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The Senate voted to confirm former Fox News host and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro had been serving as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. since May, after Trump appointed her to replace conservative activist Ed Martin as the top federal prosecutor in Washington. Eugene Daniels reports on "The Weekend."

NEW YORK — It would seem the most straightforward of notions: A thing takes place, and it goes into the history books or is added to museum exhibits. But whether something even gets remembered and how — particularly when it comes to the history of a country and its leader — is often the furthest thing from simple. The latest example of that came Friday, when the Smithsonian Institution said it had removed a reference to the 2019 and 2021 impeachments of President Donald Trump from a panel in an exhibition about the American presidency. Trump has pressed institutions and agencies under federal oversight, often through the pressure of funding, to focus on the country’s achievements and progress and away from things he terms “divisive.” The Smithsonian on Saturday denied getting pressure from the Trump administration to remove the reference, which had been installed as part of a temporary addition in 2021. The exhibit “will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect all impeachment proceedings in our nation’s history,” the museum said in a statement. In a statement that did not directly address the impeachment references, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said: “We are fully supportive of updating displays to highlight American greatness.” But is history intended to highlight or to document — to report what happened, or to serve a desired narrative? The answer, as with most things about the past, can be intensely complex. It’s part of a larger effort around American stories: The Smithsonian’s move comes in the wake of Trump administration actions like removing the name of a gay rights activist (Harvey Milk) from a Navy ship, pushing for Republican supporters in Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and getting rid of the leadership at the Kennedy Center. “Based on what we have been seeing, this is part of a broader effort by the president to influence and shape how history is depicted at museums, national parks, and schools,” said Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. “Not only is he pushing a specific narrative of the United States but, in this case, trying to influence how Americans learn about his own role in history.” It’s not a new struggle, in the world generally and the political world particularly. There is power in being able to shape how things are remembered, if they are remembered at all — who was there, who took part, who was responsible, what happened to lead up to that point in history. And the human beings who run things have often extended their authority to the stories told about them. In China, for example, references to the June 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square are forbidden and meticulously regulated by the ruling Communist Party government. In Soviet-era Russia, officials who ran afoul of leaders like Josef Stalin disappeared not only from the government itself but from photographs and history books where they once appeared. Jason Stanley, an expert on authoritarianism, said controlling what and how people learn of their past has long been used as a vital tool to maintain power. Stanley has made his views about the Trump administration clear; he recently left Yale University to join the University of Toronto, citing concerns over the U.S. political situation. “If they don’t control the historical narrative,” he said, “then they can’t create the kind of fake history that props up their politics.” It shows how the presentation of history matters: In the United States, presidents and their families have always used their power to shape history and calibrate their own images. Jackie Kennedy insisted on cuts in William Manchester’s book on her husband’s 1963 assassination, “The Death of a President.” Ronald Reagan and his wife got a cable TV channel to release a carefully calibrated documentary about him. Those around Franklin D. Roosevelt, including journalists of the era, took pains to mask the impact that paralysis had on his body and his mobility. Trump, though, has taken it to a more intense level — a sitting president encouraging an atmosphere where institutions can feel compelled to choose between him and the truth — whether he calls for it directly or not. “We are constantly trying to position ourselves in history as citizens, as citizens of the country, citizens of the world,” said Robin Wagner-Pacifici, professor emerita of sociology at the New School for Social Research. “So part of these exhibits and monuments are also about situating us in time. And without it, it’s very hard for us to situate ourselves in history because it seems like we just kind of burst forth from the Earth.” Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum from 2007 to 2011, presided over its overhaul to offer a more objective presentation of Watergate — one not beholden to the president’s loyalists. In an interview Friday, he said he was “concerned and disappointed” about the Smithsonian decision. Naftali, now a senior researcher at Columbia University, said museum directors “should have red lines” and that he considered removing the Trump panel to be one of them. While it might seem inconsequential for someone in power to care about a museum’s offerings, Wagner-Pacifici says Trump’s outlook on history and his role in it — earlier this year, he said the Smithsonian had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” — shows how important those matters are to people in authority. “You might say about that person, whoever that person is, their power is so immense and their legitimacy is so stable and so sort of monumental that why would they bother with things like this ... why would they bother to waste their energy and effort on that?” Wagner-Pacifici said. Her conclusion: “The legitimacy of those in power has to be reconstituted constantly. They can never rest on their laurels.”

