READING, Pa. – Reading City Council voted Monday night to adopt a resolution approving a 10-year franchise agreement with Comcast to provide cable service in the city. City Managing Director Jack ...

Spoiler alert: This story includes details from the first four episodes of Netfli x 's "Bridgerton" Season 4 (now streaming). Thompson, in an interview with USA TODAY, teased that the two had ...

In summer 2025, the SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 sublineage became dominant with more resistant variants, such as XFG, LP.8.1, and NB.1.8.1. COVID-19 mRNA boosters were therefore updated for the 2025–2026 season ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

Debates over what constitutes the American literary canon—and whether Bible excerpts should be a part of it—erupted on Wednesday during a tense Texas State Board of Education discussion over a ...

Sen. Judy Schwank’s participation in the Jan. 12 rally in Reading sickened me. It’s not that I don’t have sympathy for the poor woman who was killed, but had she been peacefully protesting and not ...

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My colleague Katy Waldman recently wrote an appreciation of Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature,” an essay from 1970 on the decline of landscape in fiction. Melville’s oceans and Fenimore Cooper’s ...

Medicare Part B covers outpatient care. The cost of Part B is increasing substantially in 2026. For seniors on Social Security, that increase will eat into their upcoming cost-of-living adjustment.

Medicare officials have announced an increase of almost 10% to premiums for 2026, when the monthly cost will exceed $200. The cost refers to the Medicare Part B premium, deductible and coinsurance ...

If you’re enrolled in Medicare, you know that the cost has been hitting your wallet harder lately. But the program’s rapidly rising premiums and out-of-pocket charges came into sharp relief last week ...

The rapidly rising premium for Part B, which covers retirees’ outpatient services, reflects the fast pace of growth for health care costs nationally. By Mark Miller If you’re enrolled in Medicare, you ...