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In a year when hospitalizations for the flu are at a 10-year high, the pregnant population, whose risk for severe disease is heightened, is lagging when it comes to vaccinations.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, through November of this year, just 55.3% of pregnant people have received their influenza vaccine, compared to 62.3% last year. The disparity is even more striking among minorities, with 29.8% of Black pregnant people having gotten their flu shot this year versus 39.9% last year, and 51.6% of Hispanic pregnant people having gotten vaccinated this year as compared to 62.7% last year.Dr.…

Oprah Winfrey is ready to normalize menopause.The host and author recently gathered with her close friend and journalist Maria Shriver to speak about women’s health for the Paramount+ series “The Checkup with Dr. David Agus.”Speaking to Agus and Shriver, Winfrey reiterated the evasive conversations she’d have with her mother when she’d ask her about what to expect for her future.“I couldn’t get my mother to talk about it. I was just trying to find out what are the possibilities of me having hot flashes or something,” Winfrey explained, adding that when pressed, her mother said she didn’t even remember her…

CNN  —  As White House officials reflected on the final Democratic victory of a history-defying midterm election cycle, one constant has been a sense of validation. For President Joe Biden, the expanded Senate majority clinched by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection in Georgia on Tuesday night served as a capstone driven in large part by two years of cornerstone legislative wins. “What you saw Senator Warnock do and what you saw Democrats do this past election is run on the president’s agenda – run on an agenda that was successful,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. “This was…

Stocks rose Thursday as the S&P 500 broke its longest losing streak since October and Wall Street evaluated the odds of a recession ahead.The S&P added 0.75% to finish at 3,963.51. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 183.56 points, or 0.55%, to settle at 33,781.48, while the Nasdaq Composite rallied 1.13% to end at 11,082.00.Despite Thursday’s gains, stocks are on pace for a losing week, with the Dow down 1.88%. The S&P and Nasdaq are slated to finish 2.66% and 3.31% lower, respectively.”We had a strong selloff over the last few days and it doesn’t take much to create even…

Migrants attempting to reach Europe are now almost always subjected to some form of violence at the hands of authorities, according to a new NGO report.The second edition of the “Black Book of Pushbacks” compiled by the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) documents more than 1,635 testimonies of human rights violations affecting almost 25,000 people over the past six years.Nearly half of these testimonies — 44% — were collected since the first edition was released in December 2020 but they account for over 16,100 of the people affected or nearly two-thirds.They recount being beaten, kicked, humiliated through forced undressing, threatened…

Former Theranos Chief Operating Officer and President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison Wednesday for fraud, after the unraveling of the blood-testing juggernaut prompted criminal charges in California federal court against both Balwani and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who on Nov. 18 was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.During the sentencing hearing, attorneys for Balwani attempted to pin the blame on Holmes, telling U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Davila that “decisions were made by Elizabeth Holmes.”Davila had set a sentencing range of 11 years plus three months to 14 years, but prosecutors…

At the beginning of the year—and for some time before that—the only hairstyle making beauty headlines was the bob. Not anymore. The biggest winter hair trend right now is made for those with long hair—the “French new wave” is everywhere. Everyone from Priyanka Chopra to Irina Shayk and Dua Lipa has tried the trend, which is a “subtler take on cool-girl hair with gentle waves and less pronounced texture,” according to hairstylist Syd Hayes.Irina Shayk at British Vogue’s Forces for Change dinner. Photo: Getty ImagesWhile Pre-Raphaelite curls—seen all over the red carpet at the Met Gala back in May—have been…

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. American work culture is having an identity crisis. Are we a #riseandgrind people or are we #QuietQuitting? Are we, as Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried have modeled, going so “extremely hardcore” that we’re willing to sleep at the office? Or are we evolving, recognizing the toxicity of hustle culture and finally setting boundaries? In the chaotic six weeks that Musk has been at the helm of Twitter, two divergent workplace ideals, both rooted in Silicon Valley…

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) participates in a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019.Erin Scott | ReutersHouse Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters told the panel’s Democrats she doesn’t plan to subpoena former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to testify at a Dec. 13 hearing about the crypto exchange’s rapid demise, according to people with direct knowledge of the conversation.Waters informed committee members of her decision at a private meeting Tuesday with Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler on Capitol Hill, these people said, declining to be named in order to speak freely about the private discussion.Waters…

New retirement rules could make it easier for Americans to accumulate retirement savings — and less costly to withdraw them — if lawmakers pass a retirement reform package before the end of the month. The House already passed its own version of retirement plan rule changes, and two key Senate committees passed their own versions. Since the summer, lawmakers have been trying to stitch the three bills together into one large package known as Secure 2.0. After it’s finalized, one idea is to attach that package to an overall government spending bill that may be voted on by both chambers…