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A HeatRisk map shows color-coded risk categories for people confronted by heat that can pose health problems. Excessive heat warnings were issued for more than 20 million Americans late Wednesday, as a heat dome raised temperatures.

A heat dome can bring dangerously high temperatures. What is it?

Much of the Southwest U.S. is experiencing extreme heat this week — with temperatures blazing past 100 degrees. And a phenomenon known as a heat dome is to blame.

Stars share the films they love On TCM's 'Two for One' series

Guest programmers, including Spike Lee, Olivia Wilde and even Donald Trump, present and discuss two favorite films on this TCM feature. It's yet another way the network celebrates the love of movies.

Marc Franke, known as "the Düsseldorf patient," is one of only seven patients in the world to be cured of HIV. His treatment involved a stem cell transplant. “It was a very rocky road,” he says. “I had so many troubles.”

One of the 7 people cured of HIV tells his story. Can his cure work for others?

The "Dusseldorf patient" spoke at last week's AIDS 2024 conference in Munich. Here's what doctors did — and what they say about their ability to replicate the procedure.

A pharmacist holds a vial of lenacapavir, the HIV prevention injectable drug that was shown to be 100% effective in newly published clinical trial data.

New HIV preventive strategy sparks excitement -- and protests -- at AIDS conference

The final results of a trial for a new HIV preventive strategy are out today. Experts express enthusiasm. But activists at the 2024 AIDS conference in Munich are protesting the likely cost.

Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., pictured during his court martial at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 23, 1971. Calley, who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, died on April 28 at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla., <em>The Washington Post</em> reported on July 29. He was 80.

William Calley, who led My Lai massacre that shamed U.S. military in Vietnam, has died

Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history. He was 80.

Nancy Pelosi Rejects 2 GOP Picks For Jan. 6 Inquiry Committee

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rejected two of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's nominations to serve on the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Why don't you see more James Baldwin works on the big screen?

Baldwin was arguably the most evocative Black writer of his generation. But if you know him from film, it is for just one movie, If Beale Street Could Talk, released more than 30 years after his death.

Just a few of the titles longlisted for the Booker Prize this year.

This year’s longlist for the Booker Prize is here

Longtime writers Claire Messud, Percival Everett, and Richard Powers join along with 3 debut novelists.

Blindsided by 'The Most': This is a superb novel of a marriage at its breakpoint

The story takes place in Newark, over the course of a single day in 1957, which we experience from the two spouses' alternating points of view. Jessica Anthony's novel deserves to become a classic.

In this photo illustration, boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023, in Los Angeles. Ozempic was originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat people with Type 2 diabetes, and it's now also used by many people to lose weight.

Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?

Novo Nordisk is powering Denmark's economy with huge sales of Ozempic. But could its stratospheric growth pose a risk?

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