Merck, which first introduced statins to the world nearly 40 years ago, announced that its new pill helped reduce heart attack and stroke rates in high risk patients by 20 percent in a year.
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.
Tanya Marie Frazier, 14, never returned from summer school in 1994, and was found dead in a wooded area five days later. The police say a new DNA analysis links a felon to her death.
He was shot in 1970 by the National Guard during a student protest over the Vietnam War that left four dead in Ohio. A photo of him lying on the ground and bleeding made the cover of Life magazine.
The Ohio National Guard opened fire on antiwar protesters at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. John Cleary, lying on the ground, was a bystander when he was shot in the chest. Four students were fatally shot and nine others were wounded during the incident.
The crash left 11 people injured. The police said they chased the vehicle after trying to pull over a reckless driver, who sped off and then lost control.
The driver was earlier involved in a street race a few miles away and sped off, leading to a police chase through Tampa, Fla., before the driver lost control and crashed, officials said.
President Trump raged after Democrats won multiple elections this week. And now he’s calling on lawmakers to take action: To do more gerrymandering, to outlaw mail-in ballots and to make voter ID laws more strict. Why is Trump so afraid of American voters? He’s afraid of losing his majority in the midterm elections, argues Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury.
Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.
Zach Everett realized he had a gambling problem after moving to Colorado, which had legalized sports betting apps. But he struggled for years to find a path to recovery that worked.
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
In March, the U.S. government sent more than 200 Venezuelan men to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
New York is home to the largest and most challenging education system in the United States, with more than 1,500 schools and a $41 billion annual operating budget that could power a small nation.
The temporary ruling by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, blocking a lower court order to fully fund the aid, added to the uncertainty around the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.
Longevity labs, “immortality islands” and grapeseed pills are part of China’s national project to conquer aging, despite sometimes shaky science and extravagant claims.
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was presented with a ceremonial quilt by Native American tribal leaders as he appeared on Friday night at a Democratic gala in Omaha.
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