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as the president’s claim that weaker-than-expected jobs reports were “rigged,” but failed to produce any evidence to support Trump’s claim. “What we need is a fresh set of eyes over the BLS,” Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a monthly jobs report that included weaker-than-expected numbers for July, plus major downward revisions of May and June’s numbers. In a post on Truth Social on Friday, the president said the jobs numbers were “rigged” and that he’d asked his team to fire BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer. “We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate,” Trump wrote. In another Truth Social post, the president added, “In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” On Sunday, Hassett cast similar doubt on the accuracy of the jobs numbers, pointing to past revisions that were made to jobs reports after then-President Joe Biden stopped running for re-election last year. “There have been a bunch of patterns that could make people wonder. And I think the most important thing for people to know is that it’s the president’s highest priority that the data be trusted and that people get to the bottom of why these revisions are so unreliable,” Hassett told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker. He added later in the interview that the Trump administration’s goal was to understand why there was such a sizable revision to past months’ jobs numbers. “The bottom line is that there were people involved in creating these numbers. And if I were running the BLS and I had a number that was a huge, politically important revision, the biggest since 1968 actually ... then I would have a really long report explaining exactly what happened. And we didn’t get that,” Hassett said. It's not uncommon for jobs reports to be revised in the months following their release, but Hassett on Sunday emphasized that July's revision was one of the largest he's seen in decades. Trump faced criticism from Democrats and Republicans in Congress on Friday when he decided to fire McEntarfer, with several Republican senators questioning whether the firing would actually help the Trump administration improve future jobs numbers. “We have to look somewhere for objective statistics. When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that, you know, the statistics won’t be politicized,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told NBC News on Friday. “I’m going to look into it, but first impression is that you can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting,” he added. On Sunday, Hassett said that installing Trump’s “own people” will help achieve more “transparent and reliable” jobs reports in the future. “The president wants his own people there so that when we see the numbers, they’re more transparent and more reliable. And if there are big changes and big revisions — we expect more big revisions for the jobs data in September, for example — then we want to know why, we want people to explain it to us,” he said. Later on Sunday, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., joined "Meet the Press" and accused the president of trying to "weaponize" the Bureau of Labor Statistics for his own agenda. Padilla also said that the Senate would evaluate the "independence" of a new BLS commissioner when it comes time to confirm a new one. "That's the big question for members of Congress who will have to confirm, members of the Senate, who have to confirm whoever Trump replaces," Padilla told Welker. "Confirmation hearings are supposed to be about, 'Is it going to be somebody that will maintain the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,' like so many other departments and agencies that need to have the independence from the political pressure of the White House to do their job reliably." "When [Trump's] trying to weaponize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that tells you a lot about their insecurity about the economy and the state of economic affairs," Padilla added later. Hassett also spoke about the president’s evolving tariff agenda. Last week, Trump formalized trade deals with countries including the European Union, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom and imposed sweeping tariffs on some of the U.S.’ largest trading partners, like Canada, which now faces a 35% tariff rate on goods not covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement. Hassett on Sunday echoed Trump’s statements to NBC News from earlier in the week, indicating that there was still room to make trade deals for nations that hadn’t yet concluded negotiations. “For the deals that aren’t ready yet. They’re going to get the reciprocal rates soon, and then we would expect that there might continue to be negotiations with those countries,” he told Welker. Hassett also cast doubt on the idea that higher tariffs on consumer goods could lead to inflation, as economic analysts have been predicting for months. Instead, Hassett blamed inflation on the Biden administration. “Every measure of inflation, if you aggregate it, if you look at the top line numbers, is lower than it’s been in five months,” he said, adding later: “So inflation has come down. And inflation has come down for a lot of reasons, but I think the main reason is that we’re no longer printing money and sending it to people like the Bidens did. That’s a recipe for inflation.” This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Don’t worry. Although content that INAPPROPRIATELY DISPARAGES AMERICANS PAST OR LIVING or that includes MATTERS UNRELATED TO THE BEAUTY, ABUNDANCE, AND GRANDEUR OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE has been targeted for removal at national-park sites, the caliber of park tours has not suffered! Here is a glimpse of the kind of information you can look forward to receiving at each of these historic sites. Stonewall National Monument: One of the best places to admire the abundant natural beauty of New York City. The taxis, yellow. The skyscrapers, high! The luminous walk signs, with their flashing white gentleman composed of tiny stars, majestic! Here a community rose up in response to a police raid and sparked a revolution. We cannot say which community, but we hope there weren’t any LGBTQ people present. It seems unlikely; they did not exist before 1967, which was one of many things that made America Great at that time, and which we are trying our best to replicate today. We’ve been removing the movement’s patrons from the Stonewall website one letter at a time and seeing whether anyone notices. Manzanar National Historic Site: This well-preserved internment-camp site from World War II is a chilling, gut-wrenching reminder of the stunning natural beauty of our flawless nation! Mount Rushmore National Memorial: This incomplete statue of some presidents will be a wonderful place to contemplate America’s beauty soon, when it is beautified even further by the addition of the best president yet! We don’t need to say anything more about this site. Nice, uncontroversial place for some sculptures of white men, we’re pretty sure! Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site: The National Guard liked this high school so much that it decided to sit in on classes here for a time in the 1960s. For some reason, only nine of the students who went here are singled out as heroes, but we think, actually, every student is a hero. Redwood National and State Parks: These beautiful, large trees are big enough to fend for themselves, and the implication that action is needed on our part to protect them is, frankly, insulting. Trees eat carbon dioxide, you know!!! Adams National Historic Park: President John Adams presided over the passage of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798! A great thing. Good legacy. Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail: Some really scenic sights along here. Great place to hear birds. John Lewis marched across a bridge on this route, and some police marched out to meet him. Fun! Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site: This site was set aside to commemorate a bunch of people who have been removed from Air Force training materials, so we are unsure what they did. As soon as these people are added back to the training materials, we can tell you! Just keep in mind that if it appears that any of the people who participated in United States history weren’t white, that is DEI. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park: This woman is famous for some reason, but we can’t say for sure what that is. Maybe the rare natural splendor of the surroundings of her home. Sometimes she led fellow Americans on long treks on foot, presumably to admire the breathtaking beauty of the environment up close. She did this many times. She must have loved nature! Gettysburg National Military Park: It appears that lots of brave men fought and died here, but for what reason, we can’t exactly say. Not for us to take sides! We’ll refer you to President Donald Trump’s thoughts: “Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. It was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways; it represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow. I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And, uh, the statement of Robert E. Lee, who’s no longer in favor, did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys. Never fight uphill.’ They were fighting uphill. He said, ‘Wow, that was a big mistake.’ He lost his great general. And they were fighting. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys!’ But it was too late.” This is what happened here, and we hope you have no further questions. Women’s Rights National Historic Park (Seneca Falls): Here a bunch of women got together and asked for something they did not really need! Most important: There’s a waterfall nearby. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park: Here was born a president who did something that was important to do, and especially at that time. One of the lesser presidents, he came to guide the nation through the Civil War, which was fought over nothing. The Seinfeld of wars. Trail of Tears National Historic Trail: This scenic route takes you through nine states, starting in Georgia and continuing to Oklahoma! Along this path, you can see a lot of foliage. A fun trail to walk voluntarily. Reconstruction Era National Historic Park: Things have always been good in this country. Look—a bird. Wow! Check out all the waterfowl around here! Boston National Historic Park (Freedom Trail): To describe the historic significance of this site would require us to disparage King George III of England. Which we are loath to do! There’s no shame in being a king. President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home: Did you know that Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson were the only two presidents ever to be impeached? Fun fact! Statue of Liberty: For years, people have made a big deal about how good she looks as you approach, but imagine how nice she’d look if you were leaving. Please disregard the poem; we are trying to remove it. Article originally published at The Atlantic

The 2026 Ford Bronco is available with a new 60th Anniversary package that gives it a flashier throwback appearance. Exclusive bits included intricate wheels with retro hubcaps, a special grille, a white-painted roof, and a two-tone leather interior. The Bronco 60th Anniversary is based on the Outer Banks trim equipped with the off-road-ready Sasquatch package; pricing will be revealed later this year. When something has 60 years of history, there are a lot of different ways to celebrate it. The 2026 Ford Bronco represents six decades since the original model debuted for the 1966 model year, and as a little birthday gift, the blue-oval brand has introduced a special 60th Anniversary package for its popular off-road-ready mid-size SUV. The Bronco's BdayBased on the Bronco's Outer Banks trim, complete with the Sasquatch package (35-inch all-terrain tires, front and rear locking diffs, upgraded suspension, etc.), the 60th Anniversary kit gives the modular ute a flashier appearance. Every version has a white-painted hardtop, and it can be paired with matching Wimbledon White paint (same as the OG Bronco) or Ruby Red. FordObviously, no special edition is complete without commemorative callouts, and the Bronco 60th Anniversary has several of them. Take the intricately designed 17-inch wheels painted Gravity Gray, which feature retro hubcaps that resemble their ancestors with Vermilion Red centers that also feature Ford's famous bucking bronco logo and "1966." There are also 60th Anniversary badges on the front fenders, and that theme continues with the Vermilion Red bodyside decals. That distinctive color is also found on the lettering on the heritage-style grille, which matches the wheel color and is only found on this throwback Bronco. The hardcover spare-tire carrier that's mounted on the back of the SUV is another unique detail, as it sports a white center with red lettering. A set of running boards is also included out of the box. FordInside, the 60th Anniversary package adds an attractive two-tone color scheme. The leather seats feature Ebony outer sections with Alpine inserts, and "60" is debossed in the back of the seat cushions. Alpine contrast stitching is seen throughout the cabin, including on the top of the dashboard. For 2026, the Bronco lineup now offers grab handles on the A-pillars, which will help folks climb in and out of the anniversary edition. The 2026 Ford Bronco 60th Anniversary has standard four-wheel drive, and customers can choose between the standard 2.3-liter turbo four or the mightier twin-turbo 2.7-liter V-6. Ford says the special edition, along with the rest of the lineup, will be available to order in October. Pricing will be announced sometime before the Bronco's on-sale date. You Might Also Like Car and Driver’s 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!

