PORTLAND, Ore. — On a recent Saturday at the city’s downtown farmer’s market, among vendors and buskers beneath tall elms, a six-foot-tall talking pencil greeted passersby and handed out flyers. “My name is Pencil,” the mascot announced.
Four years ago Cori Roberts, a newly returned worker in her mid-40s living in a rented basement in St. Cloud, Minn., was diagnosed with early-stage cervical cancer. Her job in human resources paid about $41,000 a year and she had insurance, but bills from her treatment topped $8,000.
BEIRUT — Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+, has become a hot topic in the wellness and longevity world. Clinics, influencers and some celebrities promote pills, injections and IV drips that claim to boost energy, reverse aging, speed recovery and improve mental clarity.
When Rachel Negro-Henderson began shopping regularly at Aldi during the pandemic after her husband lost his coaching job, she sometimes felt self-conscious running into acquaintances at the store. That discomfort has faded.
Trump says Iran's response to the U.S. ceasefire proposal is "totally unacceptable," Trump heads to China amid Iran war, Congress returns after week-long break.
One French passenger and one from the US test positive after being evacuated from the vessel in the Canary Islands. A French woman and an American man have tested positive for hantavirus infections as countries around the world repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak.
Bertha Ngumbi, my sweet mother, is one of the kindest women I know. But when I was a kid growing up in Kenya with four siblings, her kindness annoyed me. My siblings — three sisters and one brother
When Mel Mann was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia at 37, doctors told him he had about three years to live. It was January 1995. An Army major in Detroit, Mann had chalked up persistent back pain to working out until an MRI revealed trouble in his bone marrow.
Watching Netflix's new adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, I found myself struggling. Grappling might be the better word, actually. I wasn't grappling with the show itself, an ambitious
Praia, Cape Verde — With just over half a million residents, Cape Verde is one of the smallest countries ever to reach the FIFA World Cup. Yet this volcanic archipelago off West Africa has earned a place on football’s biggest stage, and the excitement across the islands is palpable.
AP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A cargo ship caught fire Sunday after being hit by an unknown projectile off Qatar's coast, the British military said, in the
