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From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Does God overlook our bad language? People say that there’s bad language in the Bible because the Prophet Jeremiah cursed the day he was born. I’m not sure that’s the ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I met "Maureen" 25 years ago, and we dated for a few months. Since then, we have remained friends in loose contact, married to and then divorced from other partners. Four years ago, we began talking and ...Read more

ROME — Fresh off the glow of his summit with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Mayor Brandon Johnson signaled Friday that Chicago could be due for another street or landmark christened after a pontiff.

In a sit-down ...Read more

As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to rein in a growing outbreak of a rare Ebola virus, other countries are establishing protocols for keeping their own populations safe.

As of May...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — There’s never been a better time on TV for senior citizens to flex their muscles. Steve Martin (80) and Martin Short (76) are chasing killers on “Only Murders in the Building,” Harrison Ford (83) and ...Read more

A Kenyan high court temporarily blocked the government from approving a deal with the U.S. to establish an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation after a human rights group said the plan posed “grave health...Read more

Jay Campbell, a Tampa author, says he has a biological age of about 30, while his chronological age is 55.

Scientists have discovered that people’s biological age, which is how old their cells, tissues and organs are, ...Read more

The common sugar-free sweetener sorbitol may damage your liver in the same way as the older sweetener fructose, researchers found, triggering processes linked to fatty liver disease in people without a history of drinking ...Read more

Lawmakers in both parties are increasingly embracing the idea of price controls on medicines — and in doing so, they’re making a losing bet.

Price controls involve a fundamental tradeoff: lower prices today in ...Read more

We were smothered in 88 degree weather last week. Today the weatherman sent out freeze warnings. I’m not sure my shivering flower pots fully understood why I whisked them into the house for the night.

We don’t always ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With cuts to HIV and AIDS programs looming from President Donald Trump’s administration, advocates are pressing Illinois lawmakers to fill a growing void or face a situation for which they say the ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I recently retired. I also have fibromyalgia, which leaves me fatigued and in pain, and I never know how I will feel on a given day. My daughter is a single mom of a 3-year-old and asks me to babysit overnight ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm always saddened when a young person dies of an old person's calling. I read about an actor dying of a heart attack at age 57. Apparently, he was athletic and in otherwise good health. Why do healthy ...Read more

When you take a bite of food, it begins a 12- to 73-hour journey through your mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum -- about 25 feet in all. The average transit time is 23 to 24 hours. But ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: The letters to the churches found in Revelation 2 and 3 are hard to understand – and I am a pastor! The seminary I attended did not teach this book in light of how it ...Read more

Drugs in development to treat and prevent infections caused by the Ebola virus that’s circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda should be given only as part of clinical trials, advisers to the World ...Read more

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called his meeting with Pope Leo XIV “a tremendous honor,” referring to himself as “someone who has relied upon my faith to guide me in decisions that I make, and even when those ...Read more

ROME — Mayor Brandon Johnson invited Pope Leo XIV to celebrate Mass in Grant Park next year during a much-awaited meeting Thursday afternoon in Vatican City, where the son of a pastor and chief executive of the pope’s ...Read more

BOSTON — Hantavirus, Ebola, and now mpox.

Yet another virus has caught the attention of public health officials, as mpox (formerly called monkeypox) cases jump in the city.

The Boston Public Health Commission and ...Read more