New wheels from the aftermarket company Unplugged Performance, which caters to Tesla owners, are claimed to be indestructible. The claim is a bit far-fetched, but the Road Warrior wheels appear to be tough and well-designed. Priced between $2795 and $2995, they're also relatively light and don't add much to aerodynamic drag. If you want to market your product to Tesla owners, you're going to need to make a claim that stands out. Thus, aftermarket outfit Unplugged Performance doesn't just say that its latest set of forged alloy wheels for the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are tough—it's claiming the wheels are literally indestructible. This claim is backed up by the company's guarantee of free replacement for life if a wheel should be bent or cracked. Think of Darn Tough, the Vermont manufacturer of heavy-duty socks. Those socks, made in the United States, are guaranteed for life, warranted for replacement should they wear out. On one hand, you're buying a corporate promise, but they really are decent socks. These wheels also look to be a solid product. 2026 Tesla Model Y Juniper with 20-inch Road Warrior wheels. Phillip Awad - Car and DriverAt $2795 for a set of 19-inch wheels and $2995 for 20s, the Road Warrior wheels are reasonably priced for forged aluminum. Load rated at over 2000 pounds per wheel, they're theoretically stronger than many wheels used in actual rally racing, and those cars are expected to survive jumps, not just potholes. Also, at a claimed 23.5 pounds per wheel for the 19-inch application and 26.0 pounds for the 20s, they aren't adding a bunch of unsprung weight. Perhaps more important for an EV application, the increased aerodynamic drag is claimed to be minimal, with Unplugged Performance claiming that the coefficient of drag with its wheels is within roughly 4 percent of the most slippery 18-inch factory wheels. The Road Warrior wheels also fit Tesla's factory tire sizes and come with a built-in, replaceable curb protector. Tesla Model 3 with Road Warrior wheels. Unplugged PerformanceThe marketing release for the Road Warrior wheels comes with a bunch of copy about how these "indestructible" wheels will be ideal for ride-share drivers and owners of fleets of robotaxis, with wheels that will never have to be replaced. While it all sounds pretty hyperbolic, the company has designed these wheels based on learnings from the beatings its wheels have taken on municipal Tesla police fleets. These wheels do look tough, well-designed, reasonably priced, and light enough to be a decent upgrade for a privately owned Tesla. The built-in curb rash protectors are a lot less garish than the plastic aftermarket offerings more commonly available, although at $80 for a replacement set of two, you're going to want to pay some attention while parking. Which you should be doing anyway. Making bold claims and not following up on them is, unfortunately, a winning corporate strategy in 2025. Slightly exaggerating but putting out a solid product? By comparison, entirely forgivable. You Might Also Like Car and Driver’s 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!

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Continuous advancements in the electric and hybrid car market are making sustainable driving easier and more impressive than ever. Chery, a Chinese automaker, has launched the pre-sale of its plug-in hybrid sedan, the Fulwin A9L, and the range is truly remarkable. According to Interesting Engineering, "The hybrid setup enables a pure electric range of up to 161 miles and a total combined range of roughly 1,243 miles when fully charged and fueled." While the average plug-in hybrid has a range of around 600 miles, this new Chery sedan doubles that. Plus, the company's updated hybrid Fulwin A8 model boasts an 870-mile range. Taking the average range of a gas-powered car, about 403 miles, these hybrid options not only keep you from having to stop and refuel as often, but the electric aspect helps keep down toxic tailpipe emissions, as they don't burn as much dirty fuel. To make things even better, charging electric vehicles is much cheaper than using gas, and with full EVs, there's no need for oil changes, either. There is some pushback on EVs because of the pollution and environmental destruction caused by mining resources for lithium batteries. However, roughly 30 million tons of minerals are needed annually for the clean energy transition, which is much lower than the approximately 16.5 billion tons of dirty fuels already being mined every year. Plus, unlike those dirty fuels, the minerals can be reused. Chery is planning to launch the Fulwin A9L model globally in 2026, and the hybrid sedan is expected to be priced at $20,700 and $27,600. To make owning an EV all the more eco-friendly and affordable, home solar panels can be cheaper and more reliable than using the grid to charge your vehicle. While navigating the installation process can be tricky, EnergySage makes it easy to compare quotes from vetted local installers and could save you up to $10,000. Would you be more likely to drive an EV if you could charge it in 5 minutes? Yes Depends on the cost No way I already have an EV Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. Join our free newsletter for weekly updates on the latest innovations improving our lives and shaping our future, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.

When you think of boxer engines with their flat, horizontally opposed architecture, it's likely that vintage Volkswagens such as the original Beetle spring to mind. Or perhaps Porsche, which named an entire car after that type of engine. But Subaru's affinity for pancake engines goes back a way, too. In 1965, the brand dropped its EA-52, which at 900 cubic centimeters and 55 horsepower was both smaller and less powerful than many modern motorcycle engines. By 1989, things had improved considerably with the release of the EJ series in North America, which provided the gusto behind some of Subaru's legendary all-wheel drive World Rally Championship cars. For example, the 250-plus horsepower WRX (World Rally Experimental) like this one that Colin McRae drove to three consecutive victories in the mid-late 1990s. Remarkably, the EJ continued in production for longer than some readers have been alive — a whopping 32 years. Although the 16-valve EJ engine was used in multiple Subarus, including the Forester, Outback, and Legacy, it's perhaps most associated with hopped-up versions for the aforementioned WRX. So when the last Impreza-based WRXs rolled off the assembly line in 2021, it was as good a time as any to retire the venerable EJ. The simple fact is that it was getting increasingly difficult to meet stricter emissions and fuel economy standards with such an old engine, no matter the ease of modding that appealed to enthusiasts. Read more: These V6 Engines Put The LS1 V8 To Shame Apparently, EJ Swaps Are A ThingEngine compartment of a 2013 Subaru WRX - Michael Price/Wikimedia CommonsReplacing the hallowed EJ series was a tall order, and initially Subaru chose the FB family of engines, a third-generation boxer already used in the Subie lineup starting with the Forester in 2010. Specifically, the WRX got the 2.4-liter FA24F. However, the FA24's reputation was called into question by several high-profile engine failures from oil starvation under track conditions in Subaru's BRZ and its badge-engineered twin, Toyota's GR86. More recently, a fourth generation of the boxer engine was announced: the CB, short for "compact (or concentration) boxer." But it's no exaggeration to say that the CB18 rollout was a debacle. A sensor malfunction in that engine resulted in Subaru's decision to halt production and cease worldwide export of three models during 2022: the Forester, Outback, and Levorg. However, not before 54,000 vehicles had already left the factory. To be sure, it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns over the EJ's long lifespan, either. As outlined in Jalopnik's comprehensive guide to Subaru engines, certain iterations are known to leak oil like crazy while others prefer a steady diet of head gaskets. Still, it's an immensely popular engine that's prevalent not just in Subarus, but swapped into kit cars, Mazda Miatas, airplanes, and even motorcycles. Heck, it's like a Japanese equivalent of the Chevy LS, which is high praise indeed. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.

Le 27 février 2023, Achraf Hakimi a été visé par une enquête préliminaire avant d’être mis en examen le 3 mars suivant et d’être placé sous contrôle judiciaire. Le joueur de foot de 26 ans est soupçonné d’avoir violé une jeune femme en 2023. Cette même année, sa compagne annonçait leur rupture. Tout aurait débuté par des échanges sur Instagram un mois auparavant, avant qu’elle ne finisse par se rendre à son domicile. C’est à ce moment-là que l’agression sexuelle aurait eu lieu, selon le récit de cette dernière fait au commissariat de Nogent-sur-Marne le 25 février 2023. Si Achraf Hakimi n’a cessé de contester les faits reprochés, la justice compte bien faire toute la lumière sur cette histoire. La défense d’Achraf Hakimi sereine face à la demande du parquetVendredi 1er août 2025, le parquet de Nanterre a demandé la mise en accusation d’Achraf Hakimi devant la cour criminelle départementale des Hauts-de-Seine. L’instance judiciaire a confirmé auprès de l’AFP avoir "saisi le juge d’instruction en charge de cette information judiciaire". PUBLICITÉ"Il appartient désormais au magistrat instructeur de prendre sa décision dans le cadre de son ordonnance" a ajouté le parquet au sujet de cette affaire pour laquelle Achraf Hakimi encourt jusqu’à 15 ans de prison. Me Fanny Collin, l’avocate d’Achraf Hakimi, s’est également exprimée à l’AFP suite à cette nouvelle. "Nous demeurons avec Achraf Hakimi aussi sereins qu’à l’ouverture de la procédure. Si ces réquisitions devaient être suivies, nous exercerions évidemment toutes les voies de recours". Achraf Hakimi s'est effectivement toujours montré plutôt confiant face à cette affaire. Du côté de la partie civile, Me Rachel-Flore Pardo évoque "l’immense soulagement" de sa cliente face à cette décision de la justice. Kylian Mbappé face aux enquêteurs : "il y avait eu des caresses mutuelles"L’Équipe est revenue sur cette affaire et a notamment rapporté le témoignage de Kylian Mbappé, présenté comme un très bon ami d’Achraf Hakimi. C’est en avril 2023 qu’il avait été entendu par les enquêteurs. PUBLICITÉ"Il m’a dit qu’il y avait eu des caresses mutuelles sur des parties intimes, mais qu’à aucun moment, il n’avait ressenti un refus de la part de cette jeune femme […] Il m’a dit que finalement ils n’avaient pas couché ensemble sans me dire pour quelle raison" avait alors expliqué l’ancienne star du PSG. "Achraf Hakimi est respectueux avec les femmes. Même alcoolisé, je ne l’ai jamais vu avoir un comportement déplacé. […] Même les fois où je n’ai pas assisté à certaines scènes, je n’ai jamais eu de retour d’amies qui me disaient qu’Achraf s’était mal comporté ou qu’il avait dépassé les limites" avait-il ajouté. La "tentative de racket" est l’explication qui a été avancée par la défense d’Achraf Hakimi, qui reste présumé innocent des faits qui lui sont reprochés jusqu’au jugement de cette affaire. Article original sur Purepeople

