Covid testing demand spikes ahead of holidays, with long lines at sites

As Americans prepare to travel for holiday gatherings, the celebrations appear increasingly likely to overlap with surging Covid-19 cases and the rapid spread of the omicron variant. Those threats, in turn, are spurring a clamor for PCR testing, rapid tests

Opinion | How a feel-good new “Spider-Man” finds its way

It’s been two decades since the Marvel blockbuster era began with 2000’s “X-Men,” but somehow 2021 has been the comic book studio’s most prolific year yet. Between Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, 10 titles arrived in

Judge rejects Purdue Pharma’s opioid settlement over protections for Sackler family

A judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.

In a ruling Thursday,

The Roots bassist Leonard ‘Hub’ Hubbard dies at 62

Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, a former longtime bassist of hip-hop band The Roots, has died at the age of 62, the group said Thursday.

“It’s with the heaviest of hearts that we say goodbye to our brother Leonard Nelson Hubbard,” the

Quidditch to change name, citing J.K. Rowling’s ‘anti-trans positions’

Real-life quidditch, inspired by the magical game in “Harry Potter,” is changing its name, citing author J.K. Rowling’s “anti-trans positions in recent years.”

US Quidditch and Major League Quidditch announced in a joint news release Wednesday that they will conduct

Opinion | Will we listen to the important truth about porn Billie Eilish just shared?

In college, I was a Cool Girl — for a bit. I wasn’t hot, but I was skinny. I wore low-rise Diesel jeans to art history lectures. I drank tequila from the bottle at late-night parties. When my male friends

Florida man gets 5 years for assault in Capitol riot, the longest sentence yet

WASHINGTON — A Florida man was sentenced Friday to just over five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

The sentence, of 63 months, was the longest one yet imposed among the

Ex-officer Kim Potter cries on witness stand all over manslaughter trial

Kim Potter, a former officer in Minnesota charged with manslaughter within the deadly taking pictures of Daunte Wright, a Black guy, in April all over a visitors prevent, sobbed at the witness stand Friday, recalling the “chaotic” moments ahead of

Elizabeth Holmes ‘selected fraud over industry failure,’ prosecutors say in Theranos remaining arguments

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Was once Elizabeth Holmes a liar or simply naive? That’s without equal query posed to jurors as prosecution and protection delivered their remaining arguments Thursday after 15 weeks of the carefully watched trial of Holmes, the

Schools, classrooms close doors again in latest Covid surge

As schools brace for the rapid rise in omicron cases amid delta’s continued onslaught and the onset of flu season, some are closing their doors once again and moving back to online learning ahead of the holiday break.

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