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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Shutter as All Staff Are Laid Off
A number of women's lifestyle and entertainment magazine publications from McClatchy Media Company are shuttering and laying off their entire staffs. In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women are ceasing operation by the end of June, the parent company informed staffers Friday. It's unclear just how many employees across all four brands were impacted by McClatchy's gutting of the entertainment brands. Other outlets owned by the media company include newspapers The Kansas City Star, Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Charlotte Observer. They also own Us Weekly, which was acquired as part of the accelerate360 merger that In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women were also a part of. 'Despite the best efforts of many of our talented colleagues, we have been unable to develop a profitable business model for four of our magazine titles. First for Women, In Touch, Life & Style and Closer will publish their final editions between June 20 and 27,' McClatchy spokesperson Julie Pendley said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, which first broke the news Friday. 'We are grateful for the meaningful contributions of the affected employees and are providing support during the transition.' McClatchy did not respond to TheWrap's request for further comment. The announcement is just the latest in a continuingly tumultuous time for news media. In the same week, Business Insider informed it's staff that they would experience a 21% workforce reduction as they look to pivot more to AI uses in the newsroom. 'We are reducing the size of our organization, a move that will impact about 21% of our colleagues and touch every department,' Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng wrote. 'We're also proposing changes that impact our U.K. team, but the process is a bit different there; separate communication will follow.' Going forward, Business Insider will be launching events coverage, 'fully embracing AI' and reducing their reliance on 'traffic-sensitive businesses.' The post In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Shutter as All Staff Are Laid Off appeared first on TheWrap.
NBC Sports
4 days ago
- Business
- NBC Sports
Chiefs have a June 30 deadline to accept Kansas stadium offer
The clock is ticking on a potential Chiefs move from one Kansas City to the other. Matthew Kelly of the Kansas City Star reports that Kansas may pull its new-stadium offer off the table on June 30. House speaker Dan Hawkins told Kelly he doesn't want to extend the expiration date for the Chiefs or MLB's Royals. 'I think if they want to get it done, they've still got time to get it done,' Hawkins said. Hawkins doesn't want to extend the deadline, because doing so gives the Chiefs (and Royals) leverage in their ongoing efforts to get stadium solutions in Minnesota. 'If one of them wants to — or both — wants to come to Kansas, we'd love to have them,' Hawkins told Kelly. 'We have the tools.' The Chiefs may prefer at this point a new stadium, given that (as noted by Nate Taylor of owner Clark Hunt and team president Mark Donovan envision a dome for the Chiefs. As with other open-air teams looking for new stadiums, a dome opens the door to events throughout the year. And Hunt has said he'd like the Chiefs to host a Super Bowl. It's part of the loose, unofficial quid pro quo for cold-weather cities that build domed stadiums with significant taxpayer money. However it plays out, Donovan realizes that Kansas isn't bluffing. 'Hypothetically, as you're trying to figure out how to put a deal together, if you're on either side of the table, you look at deadlines,' Donovan said, per Taylor. 'That June 30 [deadline] is real.' While that may indeed be a statement of fact, it's also a clear warning to Missouri that time is running out on keeping Arrowhead Stadium the home of the Chiefs.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
FDA Plans to Limit COVID-19 Vaccines to High-Risk Groups
A dose of COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in the Kansas City area. Credit - Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service—Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will no longer recommend yearly COVID-19 vaccines for kids and most adults. In an editorial article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the newly appointed head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and research at the FDA, and Dr. Martin Makary, FDA commissioner, explained their plan for how the FDA will evaluate and recommend COVID-19 vaccines going forward. Until now, federal guidance has recommended that everyone six months or older receive a COVID-19 vaccine targeting the latest circulating version of the virus to maximize their chances of avoiding severe disease. The new FDA leadership still recommends that groups at higher risk of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 receive yearly COVID-19 shots. This includes seniors, adults with weakened immune systems, and people with underlying health conditions like cancer. Some people in these groups may even qualify for a second shot in a given year, depending on their risk factors. But for people at lower risk, the FDA leadership is instead pushing for additional studies to test whether people in the general population who get an annual shot have fewer COVID-19 symptoms, less-severe cases, and fewer hospitalizations and deaths compared to those receiving a placebo. Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Novavax, which make the COVID-19 vaccines, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the changes. 'We simply don't know whether a healthy 52-year old woman with a normal BMI who has had COVID-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will benefit from the seventh dose," Prasad and Makary write in the editorial. "This policy will compel much-needed evidence generation.' Read More: How Having a Baby Is Changing Under Trump Prasad and Makary write that the proposed studies would not interfere with the current timeline of approving the yearly COVID-19 vaccines, since they would be conducted after the vaccine is released in what the agency calls post-marketing studies. The FDA's advisory committee of experts is meeting on May 22 to review data from the World Health Organization about which variants to target in next season's vaccine, which would be distributed in the fall. Even if the additional studies won't delay the availability of the next COVID-19 shot, they would place an additional burden on pharmaceutical companies to conduct another trial, which could add to the cost of the vaccine for the public, says Dr. Paul Offit, a member of that FDA advisory committee and professor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Another challenge is that in order to conduct this type of trial, some people would have to receive a placebo and therefore potentially be less protected from COVID-19. 