A hidden effect of statins on muscle cells may explain why some patients cannot tolerate them
For millions of people, statins are a daily safeguard against heart attacks and strokes. But for about 1 in 10 users, these widely prescribed drugs come with an unexpected tradeoff—persistent muscle pain, fatigue, and weakness that can be severe enough to make patients stop taking them altogether.
Military service remains voluntary in Germany. However, with the Bundeswehr needing more soldiers, conscription could soon return. But an increasing number of young men are choosing to opt out.
By Peter Cohan Senior Contributor, covers stocks Apr 05, 2026
Forbes
Summary
Despite a U.S. energy surplus, oil prices soared up to 70% since late February due to global market trading and the Strait of Hormuz cutting 20% of world supply.
This global integration, solidified by the 2015 U.S. export ban repeal, led to significant price hikes across WTI crude, gasoline, and diesel.
Energy stocks saw massive gains, some over 60%, alongside certain AI-related hardware firms, while software companies suffered sharp declines from AI displacement fears.
IDF investigating failure to intercept projectile that struck Neot Hovav, home to a toxic waste dump, causing damage but no injuries; regime targets civilian facilities in UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
He’s forgotten the thing that first got him elected
Jonathan Cohn
Apr 05, 2026
DONALD TRUMP LAST WEEK gave an unexpectedly candid riff on his governing priorities—and, in the process, revealed that he’s losing one of his most important political skills.
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign wants “a moratorium on immigration from third world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.” The chaos in Minneapolis has not pushed him off that course.
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By Phil Stewart and Menna Alaa El-Din, Reuters Apr 5, 2026, 06:40 AM
U.S. special forces rescued a downed airman in Iran in a complex operation that averted a potential crisis for President Donald Trump, as the war entered its sixth week with little sign of progress in diplomatic efforts for a resolution.
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people.
Both parties are spending a fraction of the total that broke records for a spring election last year. But Democrats are in the driver’s seat in Madison.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election last year was supposed to decide the fate of “Western civilization.” Tuesday’s contest has been a decidedly muted affair.
As the FBI Pins its Hopes on Bitcoin Tracing in the Nancy Guthrie Abduction Case, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is facing scrutiny for an older incident that, according to his critics, adds another level of uncertainty in his ability to solve the case
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC’s Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, remains missing after her abduction from her Tucson, Arizona home on February 1. As the investigation continues, FBI experts are focusing on tracing Bitcoin ransom payments as their "best lead" in solving the case.
The crew is now more than halfway to the Moon, with a lunar flyby set for Monday, April 6. A minor toilet issue posed no threat to the mission. Dylan Stableford, Jack Brewster Sat, April 4, 2026
NASA’s Artemis II — the first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century — fired its main engine for nearly six minutes on Thursday, sending the four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit and toward the moon for the first time since 1972. The crew is now more than halfway there, with a lunar flyby set for Monday.
European chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi checks her notes during a press conference following meetings with Greek officials on various issues, at a custom of Piraeus port, near Athens, Greece, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File) April 3, 2026
ATHENS, Greece (AP) —Three government ministers resigned in Greece on Friday amid a European investigation into alleged European Union farm subsidy fraud.
In a statement, the US State Department has accused Hamideh Soleimani Afshar of being an ‘outspoken supporter’ of Iran. By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 4 Apr 2026
The United States has revoked the permanent residency of two women it says are related to Qassem Soleimani, the late major general who led Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from 1998 until his assassination in 2020.
Arsalan Shahla and Patrick Sykes Sat, April 4, 2026 (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that time was running out on his 10-day deadline for Iran to make a peace deal with the US and threatened that the Islamic Republic would face “all hell” in 48 hours.
As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they’re little more than a psychological defense mechanism for wealthy people who want to feel a shred of control in an unpredictable world.
Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making and what we can expect from the court in the future.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is warning of a catastrophic global oil shock, cautioning that impending physical shortages could drive prices as high as $372 per barrel and trigger a worldwide recession.