This month, the dam finally broke on college athletes getting paid as the NCAA scaled back its rules. But as some athletes cash in on that shift, a growing number of young basketball players are forgoing college and even high school to play in upstart professional leagues.
The narrower label means the drug might be offered to 1 million or 2 million Alzheimer’s patients, rather than the more than 6 million people with Alzheimer’s in the United States.
Weeks before an eviction moratorium put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expires on July 31, much of the federal aid meant to help tenants and landlords has not reached them.
Washington Post gardening columnist Adrian Higgins recently took questions in an online chat. Here is an edited excerpt.
When we don’t have the energy to cook, these frozen meals are our go-to fallbacks.
The role of the sticky substance in the brain has long divided researchers and is at the forefront again amid the FDA’s recent clearance of the first drug to treat the disease in almost two decades.
The news is likely to be seen as a good sign for the economy more than one year into the pandemic, after numerous wrinkles have emerged to complicate a labor recovery many hoped would be faster at this level of vaccinations.
The federal government issued rules Thursday to shield Americans from large, unexpected medical bills after patients wind up in emergency rooms or receive other care they did not realize lay outside their insurance networks.
A Gallup poll taken between October and April found that 40% of white-collar workers would prefer to continue working remotely as much as possible, while 21% would rather return to the office (and 29% were not working remotely, while the rest didn’t want to go back because of coronavirus concerns).
The package provides $343 billion for roads, bridges and safety programs, $109 billion for transit agencies and $95 billion for rail. It also includes $117 billion for drinking water programs and $51 billion for wastewater infrastructure.
Swimming pools can be the best place to be when you’re outside; they’re a great luxury and a place to keep fit.
The support line for individual income tax returns received about 85 million calls, with only about 3% reaching a customer service representative, according to the taxpayer advocate report.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said he was proud that Congress reconvened the night of Jan. 6 to certify Joe Biden’s win even after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which left five people dead.
The White House replaced the regulator who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the Supreme Court ruled that the leadership structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency was unconstitutional.
Data presented to advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adds to recent findings of rare cases of myocarditis—inflammation of the heart muscle—after the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
From February 2020 through January, Medicaid enrollment climbed nationwide by 9.7 million, according to a report based on the most recent available data.
Critics have blasted the approval of Aduhelm, saying the drug—with a list price of $56,000 a year per patient—offers false hope while threatening Medicare’s financial health and patients’ pocketbooks.
If you’re one of the more than 58,000 followers of the Afrominimalist on Instagram, then you know that Platt has not only cleared closets, but she has also found a way to infuse her 630-square-foot apartment with a version of minimalism that includes color, texture and the rich history of the African diaspora.
This tendency to push off sleep – for 10 minutes, and then 15 or 30 more, even with a looming nonnegotiable wake-up call – has a name: revenge bedtime procrastination.
The Federal Reserve expects inflation will climb to 3.4% this year, higher than the central bank’s previous forecasts, and projected for the first time that there could be two interest rate hikes in 2023.
