The condition, which can cause swelling and pain, is common among older adults. The White House said on Thursday that President Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that occurs when veins have trouble moving blood back to the heart. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced the diagnosis while addressing […]

It’s hard to believe that there are 7.8 billion people on the planet, and that number isn’t getting any smaller anytime soon. The United Nations estimates that by 2050, the world’s population will reach 9 billion. As other species go extinct at record rates, human beings show no signs of slowing down. So it might seem a […]

Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is dangerously wavering after the explosive ultimatum launched Monday by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Religious leaders are giving the Prime Minister 48 hours to “find a solution” preserving military exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews, a dispensation granted for decades but increasingly contested by Israeli society. This existential crisis deeply divides the country with […]

Ukraine and Russia began a new prisoner exchange on Monday that will take place “in several stages over the coming days,” announced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This humanitarian operation comes as Moscow launched a massive drone attack against Ukraine with a record number of 479 aircraft, in retaliation for the Ukrainian attack that allegedly destroyed […]

A US travel ban on citizens from 12 countries takes effect on Monday, in what President Donald Trump says is a move to protect America from “foreign terrorists”. People from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen are barred from entering the US as […]

US President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC News on Saturday, said there would be “serious consequences” if billionaire Elon Musk funds Democratic Party candidates to run against Republicans who vote for Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill. Trump declined to say what those consequences would be in the phone interview, and went on to add […]

People living with certain mental health conditions may be prone to nightmares, a study suggests. Researchers in Texas surveyed 116 college students about their tendency to suffer from nightmares. The team then examined the links between nightmare frequency and four personality dispositions: neuroticism, nightmare proneness, thin psychological boundaries, and sensory processing sensitivity. The study found […]

An urgent warning has been issued following the discovery of world’s most infectious disease at America’s largest shopping mall. Health officials have revealed that a child who visited the Mall of America – which is about the size of 78 football fields – in Minnesota on May 24 has tested positive for measles. The unvaccinated […]