Key to a long life? Dr Pepper, says 101-year-old US army veteran

Eugene Peterson, retired sergeant major who served in both the Philippines and Vietnam, says soda is the secret to longevity A US army veteran who just turned 101 years old has revealed what he thinks is the key to a long life: Dr Pepper. Eugene Peterson, a retired sergeant major who was drafted into the … Read more

More Americans are stockpiling abortion pills without pregnancy – study

From September 2021 to April 2023, Aid Access tracked roughly 48,400 advance provision requests for mifepristone More Americans are now stockpiling abortion pills in case they get pregnant, according to new research published Tuesday. Before Roe v Wade was overturned in June 2022, Aid Access, an organization that mails abortion pills to people across the … Read more

House Homeland Security Committee sets first Mayorkas impeachment hearing

A House committee has set the date for its first impeachment hearing into Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, escalating its push against the Cabinet official. The Homeland Security Committee, led by Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., will hold its first impeachment hearing into Mayorkas on Jan. 10, the committee told Fox News Digital. Green told … Read more

Women make the best pop stars – and it’s about time the industry recognised it | Lauren O’Neill

Too long demeaned and treated as playthings by executives, female artists are finally getting the attention they deserve Madonna, Beyoncé, Britney, Whitney: if you think about the most iconic names in mainstream pop history, you’ll probably come up with a list of women. And this week, we have solid confirmation of female artists’ dominance. British … Read more

Second world war-era practice bomb found on California beach

Recent storms wash up rusted device along coast of Pajaro dunes in Santa Cruz county A practice bomb from the second world war era washed up on a California beach after rising tides and larger waves hit much of the area over the holiday weekend. The rusted device was found on New Year’s Eve along … Read more

‘I am done’: Fox’s Sean Hannity gives up on New York and moves to Florida

Of his properties in Georgia, Alabama, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Vermont, Fox host says the one in Florida is now home Following Donald Trump, Jerry Seinfeld’s screen parents and other ageing and querulous New Yorkers, Sean Hannity has moved to “the free state of Florida”, full-time. “I’ve been threatening now to do this … Read more