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Vaccines Respiratory viruses Maternal health Women’s health See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and some reports that patients were turned away when they tried to get vaccinated. Now, 30 health and medical organizations are pushing for continued access and insurance coverage for the vaccines. “We are deeply concerned about the recently adopted HHS policy to no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy,” wrote the organizations – including major professional groups…
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials at Idaho’s Boise Airport discovered not one but two loaded firearms just 10 minutes apart this week.Screeners made the first seizure at 5:40 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10, uncovering the weapon in a passenger’s carry-on bag. A second loaded gun was found in another passenger’s carry-on just moments later. According to TSA, the first traveler said that they forgot the gun was inside their bag, while the second passenger told authorities he was extremely sorry he left the firearm in his bag.”I’m very proud of our TSA officers at Boise for detecting the two firearms…
Meta’s big investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale $200 million this year but is now having conversations with its competitors and planning to cut ties. Microsoft is also reportedly looking to pull back, and OpenAI supposedly made a similar decision months ago, although its CFO said the company will continue working with Scale as one of many vendors. Scale’s customers include self-driving car companies and the U.S. government, but Reuters says its biggest clients are generative AI companies seeking access to workers with specialized…
President Trump said in a social media post on Thursday that he is willing to exempt the agriculture and hotel industries from his nationwide immigration crackdown. The surprise move came after executives in both industries complained to Trump about losing reliable, longtime immigrant workers in immigration raids and struggling to replace them.“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote. “In many cases the Criminals allowed into our…
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Protesters used water pistols against unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona and on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Sunday as demonstrators marched to demand a rethink of an economic model they believe is fueling a housing crunch and erasing the character of their hometowns.The marches were part of the first coordinated effort by activists concerned with the ills of overtourism across southern Europe’s top destinations. While several thousands rallied in Mallorca in the biggest gathering of the day, hundreds more gathered in other Spanish cities, as well as in Venice, Italy, and Portugal’s capital, Lisbon. “The squirt…
NEW YORK (AP) — Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, briefly showed up to the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday to support the hip-hop mogul, a longtime friend. But he wasn’t allowed into the courtroom and left after briefly watching the trial on a video monitor in another room.Ye, dressed in white, arrived at Manhattan federal court before noon while the trial was on a break and spent about 40 minutes in the building. After emerging from an airport-style security screening, Ye was asked if he was at the courthouse to support…
The Boeing 787-9 civil jet airplane of Vietnam Airlines performs its flight display at the 51st Paris International Airshow in Le Bourget near Paris, France. (Photo by: aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)aviation-images.com | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesKelly Ortberg’s first Paris Air Show as Boeing CEO was set to be relatively upbeat.Under his leadership that began in August, the company has made strides in ramping up production of its bestselling 737 Max jets, increasing cash-generating deliveries of new planes, and indicating that it’s turning a corner from a series of manufacturing and safety crises and years of lost…
CNN — She’d spent most of her life focusing on other people’s needs, so when Carole Carson’s husband passed away four years ago, the then-80-year-old realized it was time to do something for herself. After mulling over the prospect of moving to the Midwest to be near her daughter, Carole decided instead that she would leave California behind and move to France, where her son lived with his wife and children. In 2021, Carole “screwed up” her courage, and flew from California, where she’d spent all of her adult life, to a quaint town on the outskirts of Montpellier in…
The attorney who negotiated the $2.8 billion legal settlement for the NCAA said Friday that thousands of former athletes due to receive damages could have to wait months or maybe more than a year to get paid while appeals play out.Rakesh Kilaru, who served as the NCAA’s lead counsel for the House settlement that was approved last week, told The Associated Press an appeal on Title IX grounds filed this week will hold up payments due to around 390,000 athletes who signed on to the class-action settlement.He said he has seen appeals take up to 18 months in the California-based…
ShareRep. Melissa Hortman remembered as a trailblazing public servant Minnesota’s House Democratic Farmer-Labor Party caucus on Saturday remembered state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a fellow member, as “an incredible leader who dedicated her life to public service” and who had a “determination to improve people’s lives.”Hortman, who was 55, was first elected to the Minnesota State House in 2004 and served as speaker of the chamber from 2019 to 2025.She worked closely with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who on Saturday called her a “great leader” and a friend.“A formidable public servant and a fixture of the state Capitol, Melissa Hortman woke up…