By Lianne Kolirin Golden Globe-winner Andra Day has revealed that she lost 40 pounds to play jazz legend Billie Holiday — but it didn’t make her feel any prettier. The star, who scooped this year’s award for her leading role in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” told InStyle that while she has noticed a
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate three new US Court of Appeals nominees and three new District Court nominees, marking his third slate of judicial nominations. Altogether, the President has now put forward 20 names for federal judge vacancies. The White House described many of the nominees
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By Lisa Respers France Howard University announced Wednesday that alunma Phylicia Rashad has been appointed dean of the recently reestablished College of Fine Arts. The “This Is Us” star will begin her role on July 1 and report to Provost Anthony K. Wutoh. “It is a privilege to serve in this capacity and to work
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By Ben Church Toyota, one of the leading sponsors of this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, says it’s “concerned” with the amount of public frustration being directed at athletes ahead of the spectacle. With Covid-19 cases rising in Japan, citizens are questioning whether hosting such a major sporting event is appropriate, with some of those
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By Elizabeth Cohen The day after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with its much-awaited updated mask guidance in late April, email inboxes at the federal agency were buzzing with a link to a Trevor Noah monologue. In his self-described “viral rant,” the comedian ripped apart the new guidance as “too
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By Kevin Liptak President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday meant to better protect the nation from cyberattacks, but even as he signed it, the White House acknowledged more will need to be done to prevent the type of hack that affected the Colonial Pipeline. That attack, which temporarily shut down the pipeline supplying
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Analysis by Anneken Tappe America’s job market is in a weird spot: it’s still millions of jobs short of where it was before the pandemic, but businesses complain they can’t find staff. Opponents of enhanced unemployment benefits during Covid say the government aid is so cushy, the jobless don’t want to return to work. On
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By Manu Raju, Jessica Dean and Paula Reid A bipartisan group of negotiators is stymied over a key issue in talks on overhauling policing practices nationwide: The standard for charging police officers with crimes. And now, the Justice Department is directly engaged in the talks to help resolve the stalemate and ease the path for
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By Tami Luhby Five more Republican governors are joining their peers in terminating federal pandemic unemployment benefits early, citing workforce shortages in their states. Jobless residents in Missouri, Iowa, Idaho, Tennessee and Wyoming join those in several other states who will soon lose the $300 weekly federal boost to their state benefits, though Congress has
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By Katie Lobosco As the country slowly climbs out of the pandemic, the Biden administration is ending a program that delivered nearly 167 million boxes of fresh food to families in need and helped farmers sell their produce at a time when supply chain disruptions forced them to dump milk and destroy their crops. It’s
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