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What do weight loss drugs mean for a diet industry built on eating less and exercising more? 04/25/2024 05:52am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his 30s to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always crept back onto his 5-foot-5-inch frame. A little ov Taiwan's president-elect appoints new foreign, defense ministers as island faces continued threats 04/25/2024 05:18am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's president-elect has appointed new foreign and defense ministers to join his incoming administration as the island faces continuing military threats and diplomatic isolation from China. Lai Ching-te, who assumes the presidency on May 20, announced Thursday that curren More than just a bowl of noodles, ramen in Japan is an experience and a tourist attraction 04/25/2024 05:09am • TOKYO (AP) — Spicy, steaming, slurpy ramen might be everyone’s favorite Japanese food. In Tokyo, long lines circle around blocks, and waiting an hour for your ramen is normal. What awaits might be just a dive, but a hot bowl of ramen rarely fails to hit the spot. Often cooked right before your She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump 04/25/2024 04:54am • NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and US abortion battle rages on with moves to repeal Arizona ban and a Supreme Court case 04/25/2024 12:13am • Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second time in a month. Meanwhi Dozens arrested on California campus after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist 04/24/2024 11:22pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police peacefully arrested student protesters at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, hours after police at a Texas university aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on campuses nation Connecticut Senate passes wide-ranging bill to regulate AI. But its fate remains uncertain 04/24/2024 09:16pm • HARTFORD (AP) — The Connecticut Senate pressed ahead Wednesday with one of the first major legislative proposals in the U.S. to rein in bias in artificial intelligence decision-making and protect people from harm, including manufactured videos or deepfakes. The vote was held despite concerns the Movie Review: A lyrical portrait of childhood in Cabrini-Green with ‘We Grown Now’ 04/24/2024 08:26pm • Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development. And, pointe How New Grads Can Find a Job in the Age of AI 04/24/2024 08:00pm • "Do you have advice on how to find an AI-related job?" This is an important and timely question that upcoming college graduates are asking this spring as millions of students graduate from American colleges and universities in one of the most dynamic labor markets in recent history. The fact is that 10 Essential Sources of Retirement Income 04/24/2024 08:00pm • Many career professionals dream of hanging up their lanyards and kicking back with a cold beverage on the beach. Yet too many people approach retirement without the one thing they need to prosper: cash. According to a recent study by the Alliance for Lifetime Income, 52.5% of Americans nearing age 6 New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually 04/24/2024 07:49pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% starting in 2029 under a new rule state regulators approved Wednesday in the latest attempt to corral the ever-increasing costs of medical care in the United St Pilot reported fire on fuel-laden plane and tried to return to airport before deadly Alaska crash 04/24/2024 07:38pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — One of the two pilots of a vintage military plane that was delivering heating oil to a remote Alaska Native village reported a fire on board shortly before the aircraft crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, killing both of them and leaving debris over a wide area, a federa Tennessee House kills bill that would have banned local officials from studying, funding reparations 04/24/2024 07:27pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-dominant House on Wednesday spiked legislation that would have banned local governments from paying to either study or dispense money for reparations for slavery. The move marked a rare defeat on a GOP-backed proposal initially introduced nearly one Key moments in the Supreme Court's latest abortion case that could change how women get care 04/24/2024 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court heard its first test on Wednesday of state abortion bans that have been enacted since the court upended the Roe v. Wade constitutional right to abortion. While the current case involves an Idaho abortion ban, the court’s ruling could have implications bey Supreme Court appears skeptical that state abortion bans conflict with federal health care law 04/24/2024 05:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade violate federal health care law, though some also questioned the effects on emergency care for pregnant patients. The case marks the first time