Pinellas Paramedic Stole Drugs, Replaced Them With Saline, Deputies Say

Melinda French Gates is stepping down as co-chair of the $75 billion foundation she helped run with her former husband, Bill Gates. Her last day will be June 7 and she’ll receive an additional $12.5 billion to use for her own charitable purposes as part of an agreement with her ex-husband, French Gates said Monday in a statement.

The weight room at the gym can be an intimidating place. The equipment looks like it could crush you if you use it wrong. People grunt as they haul heavy things up and down. And why don’t these machines come with instruction manuals, anyway? Figuring out how to start strength training as a beginner can be tough, but it’s worth the effort.

A single JPEG has catalyzed yet another rabid surge in the stock price of the video game store GameStop: its price jumped by more than 70% on Monday morning. On the evening of Sunday, May 12, a man named Keith Gill posted an illustration on X of a man bolting upright in his chair.

A while back, I went on a quest to figure out and—and live by—the original meaning of America’s Founding document: the Constitution. I bore a musket on the streets of New York. I renounced social media in favor of expressing his First Amendment right to scribble pamphlets with a quill pen.

For all the hype surrounding status water bottles—looking at you, Stanley and Owala—it turns out many of us aren’t drinking nearly enough H2O. “It’s a struggle,” says Vanessa King, a registered dietitian nutritionist with Queen’s Health System in Oahu, Hawaii. “We see thousands of people a month, and drinking enough water comes up all the time.” Exactly how much you need to drink every day depends on a variety of factors, including your age, activity level, how much you sweat, and your health status, as well as which medications you take (some can cause dehydration) and your location (hot places call for more water).

On May 1, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell offered a two-part message to eager interest rate watchers. The Fed is unlikely to increase interest rates this year, but policymakers there are also not rushing to cut them from 5.25%-5.5%. “I don’t know how long it’ll take,” Powell said of when the Fed might cut rates. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Interests rate shape markets, and that’s especially true with renewable energy.