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Two months after the Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, her office has moved to allocate new funds for a controversial clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau, which was previously suspended. Researchers revised the study protocol in January, amid an international uproar over medical ethics. While it is not clear how much Schwartz was involved in, or knew about, the budget requests from her office, her appointment to the directorship came amid questions about how independent she would be from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
A former player for the Riverside Church basketball program was awarded $11.3 million by a New York jury Wednesday for the sexual abuse he suffered decades ago as a teenage member of the once-vaunted youth team. The plaintiff, identified in court documents by his initials, J.M., testified in state Supreme Court in lower Manhattan last week that he was sexually abused “eight or nine” times in the spring of 1978 by Riverside’s former sports program director, Ernest “Ernie” Lorch. J.M., now 63, was 14 years old at the time of the abuse and living in a single-parent household in the…
The War on Drugs’ keyboardist Robbie Bennett has two new albums dropping before the year is up. Both Steloken and Circulation will arrive on December 11 via American Dreams, adding 29 new tracks in total to Bennett’s solo catalog. Yesterday, he shared one song from each album; listen to “Sister” (from Steloken) and “The Light on Your Face” (from Circulation) below.Both albums follow Bennett’s 2020 solo debut, Permanent World. He developed each track using the same keyboard he plays in the War on Drugs, but made them by sending MIDI from an acoustic player piano into an Oberheim OB-X8 synthesizer,…
Andrew Tate, the embattled manosphere influencer currently in federal detention in Miami, is facing a litany of new allegations in the United Kingdom, according to a request for extradition filed in U.S. federal court this week. Tate has been accused, among other allegations, of producing pornographic material in 2015 with a girl who was 17 years old at the time, which is illegal in both the U.S. and the U.K. The allegations in the court document, which had been previously unreported, detail the relationship, during which Tate apparently demanded that she learn to “fist” herself — insert her entire hand…
Everyone’s favorite Traitors, Rob Rausch and Lisa Rinna, are a top pick for couples costumes this year. For Rob, all you need are some fake snake tattoos, overalls, and a camo hat. Amazon comedic choice Popcorn Bucket Costume Accessories:Red leggings If you’ve ever been to an AMC theater, then you’re familiar with the iconic Nicole Kidman commercial that plays before every film. Pay homage to one of the best parts of seeing a new movie by going as Kidman and her trusty popcorn bucket. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance was one of the most-watched of its kind, and not…
The full list of releases for Record Store Day UK’s Black Friday 2026 has been revealed – check it out in full below. This year’s edition of the RSD sister event is set to be held on Friday November 27, and will offer music lovers and vinyl collectors the chance to nab some exclusive and limited edition releases. Taking place exclusively at independent record stores across the UK and Ireland, there will be a huge number of unique vinyl pressing made especially for the day, including a new version of Florence + The Machine’s latest album ‘Everybody Scream’, which will…
Star Moles’ Emily Moales has this voice that causes certain words to leave her lips backlit, ringed in fuzzy halos. Sometimes that word is “God” or “pray,” and sometimes it’s “dentist,” “emails,” or “bulbous.” On Highway to Hell, the 2026 album that planted a flag for the Philadelphia-based songwriter’s humble, hyperlocal scene, Moales got into biblical scuffles with bagel machines, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, and the clothes in her own wardrobe. “Born Again,” a new track to mark her signing to Dead Oceans, contends with a distinctly Gen Z predicament: Your parents poured their hearts into raising you to…
Long before Jimmy Eat World crafted one of the definitive pop-rock hits of the 2000s, they were just four kids growing up in Mesa, Arizona. Now, their hometown has elected to honor this history by partnering with the band on a limited-edition library card available to anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in Maricopa County. Meet those criteria but already have a library card? Don’t fret—you can swap yours in for a Jimmy Eat World version.The Mesa Public Library’s new card follows in the footsteps of similar partnerships between Jay-Z and the Brooklyn Public Library and Laufey and…
On Tuesday, a North Carolina man was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the first federal case connected to music streaming fraud. Mike Smith, who pleaded guilty, was accused of making millions in royalties off a scheme that involved using bots to artificially inflate plays of his songs. An aspiring musician himself, Smith had a catalog of his own music, but he was also accused of deploying these bots on hundreds of thousands of songs created with artificial intelligence — or rather, if you’re a loyal member of Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, “super intelligence.” The DOJ press release…
The band also performed “Don’t Wanna Fight,” “Sound & Color,” “Future People,” and “Always Alright” during the intimate performance in support of the Grammy Museum Alabama Shakes set the tone for the season Tuesday night with an intimate, bluesy rock performance at the Soho Sessions in New York. The band packed their setlist with songs from their latest album, I Must Be Dreaming, and classic selections including “Gimme All Your Love” and “Don’t Wanna Fight.” While creating their first album in more than a decade, Alabama Shakes were thinking about the same kind of intimacy and proximity that comes with…
