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Britney Spears Demands Jamie Spears Sit for Deposition – TMZ
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Britney Spears Demands Jamie Spears Sit for Deposition – TMZ

Britney Spears says her dad has been ducking for cover so he doesn't have to sit for a deposition, detailing his conduct in the conservatorship case, but now her lawyer says they're calling Jamie's bluff. Jamie has said he would sit for a depo, but only in Kentwood, Louisiana. Britney's lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, says in legal docs, he'll gladly fly to Kentwood to put Jamie under oath. Rosengart says in new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, that Jamie has been skirting the depo for more than 5 months, and he thinks for good reason. Rosengart claims he can prove Jamie was running "a corrupted and conflicted conservatorsh...
COVID in California: Fourth dose of Pfizer vaccine wanes faster than third – San Francisco Chronicle
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COVID in California: Fourth dose of Pfizer vaccine wanes faster than third – San Francisco Chronicle

COVID case rates in the Bay Area have now exceeded those of the devastating surge in the winter of 2021 to 2021, which was caused by what we now know as the “epsilon” variant. A massive survey of COVID-19 survivors sheds new light on predictors of long COVID. And UCSF chief of medicine Dr. Bob Wachter tweeted that 6.2% of people in San Francisco screenings not exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms tested positive for coronavirus infection, according to the latest hospital data. Virus spread increasing in all 58 California counties Each of California's 58 counties is seeing a rising reproduction rate, which means the virus spread is likely increasing statewide. The effective reproduction number, representing the average number of people to whom each infected person ...
Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’: Film Review | Cannes 2022 – Hollywood Reporter
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Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’: Film Review | Cannes 2022 – Hollywood Reporter

How you feel about Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis will depend largely on how you feel about Baz Luhrmann’s signature brash, glitter-bomb maximalism. Just the hyper-caffeinated establishing section alone — even before Austin Butler’s locomotive hips start doing their herky-jerky thing when Elvis Presley takes to the stage to perform “Heartbreak Hotel” in a rockabilly-chic pink suit — leaves you dizzy with its frenetic blast of scorching color, split screen, retro graphics and more edits per scene than a human eye can count. Add in the stratified, ear-bursting sound design and this is Baz times a bazillion. If the writing too seldom measures up to the astonishing visual impact, the affinity the director feels for his showman subject is both contagious and exhausting. Luhrmann’s t...
Monkeypox outbreak: What to know about symptoms, threat – Medical News Today
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Monkeypox outbreak: What to know about symptoms, threat – Medical News Today

Share on PinterestBeing examined by Congolese doctors, a Manfuette village teenage boy is suspected of having monkeypox in Manfuette, Republic of Congo Tuesday, August 29, 2017. The Washington Post/Getty Images Since early May 2022, many countries in Europe, as well as Australia, and the U.S. have reported an increasing number of monkeypox cases. As a viral disease native to Africa, monkeypox is usually transmitted by animal-to-human contact, producing skin lesions, fever, and body aches in people the virus infects. Some recent cases of monkeypox have involved men who have had sex with men, however, experts say the disease is not a sexually transmitted infection but can spread via direct contact during sex. This is a developing story. We will provide updates as more information become...
Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial live: breaking news and updates, Kate Moss testimony today, 25 May – AS USA
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Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial live: breaking news and updates, Kate Moss testimony today, 25 May – AS USA

Depp vs Heard: some of the key points early in the trial If you're only just coming to the Depp-Heard case now, here is a selection of some of the key points from earlier in the trial that will help get you up to speed: -- Depp testified that he never hit Heard or any other woman. He said she was the one who became abusive and "bullied" him with "demeaning name calling." "It seemed like pure hatred for me," Depp said. "If I stayed to argue, eventually, I was sure it was going to escalate into violence, and oftentimes it did." -- During an argument in Australia in early 2015, Depp said Heard threw a vodka bottle that severed the top of his right middle finger. The actor said he went into shock and wrote messages to Heard on the wall using blood from the finger. Heard offered a differ...
Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests – The Washington Post
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Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests – The Washington Post

Placeholder while article actions load Unlock This article is free to access. Why? A large U.S. study looking at whether vaccination protects against long covid showed the shots have only a slight protective effect: Being vaccinated appeared to reduce the risk of lung and blood clot disorders, but did little to protect against most other symptoms. The new paper, published Wednesday in Nature Medicine, is part of a series of studies by the Department of Veterans Affairs on the impact of the coronavirus, and was based on 33,940 people who experienced breakthrough infections after vaccination. The data confirms the large body of research that shows vaccination greatly reduces the risk of death or serious illness. But there was more ambiguity regarding long covid. Six months after t...
Kate Moss testifies Johnny Depp never pushed her down any stairs during their relationship – CNN
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Kate Moss testifies Johnny Depp never pushed her down any stairs during their relationship – CNN

CNN  —  Johnny Depp took the stand to refute testimony previously given by witnesses including Amber Heard, testifying that his ex-wife hit him on multiple occasions and that her accusations of violence against him are “heinous.” Heard previously testified that it was Depp who hit her, and any time she used force, it was in reaction to him. Depp on Wednesday said Heard’s accusations of physical and sexual violence had “gotten out of control.” “I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse. All these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things and living with it for six years and waiting to be able to bring the truth out,” Depp testified. “So th...