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Ask the doctors: Exercise remains crucial part of bone health

Dear Doctors: What is the best or most effective way to treat osteoporosis and osteopenia? I have tried several medications. One had too many side effects, so I had to stop. I took another one for two years, but you have to keep taking it and I prefer not to.
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Madonna dominates 2026 MTV VMAs nominations

LOS ANGELES — It’s a material world and the VMAs are living in it. Madonna ruled the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards nominations on Tuesday with 11. The Queen of Pop last led the pack in 1990 when she was up for the top award for “Vogue.” Thirty six years later, history repeats itself with Madonna’s 14-minute “Confessions II — The Film” earning a nomination for video of the year. Her 11 nominations ...
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Attorneys deliver opening statements in Tupac Shakur murder trial

LAS VEGAS — Attorneys began delivering opening statements Monday in the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is on trial in connection with the shooting of Shakur, who was shot near the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996. No one was arrested in the slaying until Davis was taken into custody in 2023 outside his home in Henderson. The ...
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Miss Manners: Doctors late because of supposed ‘emergency’

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If I am late to a doctor’s appointment, I may not get to see the doctor at all, but I will still be charged for having missed the appointment. But if I get there on time, I usually have to cool my heels for a long time – sometimes for close to an hour – before the doctor will see me.
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Six ways to tell whether that old book might be worth something

During a recent visit, my husband’s mother gave him her 50-year-old copy of “All the President’s Men.” The book, which chronicles Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s reporting on the Watergate affair, was the basis for the iconic Dustin Hoffman/Robert Redford movie that I will pause to watch whenever it graces my screen. The smoking! The typewriters! Burglars who wore suits!
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Actor Hayden Panettiere dies at 36

Hayden Panettiere, the former child actress best known for her roles in TV series like "Heroes" and "Nashville," has died at 36. Her representative confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News on Sunday. TMZ was the first to share the news.
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Glenn Whipp: How the late-breaking ‘Widow’s Bay’ became an Emmy darling

Sometime early in the delightful first-season run of “Widow’s Bay,” Hiro Murai, its primary director and executive producer, began hearing from random people from his past — film school friends, parents of friends, actors he had worked with, the aunt of an acquaintance, a middle school pal he hadn’t spoken with for 20 years. He received so many texts that by the end of the season, he figured ...
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‘We tricked them.’ Why ‘Ted Lasso’ probably deserves some credit for U.S. soccer boom.

LOS ANGELES — In the summer of 2020, the year "Ted Lasso" debuted on Apple TV, the largest audience for a televised soccer match in the U.S. was 1.7 million. Shortly before the soccer-based sitcom returned for a fourth season last Wednesday, nearly 63 million viewers in the U.S. watched the World Cup final. Brendan Hunt, the actor who plays Lasso's loyal sidekick Coach Beard in the series, ...
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This week’s bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Calamity Club: A Novel" by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) ...