CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
The country’s largest pharmacy chain said it needed a C.D.C. panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.
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Ex-Angels star Mark Teixeira announces congressional campaign in Texas
Slide over, Steve Garvey. It appears another former Major League Baseball slugger with Southland ties will run for political office. Mark Teixeira, who batted a robust .358 in a two-month stint with the Angels in 2008 before signing a longterm lucrative contract with the New York Yankees, announced his campaign for Texas’ 21st Congressional District…
What’s Behind the Political Instability in Thailand
While the country is a constitutional monarchy that holds regular elections, analysts say it is beholden to an unelected old guard.
Horses may have become rideable with the help of a genetic mutation
Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in Science. The resulting horses were among the most significant advances in Bronze Age biotechnology. Ancient horse DNA suggests modern domesticated horses originated in southwestern Russia more than 4,200 years ago,…
In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption
OpenAI’s new speech model, gpt-realtime, hopes that its more naturalistic voices would make enterprises use more AI generated voices in applications.Read More
Orlando Bloom on his body transformation for The Cut and the toll it took on his life
Some say that acting is an easy job, but what those people fail to realise is the turmoil these people put their bodies through. For his upcoming movie The Cut, Orlando Bloom had to go through an insane body transformation to take on the role of a former boxing champion training for redemption. With the…
RFK Jr. Sought to Fire CDC Director Susan Monarez Over Vaccine Policy
The director, Susan Monarez, declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge of the events.
Thai Court to Rule on Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s Future in Office
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing a legal challenge that’s seen as an important test of her powerful family’s standing with Thailand’s old guard.
Type 1 Diabetes Patient’s Insulin Production Restored with New Cell Transplant Therapy
August 28, 2025 4 min read New Cell Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes Sidesteps Need for Immunosuppressants Scientists treated a person’s type 1 diabetes with genetically modified insulin-producing cells that evaded immune system attacks. This is the first therapy for the condition that does not require immunosuppressant drugs By Humberto Basilio edited by Lauren J….
NFL trade grades: Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to Packers
Seth WalderAug 28, 2025, 07:43 PM ET Close Seth Walder is an analytics writer at ESPN, specializing in quantitative analysis. He is also a regular on “ESPN Bet Live” and helps cover sports betting. Seth has been at ESPN since 2017. He previously worked at the New York Daily News covering the Jets and Giants….