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Killed in Iranian missile attack, Staff Sgt. Rampersad laid to rest : NPR

Killed in Iranian missile attack, Staff Sgt. Rampersad laid to rest : NPR

The casket of Staff Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, who was killed in the ongoing war between the U.S. and Iran, is carried by NYPD officers during the funeral procession in New York on Friday, July 31. Ryan Murphy/AP hide caption toggle caption Ryan Murphy/AP NEW YORK — When Carolina Flores saw two men in military uniforms approach her friend’s house across the street, she had a feeling something was wrong. Her friend Carol Acevedo’s daughter was serving in the Middle East. “Once they closed the door, we just heard her screaming,” Flores said. The men had come to deliver the news that 28-year-old Angel S. Rampersad, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, was killed July 17 in an attack on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. She was one of four American soldiers killed overseas in the last month. And just like that, a faraway war hit home in Ozone Park, Queens. It’s one of the most diverse places in the country. At a vigil for Rampersad Monday, dozens of neighbors from countries …

Why Social Media Is Ruining Travel for the Rest of Us

Why Social Media Is Ruining Travel for the Rest of Us

There’s a growing consensus that Instagram and TikTok are ruining travel for the rest of us. Viral tourism has led to a crush of travelers in a small number of destinations. A 2019 survey found that 86 percent of people chose their travel destinations based on social media content posted by a friend, family member, or peer. This wave of mass conformity led TIME magazine to declare that “We Have All Become Travel Influencers. It’s Ruining the Planet.” The trend of influencers lining up to get the exact same photo has become so common that it’s produced an industry of parody. One of our personal favorites is “@Influencersinthewild,” which captures videos and images of influencers (or wannabe influencers) trying to take selfies in the cringiest fashion. Occasionally, a middle-aged dad will recreate his daughter’s social media poses to reveal the absurdity of the entire enterprise. These trends have a deep social psychological foundation. Long before we ever board a flight, our travel choices serve as powerful signals of status, values, and the subtle identities we …

No Rest, No Relaxation: My Week at a Sleep Clinic

No Rest, No Relaxation: My Week at a Sleep Clinic

“Dress for rehab,” my colleague Elise told me when she heard I was about to leave for six days at the clinic Mayrlife in Austria. I didn’t know if I should be offended that I knew the kind of sweatpants-forward look she was referring to, even though I have never been to rehab. I was viewing my week closer to a week in rehab than, say, a spa vacation. I have been to many spas from Türkiye to Tucson and am familiar with the water aerobics and climbing gyms and hot-stone massages, and fruit breakfasts, and especially the enforced collective bonding through deprivation and physical effort, and sharing our feelings. So many feelings. Mayrlife prided itself in offering none of that. Mayrlife, which is in central Austria, about 90 minutes from Salzburg, calls itself a health resort promising “an enhanced outlook on life.” They specialize in the ominous sounding The Mayr Cure, which is an elaborate detox much of which is centered around gut health and the microbiome; medical treatments both esoteric and commonplace; and …

What is sleep debt? An expert explains what happens when you don’t get enough rest

What is sleep debt? An expert explains what happens when you don’t get enough rest

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Maybe you’re a new parent or someone who lies awake at night. If so, you may have started to worry you’re not getting enough sleep. Sleep wearables don’t help. They can show your “sleep debt”, a running total of how far you’ve fallen behind. But the word “debt” assumes your sleep works like a bank account. It assumes lost hours stack up, carry over, and you must eventually repay them in full. But sleep doesn’t really work this way. And chasing “enough sleep” may not be helping. What is a sleep debt? Two systems control your sleep. One is your body clock, which helps keep wakefulness and sleep aligned with the day and night. The other is the one that matters here: sleep pressure. …

‘Odyssey,’ ‘Rest Is History’ Stars

‘Odyssey,’ ‘Rest Is History’ Stars

The Tom Hollands have come together for a search engine-confusing conversation about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and broken the internet. British actor Tom Holland, playing Telemachus in the film, joined his fellow countryman, the historian and The Rest Is History co-host Tom Holland, to discuss the extraordinary scale of the adaptation, acting in Imax, and balancing the movie’s historical reality with ancient myth. The Rest Is History sit-down — which prompted a good few Spider-Man meme reactions, in reference to the actor’s upcoming MCU outing — also comes as the historian finds himself at the center of an unlikely culture-war clash with Elon Musk over Nolan’s film. Musk has launched something of a campaign against The Odyssey, riling up a herd of social media critics who call the movie’s diverse casting, such as Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, too “woke,” despite wide acknowledgement that Homer’s work is, of course, a piece of fiction. The podcast host was invited to the star-spangled London premiere of the blockbuster, and would later take aim at the naysayers: “More praise for The Odyssey from people …

