New Zealand will consolidate its fragmented healthcare system into a national service similar to the one revered by many in Britain By NICK PERRY Associated Press April 21, 2021, 2:14 AM • 2 min read WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand announced Wednesday it will consolidate its fragmented healthcare system […]
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Child tax credit payments for as much as $300 a month are expected to start in July. Sarah Tew/CNET July will start the beginning of the monthly payments for the enhanced child tax credit — but there’s not a set date for when the checks will begin arriving. We do, however, know […]
Searching for a new show to spend a lot of time with on Netflix? Welcome to another list of best shows you might have missed (or might be inspired to re-binge). Netflix periodically changes up its line-up of programs, but its excellent originals stick around. Hopefully, you’ll find a hidden gem […]
If you haven’t thought about Mother’s Day gifts, you might want to give some thought to the subject before gifts start to sell out and floral delivery services become booked and busy. Some moms appreciate new tech or smart home gifts that can help them keep up with household tasks. […]
Could getting too little sleep increase your chances of developing dementia? For years, researchers have pondered this and other questions about how sleep relates to cognitive decline. Answers have been elusive because it is hard to know if insufficient sleep is a symptom of the brain changes that underlie dementia […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apart from China and despite a worldwide drop in death sentences, countries in the Middle East remained among the world’s leading executioners last year, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The number of executions worldwide plummeted to its lowest level in over a decade, with at […]
Mark Allen beat Lyu Haotian 10-2 in the world championship first round, and then paid tribute to the outgoing World Snooker Tour chairman, Barry Hearn. The Northern Irish player has been one of Hearn’s most vociferous critics, but called Hearn “a revelation to the game” after the 72-year-old announced on […]
Ukrainian entrepreneur Max Polyakov, with his Silicon Valley-based investment vehicle Noosphere Ventures Partners, is on a mission to build out a vertically integrated space business. A year after Noosphere founded satellite imagery venture Earth Observation Data Analytics (EOSDA) in 2016, Polyakov got into the launch business by snapping up Firefly […]