WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized booster shots of both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for everyone 18 and older, opening up eligibility to tens of millions more fully vaccinated adults. The move simplifies eligibility, fulfills a pledge by President Biden to offer the shots to every American adult and formally…
Getty Images; Courtesy of Hulu Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Paris Hilton, one of the most prominent Von Dutch wearers in the label’s heyday, is asked at one point in the Hulu miniseries The Curse of Von Dutch if she would ever re-wear their pieces. “Probably…
Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson call themselves “hopeful romantics.” “We are a lesbian-queer, interracial, progressively Christian couple in the Deep South, from conservative families. The intersectional and circumstantial odds were stacked against us,” said Mx. Reynolds, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral courtesy titles and pronouns. Ms. Wilson was facing an internal battle that…
When Peter Vidani and Jennifer Pierce attended an open house in September for a townhouse in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, a few blocks east of Fort Greene Park, Mr. Vidani felt like the couple — who had relocated from California at the beginning of the year — had found their dream home. Ms. Pierce, though, said…
Angela Schiller and Robert Swift Jr. first noticed each other in August 2015 at a Black Faculty and Staff Caucus function hosted by Kennesaw State University near Atlanta. Ms. Schiller, 45, was running late and found a seat in the back of the room. Surveying the space, she spotted Mr. Swift and instantly felt a…
The Guggenheim International Gala took place Nov. 17 with a black-tie dinner and a performance by Lorde. The gala, which was sponsored by Dior, honored Etel Adnan, Jennie C. Jones, Cecilia Vicuña, Gillian Wearing, and Phyllis and Bill Mack. And the Alzheimer’s Association raised more than $600,000 for Alzheimer’s research and care at its fund-raising…
WASHINGTON — The House on Friday narrowly passed the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, approving $2 trillion in spending over the next decade to battle climate change, expand health care and reweave the nation’s social safety net, over the unanimous opposition of Republicans. The bill’s passage, 220 to 213, came after weeks of cajoling,…
MIAMI — When the Cuban socialite Elena Ruz Valdés-Fauli was in her early 20s, she would often go to a show or a movie and have a late-night bite with friends at the restaurant El Carmelo in Havana. Her usual meal was an off-menu request: a turkey sandwich on medianoche bread, with cream cheese and…
“What kind of goofazoid puts her full name on Tinder,” Rebecca Woods had wondered in May 2019 when Beth Abrams Schafer’s first and last name showed up on the dating app. Ms. Schafer, just out of a relationship, said she felt a bit “stymied” when it came to meeting people. Ms. Woods, though, became intrigued…
There’s no magic bullet to knee health, but staying active and building muscles around the joint are crucial.