250+ New LGBTQ Books Out in the Rest of 2026

250+ New LGBTQ Books Out in the Rest of 2026

A couple weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ queer books coming out in the second half of the year. You might notice that those are pretty different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn about a lot of queer books closer to their release date. Fall is the biggest publishing season, and I expect to hear about a lot more queer books coming out then in the next few months. Still, this list can give you a jumpstart on the most anticipated queer books of July-December! Content for All Access members continues below. Click here for the spreadsheet of more than 250 LGBTQ books coming out in the second half of 2026! Feel free to make a copy to sort or filter by genre or representation. Because these books aren’t out yet, there are some I’m not sure about: the question marks mean I haven’t verified the representation yet. Feel free to let me know …

📚 No rest for the wicked

📚 No rest for the wicked

You think you know there are a lot of books, and then you try to pick out a handful of nonfiction titles coming out in July and then you feel that there are just so many books. Here are (just) a few notable nonfiction books coming out this month: Scavenging Beauty by Angelica Glass – I am reading this one right now. Glass entered into a project to walk every road in Santa Cruz County, California, as a way of getting out of her bubble and seeing more of the world, causing her to consider and reckon with her past. Biological War by Annie Jacobsen – Jacobsen is back to freak you out. After a breakthrough with Nuclear War, Jacobsen turns her attention not to bombs but to bugs (and chemicals and strands and other things that go squish in the night). It doesn’t go great! Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef by Nephi Craig – At 18, Craig, under court order, attended culinary school and found there a …

China is bringing back buttons – and it’s time the rest of the car industry did, too

China is bringing back buttons – and it’s time the rest of the car industry did, too

Get our weekly Drive Smart newsletter for motoring news, reviews and advice from EV editor Steve Fowler Get motoring news, reviews and advice from EV editor Steve Fowler Get our EV editor’s weekly Drive Smart newsletter There’s a growing sense that the car industry has finally realised it got a bit carried away with touchscreens. For years, the big central display became the easiest shorthand for a modern car interior. The bigger the screen and the fewer buttons around it, the more futuristic a car was supposed to look. A row of proper switches? How terribly old-fashioned. Except it turns out that drivers quite like being able to turn on the wipers, adjust the temperature or switch on the foglights without taking their eyes off the road and prodding their way through three layers of menus. China has now decided enough is enough. From 1 July 2027, all newly manufactured cars in China will have to use physical controls for 19 core safety functions. Indicators, hazard lights, gear selection, wipers and emergency SOS calls are …

Are you older or younger than the rest of the world? | Demographics

Are you older or younger than the rest of the world? | Demographics

Fifty years ago, in 1976, the median age of the global population was just under 21 years. That means of the 4.1 billion people on Earth at the time, about half were younger than 21 and half were older. Today the median age is 31, and by 2050 the United Nations projects it will reach 36. The typical human being is steadily getting older. What is the replacement rate? The engine of that change is fertility. Demographers measure it using the total fertility rate, the average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime at current birth rates. The figure that matters most is the replacement rate, generally put at about 2.1 births per woman. That is the level at which a generation exactly replaces itself, keeping the population stable over the long run without immigration. The slight margin above two accounts for children who do not survive to adulthood. [Al Jazeera] The global fertility rate today is about 2.2, barely above replacement and down from approximately five in the 1960s. The United …

Jesy Nelson reveals she will be ‘heartbroken’ for the rest of her life in documentary trailer

Jesy Nelson reveals she will be ‘heartbroken’ for the rest of her life in documentary trailer

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Jesy Nelson has shared an emotional moment from her upcoming Amazon Prime documentary, revealing she feels she will be “heartbroken for the rest of my life”. The series, titled Jesy Nelson: Life Changing, follows the 35-year-old as she campaigns to reform UK newborn screening laws. Her efforts stem from her personal experience after her twins, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, were diagnosed with the rare condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Sharing the trailer on Instagram, the former Little Mix star urged viewers to watch, stating: “I’m really not sure where to start with this one… All I can say is that I urge everyone to watch this documentary. It’s the most heartbreaking series I’ve ever had to make, but it’s one that needed to be made if we’re ever going to see real change. “This is only a small glimpse into what my …