By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, May 6, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The number of weight-loss surgery procedures in the United States is dropping rapidly in the face of cutting-edge drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound, a new study says. These procedures dropped by more than 20% between 2022 and 2024, falling below 200,000 for the first …
By Ted Hesson, Jana Winter and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security identified the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran as a potential motive for the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration at a White House reporters’ gala last month, according …
SHANGHAI, May 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released data this week indicating the fuel supply to both engines of a China Eastern Airlines flight was switched off before the jet plunged into a hillside in southern China in March 2022, killing all 132 people on board. The data, which was …
May 6 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has proposed investing $55 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility, called Terafab, in Texas, according to a filing made public on Wednesday. The project would involve a multi-phase chip fabrication and advanced computing complex designed to boost domestic semiconductor production capacity in the United States. SpaceX estimates …
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, May 6 (Reuters) – Venezuela told judges at the United Nations’ highest court, the World Court, on Wednesday that it rejects its jurisdiction in its century-old dispute with its neighbour Guyana centred around a region that is rich in oil. At issue is a 160,000-square-km (62,000-square-mile) border territory around …
VATICAN CITY, May 6 (Reuters) – Pope Leo will visit two of the Canary Islands, major entry points off Africa’s western coast for desperate migrants braving dangerous Atlantic waters to get to Europe, as part of a tour of Spain next month, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. Leo, who has drawn the ire of U.S. …
Three patients suspected of having the hantavirus have been evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship and are on their way to the Netherlands to receive medical care, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The three are British, German and Dutch, and the British national is a crew member, according to the WHO. The rare …
May 6 (Reuters) – The White House believes it is getting close to an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing two U.S. officials and two other sources briefed on the issue. The U.S. expects …
A school shooting Tuesday in Acre state in northern Brazil left two women dead and two others injured, including an underage student, authorities said. The state government said in a statement that a 13-year-old student admitted carrying out the attack at the public school Instituto Sao Jose in Rio Branco, the state capital. The two …
BEJING/TAIPEI, May 6 (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday Eswatini’s leaders were being “kept and fed” by Taiwan, using unusually strong language to condemn the small southern African kingdom for hosting President Lai Ching-te. China and Taiwan have long traded accusations of “dollar diplomacy” to win support from developing countries. Beijing’s latest criticism came after …