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Workplace 'energy vampires' can drain your life force. Stop them with these tips

You sit down at your desk and are about to start your workday when a coworker saunters up to you. After 20 minutes of chatting, your colleague finally leaves you alone, but you find you are too drained to complete any tasks efficiently.

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Vulnerable Americans are desperate to find this Covid-19 drug. Thousands of boxes are sitting around unused

Soon after the US Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to Evusheld, a new drug to prevent Covid-19, pharmacist Tom Henry alerted his blog readers. He was thrilled because finally, there was a drug that could protect people like him who are immune-compromised and had a weak response, or no response at all, to their vaccinations.

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Gas rationing, food vouchers and hunger: Economic pain from Russia's war is getting real

As Russian soldiers bear down on Ukraine, increasingly desperate Ukrainians are running out of food and medicine. The economic fallout from the invasion is beginning to spill over to the rest of the world, too.

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Halle Berry finds it 'heartbreaking' she's still the only Black best actress Oscar winner

Halle Berry didn't believe she was going to win the best actress Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in "Monster's Ball."

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Elementary school principal prepares to donate kidney to niece

A Wilson County Schools principal is preparing for extensive surgery in Tampa Thursday morning. It is all to save his niece’s life.

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Western leaders begin crucial day of summits on Russia's war in Ukraine with refugee and sanctions announcements

Leaders attending a slew of emergency summits here Thursday were working to settle on the next phase of their response to Russia's war in Ukraine, with new US sanctions and refugee assistance among the steps emerging from the snap talks.

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State deaths outnumber births since 2020 census

Deaths outnumbered births in 73 percent of American counties – including in all but seven in Alabama – since the 2020 census, according to new data released by the Census Bureau Thursday.

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John Doe identified 40 years after his body was found

A body found in the Escatawpa River in Mississippi in 1982 has now been identified as Gary Simpson.

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The future of the Oscars is global. Watch this year's best international feature nominees to know why

The best international feature film category at the Academy Awards could, in some ways, be compared to flying economy. Often, the five films that get a seat aboard the Oscars seem squashed in the back, lest they take up space that Hollywood might want to luxuriate in. You'd like to upgrade to best picture? With twice the room and more prestige, who wouldn't. But many of those seats still appear to be reserved for English-language pictures.

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Kyrie Irving appears set to play home games in New York again, with mayor expected to lift athletes' vaccine mandate

Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving's six-month prohibition from playing home games over his vaccination status appears to be coming to an end.

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson may have set a new standard for future nominees

For decades, US Supreme Court confirmation hearings have taken center stage in American politics, and each hearing has created new norms for future Supreme Court nominees -- both for better and worse.

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Mayor Turner Announces Appointment Of Housing And Community Development Director

Mayor Sylvester Turner has appointed Keith W. Bynam as director of the City of Houston’s Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD). Director Bynam has served as interim director since September 2021.

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1st Annual Shero Awards Curated to Commemorate Women's History Month

Her-STORY, Her-STREGNTH, Her-LEGACY: Honoring Women That are Creating Their Own Narrative

The Inaugural Shero Awards was created by the ladies of Never Satisfied Studios in Carrolton, TX. Owned by Business Mogul Radio Raheem, his influence when creating this event was motivated by his own childhood. "Being raised by a single mother, it is important that women are honored and I want the ladies of Never Satisfied to curate this event and honor women that are contributing to the culture."

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Harris Health System Receives National Recertification of 16 Medical Home Sites

Harris Health System recently received recertification of 16 of its health centers and clinics as Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the highest such recognition from the national organization.

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Beyoncé and Billie Eilish among this year's Oscars performers

The Oscars have lined up some major star power for this year's ceremony -- and yes, the lineup includes Beyoncé.

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How protected are we against Covid-19? Scientists search for a test to measure immunity

In 2010, doctors told Ben Sobieck, now 37, that his kidneys were inexplicably failing. Shortly after, he had a kidney transplant and started on the lifelong medications that weaken his immune system to keep his body from rejecting the donor organ. They never figured out what caused Sobieck's kidney failure. But a decade later, he confronted another threat to his health: the Covid-19 pandemic.

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'People are begging us to sell.' Africa's richest man opens huge fertilizer plant as food crisis looms

Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote opened the continent's largest fertilizer plant this week as war in Ukraine cuts off supplies from Russia, threatening a global food crisis.

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Justice Clarence Thomas misses third day of oral arguments after being hospitalized

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas missed a third day of oral arguments on Wednesday after being hospitalized six days ago to receive treatment for what a court spokesperson described as an infection.

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US warns businesses to prepare for Russian cyberattacks. Here's how they can do that

As Russia's war in Ukraine and its diplomatic conflict with the United States both continue to escalate, the warnings that Russian hackers could go after US businesses have gained new urgency.

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Biden's trip to Europe is one of highest-stakes presidential trips in recent memory. Here's why

President Joe Biden departed Wednesday on one of the highest-stakes presidential trips in recent memory, a moment for the US President to assume leadership of a newly united West.