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Most Americans have had one or more shots of the flu and Covid vaccines. New this year are the first shots to protect older adults and infants from respiratory syncytial virus, a lesser-known threat whose toll in hospitalizations and deaths may rival that of flu.Federal health officials are hoping that widespread adoption of these immunizations will head off another “tripledemic” of respiratory illnesses, like the one seen last winter. For people with insurance, all of the vaccines should be available for free.“This is an embarrassment of riches,” said Dr. Ofer Levy, director of the precision vaccines program at Boston Children’s…

The U.S. economy continued to produce sturdy employment growth in July, but showed definite signs of cooling alongside the Federal Reserve’s battle to suppress inflation.American employers added 187,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday, a figure that exceeded the flow of people entering the labor market. The unemployment rate sank back to 3.5 percent, near a record low.The report shows that most people who want to work can find jobs, keeping upward pressure on wages. But with a revision of the June increase, it was the second straight month of gains below 200,000 — a figure that…

Fictionalized shows drawn from real life don’t always satisfy the people depicted. But when the subjects are superstars accustomed to speaking for themselves, their criticism can take on a life of its own.That’s what happened after the first season of HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” which returns for a second season on Sunday. A dramatic series based on the journalist Jeff Pearlman’s book “Showtime,” its first season recounted the dawn of the legendary Los Angeles Lakers teams of the 1980s — known as the Showtime Lakers — under their swashbuckling and womanizing new owner, Jerry Buss…

In the days since the United States team narrowly avoided an embarrassing early elimination from the Women’s World Cup, Lindsey Horan, its co-captain, has been working the room.Horan wants a word, with many of the team’s veterans but especially the 14 World Cup rookies. So she has been tapping teammates on their shoulders and knocking on their hotel room doors and pulling them aside in training. Hey, she might say, can we chat for a few minutes?The message Horan has taken to every player in the dressing room is a simple one. Ignore “the noise” from critics of the team’s…

Recap: Quake II arrived in 1997 as the second installment in the first-person shooter franchise. Gameplay largely mimics what was presented in the original albeit with some quality of life tweaks to improve mechanics, and a half dozen or so new weapons. A remastered version of Quake II is looking increasingly likely, and rumors point to an imminent debut. Back in June, South Korea’s age ratings board published an entry for a remastered version of Quake II (complete with a mature rating). Established leaker billbil-kun now claims to have seen evaluation documents from other ratings groups including the ESRB and…

What iPhones and online shopping reveal about the economyEarnings reports yesterday from Apple and Amazon covered some very different businesses: premium-priced smartphones and tablets versus the world’s “everything store” and a dominant cloud computing platform.But the tech giants provided a snapshot of the state of the global economy: Consumers and companies are cutting back on some costs, but refusing to stop spending on increasingly essential services.A tale of two businesses at Apple. The company’s sales slumped for another quarter, even as profit went up slightly compared with a year ago, to $19.88 billion. Much of the revenue decline was caused…

With the hopes of a country, a continent and a world of tennis lovers who felt she was long overdue urging her toward history, Ons Jabeur fell agonizingly short. For the second time at Wimbledon, and the third time in a year at a Grand Slam, Jabeur had hoped to become the first woman from Tunisia, the first from Africa and the first Arabic speaker to win a major women’s singles tournament.The pressure of playing for so much and so many may have caught up to her, again.“Honestly, I felt a lot of pressure, feeling a lot of stress,” Jabeur…

Apple’s 256GB 15.3-inch MacBook Air is available for $1,199.00 today on Amazon, down from its original price of $1,299.00. We’ve seen this sale only a few times over the summer, and it remains the best deal tracked yet on the latest MacBook Air. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. This sale is available in three of the four colors: Midnight, Space Gray, and Silver. All three models are in stock and have an estimated delivery date…

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has started blocking news articles on its social networking services in Canada.The change, in response to a new law in Canada that requires tech companies to pay news outlets for using their content, will roll out “over the course of the next few weeks,” Meta said in a blog post on Tuesday. Content posted on Facebook and Instagram by both local Canadian news outlets and international outlets will not be visible to Canadians using the platforms.Canada passed the Online News Act in June, joining a push by numerous governments to force big social…

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Friday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he praised for demonstrating “the resolve it takes to survive a war and ultimately win it.”Mr. Christie is the second 2024 G.O.P. hopeful to visit Mr. Zelensky in Kyiv, signaling his support for Ukraine in a war that has divided the Republican candidates and Republican voters. Former Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Ukraine in June.Escorted by a Ukrainian security detail, Mr. Christie visited sites near Kyiv that were devastated during…