Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday recommended a major update to coronavirus booster vaccines for the fall. The panel of outside scientific advisers unanimously voted that the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the XBB variants that are now dominant worldwide, rather than XBB and...
The formation of the Earth may have looked more like a fast, inevitable landslide than like a slow series of occasional cataclysms, as scientists have long theorized, according to findings published Wednesday in Nature. If it did, Earth-like planets could be far more common than previously thought, the findings suggest. The paper represents a groundbreaking revision of the conventional understanding of how the Earth was created...
The Biden-Harris reelection campaign announced that Michael Tyler, the former national press secretary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), will be its communications director. Tyler was deputy director of communications for Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) 2020 presidential bid and, along with being DNC national press secretary, was chief of staff to then-Chairman Tom Perez during...
Following nearly a weeklong stalemate in the House and turmoil within the GOP, federal lawmakers came together for a game of baseball Wednesday at Nationals Park. Under the watchful eyes of more than 20,000 constituents, Republicans took the game for the third year in a row by 10 runs. When the final score of 16-6 was announced...
Political organization No Labels committed to end its third-party push if polling shows President Biden “way” ahead of former President Trump next spring. No Labels, a bipartisan group, has been pursuing an effort to launch a “unity ticket” in the 2024 presidential election that would include a Republican and a Democrat “if the two parties...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reassigned its chief medical officer after an 8-year-old migrant child died in Border Patrol custody last month, according to The Washington Post. Chief Medical Officer David Tarantino has reportedly received a temporary assignment elsewhere within the agency. “During his years of service to the CBP Office of the...
Story at a glance States with higher concentrations of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender have had higher rates of economic growth, according to a Wells Fargo study. The study, published in early June in honor of Pride Month, looked at the gross state product (GSP) of all 50 states and Washington...
Bill Cosby is facing a new lawsuit brought by nine women who allege that he sexually assaulted them. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada alleges that the former “The Cosby Show” star “engaged in the serial sexual assault of dozens of women for his sexual gratification by...
A local New York Republican Party has pulled its support for a town council candidate after he was regularly seen standing naked in the doorway of his home. The Babylon Republican Committee said it would no longer support Kevin Sabella Sr.’s bid for the Long Island town’s council. “It has been brought to our attention...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into the merger between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the department notified the leagues about the probe. This marks the second investigation the DOJ has launched into the PGA Tour, after the department conducted an...
Hip-Hop legend Juvenile was presented with a congressional resolution to honor the New Orleans native contributions to the hip-hop and Black community. Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.) presented Juvenile, born Terius Gray, with the honor Wednesday. In his resolution, Carter, also a New Orleans native, noted Gray’s accomplishments in his music career in and out of...
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) launched a “wide-ranging” probe Thursday into the merger between golf rivals PGA Tour and LIV Golf. Wyden sent a letter to PGA Tour leadership asking for information on the deal struck between it and LIV Golf, an organization that was backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)....
If the experience of South Korea is any indication, then convicting and imprisoning one former president is far less likely to secure justice than it is to trigger a vicious cycle of retribution and revenge.
California Highway Patrol has captured enough fentanyl in San Francisco in the last six weeks to kill 2.1 million people, nearly three times the total population of the city, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday. Police seized 4.1 kilograms of fentanyl in and around the Tenderloin neighborhood of the city. The fatal dose of fentanyl...
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Thursday that aims to let news outlets collectively negotiate with dominant tech platforms to be compensated for distributing their content. The Thursday markup brought together unlikely allies. The panel advanced the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act in a 13-7 vote, with Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), the bill’s lead...
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced his second book, focusing on family and religion, on Twitter Thursday. “Go Home For Dinner: Advice on How Faith Makes a Family and Family Makes a Life,” will release this November and is co-written with his daughter Charlotte Pence Bond. Pence’s book announcement comes weeks after he announced his...
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Why is the United States plagued by so many pedestrian deaths when other similarly developed countries around the world have been steadily reducing road deaths and injuries among pedestrians, cyclists, drivers and motorcyclists for decades?
Ticketing companies, including Ticketmaster, pledged to eliminate junk fees and roll out all-in pricing numbers for customers, President Biden announced Thursday. The president will be joined by representatives of the companies taking the pledge, including Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation, as well as SeatGeek, xBk, Airbnb, the Pablo Center at the Confluence, TickPick, DICE and the...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for holding up some 200 Pentagon nominees over a Defense Department abortion policy, calling the lawmaker "shameful" and accusing him of endangering national security. Jean-Pierre said the senator's blockade on the nominees was hurting military families and risking "our military readiness by depriving our...
Bill de Blasio says politicians and live animals are an “insane” combo, opening up about a snafu he suffered while handling a groundhog when he was New York City’s mayor. The former Democratic mayor detailed what led to an infamous photo-op gone wrong, when in 2014 he dropped the squirming creature during a Groundhog Day event in...
The suspect in last year's mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub is expected to take a plea deal that would guarantee a life sentence, several survivors told The Associated Press. The news service reported early Thursday that the suspect, 23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, made multiple jailhouse calls to AP expressing remorse over the shooting,...
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R ) formally announced on Thursday that he is running for president in 2024. "I'm going to run for president," Suarez says in a video posted online. "I'm going to run for your children and mine. Let's give them the future they deserve. It's time to take things into our own hands....
President Biden late Wednesday credited acting Labor Secretary Julie Su for helping broker a tentative agreement between shippers and West Coast dockworkers, offering praise for Su amid a tense fight over her confirmation to the role. Biden thanked Su for her involvement in talks between the parties, saying she "used her deep experience and judgment...
An attorney for former President Trump proposed trying to settle the classified documents case with the Justice Department (DOJ) last fall to avoid potential charges, but Trump was uninterested, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Three unidentified sources briefed on the matter told the Post that Christopher Kise proposed quietly approaching the DOJ to reach an...