Mort le 2 août 1992 à Ramatuelle, Michel Berger est un producteur et musicien emblématique de la chanson française. Ayant eu deux enfants, l'ancien époux de France Gall a transmis son amour de la musique à son fils Raphaël qui a choisi de travailler dans le même domaine que lui. En couple avec France Gall durant de nombreuses années, Michel Berger s'était marié avec elle le 22 juin 1976. Ils ont eu deux enfants : Pauline, née le 14 novembre 1978 (elle est décédée le 15 décembre 1997 d'une mucoviscidose), et Raphaël Hamburger, né le 2 avril 1981. Très discret, leur fils a suivi les traces de ses parents dans la musique et est devenu un producteur de musique reconnu. Il possède d'ailleurs deux boîtes de production. "Il vient d'acheter un studio d'enregistrement, il a créé une radio, un label de disques, et supervise des musiques de films. Il ne montera pas sur scène avec un micro, il ne recherche pas la célébrité. Je suis ravie qu'il fasse des choses par lui-même", confiait sa mère en 2015 auprès de nos confrères de Paris Match. France Gall. Pauline Berger. Raphaël Hamburger. pic.twitter.com/dzVZPly1wV — ▫️▪️◽◾◻️◼️⬜ ⬛ (@LGaella) September 30, 2023 Les amours du fils de Michel Berger PUBLICITÉAprès la mort de son père en 1992, sa soeur en 1997 puis sa mère en 2018, Raphaël Hamburger a poursuivi ses rêves dans la musique et a même été initiateur de la deuxième version de Starmania, l'opéra-rock lancé par son père en 1979. Une belle façon de rendre hommage à son défunt papa. Il n'a jamais officialisé de compagne et est toujours resté très secret sur ses relations amoureuses. Certaines rumeurs lui ont prêté une relation avec Cécile Cassel, connue sous le nom de HollySiz qui n'est autre que la demi-sœur de Vincent Cassel, en 2009. On sait par ailleurs qu'il est devenu papa mais l'identité de la maman n'a jamais été révélée. Raphaël Hamburger marqué par la mort de sa soeur Pauline Interrogée dans le documentaire filmé pour C8, France Gall avait évoqué la perte de leur fille Pauline alors qu'elle n'avait que 19 ans : "On ne le croit pas, on n'en revient pas de vivre un truc pareil. On n'en revient pas de vivre ça, parce que c'est justement le truc que l'on ne peut pas et que l'on ne veut pas vivre. Tout le monde dit que c'est impossible et inhumain à vivre, et pourtant on me le fait vivre. Je n'en revenais pas que ça soit possible. J'ai tout de suite voulu être la maman qui réussit le plus au monde à survivre et à intégrer cette idée d'avoir perdu un enfant. De pouvoir le plus facilement vivre avec ça, parce que sinon on est foutu si on y pense, si on est dans le regret...". Article original sur Purepeople

Un incident à l’aquarium de San Antonio relance les questions sur la sécurité des rencontres avec les animaux. Britney Taryn affirme que son fils de 6 ans, Leo, a été « attaqué » le 14 juillet par un poulpe géant du Pacifique, nommé Cthulhu, qui s’est accroché à son bras et a laissé des marques violettes, rapporte la chaîne américaine KSAT. Membre de l’aquarium depuis des années, Britney Taryn raconte qu’aucun employé ne surveillait le bassin ce jour-là. « Il a fallu cinq minutes et trois employés pour que l’animal lâche mon fils », explique-t-elle. Après l’incident, elle a saisi l’USDA, contacté des aquariums et alerté le représentant Joaquin Castro, mais a découvert que les poulpes ne sont pas couverts par l’Animal Welfare Act. Plusieurs polémiques à l’aquarium de San AntonioL’aquarium a réagi sur TikTok en publiant des vidéos montrant l’animal et affirmant que « les hématomes disparaissent en sept à quatorze jours ». Un ton qui a indigné la mère. Dans un communiqué envoyé à la chaîne, l’association PETA a appelé l’établissement à « cesser de forcer des animaux sauvages à interagir avec des humains » et à placer Cthulhu dans un refuge ou un site accrédité. PUBLICITÉL’aquarium, déjà marqué par plusieurs polémiques depuis son ouverture en 2014, est à nouveau sous pression. Britney Taryn assure désormais militer pour « un meilleur traitement des animaux » et demande que le poulpe puisse « vivre tranquillement, sans être touché ». Lire la suite sur 20minutes À lire aussi : Etats-Unis : Un enfant de 4 ans attaqué par un puma dans un parc national États-Unis : Un enfant de 12 ans tué par l’amibe mangeuse de cerveau, ses parents décident de sensibiliser le public

KameraOneUn Chinois transforme des objets du quotidien en instruments de musiqueDans un atelier de Dongying, dans la province du Shandong, le luthier chinois Shi Qichao transforme des objets du quotidien en instruments de musique. Des poêles à frire aux tuyaux en PVC, en passant par des légumes frais, Shi fabrique des instruments parfaitement fonctionnels à partir d'objets insolites. Devenu un véritable phénomène viral sur Internet, son art étrange contribue à promouvoir le développement durable.

Après avoir laissé la polémique traîner durant plusieurs jours, American Eagle s’est finalement exprimé. La marque de jeans américaine a fini par réagir vendredi 1er août à la controverse qu’a créée son spot de publicité avec l’actrice américaine Sydney Sweeney, accusée par certains de faire la promotion de valeurs très rétrogrades voire eugénistes. Le slogan de la publicité « Sydney Sweeney a de superbes jeans », pouvant également s’entendre « Sydney Sweeney a de superbes gènes », associé aux yeux bleus et aux cheveux blonds de l’actrice, a ainsi indigné des utilisateurs en ligne qui y ont vu une connotation raciste. American Eagle : la Maison Blanche se mêle à la polémique sur les « jeans » de Sydney Sweeney « “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” a toujours été et restera consacré aux jeans. Ses jeans. Son histoire. Nous continuerons à célébrer la façon dont chacun porte ses jeans American Eagle avec confiance, à sa manière. Les beaux jeans vont bien à tout le monde », indique la marque américaine dans un post publié sur Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by American Eagle (@americaneagle) Il faut néanmoins bien dire que celle qui s’est révélée dans Euphoria joue particulièrement autour de la double prononciation du mot « jeans » durant le spot publicitaire. « Les gènes sont transmis des parents à leurs enfants et déterminent souvent des caractéristiques telles que la couleur des cheveux, la personnalité et même la couleur des yeux. Mes gènes sont bleus », affirme notamment Sydney Sweeney, vêtue d’un ensemble en jean, dans l’un des spots les plus relayés. « L’hostilité envers la fin américaine traditionnelle »Du côté des conservateurs américains en revanche, cette publicité a été chantée comme le signe de la « fin du wokisme », avec la mise en avant d’une femme blonde et blanche aux standards de beauté plus traditionnels. PUBLICITÉLa Maison-Blanche a ainsi elle-même réagi à cette polémique, par l’intermédiaire du directeur de la communication de la Maison Blanche, Steven Cheung. « La “cancel culture” part en vrille. Cette pensée libérale déformée, stupide et fermée d’esprit est l’une des grandes raisons pour lesquelles les Américains ont voté comme ils l’ont fait en 2024. Ils en ont marre de ces conneries », a-t-il écrit sur son compte X. Le vice-président J.D. Vance s’est également exprimé sur le sujet, dans le podcast conservateur Ruthless. « Mon conseil politique aux Démocrates est de continuer à dire que tous ceux qui trouvent Sydney Sweeney séduisante sont des nazis », a-t-il affirmé. « Une grande partie des démocrates est orientée vers l’hostilité envers la vie américaine traditionnelle. Vous avez une jolie fille qui fait une publicité pour des jeans, et ils ne peuvent s’empêcher de paniquer. Cela en dit beaucoup sur eux », complète-t-il. Ou comment des jeans lambda déchaînent les passions politiques. Donald Trump veut virer la cheffe des statistiques car elle aurait « truqué les chiffres de l’emploi » pour le dénigrer Laura Loomer, l’influenceuse d’extrême droite pro-Trump qui peut bousculer l’administration en un seul tweet

