The nation’s Blue Cross plans have reached a tentative $2.7 billion settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by their customers that accuses the group of engaging in a conspiracy to thwart competition among the individual companies, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The settlement, which was first reported by The Wall Street…
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The vaccine maker Novavax said Thursday that it would begin the final stages of testing its coronavirus vaccine in the United Kingdom and that another large trial was scheduled to begin next month in the United States. It is the fifth late-stage trial from a company supported by Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to…
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Courtesy of Prada / AGOSTINO OSIO Prada made industry-breaking news last February with the announcement that Miuccia Prada would share “creative input and decision making” with Raf Simons. We’re finally seeing the fruits of their collaborative efforts, a highlight of an otherwise quiet season. The pair debuted Prada’s spring-summer 2021 collection during Milan Fashion Week…
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Courtesy of Dolce & Gabbana / Monica Feudi Weaving together the history of Italy would take a lifetime, but Dolce & Gabbana attempted it in one collection. On their SS21 runway the theme was clear: Patchwork is going to be big. The designers referenced their own backlog, noting their spring 1993 runway as part of…
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Daniele VenturelliGetty Images “Acknowledging the gravity of a moment, clothes tell stories of the rigour of Italian craft and the emotion of our universal experience,” stated Fendi’s press release following their runway show. As a fashion house with a storied history that spans generations, the meaning of family is reimagined in their spring-summer collection. The…
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When the television writer Cord Jefferson accepted the Emmy Award for HBO’s “Watchmen,” his speech included the usual thanks to fellow writers, the director, the actors and his parents. But in accepting his first Emmy, Mr. Jefferson may be most remembered for a thank you to someone who normally stays far behind the scenes in…
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In the normal course of human events, it would have been the biggest show of the fashion season in Milan. Possibly the most anticipated show of the whole season. Flotillas of black cars would have jammed the streets around the Via Fogazzaro. Throngs of guests and groupies would have pushed en masse toward the doors,…
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Edith Raymond Locke, who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna at 18 and rose to become a longtime editor of Mademoiselle magazine, where she worked with photographers like Arthur Elgort and mentored designers like Ralph Lauren, Betsey Johnson and Donna Karan, died on Aug. 23 at her home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She was 99. Her daughter, Katie…
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Busy Philipps is … well, busy. She said she considers herself “retired” from acting, but she is still hard at work. In her podcast, “Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best,” which debuted in August, she chats with friends — who are often celebrities — about how everyone, even during the pandemic, is trying to keep…
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The emails, from a pesticide industry lobbyist to employees at the Department of Agriculture, expressed alarm over proposed guidelines issued by a United Nations task force working to combat the rise of drug-resistant infections that kill thousands each year. Ray S. McAllister, a policy official at the trade association CropLife America, urged U.S. agriculture officials…
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