'Anybody can catch this virus and be hospitalized and killed," Offit says. "We know the vaccine works and probably saved three million lives, and we know that the virus is still circulating and still causes harm.' Because of that continued risk, he says it's not clear whether an institutional review board—which evaluates all study designs involving human volunteers—would consider this an ethical trial. Offit acknowledges that for most people who are not at high risk of severe disease, and who by now have had at least one, if not several, bouts of COVID-19, getting a yearly vaccine is 'low risk, low reward.' Studies from the CDC show that the shot boosts antibodies that fight the virus for about four to six months, providing strong protection against mild-to-moderate disease during that time, but then that protection wanes. Different immune cells, T cells, continue to protect against severe disease, hospitalization, and death, which is another reason to stay up to date on the vaccine. Even the shorter term protection, however, may be worth it to avoid illness. 'You buy yourself four to six months of protection from mild-to-moderate disease, which is not trivial,' he says, especially as more data suggests that repeated bouts of COVID-19 could contribute to more intense and lasting symptoms of Long COVID. Contact us at letters@
Sunday World
17-05-2025
- Sunday World
Judge rules that teen charged with murder of Irish chef in US cannot be tried as an adult
Shaun Brady was shot at close range in the car park of his restaurant, Brady & Fox, in Brookside, Kansas City on August 28, 2024 A judge in the US has ruled that a teenager charged with the murder of Irish chef Shaun Brady in Kansas City, Missouri, will be tried as a juvenile. Jackson County Family Court Administrative Judge Jennifer Phillips said the Co Tipperary man's 15-year-old accused killer will not stand trial as an adult. The judge has set a trial date for September having denied a request to send the case against the teenager out of family court to the general court system. The Kansas City Star reported on Wednesday that the judge ordered that the teen, who can only be named by his initials, K.H as he is a minor, will remain in secure detention. Judge Philips set the trial for September 23 and 24 of the accused who has been charged with counts of second-degree murder, attempted stealing of a vehicle, and armed criminal action. Brady was shot at close range in the car park of his restaurant, Brady & Fox, in Brookside, Kansas City on August 28, 2024. Shaun Brady News in 90 Seconds - May 17th At around 5.15 pm the victim went to the back of the restaurant to throw out empty boxes. Brady, who is a native of Nenagh, saw several people who had pulled up in a black Hyundai Elantra trying to break into his car, a red Hyundai Sonata which was parked behind the restaurant. Brady tried to warn the group off his car, and as they fled in their vehicle they got stuck in traffic at the car park exit. Brady then approached the car and the driver got out in a 'shooters stance' before pointing something at him. 'We just see Brady fall to the ground,' Kansas City Police Department homicide detective Clyde Harvey previously said as he described the CCTV footage to the court. According to the prosecution, DNA showed that K.H was the driver of the vehicle. Police had a partial registration plate number for the car, and later that day he was arrested with another teen, a 17-year-old, who is only known as L.M because he is a minor. L.M was also charged with second degree murder, but the charges were dropped and he was released from custody in late 2024. A juvenile court heard arguments to move K.M's case to adult court because according to Jackson County authorities it was a 'vicious, forceful and violent act' that endangered the community. The boy's attorney described him as a 'desperate, starving child' who was forced to sell drugs from the age of 10 to feed himself and his siblings. The Kansas City Star previously reported how Jackson County Family Court Administrative Judge Jennifer Phillips heard cases made by both the teen's attorney and the Office of the Juvenile Officer. In closing arguments K.H's attorney, Kirby Crick, told Phillips the youth had been failed throughout his life. Crick asked that she not certify him for prosecution as an adult as he 'never experienced a life without trauma, even in utero'. However, Dan Barry, representing the Office of the Juvenile Officer, described the shooting as 'vicious' as he asked for the case to be prosecuted in the general court system. Saying how the incident took from Brady's loved ones a 'family man', he said this was 'the most serious offense that can be committed'. On January 4, Brady's family and friends gathered for a funeral Mass for the talented chef at St Mary's of the Rosary Church in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. In an emotional eulogy, Shaun's brother Damien said: "Shaun Paul had built a wonderful life for himself and his family in Kansas [City] - a home for their kids. 'He worked tirelessly to establish and run his own restaurant and become a treasured part of the community, something we witnessed ourselves in Kansas [City] when the local community came together to grieve his death and again here today. 'Shaun was so proud to call Nenagh his home. When we visited his restaurant in Kansas [City], the walls were decorated with paintings of local landmarks - the castle, the church, an old painting taken from a book in mam's house in Summerhill. 'He kept a map of Ireland that hung in our family home and mam had wanted him to have it in his house in Kansas [City]. 'He never forgot where he came from.
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Man suing U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett over the congressman's false tweet has died
The Kansas man suing U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett over a false tweet has died, his attorney told ABC News, the Kansas City Star and other news organizations. Burchett falsely tweeted in 2024 that Denton Loudermill was the shooter in a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration, and that the man was in the country illegally. Neither was true. Loudermill sued Burchett in federal court, saying the Knoxville congressman caused him mental distress and emotional suffering. Loudermill was in the midst of the fight to clear his name. 'More details will be provided in time, but for now, we ask that you honor the family's need for privacy as they come together to grieve this tremendous loss,' attorney LaRonna Lassiter Saunders wrote to ABC News on April 11. Loudermill was 49. Loudermill was briefly detained for drinking at the Kansas City Chiefs celebration in February 2024. His photo was widely shared as social media users, including Burchett, wrongly accused him of being the person who fatally shot a fan at the event. Knox News reported in October that Burchett used $20,000 in campaign donations to pay for attorneys defending him in the case. Using campaign funds to pay attorney's fees is legal, according to the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee. This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Man suing U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett over a false tweet has died
