The Food and Drug Administration has approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine—with strict conditions. Coming after four years of clinical trials, the vaccine will only be available for older adults and people over the age of 12 who have at least one medical condition that means they’re at high risk from COVID, according to The New…
New vaccines and treatments are linked to a dramatic decline in RSV hospitalizations for babies, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This past winter was the first RSV season with widespread availability of a vaccine given during pregnancy and a monoclonal antibody treatment given in the…
Jennifer Lawrence said having children has “changed her creatively” at the Cannes press conference for Lynne Ramsay’s Competition entry Die, My Love. Lawrence and co-star Robert Pattinson discussed the film in the context of their own parenthood. “Having children changes everything, it changes your whole life, it’s brutal and incredible,” said Lawrence. “Not only do they go…
The US retail giant Walmart will “eat some of the tariffs” in line with Donald Trump’s demands, the president’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent insisted on Sunday, claiming he received the assurance in a personal phone call with the company’s chief executive, Doug McMillon. A spokesperson for Walmart said the company would not comment on conversations…
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting…
It’s Cannes season, which means thousands of people are flocking to the south of France to debut their buzzy films. It’s often a precursor of awards season, as the movies shown at the annual film festival tend to be major contenders. This year, Lynne Ramsey’s Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, may…
DENVER — Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings. It’s unclear whether the bill can pass the House in its current…
Pope Leo XIV called for unity in the Catholic Church during his inaugural mass in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 150,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and princes. Pope Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has become synonymous with the papacy’s global reach…
WASHINGTON — For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity. Now, the Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records and data it finds…
WASHINGTON — For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity. Now, the Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records and data it finds…