Daniel Bach

The journal's Betsy McKay says that's despite decades of medical advances.

The study also found that young women died at higher rates than men.

And finally, the question keeping us up at night, literally, are we actually getting enough sleep?

According to journal columnist Elizabeth Bernstein, the real culprit isn't the hours we log, but how we feel about them.

Sleep shame has turned our resting hours into a high-pressure performance test.

Along with understanding your own sleep, Elizabeth explained that this also extends to respecting your partner's needs.

And that's it for What's News for this Thursday morning.

Today's show was produced by Hattie Moyer.

Our supervising producer is Sondra Kilhoff.

And I'm Daniel Bach for The Wall Street Journal.

We'll be back tonight with a new show.

Until then, thanks for listening.

Here's your morning brief for Wednesday, February 25th.

I'm Daniel Bach for The Wall Street Journal.

Market sentiment has lifted this morning following President Trump's relatively uneventful State of the Union address.

President Trump uses his State of the Union to celebrate an economic turnaround many voters aren't seeing.

Plus, Warner says Paramount's sweetened offer could, well, best Netflix.

And Anthropic says competition could lead it to relax the AI safety rules it's known for.

It's Wednesday, February 25th.

I'm Daniel Bach for The Wall Street Journal, filling in for Luke Vargas.