By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology and was just one of more than 200 such efforts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.…
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By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned…
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This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings, as of Monday, May 5. Notable this week: Huntington Beach swept Edison in three games to clinch an eighth straight league championship. … Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita clinched playoff berths in the Trinity League. … Villa Park swept a two-game series against Foothill in the Crestview…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pharrell Williams has high hopes for the Met Gala, the first to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme. “I want it to feel like the most epic night of power, a reflection of Black resiliency in a world that continues to be colonized,…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their priorities as they open the conclave Wednesday to choose a new leader of…
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By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Let the year’s biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala got underway Monday with a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to the menswear theme: Emma Chamberlain and other women in pinstripe gowns. Chamberlain and Zuri Hall were among those who wore sleek, sexy gowns that play…
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John Kenney is one of six brothers. In 2019, when his brother Tom, a firefighter who spent a week at Ground Zero in 2001, was dying of cancer, Kenney went to visit him one last time. As they were talking, a car pulled up carrying the other four brothers. When Kenney noted their arrival, his…
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By TOM MURPHY, Associated Press Rite Aid is again seeking bankruptcy protection as the struggling drugstore chain says it will try to sell substantially all of its assets. The company said Monday that its stores will remain open as it returns to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The company said it will work to ensure that…
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By Sara Rathner, NerdWallet We’re not in a recession (as of this writing, at least), but that doesn’t mean people aren’t stressed. A NerdWallet survey found that 85% of Americans have concerns about tariffs, with 45% worrying that tariffs will result in a recession. Experts aren’t too far behind in their fears. In early April,…
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By STEVEN HERBERT Former first lady Jill Biden, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are among Monday’s scheduled participants as the Milken Institute’s 28th annual Global Conference begins in earnest in Beverly Hills. All public sessions at the conference will be streamed live. Biden will be interviewed from 8 to…
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