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Annie McVey’s teenage daughter died in 2000 from the human form of mad cow disease, vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Claire was one of almost 200 people who died from the outbreak in the 1990s. Now, experts have warned that some Britons could still be “silently carrying” the disease today. And what alarms them is that […]

The nation watched in awe (and thirst) as its unstoppable, equal pay-deserving women’s national soccer team earned the coveted women’s World Cup championship for the fourth time last Sunday, the second time consecutively. There was confetti, there were iconic photos ― it couldn’t have gotten much better. Until the team came back to the States,

We know that Netflix personalizes its homepage to each user based on an algorithm, offering specific categories that the company thinks will encourage the user to start watching a show, movie or special. And as I scrolled through my Netflix homepage the other day, I noticed that the suggested categories had a running theme: They

Tom Hanks is often referred to as “America’s Dad.” But he is also “dad” to four adult children. The actor has two sons, Truman and Chet, with his wife, Rita Wilson ― as well as a son, Colin, and daughter, Elizabeth, from his first marriage to Samantha Lewes. In honor of his 63rd birthday we’ve

With marijuana now medically legal in 33 states and recreationally legal in 11 states (plus D.C.), the concept of smoking, vaping, or eating it is fair game in the mainstream. But with lingering restrictions on testing it due to the Drug Enforcement Administration, how it affects the brain remains murky territory. Perhaps nowhere is this

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJamie, 11, said boxing “helps me get my anger out and it helps me control it” These teenagers all have ADHD and have been excluded from mainstream school. Here they tell how the sport of boxing is helping them channel their excess energy and improve their life

The 2019 Women’s World Cup is over, the United States women’s national soccer team reigns supreme, and the hype lives on through social media, in our hearts and ― luckily ― in our closets. Now, it’s time to add an extra star to the rotation. The Official U.S. Soccer Store is home to plenty of

A woman whose life was blighted by constant pain has become fitter than she ever thought possible. Polly Tonkins, 35, was born with two dislocated hips and had to have major surgery as a toddler as well as at the ages of 16 and 21. But after three years of CrossFit circuit training she says

Most Americans use air conditioning every day, whether it’s in their office buildings or living spaces; 90% of the country has a unit at home, and AC accounts for about 10% of worldwide electricity consumption. But, really, do we even need it? A New York Times story put that question into perspective this week. People

A structure built to confine radioactive dust from the nuclear reactor at the center of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is up and running. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy formally opened the “new safe confinement” shelter that spans the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s Reactor No. 4. The structure cost 2.2 billion euros (about $2.5