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Lil Jon paid tribute to his son, Nathan Murray Smith, as he laid him to rest two weeks after his death. “On the first day of Ramadan yesterday, We laid my only son to rest,” the rapper wrote alongside ...

Lil Jon is paying tribute to his son, Nathan Smith (a.k.a. DJ Young Slade), two weeks after his death at age 27. “On the first day of Ramadan yesterday, We laid my only son to rest. In this holy month ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Today’s column is my busman’s holiday project: providing nerd-like numbers and ...

Until recently, if you wanted your AI agent to check flight prices or look up a database, you had to write a custom tool. When Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it created a ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. John Wilkerson is a ...

Daniel Payne reports on how the health industry and Washington influence and impact each other. He joined STAT in 2025 after covering health care at POLITICO. You can reach Daniel on Signal at danielp ...

Despite another year of flight delays, cancellations and passenger complaints, no U.S. airline truly soared in 2025, though one carrier stood out as the industry’s top performer, while two tied for ...

Tom Layward, the narrator and main character of Ben Markovits' new novel, The Rest of Our Lives, introduces himself in a curious way: On the very first page of the book, he talks, matter-of-factly, ...

For the last two years, the fundamental unit of generative AI development has been the "completion." You send a text prompt to a model, it sends text back, and the transaction ends. If you want to ...

Let go and rest with stoic wisdom This guided Stoic meditation helps calm the noisy mind, release emotional weight, and build inner peace. Through nightly indifference and reflection, learn how to ...

Chad Spodick, one of the 13 men to compete on the reality show “Finding Prince Charming,” has died at the age of 42. The news of the reality TV star’s “sudden and heartbreaking” passing was announced ...