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It's still summer, but signs indicate that the season of Taylor Swift's album chart dominance may be coming to an end. This week's harbinger: a certain face-tattooed rapper-turned-country star.

July 1 marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars to go toward short-term workforce training programs. So far just 12 states have created road maps for colleges to apply.

The Life of a Showgirl isn't just a streaming success — it has moved a massive number of vinyl LPs. How massive? Let's do some math.

Peter Lalor covers cricket and serves as beer editor. In that capacity, he stopped for a pint at a hotel in England. Because he didn't have his glasses, he didn't see that he paid $68,000 for 1 beer.

In poor countries, only 1 in 27 people received minimally adequate care. In wealthy countries, it's 1 in 5.

We don't just mean literary sorcery by which words summon worlds for readers, but also literal, honest-to-goodness magic: angels, conjurers, otherworldly attractions and dances of mysterious power.

The Bridge program, which began July 1, makes some Medicare beneficiaries eligible for obesity drugs for $50 a month. CVS and Walgreens say they've each already filled 100,000 such prescriptions.

"I didn't know if each night I would deteriorate and have to go in the hospital, or whether I would survive the night," says Michael Saag, an epidemiologist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Reacting to proposed job cuts at General Motors, United Autoworkers officials say the U.S. car giant can't shrink its way out of its financial problems. GM plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs and close some of its plants by 2008. The automaker lost more than $1 billion in the first quarter of 2005.

The Trump administration declined this week to terminate TPS for Salvadorans, even though it has done so for people from other countries like Haiti and Syria. But it also hasn't said whether it will extend the protection in the future.