NEW YORK, APRIL 16, 2026 — Wall Street hit an all-time high Wednesday as blockbuster bank earnings collided with growing optimism about a U.S.-Iran peace deal — pushing the S&P 500 to a fresh record and capping one of the…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 16, 2026 — Type 2 diabetes is the most common chronic disease in America. It is also one of the most preventable — and one of the most undertreated. Roughly 98 million American adults have prediabetes, the precursor…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 16, 2026 — President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the U.S.-Iran war is “very close to over” and that Tehran “wants to make a deal very badly” — the most optimistic public language from the administration since peace…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 2026 — The numbers that came out of federal climate monitoring this week are not just record-setting. They represent a category of extreme that climate scientists say was statistically improbable even five years ago. March 2026 was…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 2026 — America’s 43 million federal student loan borrowers are heading toward a July 1 deadline that most of them are not prepared for. The most sweeping restructuring of federal student loan policy in a generation —…
SAIPAN, APRIL 15, 2026 — One of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded this early in the year slammed into American territory in the Pacific on Tuesday, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam with catastrophic winds, torrential rainfall,…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 2026 — Roughly one in every 30 Americans depends on Social Security disability programs for their monthly income. Most of them receive no raise from an employer, no year-end bonus, and no market return on investments to…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 2026 — The United States and Iran are in active discussions about holding a second round of in-person negotiations before the fragile two-week ceasefire expires on April 21 — with mediators in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 2026 — Something fundamental is changing in American medicine — and it is happening faster than most patients, doctors, or policymakers realize. Artificial intelligence is no longer a research curiosity or a hospital pilot program. In 2026,…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 2026 — The American credit card debt crisis has crossed a threshold that financial analysts are calling historically unprecedented. The numbers are not the product of reckless luxury spending or bad individual decisions. They are the mathematical…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 2026 — California Congressman Eric Swalwell resigned from the United States House of Representatives Monday, one day after sexual assault and misconduct allegations forced the immediate collapse of his campaign for California governor — a race he…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 2026 — For decades, Medicare was legally prohibited from doing what every other major health insurance system in the developed world does as a matter of routine: negotiate directly with drug companies to bring prices down. That…