Beef tallow as moisturizer? I asked derms if this trend is genius or gross

We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have…

Luigi Mangione returns to court for pretrial hearings in NYC

Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was in court Monday for pretrial hearings about which evidence will be allowed in his upcoming trial in New…

Fed cuts interest rates by a quarter point amid apparent split over US economy

The US Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it was cutting interest rates by a quarter point for the third time this year, as the embattled central bank appeared split…

Keir’s performance in PMQs panto sets bar low enough for Kemi to stay as Tory leader | John Crace

With little more than a week to go until the Christmas recess, the Commons is in festive overdrive. Demob happy. A few minutes in to the year’s penultimate prime minister’s…

All of the suspected drug boat killings are murders | Kenneth Roth

The largely supine Republicans in Congress had no apparent trouble as Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of suspected drug runners off the coasts of Venezuela…

Georgia O’Keeffe’s views of the New Mexico desert will be preserved with conservation plan

SANTA FE, N.M. — A new conservation agreement will preserve land with breathtaking desert vistas that inspired the work of 20th century painter Georgia O’Keeffe and ensure visitors access to…

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde

On the same day that Donald Trump received his made-to-order “peace prize” from his newest pal, Fifa president “Johnny” Infantino, his administration published an equally gaudy national security strategy. The…

The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance | Editorial

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street…

Hegseth broke rules, DODIG concludes, even though he said Yemen strike details were ‘safe to declassify’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the inspector general investigators looking into his alleged use of Signal to share classified strike plans that he determined the details he shared either weren’t…

Scott Gottlieb says hepatitis B vaccine birth dose prevents chronic infection

As the CDC vaccine panel voted last week to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who now serves on the boards…

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