Part D for Drug Coverage and Drudgery
Like doing our taxes, signing up for Medicare Part D, the insurance program for drug coverage, takes days out of our lives and leaves us sitting in a heap of papers with a splitting headache. Read more...
Xi Jinping finds his successor. It's Xi Jinping
In March 2020, the annual meeting of China's national legislature in Beijing was delayed for the first time in decades, as Chinese President Xi Jinping attempted to gain control over what would fast become a global pandemic. Read more...
.7 Million Homes in California
A Cape Cod-style home in Los Angeles, a four-bedroom house in Sonoma and a contemporary Craftsman in Santa Barbara. Read more...
U.S. Health Care Lags Worldwide for Those Over 65
The United States still has mortifying lapses and problems, despite spending more on health care than any country in the world, a new Commonwealth Fund report reveals. Read more...
Keep an Eye Out Review A Crime Procedural That Goes Off the Rails
Quentin Dupieux takes a simple police report and twists it into a meta black comedy. Read more...
The Era of Audio Creators Has Arrived
A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform. Read more...
See spectacular newly restored Pompeii frescoes
One of Pompeii's oldest frescoes, the House of the Ceii, has been restored to its former glory with the help of laser technology. Read more...
From Paul McCartney to Billie Eilish and Joan As Police Woman The best songs of 2020
In a year of living anxiously, music has been a balm and a boost. Here are 20 songs to give you a lift while you wait for normality to return. Read more...
Warning from pensions giant Fidelity on pay
The firm has written to FTSE 350 companies warning it will vote against lavish pay packages if they have used coronavirus support schemes, such as furlough, and have not repaid the cash. Read more...
Celebrity Pregnancy Is Big Business
These days, content begins at conception. Read more...
Daily Covid deaths fall1,235 lowest levels since before holidays hospital numbers drop to 55,403
The U.S. coronavirus death toll surpassed 500,000 on Monday, which Dr Anthony Fauci called a 'stunning' figure and said 'should not have happened.' Read more...
Pennsylvania bird watcher spots a stunning rare cardinal that is half male and half female
An avid bird watcher in Pennsylvania had a one in a million encounter when he saw a rare cardinal with bright red feathers on one side and brownish white on the other, making it half male and half female. Read more...
Moment PRIEST, 27, holds up a supermarket cashier with a fake gun in Brazil
Father Elizeu Moreira, 27, is accused of carrying out robberies attwo supermarkets and a pharmacy within the span of an hour on Tuesday in Passo Fundo, Brazil. Read more...
European Golfs Debt to Tony Jacklin
He won two majors, but he really made his mark helping Europe in the Ryder Cup. Read more...
New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters
M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures. Read more...
Mounting federal debt puts the U.S. at risk of a fiscal crisis, Congressional Budget Office warns.
The nonpartisan office forecast a challenging long-term outlook, as interest costs rise and federal spending on health programs swells along with an aging population. Read more...
Belgian cyclist who kneed five-year-old girl to the floor ordered to pay just 1
A cyclist who appeared to deliberately knee a five-year-old girl as she walked though a park in Baraque Michel, Belgium, has received a suspended sentence and been ordered to pay 1. Read more...
Couple to pay 60k for damage to 3.5m Grade II listed 16th Century mansion
Leroy Bangs and wife Wendy were convicted of preservation order breaches relating to the sprawling house inWaltham St Lawrence, Berkshire. Read more...