Property taxes around the U.S. have long been a lightning rod for debate, with political leaders perpetually balancing the need to fund their budget priorities against the risk of alienating ...

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his proposal to raise New York City property taxes was a “last resort” to close a budget gap. By Sally Goldenberg and Grace Ashford Sally Goldenberg reported from New York, ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

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Rumors circulated online in late January and early February 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump ended an Oval Office news conference early after soiling himself. In a video posted to YouTube by ...

The medication is really taking care of business. A pair of new Canadian clinical trials show poop pills can reduce the toxic side effects of cancer medications and even support patient response to ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or a cascade of “snowcrete,” which might actually be plausible) for the past two weeks, you have probably heard that a deluge of poop water has been wending its ...

An ancient bottle with a wide base and a long neck. This ancient unguentarium, a candlestick-like glass vessel probably used for holding medicines, was found to contain fecal biomarkers. Credit: ...

Would you drink bear poop? That’s a question that Breakside Brewery and Columbia Sportswear are, for some reason, asking beer drinkers with a Super Bowl-adjacent campaign this year. Maybe, just maybe, ...