It started with nausea and loss of appetite. Robert Grafton, of Turnersville, New Jersey, tried to convince himself he was just coming down with something one weekend in mid-March. Then came the itching and dark urine. Grafton, a former interventional radiology technologist whose wife is a nurse, recognized the hallmarks of liver failure. The otherwise…
A mother in Australia is raising money to cryogenically preserve her 13-year-old son’s body after he died by suicide following “months of brutal bullying,” according to the online fundraiser. Clare McCann, an actress and filmmaker from New South Wales, launched the fundraiser on Sunday, explaining that her son, Atreyu McCann, died May 23. She wrote…
One metric has traditionally been all but definitive when it comes to New Jersey Democratic contests: the county line. And by that metric, one candidate is running circles around the others ahead of the June 10 gubernatorial primary: Rep. Mikie Sherrill. Sherrill has won endorsements from 10 of the state’s 21 county Democratic organizations, including…
After NFL owners voted to allow active players to participate in the 2028 Olympics, Justin Jefferson called it “a dream” to potentially win a gold medal in flag football. But one of his LSU college teammates isn’t so sure. On Tuesday, Ja’Marr Chase told reporters that he needs more information to know whether or not…
SpaceX will attempt to launch its Starship megarocket on a key test flight Tuesday, months after two launches both failed when the upper-stage vehicle exploded and rained debris over the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the Caribbean. Tuesday’s uncrewed launch — Starship’s ninth test flight — is set to blast off from SpaceX’s Starbase…
LIVERPOOL, England — Images of a car plowing into a large crowd of soccer fans celebrating their team’s English Premier League title win had barely made it to national newscasts when notorious right-wing voices started to call the incident a “suspected terrorist attack” on social media. The X account of Tommy Robinson, a convicted fraudster…
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is running for governor of Alabama, he announced Tuesday with the launch of a campaign website. If successful, the long-expected move will cap a whirlwind decade for Tuberville. In 2016, he was still working as the University of Cincinnati’s head football coach (he previously coached at Auburn University in Alabama). In…
The GHF released a statement confirming the Gazans took some of the aid from the site they refer to as SDS-1. “The needs on the ground are great,” the statement said. “At one moment in the late afternoon, the volume of people at the SDS was such that the GHF team fell back to allow…
Walmart agreed to pay a small fine and promised to ensure its third-party resellers are unable to sell realistic looking toy guns to buyers in New York, after state Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday that the retail giant’s online store shipped them to the state. The settlement comes nearly a decade after Walmart, Amazon,…
TOKYO — Japan said Tuesday it plans to use some slightly radioactive soil stored near the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office to show it is safe to reuse. The soil was removed from across the Fukushima prefecture as part of decontamination work following the 2011 nuclear disaster…
