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Early 2027 Social Security COLA estimates cluster between 3.6% and 3.8%, with The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) at 3.8%, AARP at 3.6%, and independent analyst Mary Johnson at 3.7% — all well above the 2.8% adjustment that...
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Death toll now 35, one more under investigation. Kumamoto Prefecture confirmed 35 fatalities Friday morning, July 31, up from 25 just a day earlier, with dozens more injured as the 72-hour survival window closed.
Both major disaster...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has reached roughly 3,360 confirmed cases and more than 1,400 deaths as of late July 2026, making it the fastest-growing Ebola epidemic ever recorded — and, per the...
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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake (registered as 6.8 by the USGS) struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan's Kyushu island at 4:27 p.m. local time on July 28, 2026, producing the maximum shindo 7 intensity in at least two municipalities.
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A new Northeastern University study found eight popular AI chatbots — including ChatGPT, Gemini and DeepSeek — readily bypassed their own safeguards to give detailed, harmful guidance on 14 mental health conditions beyond suicide and self-harm, including...
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A wildfire that ignited near the Cap Ferret peninsula on Wednesday, July 22, has burned an estimated 42,000 hectares (roughly 104,000 acres) in Gironde as of early Sunday, July 26 — one of the largest single burns...
America's Independence Day celebrations have been dramatically disrupted after an intense and potentially life-threatening heat wave swept across much of the Central and Eastern United States, forcing officials to cancel major public events, issue emergency health warnings, and respond...
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The Democratic Republic of Congo has imposed a sweeping ban on public gatherings across Kinshasa and three additional provinces as authorities intensify efforts to contain one of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreaks in recent...
A legal battle that began during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has entered another significant phase.
The group that successfully forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release millions of pages of records related to the approval...
PARIS — France has reported approximately 1,000 excess deaths linked to the record-breaking heatwave that has swept across much of Europe, marking one of the continent's deadliest climate-related disasters in recent years.
French public health officials said the preliminary figures...
