- Wednesday, 3 September 2025
CNN
Don’t sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
“When patients present to me with complaints, one of the main areas we have to delve deeply into is spending a lot of time on the toilet,” Xue said.
Four storms churning the West Pacific at the same time mean more bad news for the Philippines
Four separate storm systems are churning their way through the West Pacific simultaneously, a rare occurrence resulting from warmer oceans that threatens to bring more misery to the storm-weary Philippines.
Trump wants to shut down the Department of Education. Here’s what that could mean
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education.
Bitcoin hits $80,000. Why Trump is boosting crypto
Bitcoin on Sunday hit a new record above $80,000. The world’s largest cryptocurrency surged in the run-up to Tuesday’s US presidential election, rose sharply immediately on election night after it became clear Donald Trump would win and has continued rising in the days since his victory.
Trump just made $500 million with a single Truth Social post
President-elect Donald Trump’s social media stock had been sinking fast after a short-lived, post-election-victory surge this week.
Trump’s master plan for a radical reformation of the US government
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to completely remake the US government and wield new power as president. The ambitious promises, if enacted, would transform society. Some of his most-repeated promises on the campaign trail include: - Mass deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants..
Why there will be few checks on Trump in his second term
Donald Trump believes presidents have almost absolute power. In his second term, there will be few political or legal restraints to check him. The president-elect’s sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly turned the theoretical notion that he will indulge his autocratic instincts into a genuine possibility.
CNN projects Trump wins battleground North Carolina as Harris looks for victory in other key states
Donald Trump will win the battleground state of North Carolina, CNN projects, boosting his chances of reclaiming the presidency. It’s too early to call the other battleground states — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada — as vote counting continues. They are seen as pivotal to Trump’s and Kamala Harris’ paths to victory.
Trump is already poisoning trust in yet another US election
If God was the vote counter, Donald Trump says he’d win in a landslide. The Republican nominee suggested on Thursday that divine intervention in next week’s election would reveal him as the rightful winner of even Democratic bastions like California. On one level, Trump’s comment shows how his false election fraud claims have entered the outer realms of absurdity.
This teen became the youngest person to summit the world’s highest peaks. Now he wants others to follow in his footsteps
ma said he dreams of Nepali climbers getting the same attention as professional Western climbers and he already sees the younger generation making it their own.
Diwali, the Festival of Lights
More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists around the world are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights. Diwali, also called Deepavali, is one of the biggest festivals in India. It’s also widely celebrated in Nepal, Malaysia, Fiji and other countries with large South Asian diasporas. Homes, businesses and public spaces are lit up with diyas, or oil lamps made from clay, and fireworks displays abound.
A loneliness epidemic is spreading worldwide. Seoul is spending $327 million to stop it
These are the country’s “lonely deaths,” known as godoksa in Korean. It’s part of a larger problem of loneliness and isolation across the country, an issue so pressing the government is pulling out all the stops to fight it.
A million children in Pakistan miss polio vaccine shots as cases spike
Polio is once again spreading in Pakistan, where officials say more than 1 million children missed their vaccination doses last month, underscoring the challenges they face in eradicating one of the world’s most intractable diseases. Pakistani officials reported more than a dozen new polio cases in October, bringing the total number of infections this year to 39, compared to just six last year when the South Asian country appeared to be on the verge of eliminating the virus.
The West wants Putin isolated. A major summit he’s hosting shows he’s far from alone
Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him.
Scientists pinpoint the origins of humanity’s love of carbs
The origin of modern humans’ long-standing love affair with carbs may predate our existence as a species, according to a new study. A once prevailing stereotype of ancient humans feasting on mammoth steak and other hunks of meat helped foster the idea of a protein-heavy diet that was necessary to fuel the development of a large brain.
