Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier

Planning for your period might be difficult if long covid has made it last longer SeventyFour Images / Alamy Long covid seems to disrupt the menstrual cycle, making periods heavier and longer. This may come about because of lingering covid-19-related complications that alter levels of hormones or cause inflammation. Why long covid occurs is unclear … Read more

Abortion Bans May Be Making Second-Trimester Abortions More Likely

The fraction of people who got an abortion in their second trimester more than doubled in states that enforced near-total abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, new research has found. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health on Thursday, found that the proportion of abortions that took place … Read more

This TV series about Jesus is making millions — at the box office

This Easter weekend, theaters from Torrance to Temecula will be showing films like “A Minecraft Movie” and Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller “Sinners.” Alongside those movies, many will also be showing an eight-hour “binge fest” of the latest season of “The Chosen,” the popular streaming series that chronicles the life of Jesus. Bingeing a series on … Read more

Martin Odegaard only intent on making Arsenal history on Real Madrid return

“I just wanna say that almost everything they are saying isn’t true,” Odegaard wrote on Instagram when he left. “For me it’s a shame that the press says things that aren’t true, because many people sincerely think it’s so. I have my reasons, I know what the truth is and what has happened and that’s … Read more

Yes, Climate Change Really is Making Your Hay Fever Worse

Climate change is bad news for a lot of reasons—the droughts, the floods, the heat, the hurricanes. And then, too, there’s all the sneezing. If you suffer from hay fever—or allergic rhinitis (AR)—and have found your symptoms growing worse in recent years, you’re not alone. Increasingly, health care professionals are concluding that as global heat … Read more

Lauren Graham reveals which Gilmore Girls season she didn’t enjoy making

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As world leaders grapple with instability, Trump’s attacks are making moderates popular again

LONDON — The second Trump administration may have ruffled the feathers of America’s alliesbut there is also evidence it has boosted world leaders scrambling to deal with the White House’s norm-busting approach. Some have gained plaudits for meeting Trump head-onwhile others have taken a more nuanced line between flattering the president and trying to shore … Read more

Netflix branded ‘shameless’ for making ‘note-for-note rip-off’ of The Traitors

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