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Update: After this story was published, an updated draft agenda for the ACIP meeting was posted. According to the schedule, the committee will no longer consider the RSV vaccine, but it will vote on the three other shots described in this story: COVID-19, hepatitis B and MMRV.Next week, the panel of top advisers who recommend how vaccines are used in the United States will meet to review jabs that protect against COVID-19, hepatitis B and other diseases. The meeting — the committee’s second since US health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr abruptly fired all of its previous…

Government details how social media giants will be expected to handle under-16s banJosh TaylorThe eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is holding a press conference with the communications minister, Anika Wells, on the guidelines for the social media ban we reported earlier in the blog.Inman Grant said that social media platforms from 10 December will be expected to take a “multilayered waterfall approach” for age checking, to ensure that government ID is never the sole or final choice for people to verify their ages.The social media companies have been told their priority before 10 December is to focus on removing or…

Senate Republicans voted on Monday to confirm a senior Trump official to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors as the White House raced to strengthen the US president’s control over the central bank ahead of its latest meeting.Hours before Fed policymakers convene for their September decision on interest rates, the Senate voted 48 to 27 to confirm Stephen Miran – already chair of Donald Trump’s council of economic advisers – as a governor.The vote concluded just as a US appeals court declined the Trump administration’s request to fire Lisa Cook, a governor appointed by Joe Biden, before the two-day policy…

In an increasingly divided world, one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that artificial intelligence is a hugely disruptive—and sometimes downright destructive—phenomenon.At WIRED’s AI Power Summit in New York on Monday, leaders from the worlds of tech, politics, and the media came together to discuss how AI is transforming their intertwined worlds. The Summit included voices from the AI industry, a current US senator, a former Trump administration official, and publishers including WIRED’s parent company, Condé Nast. You can view a livestream of the event in full below.Livestream: WIRED’s AI Power Summit “In journalism, many of us have…

A doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at “very low risk” of repeating his serious misconduct, a medical tribunal has ruled.Dr Suhail Anjum, 44, and the unnamed nurse were caught in a “compromising position” by a colleague who walked in on the pair at Tameside hospital. The consultant anaesthetist had asked another nursing colleague to monitor the male patient, who was under general anaesthetic, so he could go to the bathroom.Instead, Anjum, a married father of three, went to another operating theatre at the hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, where…

The production assistants organizing movement has gone from one acclaimed show to another. Organizers on Monday filed for a National Labor Relations Board union election to represent production assistants on Abbott Elementary, the critically lauded ABC sitcom following teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia elementary school. Workers on the show are attempting to join a union affiliated with LiUNA Local 724, the Hollywood laborers’ union that nearly one week prior successfully unionized production assistants on HBO Max’s The Pitt. The organizers are targeting a small group — 13 production assistants in total, according to the petition for an election, ranging from…

Andreas HaleSep 15, 2025, 07:34 PM ETCloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.Over…

The world’s oldest known human mummies were created by smoke-drying corpses 10,000 years ago in Southeast Asia and China, long before mummification became commonplace in Chile and Egypt, new research shows.A study of dozens of ancient graves found in China, the Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia revealed that many skeletons that were found in a tight fetal position were treated by an extended period of smoke-drying over fire before being buried. The research was published Monday (Sept. 15) in the journal PNAS.”Smoking likely carried spiritual, religious, or cultural meanings that went far beyond simply slowing decay,” Hsiao-chun Hung, a…

Canada’s Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise debuts a new indoor-outdoor thermal spa, inspired by Nordic sauna culture.Basin Glacial Waters boasts panoramic views of the rugged Canadian Rockies and Victoria Glacier, which supplies the spa’s water.The spa has two steam rooms, three saunas, three hot tubs, two pools, an outdoor cold plunge, and several relaxation areas, including Glacier Lounge, where guests can order from a menu of freshly prepared fare. Today, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, a historic hotel perched at the edge of Canada’s stunning Lake Louise, debuts a new indoor-outdoor thermal spa, inspired by Nordic sauna culture. Basin Glacial Waters is…

new video loaded: How an Emirati Royal Won the Battle for A.I. ChipsBy David Yaffe-Bellany, Christina Shaman and June Kim•September 15, 2025Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates secured a tentative A.I. chip deal with the United States. His company also struck a $2 billion deal with President Trump’s crypto start-up. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times, walks us through both deals’ intersecting timelines.