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Former Marine Jason Miles stands in front of his home in Clinton, Miss. He lost a sales job during the pandemic and had to take a forbearance.

Lawmakers move to help veterans at risk of losing their homes

6:31pm February 01, 2024

Senators are introducing a new bill to help thousands of veterans who, through no fault of their own, were left facing foreclosure when a VA COVID-assistance program ended abruptly.

How to live better, longer. Can science help slow down aging.

Scientists can tell how fast you're aging. Now, the trick is to slow it down

7:37pm January 29, 2024

by Allison Aubrey

Longevity research is booming. Scientists are looking for ways to target the basic biology of aging. And here's the exciting part: Our biological age appears to be malleable.

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World News

Israeli and Palestinian radio stations broadcast messages for locked up loved ones

6:25pm January 29, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

An Israeli radio station is airing messages and songs to hostages in Gaza, while a Palestinian station broadcasts families' voice messages to relatives held in Israeli prisons.

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National

Man helping LGBTQ youth remembers how hard it was to come out as gay to his parents

8:09am January 26, 2024

by Kayla Lattimore

Corey Harvard, an LGBTQ activist, grew up in a deeply religious family in the 1990s. He talks with his mother about coming to terms with his sexuality as a teenager in Alabama.

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A new Harvard University report finds that housing was unaffordable for a record half of renters in 2022. And a softening rental market might not help those who struggle most.

Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds

8:16am January 25, 2024

by Jennifer Ludden

A new Harvard analysis finds people across income levels got squeezed by rent hikes during the pandemic. The market has lost millions of low-rent places, and new construction is mostly high-end.

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Vashti Harrison's Big and Dave Eggers' The Eyes and the Impossible took top honors from the American Library Assocation.

Arts
Books

Dave Eggers wins Newbery, Vashti Harrison wins Caldecott in 2024 kids' lit prizes

4:56pm January 22, 2024

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The top honors in this year's children's book awards from the American Library Association lauded Dave Egger's The Eyes and the Impossible and Vashti Harrison's picture book Big.

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National

A mother and daughter in San Antonio, Texas, talk about the end of life

5:14am January 19, 2024

by Jo Corona

Conchetta Brown, 66, has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, and she uses oxygen to help her breath. She talks to her daughter Nidera about looking ahead to life after death.

Why some Taiwanese Americans are moving back to Taiwan

4:58pm January 16, 2024

The 1970s-1990s saw a mass wave of Taiwanese immigrants to the U.S. Now, many of their children are moving to Taiwan for a safer future despite the west's perceptions of impending war with China.

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Woman waiting for pregnancy test result. Fertility treatments can be hard to access for obese patients.

Health & Safety

Opinion: Women with obesity are often restricted from IVF. That's discriminatory

7:00am January 14, 2024

by Becca Muir

Despite the lack of medical evidence for doing so, fertility clinics bar women over a certain BMI from their services. One writer makes the case such limits are unfair and unscientific.

A street painting in Mumbai, India, reinforces the importance of masks amid a surge of COVID. The photo was taken on January 11.

Coronavirus FAQ: Are we in a surge? How do you cope if your whole family catches it?

7:41am January 13, 2024

by Max Barnhart

Are we in a surge? How would we know? Is winter now "COVID season?" And what do you do if your whole family got the coronavirus over the holidays? We tackle readers' coronavirus questions.