As federal regulators consider a request to expand eligibility of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine boosters to all adults, three states decided this past week to broaden access on their own. Colorado, New Mexico and California are allowing adults to seek out boosters, provided individuals are at least six months past the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech…
“Así es”, le dije. “Siempre salgo con más de lo que planeo”. También tengo una aversión irracional a los carritos de compras, pero no pensé que mereciera la pena comentarlo. Coloqué los bocadillos en la cinta transportadora mientras la salsa de pasta y la leche se me escapaban torpemente de los brazos. Cuando mi camote…
LOS ANGELES — Sam Asghari is a nascent actor and erstwhile personal trainer. But this highly polite, handsome and friendly 27-year-old is better known to millions as the fiancé of a 39-year-old woman who was, for years, the biggest pop star in the world, control over whose personal life and $60 million estate was, 13…
School nurses, who were already stretched thin before the pandemic, say that they are overworked and overwhelmed.
“Fifteen days is everything when you are suffering,” said Kim Callinan, the president and chief executive of Compassion & Choices, which supported the change. “People who are eligible for the law are hitting roadblocks and barriers.” In 2016, for example, Youssef Cohen, a political scientist at New York University, took the extraordinary step of moving…
What should an animated elephant, anthropomorphized as a shy teenage girl with a crush on an ice-cream vendor, wear onstage while she performs Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” in front of said vendor? This was the kind of question facing Laura and Kate Mulleavy, better known for designing the fashion brand Rodarte, three…
Here’s a truth about Thanksgiving: No matter how much gravy-bathed turkey, marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole and mounds of stuffing one may devour, when dessert time rolls around, there’s always room for pie. Pie had been a constant on Thanksgiving tables even before Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the day a national holiday in 1863. Pumpkin was the…
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has kept its block in place against a federal mandate that all large employers require their workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing starting in January, declaring that the rule “grossly exceeds” the authority of the occupational safety agency that issued it. In a…
David Raleigh had been having trouble hailing cabs when he shoved Rick Bahl into the back of one at the end of their first date in 1995. “I don’t know if you remember,” Mr. Raleigh said, “but it was extremely difficult for Black people to get a taxi in New York City back then.” Mr.…
“Based upon the information on the public record, and the history of alleged mental health issues, I am shocked that the conservatorship was terminated without a current mental health evaluation,” said Victoria J. Haneman, a trusts and estates law professor at Creighton University. “I had no doubt that a clear path to termination would be…