
Gas Leak Outside Los Angeles Shuts Down 405, Forces Thousands Inside
A ruptured gas main shuttered the 405 freeway and forced thousands to shelter indoors, exposing the hidden dangers beneath L.A.’s concrete arteries.
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A ruptured gas main shuttered the 405 freeway and forced thousands to shelter indoors, exposing the hidden dangers beneath L.A.’s concrete arteries.
New research shows teens who get smartphones early face higher rates of anxiety, depression, and sleep loss as brain development collides with addictive design.

Growth is positive, but paychecks lag behind prices. Inside the two-track 2025 U.S. economy.

New NIH data links early smartphone access to a four-fold spike in teen depression, prompting fresh calls for industry reform and delayed adoption.

Kosovo’s snap election draws record turnout as voters seek to break a year-long political stalemate that has stunted EU talks and economic growth.

Brigitte Bardot, the French screen siren who turned international sex symbol into a lifelong crusade for animals, has died at 91 in her Saint-Tropez home.

Myanmar’s junta stage-managed an election as gunfire echoed nearby, offering voters only military proxies and threatening dissenters with jail.
Four major Social Security changes—COLA tweaks, fixed paydays, higher tax thresholds and optional paper statements—take effect January 1, 2026, affecting 70 million Americans.
Yin Paung Taung’s school-turned-polling site reveals how Myanmar’s election unfolded under military guns, with voters coerced, opposition absent, and bombs falling upcountry.

Myanmar’s military stages nationwide polls while civil war rages, turnout plummets, and rebels deride the exercise as wartime propaganda.