Un nouveau doute plane sur la mort (le suicide) de Jeffrey Epstein. Une longue enquête de CBS News sur les images de vidéosurveillance de la prison fédérale de Manhattan à New York révèle des contradictions troublantes entre ce que montrent réellement les vidéos et les déclarations des autorités américaines. En août 2019, peu après le décès du financier accusé de trafic sexuel, l’ex-ministre de la Justice William Barr affirmait que la vidéo de surveillance prouvait qu’aucune personne n’était entrée dans la zone où il était détenu, confortant ainsi la thèse officielle du suicide. Mais CBS souligne que la caméra ne montre ni l’accès principal du quartier d’isolement ni la porte de la cellule de Jeffrey Epstein, ce qui laisse ouverte la possibilité de mouvements hors champ. Une forme orange aperçue dans un escalierL’enregistrement, diffusé par le FBI en mai dernier, dure près de 11 heures, mais les experts interrogés par la chaîne américaine relèvent plusieurs anomalies : le fichier ressemble à une capture d’écran plutôt qu’à un export brut du système de vidéosurveillance et présente une minute manquante juste avant minuit. Cette coupure, absente du rapport officiel, s’accompagne d’un léger changement de cadrage, laissant penser que deux séquences distinctes ont pu être assemblées. PUBLICITÉDes images soulèvent également des questions d’interprétation. Selon CBS, vers 22h40, une forme orange est aperçue dans l’escalier menant à l’étage du milliardaire. Le rapport officiel y voit un ag(...) Lire la suite sur 20minutes À lire aussi : Affaire Epstein : Trump affirme avoir banni le milliardaire de Mar-a-Lago car il s’est « comporté comme un tordu » Affaire Epstein : L’ancien avocat de Trump interroge Ghislaine Maxwell, la complice du milliardaire

L'Américain moyen consomme environ 45 kilos d'huiles de graines par an, un chiffre 1 000 fois supérieur à celui des années 1950. Ce changement dans les habitudes alimentaires coïncide avec une augmentation significative des cancers du côlon chez les moins de 50 ans, un phénomène qui pourrait s'accélérer de 90 % d'ici 2030 dans certaines tranches d'âge. C'est ce qui a amené une étude américaine à voir le jour. Ces huiles pourraient favoriser une forme agressive de cancer colorectalElle met en lumière un lien potentiel entre la consommation d'huiles de graines, comme celles de tournesol, de canola, de maïs ou de pépins de raisin, et l'augmentation des cancers du côlon chez les jeunes. Les chercheurs ont découvert que ces huiles, déjà associées à l'inflammation, pourraient également favoriser une forme agressive de cancer colorectal. En France, l'huile de tournesol est la plus consommée. L'étude, menée sur des échantillons tumoraux de 81 patients âgés de 30 à 85 ans, a révélé des niveaux élevés de lipides bioactifs dans les tumeurs. Ces composés gras, produits lors de la décomposition des huiles de graines par l'organisme, contribuent à l'inflammation et affaiblissent la capacité du corps à combattre les tumeurs. Les chercheurs suggèrent de privilégier des huiles riches en acides gras oméga-3, comme celles d'olive ou d'avocat, pour réduire ces risques. Une consommation excessive est néfasteBien que des institutions comme l'American (...)Lire la suite sur Top SantéAttention, les personnes qui mangent trop de fruits risquent ... "Chat GPT a réussi à me faire perdre 27 kg en 6 mois : le matin, il m'a conseillé cet aliment malin" Que manger avant de courir pour booster vos performances selon un expert Ces 5 tisanes peuvent interagir avec des médicaments, alertent les diététiciennes Dans 9 cas sur 10, ce symptôme annonce un cancer de la vessie : "Il faut consulter dés qu'il apparaît"

Des signalements visant la ministre de la Culture Rachida Dati, concernant des bijoux, GDF Suez et un outrage à magistrat, sont à l'analyse par le parquet de Paris et le Parquet national financier, a-t-on appris vendredi auprès du parquet et de source judiciaire. Le dernier signalement a été transmis fin juillet par le militant écologiste anticorruption de Grenoble Raymond Avrillier, après une violente charge de la ministre contre les magistrats qui ont ordonné qu'elle soit jugée notamment pour corruption aux côtés de l'ancien patron de Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn. "L'opprobre jetée publiquement"Dans ce signalement pour "outrage à magistrat en tentant de porter atteinte à la dignité et au respect dû à la fonction", révélé vendredi par Le Monde et que l'AFP a pu consulter, M. Avrillier vise des propos tenus le 22 juillet sur la chaîne LCI par Mme Dati. PUBLICITÉLa ministre y vilipende "des magistrats qui refusent de faire leur travail conformément évidemment au code de procédure", qui "marchent" sur les droits de la défense et perpétueraient des "atteintes graves" à ces droits. Sollicité par l'AFP, un des conseils de Mme Dati, Me Olivier Pardo, a exprimé son "étonnement" au sujet de ce signalement. Ces propos virulents de l'ancienne garde des Sceaux ont suscité l'indignation des magistrats, le président du tribunal judiciaire de Paris Peimane Ghaleh-Marz dénonçant "l'opprobre jetée publiquement" sur leur profession. Ce signalement est "à l'analyse", a indiqué à l'AFP le parquet de Paris, qui a également confirmé que des signalements concernant des bijoux présumés non déclarés faisaient "l'objet d'une analyse du parquet en lien avec la HATVP", la Haute autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique. 420 000 euros omisDeux signalements sur le même sujet ont été transmis après que le quotidien Libération a affirmé en avril que la ministre avait omis 19 pièces de joaillerie, pour un montant total de 420 000 euros, détenues depuis 2017, dans sa déclaration de patrimoine à la HATVP. PUBLICITÉL'un a été transmis le 18 juin par M. Avrillier et l'autre le 26 juin par l'élu socialiste et sénateur parisien Rémi Féraud. Mme Dati a assuré début mai n'avoir "rien à régulariser" dans sa déclaration de patrimoine. Le troisième sujet de signalement concerne une enquête de L'Obs et de Complément d'enquête (France 2) d'après laquelle Mme Dati aurait perçu 299 000 euros d'"honoraires" non déclarés de GDF Suez en 2010-2011 quand elle était eurodéputée et avocate. Article original publié sur BFMTV.com

