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DURHAM, N.C. — Kara Lawson and Kim Mulkey’s approaches to nonconference scheduling are almost as opposite as their approaches to game-day fashion; Mulkey, in her fifth season as the head coach at LSU, prefers to use the nonconference slate as a chance to build her team’s confidence and chemistry ahead of the SEC gauntlet. Meanwhile Lawson, in her sixth season at the helm of Duke, prefers her team to face tough opponents early and often.On Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, in front of a slew of WNBA scouts and NBA commissioner Adam Silver, the ACC/SEC Challenge put these two disparate…

An influential vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has voted to eliminate the recommendation for universal vaccination of newborns against the hepatitis B virus (HBV). The committee voted that instead of getting a first dose within 24 hours of birth, children of mothers who test negative for the virus get the vaccine at 2 months of age.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which steers the CDC’s vaccine policy, was recently overhauled by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Its members now include prominent vaccine skeptics who have sown doubt in…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

ToplineMajor movie theater stocks including AMC and IMAX dipped Friday, falling at least 2% after Netflix announced it will acquire Warner Bros. and that theatrical windows for movies will “evolve” after the $82.7 billion deal is completed, sparking concern around the agreement’s potential impact on movie theaters.Movie theater stocks tumbled Friday after Netflix announced its planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesKey FactsAMC shares fell around 3% before 1 p.m. EST., continuing a string of losses over the last five days of trading, which have brought the stock down nearly 7%.IMAX shares dropped 4.5% to…

After indie narrative horror game Horses was banned from Steam two years ago, it put the studio, Santa Ragione, at risk of closure. Studio cofounder and Horses producer Pietro Righi Riva had to make a difficult phone call to the game’s director, Italian filmmaker Andrea Lucco Borlera. “I was terrified for him,” Riva said in an interview with The Verge. “This was his first game and he put so much work, so much passion, so many years, and it was supposed to be his big breakthrough.”But while this all sounds like a happy ending, Riva isn’t ready to breathe easy…

Ellen Knightin Weston RhynBBC/ELLEN KNIGHTBethany Lewis was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome in April 2025A young woman has founded a support group for women with reproductive health problems, like polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).Bethany Lewis, 18, is a trainee dental nurse from Weston Rhyn in Shropshire and was diagnosed with PCOS in April 2025.A few months later she set up The Cysters Circle, which meets up periodically across the county in different towns to reach a wider audience.PCOS causes painful and irregular periods, and the NHS estimates it affects up to one in 10 women in the UK. “[The circle was]…

Donald Trump has been named the first winner of the newly created Fifa peace prize, claiming “the world is a safer place now” as he received the award at the draw for the 2026 World Cup in Washington DC.Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president and one of Trump’s closest sporting allies, presented the honour onstage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, saying Trump had been selected “in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world”.“This is your prize, this is your peace prize,” Infantino said, after Trump took the stage…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Fish gills may inspire an unexpected solution to one of our biggest sources of microplastics. According to researchers at Germany’s University of Bonn, taking a cue from the animals’ filtration systems might help remove the vast majority of harmful plastic particulates from washing machine wastewater. Microplastics are a huge problem. At this point, they can be found both inside our bodies as well as some of the Earth’s most remote locations. Aside from taking thousands of years to decompose, the particles are increasingly linked to a…

What it's like to cruise the Thousand Islands—yes, of salad dressing fame—in the St. Lawrence River along the U.S.–Canada border

Jamie’s Italian will return to the UK dining scene next year, six years after the chain went into administration.Its founder, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, will reopen the first new site in central London backed by the investors behind another Italian restaurant chain, Prezzo.They plan to expand the brand further, a return Oliver said was “incredibly important” for him personally.At its peak, there were more than 40 Jamie’s Italian sites across the UK, but after rapid expansion and a changing market, the company ran into trouble.The restaurants closed across the UK in 2019 with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs,…