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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently read that thyroid issues affect women more often than men. Can you explain what the thyroid is and how it affects my body? Can I do anything to prevent having issues with my thyroid as I age?

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A recent detection of a flesh-eating parasite in southern Mexico has U.S. officials concerned that the previously eradicated New World Screwworm (NWS) could make its way back into the country for the first time since the ...Read more

This week a reader writes, “I recently found the attached article online (the article referenced is about Microsoft ending support for Office 2016 and 2019) and was rather alarmed as I use Outlook 2019 to download and ...Read more

Charge it.

Now that the gifts are open and many of us received new smartphones, true wireless earbuds or Apple Watches that must be charged, why not do it with the latest and greatest?

The latest and greatest chargers ...Read more

CHICAGO — Marvin Fournier launched two canoes off a city park boat dock on a recent December afternoon, as he has done countless times for over a decade. The vessels were decked out in twinkling Christmas lights, the ...Read more

Earlier this year I came across a two-frame comic strip that I enjoyed so much I printed it out and taped it to the corner of my desk.

In the first frame, an office worker delightedly tells a colleague: “AI turns this ...Read more

The main international airport remains off-limits to U.S. jetliners. Armed gangs continue to gain ground despite the presence of a police-led international force. And the political transition that the United States and ...Read more

PLAINS, Ga. — They quieted their dogs when he jogged by their homes. They saw him getting ice cream. Or paying respects at graveside services. Or popping in for a fried catfish dinner. Or pitching against them in a ...Read more

Past years in the gaming world have been consumed by just one or two standout titles: 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V (the second bestselling game of all time), 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, 2022’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he would lobby House Republicans to help elect Mike Johnson as speaker if needed, acknowledging that some lawmakers in the party had reservations about allowing him to ...Read more

The family of a kindergartner wounded in early December in a Butte County school shooting offered an encouraging update on New Year’s Eve.

Debbie Wolford, the grandmother of Elias Wolford — who was injured from a ...Read more

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vowed to keep increasing the island’s defense spending and display its resolve to fight, as Beijing intensifies drills showcasing its ability to use military force against Taipei.

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The fate of a Canadian teenager who was infected with H5N1 bird flu in early November, and subsequently admitted to an intensive care unit, has finally been revealed: She has fully recovered.

But genetic analysis of the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Over the last year in Kensington, at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis, elected officials cut funding for a syringe exchange, urged a landlord to stop renting space to a harm-reduction ...Read more

File this under unusual traffic stops.

The California Highway Patrol reported an officer stopped a Rolls Royce Ghost that had been observed speeding along Highway 99 near Avenue 17 in Madera on Monday night.

Discovered ...Read more

“It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni sued The New York Times for $250 million on Tuesday over its explosive report alleging a smear campaign against co-lead Blake Lively after she claimed she’d been ...Read more

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron admitted that his decision to dissolve Parliament last summer had backfired, leading to more division and political turmoil, while he called for greater unity to meet the nation�...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — An Isle of Wight County man alleged to have stockpiled the largest number of homemade explosives ever seized by the FBI is in custody following a recent raid at his 20-acre farm.

Brad Kenneth ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage judge has ruled that the state is violating its own regulations by failing to provide timely assistance to low-income elderly and disabled Alaskans.

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Adolf ...Read more

Some of us have been waiting for the other shoe to drop in financial markets since at least 2022. And yet they keep going higher, while bond prices tick lower.

Will 2025 be the year there is a correction — or do high ...Read more