Pop star Olivia Rodrigo might be the biggest name involved, but she’s not the only young influencer the Biden administration has enlisted to help promote COVID-19 vaccines to younger Americans. Dozens of Twitch streamers, YouTubers and TikTokers are helping the White House as it tries drum up vaccination numbers and combat the scourge of vaccine […]
If you enthusiastically vaxxed up partly out of a desire to be social again, you wouldn’t be alone—catching up friends in real life is one of the perks of COVID-19 vaccination. But after a promising start, vaccination rates in the US seem to have stalled, and now the highly infectious Delta variant is fueling an increase in outbreaks, […]
John McAfee, founder of the company behind McAfee Antivirus, has been found dead according to reports from Reuters, El Mundo, El País, and others. He was being held in a Barcelona prison, and the Catalan Department of Justice has stated that his death was likely caused by suicide. Lawyers for McAfee confirmed his death to Reuters and The New York Times, with […]
Trusted lifestyle expert Martha Stewart will let her hair down and roll up her sleeves to share her gardening know-how and lifestyle and entertainment tips in the new discovery+ series Martha Gets Down and Dirty. Available to stream beginning Thursday, July 1, 2021, the eight-episode series stars the Emmy® award-winning television personality and The New York Times bestselling author as she preps her Bedford, […]
Every day nearly 3 million people in the United States are getting the COVID-19 vaccine. And every new jab prompts new questions about what to expect after vaccination. One of the biggest hurdles keeping people from getting the vaccine are fears of side effects. It is true that many people who have received the vaccine […]
Last week, Johnson & Johnson submitted its COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States. If greenlit by the Food and Drug Administration, it could be the nation’s third COVID vaccine producer, joining Pfizer and Moderna. Between the three manufacturers, there could be enough COVID vaccines to inoculate the whole adult U.S. population by […]
Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, just signed to modeling and talent agency IMG. The New York Times reports that the 21-year-old had a modest following on social media before the Presidential Inauguration, spurred by her quirky knitwear designs and art-kid sense of style and humor. But her Thom Browne suit and Miu Miu coat worn in front of a […]
After two years at Teen Vogue, Lindsay Peoples Wagner is returning to New York Magazine‘s The Cut as its top editor. Peoples Wagner will replace outgoing editor-in-chief Stella Bugbee. “I cannot wait to see what Lindsay does as The Cut’s new editor-in-chief,” said David Haskell, the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, in a statement. “She is that extraordinary thing: […]
Clearview AI’s CEO says use of his company’s facial recognition technology among law enforcement spiked 26 percent the day after a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the US Capitol. First reported by the New York Times, Hoan Ton-That confirmed in an interview with The Verge that Clearview saw a sharp increase in use on January […]
Like they do every December, websites across the internet are rounding up their best posts and stories from the year. That includes the website for the Center for Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which highlighted its top five stories for 2020. And coming in at the number one spot, the […]