The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that experts predict will transform treatment for the notoriously deadly disease. The drug, Revolution Medicines’ Rasonque, or daraxonrasib, was approved for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who have already tried a prior treatment, such as chemotherapy, the agency said. In a late-stage…
A Libyan who was cleared after standing trial over the Lockerbie bombing has died aged 70. Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah was accused of murdering 270 people in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. He was found not guilty but a second Libyan, Abdulbasset Al Megrahi, was convicted of playing a key…
Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks to members of the media on the Senate Subway while heading to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 29, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI published a technical report on Wednesday detailing how its artificial intelligence models successfully breached Hugging Face…
Knowing when to water a houseplant is not always as simple as checking the soil with your finger. Plants often show signs when they are running short of water. Leaves may begin to droop, new growth can look weak, or the pot itself may feel much lighter than it did after watering. These small changes…
We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if hair removal cream is actually bad, how often you should change your towels and more. You probably clean your kitchen counters, stovetop…
A far-right member of the Israeli parliament has badly damaged a Palestinian memorial with a sledgehammer in the occupied West Bank while under military escort. The incident has drawn strong criticism from Palestinians and across the political spectrum in Israel. Video footage showed Zvi Sukkot, a member of the far-right Religious Zionism party, and several…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anthropic’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic has inked a roughly $45 billion cloud deal with Nscale, a UK-based artificial intelligence infrastructure company,…
Being honest at work is usually seen as a virtue, but there is a fine line between healthy transparency and conversations that can quietly damage professional relationships. Many workplace friendships fall apart not because of dishonesty, but because of “brutal honesty” shared at the wrong time, in the wrong tone, or about the wrong topic….
Blake Lively can recover about $400,000 in attorneys’ fees from Justin Baldoni’s production company over his defamation lawsuit against her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Lively had been seeking $8 million. U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni’s defamation and extortion lawsuit against Lively last year, and she was allowed to move forward with…
A study this month at the Harvard Medical School in the US, external found that flight attendants and pilots had the highest level of radiation-related cancer deaths among more than 500 different professions. In all, about 6.9% of deaths among flight attendants and 6.7% of deaths among pilots were from radiation-related cancers, according to the…
