| | | | | | A study says many over-the-counter dietary supplements, particularly those for sexual enhancement and weight loss, are tainted with undisclosed ingredients. | | | | | | Chicago's famed alt-weekly is expected to become a nonprofit this month after the sale was nearly derailed over a co-owner's column opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children. The Chicago Reader's sale was on track to be sold to the new nonprofit last year until the November printing of defense attorney Leonard Goodman's column headlined "Vaxxing our kids" prompted allegations of misinformation and censorship. Goodman agreed to step aside in late April, allowing the sale to go through. Still, the standoff among the alt-weekly's managers left staff members in limbo for months, wondering if the Reader would be shut down. | | | | | | SUNDAY, May 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- College basketball player Joey Liedel suffered years of debilitating hip pain that limited his ability to play. | | | | | | Ten of millions of people in the United States opted for mail ballots during the pandemic election of 2020. This year, voters in the early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting. In Georgia, about 85,000 voters have requested mail ballots for the May 24 primary. That's a dramatic decrease from the nearly 1 million who cast mail ballots in the state's 2020 primary at the height of the pandemic. Early in-person voting in the state is shattering records. The trend away from mailed ballots is seen in Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, which also have held early primaries. | | | | | | Australia's embattled prime minister has officially launched his conservative party's campaign less than a week before elections, highlighting the nation's early success in containing the pandemic and its strong economic recovery. Prime Minister Scott Morrison's coalition trails the center-left Labor Party opposition in most opinion polls as the administration seeks a rare fourth three-year term at elections on Saturday. Morrison on Sunday focused the party launch on economic management, which has traditionally been regarded as the strength of his conservative Liberal Party. He described the election as "a choice between a strong economy or a weaker one that only makes your life harder, not better." | | | | | | Shanghai officials say they will allow some businesses to reopen Monday, even while it remains unclear whether residents will be able to leave their homes. Those businesses include supermarkets, agricultural markets and restaurants. City residents are waiting cautiously to see how the new measures will actually play out. Although the city's official total lockdown began at the end of March, many have been stuck in their homes for longer. Shanghai officials have previously said the city of 25 million people would reopen in a limited way, only for restrictions to return even as cases wane. | | | | | | Dr. Scott Jensen, a skeptic of the government's response to COVID-19, has won the Minnesota GOP's endorsement to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in the November election. After a wild ride, Jensen went over the top on the ninth ballot with 65% of the vote. Jensen led on the first two ballots, then regained the lead on the seventh ballot. Jensen's comeback ended a surge by business executive Kendall Qualls, who fell to 33% on the final ballot after taking the lead on the fourth. Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann says he does not expect Jensen to face a serious challenge in the Aug. 9 primary, | | | | | | After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal. Or at least Cannes' very particular brand of normal, where for 12 days formal wear and film mingle in sun-dappled splendor, standing ovations stretch for minutes on end and director names like "Kore-eda" and "Denis" are spoken with hushed reverence. This year's festival, which starts Tuesday, features the star power of Tom Cruise, a splashy new Elvis Presley biopic and a long-list of world-renown auteurs. | | | | | | |