Une petite phrase très commentée. En interview avec la chaîne Newsmax, Donald Trump a abordé de nombreux sujets, de sa façon de gérer les États-Unis aux conflits mondiaux. Mais c’est une petite phrase qui fait aujourd’hui parler. Le président américain de 79 ans a en effet dit tout le bien qu’il pense de sa jeune porte-parole à la Maison-Blanche, Karoline Leavitt, âgée de 27 ans. Fidèle soutien de Donald Trump, dont elle suit parfaitement la ligne directrice, la jeune femme a été qualifiée de « star » par ce dernier. Il faut dire qu’elle ne rate jamais une occasion de faire polémique, à l’image des déclarations souvent tapageuses de son patron. Les Français se souviennent notamment de cette passe d’armes entre Raphaël Glucksmann – qui souhaitait récupérer la Statue de la Liberté – et elle en mars dernier. Au politicien, elle avait sèchement répliqué : « Nous n’allons pas la rendre. Mon conseil à ce politicien français de bas niveau, dont je ne citerai pas le nom, serait de lui rappeler que c’est uniquement grâce aux États-Unis d’Amérique que les Français ne parlent pas allemand aujourd’hui. » La description de Donald Trump Un caractère fort qui semble donc particulièrement convenir à Donald Trump. Sur Newsmax, il a cité ses nombreuses qualités. « C’est ce visage, c’est ce cerveau » a-t-il d’abord déclaré. Avant de tenter d’autres compliments : « Ce sont ces lèvres, la façon dont elles bougent… ». Une petite phrase vivement commentée sur les réseaux sociaux par les opp... Lire la suite sur ParisMatch

« Un million de billets… dans un pays de 129 millions d’habitants ! » La chanteuse Shakira a battu un record en vendant un nombre ahurissant de places au Mexique pour sa tournée mondiale « Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran » (« Les femmes ne pleurent plus »), a annoncé le promoteur mexicain OCESA le jeudi 31 juillet dans un communiqué cité par le magazine américain Billboard. « C’était déjà la plus grande tournée de l’histoire du Mexique, mais là, c’est un tout autre niveau », a insisté le promoteur dans une publication sur Instagram. S’il se félicite du « chiffre sans précédent » de vente de billets, OCESA souligne par ailleurs « le record historique » que représentent les « douze dates à guichets fermés » dans l’Estadio GNP Seguros, un stade de Mexico qui peut accueillir jusqu’à 65 000 personnes. À Las Vegas, Beyoncé reforme les Destiny’s Child pour la dernière date de sa tournée « Cowboy Carter » « Est-ce qu’ils comptent changer le nom du stade pour le rebaptiser Stade Shakira ? », s’est amusé un internaute face à l’ampleur du succès de la chanteuse colombienne. Le chiffre d’un million de billets vendus n’est pas dû qu’aux seuls concerts à Mexico mais aux 28 shows au total que la superstar va donner dans le pays d’Amérique latine. View this post on Instagram A post shared by OCESA (@ocesa) Comme le rappelle Bilboard, les ventes avaient très bien commencé en mars avec sept concerts consécutifs à guichets fermés dans l’Estadio GNP Seguros. Il avait alors fallu rajouter six autres dates à la fin août et en septembre pour combler les attentes des fans. Ce sont ces dates supplémentaires prévues face à l’affluence qui ont permis à la chanteuse d’être la première de l’histoire du stade à atteindre les douze shows au total, pulvérisant le record précédent détenu par le Grupo Firme, un groupe mexicain régional qui avait donné neuf concerts. PUBLICITÉ La chanteuse de Lulu Van Trapp termine son concert seins nus pour protester après une agression sexuelle L’affaire de la « kiss cam » au concert de Coldplay a aussi des retombées positives, du moins pour le groupe

Aux Etats-Unis, quatre personnes ont été tuées vendredi matin lors d’une fusillade au Owl Bar d’Anaconda, dans l’ouest du Montana, a annoncé la Montana Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) dans un communiqué, repris par CNN. Le suspect, Michael Paul Brown, est activement recherché et considéré comme « armé et dangereux » par les autorités. La police locale d’Anaconda-Deer Lodge County a publié un message sur Facebook appelant les habitants à éviter la zone et à ne surtout pas approcher l’homme. « Nous suivons de près la situation impliquant un tireur actif à Anaconda », a indiqué le gouverneur du Montana Greg Gianforte sur X. De son côté, le membre du Congrès Ryan Zinke a exhorté les résidents à « rester à l’intérieur et verrouiller leurs portes ». Les circonstances du drame pas encore connuesL’attaque s’est produite vers 10h30 heure locale au sein de ce bar du centre-ville. Selon la DCI, les lieux sont désormais sécurisés, mais les circonstances exactes du drame ne sont pas encore connues. Le suspect a été identifié par Chase Scheuer, porte-parole du département de la Justice du Montana, qui a confirmé à CNN que Michael Paul Brown était bien la personne recherchée. PUBLICITÉL’enquête mobilise d’importants moyens : le FBI, le bureau de l’ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) de Denver ainsi que le sheriff du comté de Granite épaulent les forces locales pour tenter de localiser l’homme. Lire la suite sur 20minutes À lire aussi : Etats-Unis : Un ancien chef de police incarcéré pour meurtre et viol s’évade de prison Etats-Unis : L’homme soupçonné d’avoir abattu un couple de randonneurs est un instit, il a été arrêté chez le coiffeur

Surprise ! A quelques mois de la naissance de leur premier enfant ensemble, Marlène Schiappa et son compagnon Matthias Savignac se sont dit « oui ». L’ancienne ministre s’est saisie de son compte Instagram ce samedi 2 août pour annoncer l’heureuse nouvelle à ses quelque 80 000 abonnés. Un mariage qui s’est tenu en tout petit comité en Sicile, trois ans après un coup de foudre new-yorkais. En guise de faire-part, Marlène Schiappa a dévoilé une première photo de sa main et de celle de son époux, ornées de leurs nouvelles alliances. Le couple a choisi des bagues assorties, qui pourraient bien être le modèle « Trinity » de chez Cartier en or jaune, or gris et or rose. « Avec cet anneau, je promets d’être fidèle, de t’honorer et de t’aimer chaque jour de ma vie : dans la joie et dans la douleur, dans la richesse ou la pauvreté, dans la maladie et dans la santé », a écrit la mariée, reprenant un passage de ses voeux. Une photo qui laisse voir également sa tenue : une robe blanche aux détails en dentelle. « Nous nous sommes mariés en Sicile dans la plus stricte intimité, avec un immense bonheur et une grande émotion », a ajouté celle qui a des origines italiennes de par sa mère, en plus d'être Corse de par son père. Une autre photo montre que les jeunes mariés ont célébré leur union en toute simplicité dans un restaurant sicilien, autour de cocktails. Une journée riche en émotion vécue près de trois mois avant un autre grand moment, la naissance de leur premier enfant ensembl... Lire la suite sur ParisMatch

