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The Summary Research over the last year has found that certain diet and exercise regimens may help reduce a person’s “biological age.” Those regimens include following a plant-based diet, getting daily physical activity and doing strength training. Biological age is a measure of physiological health, rather than one’s number of birthdays. New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier or exercise more …

2025 could bring economic changes with the potential to hit millions of people’s wallets in different ways. A series of stock market gains have fueled retirement investments at the same time that catastrophic storm damage is causing steep repair costs and making thousands of homes virtually uninsurable. Meanwhile, the incoming Trump administration is eyeing deeper tax cuts along with a …

What a difference a year makes. At this time last year, Donald Trump was facing the prospect of four criminal trials that could put him behind bars for years, and hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties from civil cases that had been brought against him. Now the criminal cases against him are in jeopardy — the two federal prosecutions …

SEOUL, South Korea — The black boxes from the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea on Sunday are the center of focus as a joint team of U.S. and South Korean investigators work to determine the cause of the deadliest aviation disaster of 2024. Data from the two black boxes, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice …

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism. Lai, who took office in May, has regularly offered talks with China but been rebuffed. China views democratically governed Taiwan …

Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago. At its peak in the Jim Crow 1960s, 500 boys were housed at what …

HONOLULU — Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval base, has died. He was 103. Chandler died Monday at a senior living center in Tequesta, Florida, according to Ron Mahaffee, the husband of his granddaughter Kelli Fahey. Chandler had congestive heart failure, but Mahaffee …

Pope Francis marked the start of Holy Year, a once-every-quarter-century event expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome. Despite a ban on firecrackers, the skies were alight with the crackling sound of pyrotechnics both official and freestyle as a traffic jam led to the circa-80 A.D. Colosseum, where quiet crowds amassed in awe until animating at midnight with …

A fugitive killed in a shootout with authorities in Ohio last month was identified Monday as the suspect in the decades-old unsolved murder of an 18-year-old woman. New DNA evidence established proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” that James Vanest, 68, was responsible for the April 29, 1981 murder of Debra Miller, 18, the Mansfield Police Department said in a news …