Costco Crushes Earnings But a Slowing Membership Trend Rattles Investors
Strong Numbers, Muted Reaction Costco delivered another strong quarter on paper — and Wall Street shrugged anyway. The warehouse retail giant posted its fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results after the closing bell on September 24, beating estimates on both the top and bottom lines. The company…
Strokes Are Surging Among Young Adults and Experts Say You Can Fight Back
A Wake-Up Call for Younger Generations Strokes in young adults are steadily on the rise — and have nearly doubled in the last three decades, according to a new study. For years, stroke has been thought of as a disease of old age, something to…
Former Child Star Jonathan Taylor Thomas Arrested After Kicking Deputy at Late-Night Traffic Stop
A Late-Night Incident Pulls a Private Star Back Into the Spotlight Jonathan Taylor Thomas — known to a generation of American viewers as Randy Taylor on ABC’s *Home Improvement* and to another as the voice of young Simba in Disney’s *The Lion King* — has…
Scientists Pick Up First Radio Signal Traced Directly to a Planet Beyond Our Solar System
A Cosmic First: Radio Waves From Another World For many years, astronomers have listened for the radio crackle of planets beyond the Solar System. They may have finally isolated one. The source is Beta Pictoris b, a young gas giant about 64 light-years away. A…
A Kidnapping Survivor Is Reopening Cold Cases America Never Forgot
When a Survivor Becomes the Investigator The Freeform and Hulu docuseries Somebody Knows Something follows true crime influencer Kara Robinson Chamberlain as she investigates unsolved cases that have stumped law enforcement and haunted internet sleuths for years. What makes Chamberlain different from the wave of…
Ancient Teeth Reveal T. Rex Ran as Warm as a Human Being
A 66-Million-Year-Old Thermometer For decades, the question of whether Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded or cold-blooded has loomed over paleontology like the dinosaur itself. Now, scientists have finally cracked it — and the answer came from teeth. A new study published on September 16 in the…
Soccer Star Savannah DeMelo Sues Doctors Who Missed the Heart Condition That Nearly Killed Her
US women’s soccer midfielder Savannah DeMelo has filed a lawsuit against doctors following a cardiac arrest she suffered during a match. DeMelo collapsed on the pitch in a frightening incident that halted play, and she is now seeking legal accountability for her medical care. The lawsuit highlights ongoing concerns about athlete health management and emergency response in professional sports.
A 240-Million-Year-Old Tusked Beast Sat in a Museum for 60 Years and Just Rewrote Dinosaur History
The Fossil That Waited Six Decades The story began in 1963, when a British expedition collected a large number of synapsid fossils — mammal-lineage vertebrates that were widespread and diverse long before dinosaurs came to dominate terrestrial ecosystems — from what is now Tanzania. The…
Fed Defies Trump and Hikes Rates for First Time in Over Three Years
A Historic and Politically Charged Decision The Federal Reserve made a bold move on Wednesday, September 16, raising interest rates for the first time since 2023 — and doing so in direct defiance of President Donald Trump’s repeated demands to lower them. The Fed approved…
NWSL Star Sues Team Doctors One Year After On-Field Cardiac Arrest
Racing Louisville midfielder Savannah DeMelo has filed a lawsuit against the team’s medical staff following a cardiac arrest she suffered during a game. DeMelo alleges that the doctors failed to provide adequate care during the life-threatening medical emergency. The case raises serious questions about player safety protocols and medical responsibility in professional women’s soccer.
