Photo: Getty Taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart disease and strokes is no longer recommended for most adults, according to an independent panel of health experts. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announcedchanges to its guidancearound the use of aspirin on Tuesday after new evidence showed it can “cause harm” to some older individuals. Doctors should no longer recommend a daily low dose of aspirin to those age 60 and older to prevent cardiovascular disease, according to the panel....

Photo: Mabel Martinez Mercado/FaceBook According to Fox 61, Mabel Martinez, 56, was inside her Waterbury, Conn., home on Sunday when she was shot in the head, officials said. Police believe the intended target was a man walking outside her home, theAssociated Press reported. “Why you? Why this way? You were just sitting in your little house sewing, as you always did,” her daughter Yarimar Mercado Martinez, a rifle shooter on the Puerto Rico Olympic team who competed in the summer Olympics in 2021 and in 2016,wrote in a Facebook post....

CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty The news comes hours after the WGA labor union announced its plan to hold a demonstration at the event amid its dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Writers have been seeking a major overhaul in compensation for streaming residuals, as well as higher pay overall, greater protections and a solution to the increase of “mini-rooms,” in which a small group of writers pen multiple scripts for a show’s potential first season prior to production beginning....

Photo: GoFund Me A North Carolina teen preparing start a life with her boyfriend and attend college was fatally shot during a robbery Monday afternoon. The 17-year-old was one month away from celebrating her 18th birthday and two weeks away from moving in with her longterm boyfriend, Deante Walker. The young couple had been living together with Walker’s grandmother for six months before signing a lease for an apartment together....

Photo: Facebook After three hours of deliberation, a jury handed down the death sentence to a North Carolina dad for the brutal slaying of his teen daughter in 2019. According to astatement from the Union County District Attorney’s Office, the girl’s father slit her throat “after psychologically and sexually torturing her for 22 hours” at his Monroe, N.C., home on Aug. 18, 2019. Burgess was also convicted of one count of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sex offense, and one count of first degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the statement....

Photo: Courtesy Keyana McIntyre “I went to the hospital near our house in Pender County and it was closed. They told me to go to the Family Dollar parking lot,” McIntyre tells PEOPLE. The 25-year-old first-time mom, who was 41 weeks pregnant, was in labor and in a panic. “It was really scary. By the time I got there, I could feel the head,” she says. That hospital parking lot had been turned into a fully-equipped mobile hospital thanks to what’s called Carolinas MED-1....

Michael Gaffney, 21, of Maywood, New Jersey.Photo: Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office A New Jersey man has been charged with reckless manslaughter in connection with the death of a 19-year-old woman who allegedly died from being choked during sex with him. Michael T. Gaffney, 21, was arrested and charged after Francis Victoria Garcia was found unresponsive in the rear seat of her car on the top level of a parking garage on Prospect Avenue in Hackensack after 2 a....

Roy Thomas and his family.Photo: GoFundMe A father, who immigrated to the United States from India to provide for his family, tragically died on Tuesday, just weeks after reuniting with his wife, according to loved ones. Roy Thomas was killed this week after he was involved in a crash in Newark, New Jersey, theEssex County Prosecutor’s Officeconfirmed in a press release. On the fundraiser page, Mathen explained that in 2003, the father of three “hesitantly left his family behind in India to secure a better future for them....

William Herring, 42, and Brianna Brochhausen, 22, have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of their 4-month-old son, according to a news release from Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina. According to the release, the couple had initially been charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Those charges were upgraded on Tuesday. According to the release, the family was staying at the Hilltop Motel in Springfield, NJ....

Photo: GoFundMe A New York man has been arrested in connection with the murders of three elderly women at a home for seniors in Brooklyn. Kevin Gavin, 66, is suspected of killing three residents at the Carter G. Woodson Houses between 2015 and 2021, according to the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. Police Commissioner Shealater tweetedthat Gavin was “being charged with all 3 of these murders....

Tessa Majors.Photo: Tessa Majors/Instagram A 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday in the 2019 killing ofTessa Majors, an 18-year-old student at Barnard College who was stabbed to death in aNew York City parknear the school. The boy, Luchiano Lewis, was charged as an adult despite being 14 at the time of the killing. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office tells PEOPLE....

Naomi Osaka. Serena Williamslost in her 40th Grand Slam semifinal, falling toNaomi Osakain the Australian Open women’s singles semifinals. After taking the opening set 6-3, Osaka achieved her twentieth consecutive win when she beat Williams 6-3, 6-4. After the match, the two athletesshared a hug on the courtbefore Williams walked off to cheers from the Melbourne crowd. Osaka, 23, will now play in the Australian Open women’s singles final on Saturday at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne....

01of 95Holding CourtSydney Low/CSM/ShutterstockNaomi Osaka of Japan gets to work against Andrea Petkovic of Germany during their quaterfinal match at the WTA Melbourne Summer Set tennis tournament in Australia on Jan. 7. 01of 95 Holding Court Sydney Low/CSM/Shutterstock Naomi Osaka of Japan gets to work against Andrea Petkovic of Germany during their quaterfinal match at the WTA Melbourne Summer Set tennis tournament in Australia on Jan. 7. 02of 95Center StageDavid M....