If you want a Covid shot this fall, will your employer’s health insurance plan pay for it? There’s no clear answer. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has upended the way Covid vaccines are approved and for whom they’re recommended, creating uncertainty where coverage was routine. Agencies within HHS responsible for spelling out who should get vaccinated aren’t necessarily in sync, issuing seemingly contradictory recommendations based on age or risk factors for serious disease. But the ambiguity may not affect your coverage, at least this year. “I think in 2025 it’s highly likely that the employer plans will cover” the Covid vaccines, said Dr. Jeff Levin-Scherz, a primary care doctor who is the population health leader for the management consultancy WTW and an assistant professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They’ve already budgeted for it, “and it would be a large administrative effort to try to exclude coverage for those not at increased risk,” he said. With so much in flux, it’s important to check with your employer or insurer about coverage policies before you roll up your sleeve. Here’s what we know so far, and what remains unclear. How have the recommendations changed?What used to be straightforward is now much murkier. Last year, the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccines were recommended for anyone at least 6 months old. This year, the recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is narrower. Although the vaccines are broadly recommended for adults 19 and older, they are no longer recommended for healthy pregnant people or for healthy children 6 months through 17 years old. Kennedy announced the changes in a video in May, citing safety risks for young people and pregnant people as justification. But his claims have been widely disputed by experts in vaccines, pediatrics, and women’s health. An analysis by FactCheck.org found that the secretary “misrepresented scientific research to make unfounded claims about vaccine safety for pregnant people and children.” In addition, recently announced changes to the vaccine approval framework have further chipped away at eligibility. Moderna announced July 10 that the Food and Drug Administration had fully approved its Spikevax Covid vaccine — but approval is restricted to adults 65 and older, and for people from 6 months through 64 years old who are at increased risk of developing a serious case of Covid. Two other Covid vaccines expected to be available this fall, Novavax’s Nuvaxovid and Moderna’s mNexspike, are also restricted. They are approved for people 65 or older and those 12 to 64 who have underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of developing severe Covid. Notably, Pfizer’s Comirnaty Covid vaccine is still approved or authorized for people 6 months of age and older without any restrictions based on risk factors for Covid — at least for now. But the FDA could change that at any time, experts said. Increasing restrictions “is definitely the direction they are moving,” said Jen Kates, a senior vice president at KFF who authored a KFF analysis of vaccine insurance coverage rules. KFF is a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News. HHS did not provide an on-the-record comment for this article. How might these changes alter my insurance coverage for the vaccine? That’s the big question, and the answer is uncertain. Without insurance coverage, people could owe hundreds of dollars for the shot. Most private health plans are required by law to cover recommended vaccines, whether for Covid, measles, or the flu, without charging their members. But that requirement kicks in after the shots are recommended by a federal panel — the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — and adopted by the CDC director, according to the KFF analysis. The committee hasn’t yet voted on Covid vaccine recommendations for this fall. Its next meeting is expected to occur in August or September. Still, employers and insurers can opt to cover the vaccines on their own, as many did before the law required them to do so. But they may require people to pay something for it. In addition, the narrower recommendations from different HHS agencies might result in some health plans declining to pay for certain categories of people to get certain vaccines, experts said. “I don’t think an employer or insurer would deny coverage,” Kates said. “But they could say: You have to get this product.” That could mean a 45-year-old with no underlying health conditions raising their covid risk might have to get the Pfizer shot rather than the Moderna version if they want their health plan to pay for it, experts said. In addition, up to 200 million people may qualify for the vaccines because they have health conditions such as asthma or diabetes that increase their risk of severe disease, according to a commentary published by FDA officials in the New England Journal of Medicine. Health care professionals can help people determine whether they qualify for the shot based on health conditions. Tina Stow, a spokesperson for AHIP, which represents health plans, said in a statement that plans will continue to follow federal requirements for vaccine coverage. What are the options for people who are pregnant or have children they want to have vaccinated?Many parents are confused about getting their kids vaccinated, according to an Aug. 1 KFF poll. About half say they don’t know whether federal agencies recommend healthy children get the vaccine this fall. Among the other half, more say the vaccine is not recommended than recommended. Meanwhile, Kennedy’s recommendation that healthy children not get vaccinated has a notable caveat: If a parent wishes a child to get a Covid vaccine and a health care provider recommends it, the child can receive it under the “shared clinical decision-making” model, and it should be covered without cost sharing. Some policy experts point out that this is the way care for kids is typically provided anyway. “Outside of any requirements, vaccines have always been provided through shared decision-making,” said Amanda Jezek, senior vice president of public policy and government relations at the Infectious Diseases Society of America. There’s no similar allowance for pregnant people. However, even though Kennedy has stated that Covid vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy pregnant people, pregnancy is one of the underlying medical conditions that put people at high risk for getting very sick from Covid, according to the CDC. That could make pregnant people eligible for the shot. Depending on the stage of someone’s pregnancy, it could be difficult to know whether someone should be denied the shot based on their condition. “This is uncharted territory,” said Sabrina Corlette, co-director of Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. How will these changes affect access to the vaccine? Will I still be able to go to the pharmacy for the shot?“If far fewer are expected to be vaccinated, fewer sites will offer the vaccinations,” Levin-Scherz said. This could be an especially notable hurdle for people looking for pediatric doses of a covid vaccine, he said. In addition, pharmacists’ authority to administer vaccines depends on several factors. For example, in some states they can administer shots that have been approved by the FDA, while in others the shots must have been recommended by the ACIP, said Hannah Fish, senior director of strategic initiatives at the National Community Pharmacists Association. Since ACIP hasn’t yet recommended covid shots for the fall, that could create a speed bump in some states. “Depending on the rules, you still may be able to get the shot at the pharmacy, but they might have to call the physician to send over a prescription,” Fish said. What do these changes mean long-term?It’s impossible to know. But given Kennedy’s vocal skepticism of vaccines and his embrace of long-disproven theories about connections between vaccines and autism, among other things, medical and public health professionals are concerned those views will shape future policies. “The recommendation changes that were made with respect to children and pregnant women were not necessarily made in good science,” Corlette said. It’s already a challenge to convince people they need annual covid shots, and shifting guidelines may make it tougher, some public health experts warn. “What’s concerning is that this could even further depress the uptake of the covid vaccines,” Jezek said. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

Summer heat, outdoor fun ... and cold and flu symptoms? The three may not go together in many people's minds: partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have lower activity levels in the summer. But it is possible to get the sniffles — or worse — in the summer. Federal data released Friday, for example, shows COVID-19 is trending up in many parts of the country, with emergency department visits up among people of all ages. Here's what to know about summer viruses. How much are colds and flu circulating right now? The number of people seeking medical care for three key illnesses — COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV — is currently low, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu is trending down and RSV was steady this week. But COVID-19 is trending up in many mid-Atlantic, southeast, Southern and West Coast states. The expectation is that COVID-19 will eventually settle into a winter seasonal pattern like other coronaviruses, but the past few years have brought a late summer surge, said Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at University of California Davis Children’s Hospital. Other viruses circulating this time of year include the one that causes “hand, foot and mouth” disease — which has symptoms similar to a cold, plus sores and rashes — and norovirus, sometimes called the stomach flu. Do viruses spread less in the summer? Many viruses circulate seasonally, picking up as the weather cools in the fall and winter. So it's true that fewer people get stuffy noses and coughs in the summer — but cold weather itself does not cause colds. It's not just about seasonality. The other factor is our behavior, experts say. Nice weather means people are opening windows and gathering outside where it's harder for germs to spread. But respiratory viruses are still around. When the weather gets too hot and everyone heads inside for the air conditioning, doctors say they start seeing more sickness. In places where it gets really hot for a long time, summer can be cold season in its own right. “I grew up on the East Coast and everybody gets sick in the winter,” said Dr. Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room doctor and Arizona State University researcher. “A lot of people get sick in the summer here. Why is that? Because you spend more time indoors.” Should you get another COVID-19 booster now? For people who are otherwise healthy, timing is a key consideration to getting any vaccine. You want to get it a few weeks before that big trip or wedding, if that's the reason for getting boosted, doctors say. But, for most people, it may be worth waiting until the fall in anticipation of winter cases of COVID-19 really tick up. “You want to be fully protected at the time that it's most important for you,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, of the University of Virginia Health System. People at higher risk of complications should always talk with their doctor about what is best for them, Sifri added. Older adults and those with weak immune systems may need more boosters than others, he said. Are more younger kids getting sick with COVID-19? Last week, the CDC noted emergency room visits among children younger than 4 were rising. That makes sense, Blumberg said, because many young kids are getting it for the first time or are unvaccinated. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in May that the shots would no longer be recommended for healthy kids, a decision that health experts have said lacks scientific basis. The American Academy of Pediatrics still endorses COVID-19 shots for children older than 6 months. How else can I lower my risk? The same things that help prevent colds, flu and COVID any other time of the year work in the summer, doctors say. Spend time outside when you can, wash your hands, wear a mask. And if you're sick, stay home. ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration got some ugly jobs numbers today — so the president fired the official in charge of those numbers, posing the ominous possibility that such numbers will be altered to Trump’s liking in the future. What happened? On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which is part of the Labor Department, released its latest employment numbers, and the news wasn’t good for the US economy. The US added 73,000 jobs in July, which was well below the 100,000 jobs economists had expected. But, even worse, the previously released jobs reports from May and June were revised dramatically downward. It turns out that, in those two months combined, the US added 258,000 fewer jobs than the BLS had initially thought. How did Trump react? Subsequent revisions to initial calculations are a normal and longstanding part of the messy process of collecting real-world economic data. But Trump has long insisted they are part of a politicized plot against him. When BLS released similar downward revisions in August 2024, Trump complained that the Biden administration was “caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America.” Now, in a Truth Social post this afternoon, Trump announced he would fire BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Trump deemed McEntarfer an untrustworthy “Biden appointee” (she was a career civil servant). He asserted that she “faked” the 2024 jobs numbers to help Biden and “RIGGED” the new job numbers to hurt Republicans. Will Trump cook jobs numbers in the future? This would seem to create an incentive for the next BLS commissioner to either “adjust” the jobs numbers to Trump’s liking — or be fired. Politicization of economic data is something that typically happens in authoritarian regimes or economic basket cases, and it would be a grim trend if it started happening here. That may be difficult to pull off in practice, though. “I don’t think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures,” Harvard economist Jason Furman wrote on X, though he acknowledged “there is now a risk.” Furthermore, there are many other economic statistics collected by the federal government, states, and businesses — so any effort to cover up the state of the US economy will be doomed to fail. (Which is why Trump’s initial conspiracy theories about the BLS under Biden made no sense.) What’s the bigger picture? Trump is continuing in his push to politicize every inch of the federal government — in keeping with the right-wing insistence that nonpartisan, technocratic experts can’t be trusted because they’re all liberals. Experts aren’t perfect — but if they get purged from the government, we’ll miss them when they’re gone. And with that, it’s time to log off…Tired of reading about corruption in the American government? Check out this report by the Wall Street Journal’s Hannah Miao about the “criminal enterprise of monkeys” robbing tourists blind in Bali. The monkeys have figured out that some human items, like phones, are more valuable and can be accordingly bartered back for more food. That is, they understand leverage and are skilled at the shakedown. Sound familiar?

