Thursday, 24 September 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
In 1980 only 13 countries with more than a million people outlived the United States; by 2023 it was 38, with mortality among 25-to-44-year-olds up more than 70 percent in barely a decade.
The American Heart Association's 2026 cholesterol guidelines push screening down to age 9 and ask doctors to combine family history, lab work and imaging to calculate each patient's own risk and treatment.
A new review pulls together seven lines of evidence — randomized detox trials, natural experiments and Meta's own internal research — and argues the link between social media and teenage mental illness is causal, not merely correlational.
A Texas activist was arrested at his home a week after swearing at a county meeting that was debating a plan to close a third of the area's polling places.
A study finds that well-managed firms that expand abroad through acquisitions trade at higher valuations but deliver lower share price returns — and that US acquirers shop most often in Britain.
China has put appointments, consultations and even AI doctor avatars inside WeChat and Alipay, while its drug pipeline is being bought up by Western pharma.
An exhibition in Chicago refuses to show Emmett Till's mutilated body or his killers, using work by more than 110 artists to imagine the life he was denied, at the same moment the US government is pulling that history out of museums.
A long-hoped-for piece of evidence for quantum coherence in photosynthesis collapsed under closer scrutiny, and a Princeton chemist now suspects life mimics quantum math with ordinary classical networks instead.
US progressives now open meetings by naming the Indigenous tribe that once held the land; the author argues the ritual is not a tribute but a denial of America's right to exist, and a claim that land belongs to ethnic groups.
Moving between US brokers does not require selling and rebuying your holdings: an ACATS transfer carries them over as they are, which means no capital gains tax event.
