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A Tulane University study found that sleeping with light above roughly moonlight brightness is linked to higher risks of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death, and sleep experts explain why nighttime light disrupts the body’s circadian rhythm.

Carnegie Mellon University says it is reviewing “hostile and threatening” social media posts by professor Uju Anya, who invoked “Kirkmas” around the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination; the university says she is already on voluntary leave and not teaching this year.

A juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial denies the panel was biased, saying the mistrial deliberations followed gaps in the prosecution’s evidence rather than any predetermined agenda on women’s mental health.

Fashion designer Bob Mackie, known for dressing Cher, Tina Turner, and Diana Ross in elaborate sequined gowns, has died at age 87.

Bill Maher argues that California voters will never abandon the Democratic Party for the GOP as long as Trump leads it, even as he criticizes the state’s education outcomes and floated government-run grocery stores.

Danny DeVito described the all-night after-parties during the run of “Taxi” as wild affairs featuring “crudité and cocaine,” with celebrity guests including Michael Jackson and John Belushi.

Actress Gillian Anderson says she now identifies as pansexual, reflecting in a new interview on past relationships with women dating back to high school.

President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order intended to shake up competition in the U.

A 2021 prison release deal signed by then-Governor Roy Cooper freed dozens of people convicted of sexual offenses, including several later rearrested in or near Randolph County, and is now a flashpoint in his U.S. Senate campaign against Michael Whatley.

An upstate New York mom did a squat every time her four-year-old said “Mom,” ending up with more than 200 reps in one morning and a viral TikTok video.