Young Republicans are split over the future of the party, with two warring factions seeking to position themselves as the true MAGA warriors ahead of a weekend vote for control of the party’s youth arm. On Saturday, young party members will converge in Nashville, where they’ll decide between two slates to lead the Young Republican National Federation: Grow YR, led by current YRNF Chair Hayden Padgett, and the insurgent Restore YR campaign, led by New York State Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta. The brawl between the two slates is both personal — including interpersonal clashes and squabbles over hotel loyalty points and committee assignments — and ideological, with both sides looking to prove their loyalty to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. But the fight is also a microcosm of a schism ready to burst in the party at large, which is already delicately trying to chart a course for its post-Trump future. “The fact that [Young Republicans are] divided over something like this — what type of work we should be doing — says a lot about what the potential implications are for 2026 and 2028,” said Giunta, who emphasized the importance of party unity. “In 2028, it's really about fighting for what the future identity of the party looks like in a post-Trump era.” Restore YR, which is seeking to unseat the current leadership in an effort to “restore trust, opportunity, and unity,” has won the endorsements of hardcore MAGA firebrands like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), longtime Trump ally and convicted felon Roger Stone, Florida GOP Chair Evan Power, and Turning Point Action Chief Operating Officer Tyler Bowyer, who was one of several “fake electors” in Arizona in 2020. Stone, who served as Young Republican National Federation chair from 1977 to 1979, said he endorsed the Restore YR slate “simply because they are most closely aligned with President Trump and the America First Movement within the Republican Party.” While YRNF has never been a backbone of the GOP’s fundraising efforts, its 14,000-some foot soldiers have long served a vital role in ground game efforts for Republican campaigns, and the organization has produced some of the party’s most dedicated advocates, with more than a dozen alumni currently serving in Congress. “The YRs are the boots on the ground,” said California Young Republicans Chair Ariana Assenmacher, who is running for co-chair on the Restore YR slate. “We're the youth movement of the party, and so for us to be able to go into ’26 with a clear game plan of what congressional and Senate seats we're going to be focusing on, what statewide races we're going to be focusing on, we need to make sure that we are giving the president and the administration as much support as possible." In June, Giunta — who leads the Restore YR challengers — shared a litany of complaints about Padgett and his board’s leadership with the White House, alleging the incumbent YRNF administration had shown insufficient support for the president and, at times, secretly worked to undermine him. The White House and the Republican National Committee have opted not to weigh in on the race. Spokespeople for both declined to comment. The document accused Padgett of attempting to “strong-arm” state federations out of endorsing Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary after a straw poll facilitated by YRNF leadership in August 2023 showed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the leading candidate among young Republicans, and a mock caucus held in November of that year revealed support for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. (One of Padgett’s vice chairs previously led the group Students for Nikki Haley.) It also accused YRNF, under Padgett’s leadership, of platforming “Trump haters” and fabricating tweets by Giunta purporting to show his opposition to Trump. Giunta threatened legal action against Padgett for orchestrating what he described as a smear campaign, which Padgett denies. The current leadership of YRNF denies undermining the Trump campaign or administration, with the organization’s national political director Blake delCarmen telling POLITICO that Padgett and his slate “stand unequivocally with President Trump’s agenda, no ifs, ands, or buts.” “The Grow YR Slate strongly rejects the baseless accusations leveled against us,” delCarmen said. “These claims are false and serve only to distract from our proven record of leadership, growth, and unwavering support for President Trump and the conservative agenda.” Grow YR has been endorsed by half of the national federation’s state organizations, but the decision over which slate to endorse has also trickled down into bitter fights in some of the nation’s biggest states. In Ohio, for example, one local chapter denounced the state leadership for voting to endorse the Grow YR slate without consulting county chapter leaders. In a statement, the local chapter, which represents Wayne and Medina counties in the Cleveland metropolitan area, called Grow YR “a reductive group of individuals largely out of step with the conservative movement as a whole,” attacking Ohio Young Republicans Chair Cody Pettit and his board as “a pack of RINOs.” Pettit said in a statement that “YRNF under the leadership of the Grow YR Tickets has offered real progress for the national organization,” touting the organization’s fundraising and organizing successes. The Wisconsin Young Republicans, which has also pledged its delegates to the Grow YR slate, threatened to suspend delegates who support “any candidate or slate of candidates that is opposing a previously endorsed candidate or slate of candidates for any YRNF National Board position.” “Over the last two years, the YRNF has achieved record fundraising, unprecedented membership growth, and historic victories for Republicans across the country,” Wisconsin Young Republicans Chair Kyle Schroeder said in a statement. California and Florida’s state federations, which endorsed Grow YR in 2023, have now endorsed Restore YR, and Texas — Padgett’s home state — is largely supporting his challengers as well. Nearly two-thirds of the state’s delegates, who are not bound to vote for the slate endorsed by their state federation, are supporting Restore YR. Texas Young Republicans Chair Derrick Wilson, who is supporting the Grow YR slate, dismissed the battle as “more personal pettiness than policy.” Still, Padgett is confident his slate will leave Nashville victorious and that voters will elect him to a second term as national chair. “If you look at the scorecard that you measure an administration on, we’re hitting records on every single metric,” Padgett said in an interview. “And so our pitch is, let’s double down on that. Let’s not pivot directions and return ourselves to some ill-conceived or vague task, let’s keep going forward in this upward momentum and see where that takes us.” Even so, the race could be a harbinger for further GOP infighting. While Trump is still a kingmaker in conservative politics, operatives and candidates are already positioning themselves to try to shape the party in 2028 and beyond — where another wide-open, messy primary could break out over who gets to inherit the MAGA mantle. “I think Republicans need to make sure that we are in lockstep and that there's no infighting when it comes to 2028,” said Assenmacher, the California chair. “Trump is not going to be the candidate there, so we're going to need to unite behind somebody, and it's going to take the youth behind them to support that.”