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RFK Jr. changes COVID-19 vaccine protocolsCOVID-19 vaccines will no longer be part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, joining Kennedy for the announcement posted in a video on X, called the change “common sense and good science.” Traditionally, immunization guidance is voted on by a CDC advisory committee; then the CDC director makes the final call. The CDC panel has not voted on Kennedy’s change.COVID-19 protocols: Changes are happening. Here’s what to…

CNN  —  Clarksdale, Mississippi – which serves as inspiration for the setting of the Michael B. Jordan-starring film “Sinners” – does not have a local cineplex, but the city is finally getting a long-awaited screening. Warner Bros. Pictures confirmed in a press release that screenings of the hit movie will be held in Clarksdale this week, with director Ryan Coogler and other members of the filmmaking team set to attend. (Warner Bros. Pictures, which produced and distributed “Sinners,” is owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.) The release stipulated that the screenings and related cultural events will be open…

The Department of Defense is scouting the next Palantir — and it’s starting on college campuses.This week, the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon’s emerging tech arm — launched a university accelerator, open for applications through late June. The 12-week program will be a military-grade Y Combinator of sorts, offering early-stage startups funding, mentorship, and DoD connections. Fifteen teams spun out of US universities — working in AI, cyber, space, and more — will evenly split $500,000.The initiative builds on the National Security Innovation Network’s earlier Emerge program, which also targeted college founders, according to DIU project manager Josh Carter.…

PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot lounged barefoot on a Saint-Tropez beach, drawing languorous puffs from her cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, swaggered down the Champs-Élysées with smoke curling from his defiant lips, capturing a generation’s restless rebellion.In France, cigarettes were never just cigarettes — they were cinematic statements, flirtations and rebellions wrapped in rolling paper.Yet beginning July 1, if Bardot and Belmondo’s iconic film scenes were repeated in real life, they would be subject to up to €135 ($153) in fines.After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet. The new restrictions, announced by…

CNN  —  No doubt that had there been a wedding reception for these fathers to speak at the speeches would have been pretty funny. Eddie Murphy has revealed that his son Eric has married Martin Lawrence’s daughter, Jasmin. The “Beverly Hills Cop” star shared the news Thursday in an episode of “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” “They got married like two weeks ago,” Murphy said. “They went off…everyone was making the big wedding the plans and then they decided they wanted to do something quiet, just the two of them.” He also joked about the economic relief that the elopement provided…

PARIS (AP) — The French Open isn’t the only sports event in Europe drawing attention from tennis players: The Champions League final will decide the continent’s best soccer club, and one of the two teams involved Saturday night is Paris Saint-Germain, whose stadium is a couple of blocks from Roland-Garros.Count Novak Djokovic among those rooting for PSG against Italy’s Inter Milan, and he hoped to be able to tune in on TV to watch the big clash that’ll be held in Munich, Germany. So Djokovic made that preference known to the people in charge of arranging the program at the…

MUNICH (AP) — Soccer fans were taking over Munich before Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan go head-to-head in the Champions League final on Saturday.European club soccer’s biggest prize is at stake between two teams that have felt the pain of falling at the last hurdle in recent years.Inter was a losing finalist against Manchester City in 2023 and PSG lost in its only final against Bayern Munich in 2020.Supporters were gearing up for the evening game by making their way to the designated fan zones hours before kickoff. Many stopped en route to sample Munich’s gastronomy on a beautiful warm…

CLOVIS, Calif. (AP) — A transgender athlete bested the competition Saturday at the California high school track and field championship to take home gold in the girls high jump and the triple jump at a meet that has stirred controversy and drawn national attention.AB Hernandez competed under a new rule change that may be the first of its kind nationally by a high school sports governing body.Hernandez finished the high jump with a mark of 5 feet, 7 inches (1.7 meters), with no failed attempts. Co-winners Jillene Wetteland and Lelani Laruelle also cleared that height after each logged a failed…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reigning MVPs Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani blasted historic home runs in the first inning as the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers met Friday night in a rematch of last year’s World Series.Judge got the fireworks going with a 446-foot solo shot to dead center on a 1-1 pitch from Tony Gonsolin. The Yankees slugger’s 19th homer of the season tied him with Kyle Schwarber for third in the majors.Ohtani matched him in the bottom of the frame with a 417-foot homer to center on the first pitch from Max Fried in front of…

CNN  —  The cast of “Hamilton” sings about “The Room Where It Happens” and that will be New York’s Radio City Music Hall during the Tony Awards next week. CBS and the Tony Awards announced Thursday that the original cast of the hit Broadway musical is reuniting to perform at the ceremony on June 8. Those scheduled to participate include Carleigh Bettiol, Andrew Chappelle, Ariana DeBose, Alysha Deslorieux, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Sydney James Harcourt, Neil Haskell, Sasha Hutchings, Christopher Jackson, Thayne Jasperson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Stephanie Klemons, Morgan Marcell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Javier Muñoz, Leslie Odom, Jr.,…