawmakers are confronting economic challenges

Facing Trump's tariffs, Swiss farmers find themselves with too much milk

The country's dairy farmers produced a bumper harvest of milk, but higher US duties have forced them to consider ways to cut back, including slaughtering cows

How Zohran Mamdani beat back New York's elite and was elected mayor

The 34-year-old assemblyman won the Democratic primary by defying the city's all-powerful establishment. He secured the mayoralty by delicately disarming it

A little noted element propelled Zohran Mamdani's rise: Gen Z loneliness

Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes

Dick Cheney, powerful vice president and Washington insider, dies at 84

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation's No. 2 job under President George W Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change

China started reducing reliance on the West years before Trump tariffs

Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing's "bulwark" against conflicts

US Supreme Court to weigh legality of Trump's sweeping tariff powers

At issue is the legality of his signature economic policy: the use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every US trading partner

How the air you breathe could be silently harming your brain health

Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia

Even for Mamdani supporters, his thin resume is a cause for concern

Many voters struggle with a fundamental question about Zohran Mamdani's candidacy: Is a 34-year-old state assemblyman ready to lead the nation's largest city?

Let My Country Awake: Miller's book omits nuances of the Ghadar movement

As Scott Miller writes in Let My Country Awake, the story of the anticolonial Ghadar movement, Indian migrant workers soon found themselves attracted to radical labour organisations

Ukraine gamifies the war: 40 points to destroy a tank, 12 to kill a soldier

The Ukrainian government set up the competition in August 2024, although that was more of a soft launch, a beta version

How MAGA borrowed left-wing revolutionary ideas to reshape the right

Sam Francis's radical vision shows how reactionary politics adopted tools once used to challenge the establishment

Why even using basic AI may be bad for students' ability to think

As AI tools become ubiquitous in schools, it could be possible that the very capacities needed for reasoning, judgment and original expression may begin to erode

Inside the $100 million Louvre jewel heist that stunned the world

More than a week after thieves made off with treasures from the Louvre, a picture is emerging of a seemingly well-planned burglary that exploited security lapses at the museum and outpaced the police

Climate change 'will not lead to humanity's demise', says Bill Gates

In a memo, the Microsoft co-founder warned against climate alarmism and appears to have shifted some of his views about climate change

Diphtheria resurges in war-torn nations as health systems fail children

A Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines is fueling the disease's return

Saudi Arabia, rich with oil, wants to be known as the AI exporter

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seizing a chance to turn Saudi Arabia's oil wealth into tech influence

Wut's in a word? A new book spells out the threats to the dictionary

Fatsis provides an excellent primer on Merriam-Webster's role in the culture wars, with thorough accounts of the dictionary's approach to the N-word, the F-word, "Covid-19" and "woke"

Warner Bros heads for sale as Hollywood fears end of iconic studio

Warner Bros. has been sold and resold over the decades. AT&T gained control in 2018 as part of its $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner. Discovery, a cable television company, took over in 2022