Surveillance and the sharing of mpox vaccines with Africa will be integral to preventing a global outbreak of the virus, the World Health Organization’s Europe director has said. Mpox was declared a global emergency by the WHO last week, with a new strain spreading across Africa at an alarming rate and causing more than 571 deaths on the continent this ...
This is a bittersweet moment for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and their families. Hopes had been high that for the first time they would have access to a treatment that could slow the decline in memory and thinking. When a pivotal clinical trial was released last year doctors hailed lecanemab as a game-changer, one that could delay the need ...
A lung cancer patient has become the first in the UK to receive a new experimental vaccine to help his body fight the disease. Janusz Racz, 67, had six syringes of the jab, each containing genetic material for a different part of the tumour, to train five billion cells in his immune system to go on the attack. The vaccine, ...
CHICAGO — Four of the exonerated members of the so-called Central Park Five — a group of five teenagers wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a jogger — appeared Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, warning of what a second Donald Trump presidency could bring. “Thirty-five years ago, my friends and I were in prison for a crime ...
CHICAGO — Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to a 2024 election in which we’ll apparently have to make do with Beyoncé’s voice. (Make sure you are subscribed to this newsletter here. And also listen to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We dove into Tim Walz’s ascent Thursday, and we’ll ...
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, using the most consequential speech of her political career to cast herself as an avatar of America’s middle class and an avenue to usher the country away from the abrasive style of politics embraced by Republican nominee Donald Trump. “Our nation with this election has a precious, fleeting ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoric but not many facts easily checked. Here are five claims made by Harris that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made. As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios for a roundup of statements ...
CHICAGO — Democrats worried that protesters might derail their shining moment this week, pushing the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris to the devastation in the Gaza Strip. Republicans claimed that the Democratic National Convention was spiraling into chaos, disparaging this host city as a “Third World country.” But as the party wrapped up its four-day gathering Thursday night, the ...
Evelyn Lees was hiking across the mountains of northern New Jersey on Monday afternoon when her cellphone screen lit up with a notification that made the Puerto Rican middle school science teacher leap with joy: the Harris-Walz campaign had launched a bilingual WhatsApp channel for Latino voters. Lees, 53, said she ran to her car and immediately joined “Latinos con ...
Under an image of the Statue of Liberty, set against a waving American flag, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website describes the agency’s commitment to “nondiscrimination in the workforce.” CBP’s self-praise includes its dedication “to preserving individual liberty, fairness and equality under the law.” But those notions of nondiscrimination and fairness took a big hit last week with a ...