As Rashida Tlaib arrived on Capitol Hill to be sworn into the House of Representatives on Thursday, she was wearing a distinctive outfit: a traditional Palestinian thobe, or dress, adorned with the elaborate, hand-stitched embroidery known as tatreez. [Read live updates from the opening of the 116th Congress.] Ms. Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan who…
Courtesy Knee-high boots don’t get the attention they deserve. While many prefer ankle boots, the effort put into wearing a taller style pays off since they seriously elongate your legs. Whether you choose to do ’60s mod, ’70s earth tones, or the ’80s talon heel read on for five tips on how to finally nail…
The hallmark symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are tremors and slow, rigid movements. Small changes in a person’s movements and behavior can signal the onset of Parkinson’s disease before diagnosis. Parkinson’s disease is a nervous system disorder that affects around 1 percent of people aged 65 years and older. Symptoms usually develop slowly over several years.…
Life for Dylan and Cole Sprouse is pretty great. In fact…you could say it was pretty…sweet! (See what we did there? Ha.) Anyway, Dylan’s got his Brooklyn-based meadery, Cole stars in the cult-favorite series Riverdale, and they’re both in pretty serious relationships (Cole is dating his Riverdale co-star Lil Reinhart, while Dylan is dating model…
JARRAHDALE, Western Australia — The narrative is irresistible: a chef who grows almost every ingredient on your plate, who saves seeds from year to year, and coaxes beautiful meals from the same verdant land you gaze upon as you eat. This is the story of Millbrook Winery and its chef, Guy Jeffreys. Millbrook is on…
The Millbrook Winery property, in Jarrahdale, Western Australia, is almost entirely surrounded by the trails and forest of Serpentine National Park. The drive in is lovely, as is the walk from your car across a bridge and through the manicured grounds.
We let our daughter go to the college of her choice. She got into many state and private schools, some with scholarships. But no breaks at all from the expensive private college she selected. She loves it, and we can afford it, but it means constant sacrifice. She knows this, but it doesn’t stop her…
Bristol-Myers Squibb said on Thursday that it would buy Celgene, which makes cancer drugs, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $74 billion. Together, the merged companies will produce nine pharmaceutical products with more than $1 billion in annual sales, Bristol-Myers said in a statement. Bristol-Myers shareholders will own 69 percent of the combined entity while…
In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward. In 2006, Vanessa Hammer and Brendan Hammer were in law school (she at the University of Houston and he at DePaul) and living in different states when they met at a national Hispanic moot court competition. They…
New findings about the role of vitamin A in mediating the relationship between gut bacteria and the immune system may prove “critical” for devising new therapies for autoimmune conditions, such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other inflammatory diseases that affect the intestine. Carrots, butter, and cheese are some of the richest sources of vitamin…