Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been 1,267 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Texas confirmed three more measles cases this week tied to a major outbreak that raged through the…
Today, I wanted to have a quick look at five iPhone apps that helped make the biggest action film of the summer, F1: The Movie. Now, off the bat, these are not necessarily tools that were primarily responsible for capturing the image. That responsibility fell mostly on the shoulders of the Sony Venice and Rialto…
TOKYO — Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan‘s tourism boom, with some airlines cancelling flights from Hong Kong, where passenger numbers have plunged. Japan has seen record numbers of visitors this year, with April setting an all-time monthly high of 3.9 million travellers. That…
7. “At first, it was fun. Then, you find you can’t turn it off. I mean, everyone wants something from you. If you don’t say hello, someone gets offended. If you aren’t in a good mood, you just aren’t allowed an off day. As long as you provide the expectations people have of you, everything…
Job growth proved better than expected in June, boosted by government hiring, as the labor market showed surprising resilience and likely took a July interest rate cut off the table. Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 147,000 for the month, higher than the estimate for 110,000 and just above the upwardly revised 144,000 in May,…
Top-ranking Food and Drug Administration officials picked by the Trump administration under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overrode career staff at the agency to limit the approvals of COVID-19 shots from Novavax and Moderna, according to records released by the FDA. In a memorandum following Novavax’s approval in May, which narrowed…
Panic over, streamers — the U.K. government has rejected calls for a levy on platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+. The streaming tax had been put to the government by Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee in a bid to salvage local British production on high-end television and film, allowing public service broadcasters such as…
Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. It’s anonymous! Dear Good Job, I’m a guy who works in a place that technically doesn’t have a dress code, but we try to keep things business casual. I want to dress more gender…
The Chinese government vowed to increase oversight of the nation’s beleaguered solar industry, which has suffered billions of dollars in losses as an over-abundance of manufacturing capacity slashes prices. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement that it would strengthen its guidance over the industry to help it solve urgent problems….
NEED TO KNOW A 23-year-old father is dead after he was critically injured at a construction site in Michigan on Monday, June 30 He was the sole provider for his young family, and leaves behind a six-year-old son “I never thought I would say goodbye to you,” the young man’s fiancée wrote in a Facebook…