2+ week, 2+ day ago   (184+ words) Heart disease remains the leading killer of people worldwide, and one of the key risk factors driving deaths is elevated levels of cholesterol. In a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report that a gene-editing…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (294+ words) NEW YORK — A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (331+ words) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news last week, more than a month after…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (996+ words) The new head of Iran’s top security body warned Sunday that Tehran will see any country’s support for new U.S. economic measures against the Islamic Republic as an “act of war,” while Iran’s president defended a memorandum of understanding…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (788+ words) House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and outside adviser Jared Kushner met privately recently in New York, a signal that the White House is seeking ways to work with Democrats if they wrest majority control from…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (156+ words) An employee was gunned down behind the counter of a Brooklyn restaurant in a brazen early Sunday shooting that left another man wounded, according to authorities and sources. The 44-year-old victim was discovered with a fatal gunshot wound to his…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (876+ words) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday defended the memorandum of understanding signed with the United States in mid-June as the best way to move beyond a situation of “neither war nor peace.” “There is not a single provision in this…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (621+ words) With U.S. debt hitting $40 trillion, markets are turning more attention to that burden and whether policymakers will address the root causes or just the symptoms. The Treasury Department’s interventions in the bond and currency markets in recent weeks point to the…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (316+ words) Attendees of President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix were captured on video Sunday waiting in long lines for water by Washington, D.C.-based journalist Amanda Moore, who expressed confusion at the Trump administration’s planning for the event. “This is one…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (354+ words) Fueled by strong winds, the growing Hawk fire spread from the Sierra foothills threatening the northwest flank of Reno on Sunday morning, forcing thousands of evacuations. By 8 a.m., the blaze had covered at least 10,522 acres in the area north of Lake…...