AARP Projects 2027 Social Security COLA at 3.6%

If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.“Older adults, especially seniors on Social Security, are experiencing higher costs on everything,” said Bill Sweeney, AARP’s senior vice president for government affairs.

M Mark Miller

How Trump Is Using the Postal Service to Intervene in Elections

Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.

R Reid J. Epstein, Laura Bult, Nikolay Nikolov, Brian Oh, Stephanie Swart, Whitney Shefte, Jon Miller, Jon Hazell and Rafaela Balster

Inside an Ancient Lebanese City Engulfed by War

The Lebanese city of Tyre, one of the oldest metropolises in the world, has been left scarred.The ancient city of Tyre has come to embody the rhythms and brutality of war in southern Lebanon.

A Abdi Latif Dahir and Daniel Berehulak

Israel Destroys Underground Hezbollah Base in Southern Lebanon

The complex sat below Ali al-Taher ridge, a strategic hilltop that overlooks the region and that has seen intense fighting.The top of the Ali al-Taher ridge, in southern Lebanon, on Friday. Lebanese and Israeli officials say Hezbollah established a major installation beneath the ridge.

A Abdi Latif Dahir and Hwaida Saad

How Did a Heart Drug With So Much Promise Fall So Flat?

Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.An illustration of a lipoprotein A particle. Scientists are asking themselves: If Lp(a) is a marker, what is it marking? Is there another cause of heart disease that no one has thought o

G Gina Kolata

How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets

The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.State Representative Emma Greenman in the Minnesota State Capitol, where she helped pass a law banning prediction markets in the spring.

L Lauren McCarthy

What Are Kalshi and Polymarket?

Prediction markets have taken off in popularity, drawing billions of dollars in trades. Some states have tried to ban them.An ad for Kalshi in 2024. The huge popularity of Kalshi and Polymarket has raised fears about how susceptible they are to manipulation by those with insider information.

L Lauren McCarthy

Twenty-Five Years

We look back at Sept. 11, 2001.Firefighters on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Boy, 15, Drifted for Days on an Overturned Boat Before Rescue

The teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said.A 15-year-old whose mother identified him as Derek Parker Aghnaanga was pulled to safety from the overturned hull of his skiff on Monday by the crew of a fishin

I Ishani Desai