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For all the talk about Social Security being in crisis, what hasn’t been stressed enough is the leadership crisis. From December of 2023 to until the current leader’s Senate confirmation of May 6, a parade of four commissioners and acting commissioners...

Even the world’s record-breaking athletes are not immune to the lows of grappling with burnout and mental health challenges.
Freestyle skier and Olympic champion Eileen Gu said following the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing—where she won two gold medals and one silver for China at age 18—she was hit with a wave of burnout and anxiety, a feeling shared by many other elite athletes...

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye was a 2024 first round, third overall NFL draft pick with a reported $36.6 million contract—but you likely wouldn’t be able to tell it from the car he drives.
The 23-year-old still drives a 2015 GMC pickup truck that served him in high school growing up in the suburbs of Charlotte, N.C. The truck broke down off of Interstate 95 in January 2025, but the burgeoning football star refused to part with the vehicle...

U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data.
Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a 22,250-birth increase in 2024 marked the start of an upward trend...