2026-04-09 20:00:04
New research has a simple message for older women: Muscle matters for living a longer, healthier life.
2026-04-09 19:30:04
Democrats’ slim chances of winning the Senate in November rest on keeping Michigan blue. That might seem straightforward: Trump’s approval rating in the state is just 37% and the state hasn’t sent a Republican to the upper chamber since 1994. But Republicans have fielded an experienced candidate, Mike Rogers, who lost by only 19,000 votes to Senator Elissa Slotkin in 2024. The Cook Political Report rates the Michigan race as one of four toss-ups.
2026-04-09 19:00:17
In an 8-1 decision last week, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado law that prohibited so-called conversion therapy aimed at changing the gender expression or sexual orientation of minors. The court saw itself as intervening to protect therapists from government bias on an issue that has stirred up the culture wars. But it has also substantially weakened the government’s capacity to regulate professional conduct that is accomplished by speech. And it has opened the door to future challenges
2026-04-09 18:30:07
As if tariff chaos, the uncertain impacts of AI and threats to its independence weren’t enough, the US Federal Reserve now faces a new challenge: a potentially epic energy-supply disruption, precipitated by the war in Iran.
2026-04-09 18:00:12
Almost five years after the start of the US’s big experiment with industrial policy, we can begin to assess the results. Zeroing in on electric vehicles, the results are not good – losses have mounted, American tech supremacy has slipped and “ghost factories” are proliferating.
2026-04-09 18:00:07
The World Trade Organization moved another step closer to irrelevance at its 14th biennial conference last month, with the assembled ministers failing to reach an agreement on e-commerce rules. The US position was worth noting: The new global champion of tariffs was eager to extend an earlier deal on digital free trade.
