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By Amina NiasseNEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted recommendations last week from its advisory panel on vaccines, signaling official guidance for pharmacists and patients who have been waiting for clarity on the updated COVID-19 shots.Prior to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation to allow the vaccine with new restrictions, states including Georgia, Utah and Louisiana were only giving the shots to those with a prescription. Here’s what you need to know:WHO DOES THE CDC RECOMMEND FOR COVID BOOSTERS?Individuals aged 6 months and older can receive the COVID vaccine after consulting a provider,…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial for the wrongful death lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles Angels of being responsible for the 2019 drug overdose death of one of its star pitchers. Lawyers for the Angels and the family of Tyler Skaggs will address the jury in the long-awaited civil trial over whether the MLB team should be held responsible after one of its employees was convicted of providing drugs that led to the pitcher’s overdose on a team trip to Texas.The wrongful death lawsuit filed by Skaggs’ widow, Carli, and his parents, alleges the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lara Sophie Bothur, Deloitte Germany’s first corporate influencer. Bothur now works freelance as a tech influencer. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I joined the Big Four firm Deloitte in February 2021 as a business analyst in the innovation consulting division. A year later, I’d transformed that consulting role into something entirely new: I became Deloitte’s first corporate influencer.The job developed very naturally. Around eight months in, a partner who knew that I had a background in marketing suggested I help on a campaign for the innovation team.My job…

By Kamal Choudhury(Reuters) -U.S. biotech firm Nabla Bio said on Tuesday it has signed a second major research partnership with Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical, deepening their use of artificial intelligence to accelerate drug discovery.Under the new multi-year agreement, which builds on an earlier collaboration launched in 2022, Nabla will receive upfront and research cost payments in double-digit millions. The company is also eligible for success-based payments worth more than $1 billion.The move underscores growing momentum across the pharmaceutical industry to harness AI in drug development, with hopes of significantly reducing timelines and costs in the coming years.Nabla said it would…

OpenAI is trying to become the next big tech platform, and it’s been rolling out a host of new products, tools, and features to appeal to developers, including a new AI-flavored App Store.Richard Murby, whom I met while waiting in a long line to get into OpenAI’s DevDay conference last week, agrees. He’s the director of business development at Devpost, which helps developers participate in hackathons.I asked Murby how OpenAI is appealing to developers and what it still has to do to challenge Apple and Google. This Q&A has been edited for clarity and length.Q: From what you witnessed at…

Only in the US are data centers the main driver of surging global power demand, a new report from consulting firm McKinsey & Company says.Industrial development is on pace to double global electricity demand by 2050, according to McKinsey & Company’s Global Energy Perspective 2025 report. The race to build artificial intelligence data centers is a key driver of that demand in Western Europe, China, and North America.”After analyzing a detailed pipeline of data center projects, we predict an average global growth rate of 17% per year in data-center-related power demand between 2022 and 2030,” the report states.In the US,…

Clint Fuqua was MAHA before MAHA. In fact, the 48-year-old personal trainer and gym owner says he was one of the first people to hashtag “make America healthy” (his was #MAH; the “again” hadn’t come along yet) in 2010. Fuqua had then gone through a bit of a “reinvention” himself and decided to dedicate his life to helping others with what he calls “personal health care reform,” he tells Yahoo. “The goal was: How do we get people healthy, for real? It comes down to people taking control of their lives.”So, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came onto the scene…

UDINE, Italy (AP) — Snipers are on the roof of the Israel team hotel in Udine and the Italian city is on maximum alert ahead of a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.The sound of helicopters surveilling the city has filled the air since the morning, hours before Italy’s match against Israel was set to kick off at Stadio Friuli.The match has been placed in the highest risk category despite a breakthrough ceasefire deal that has paused two years of war in Gaza.A pro-Palestinian march is scheduled to start in the city center a few hours before kickoff and is expected…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected appeals by the Israel Gymnastics Federation to be allowed to compete at a world championships in Indonesia this weekend.The CAS also turned down Israel’s request to force the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG) to guarantee Israel’s participation, or alternatively cancel or move the artistic worlds, set to start on Sunday in Jakarta.The Indonesia government last week said it will not grant visas to Israeli gymnasts, and the Swiss-based CAS said on Tuesday that FIG stated it has no control over Indonesia’s visa policies.In its reaction to Indonesia’s move, the…

Brian Callahan is the first NFL head coach to get pink-slipped this season and chances are he’ll have some company in the unemployment line in the not-too-distant future.Last year three head coaches were fired midseason.With the Dolphins off to a 1-5 start, Miami’s Mike McDaniel has been the central figure in any coaching hot seat discussion this fall. The Dolphins find themselves answering questions again about their team culture following Tua Tagovailoa’s comments Sunday calling out unnamed teammates for being late to player-led meetings. Aaron Glenn, the hottest candidate in the 2024-25 coaching carousel cycle, is making rookie mistakes like…