Celebratory gunfire is a recurring problem in many cities, particularly on New Year’s Eve. Too often, it leads to tragic consequences when stray bullets strike innocent people. Any bullet fired ...

A trio of scientists — two of them American and one Japanese — have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance, a mechanism by which the body helps ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how our immune system is prevented from attacking our organs.

The Nobel-prize season always kicks off with the award for physiology or medicine, which highlights work in fields such as genetics, cell biology and evolution. This year’s award went to three ...

Risk tolerance determines suitable investments and the handling of market downturns. It's split into three types -- high, moderate, and low -- affecting asset choices. Understanding your risk ...

Under a 2023 settlement, the government agreed to provide some services. Hundreds of parents and children separated under the "zero-tolerance" border policy during President Donald Trump's first term ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ...

This story will be updated. Texas lawmakers zeroed in on classroom discipline during a Tuesday hearing, with one Republican senator saying public schools are serving a “different type of kid today ...

For people living with chronic illness, finding equilibrium can be challenging. Pain and fatigue cause us to mistrust our bodies. Relational and economic security also can be foreclosed or interrupted ...

The terms impaired glucose tolerance and prediabetes tend to mean the same thing. You may be more at risk for developing type 2 diabetes without lifestyle or other health changes. You may have heard ...