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POLITICO Sign up for POLITICO Playbook today. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by President Joe Biden was informed on Thursday morning that the CDC announcement was coming — just hours ahead of time — according to a senior White House source. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY Happy Saturday — the f...

Screenshot: Focus Features/Movieclips (YouTube) We’re gonna say this one more time for the cheap seats in the back: Stop. Deliberately. Misgendering. People. Advertisement Look, we get it. Many of us are still acclimating to a world that increasingly identifies beyond the gender binary. Even the most well-meaning among us who happen to still be relatively ensconced in heteronormativity are bound to occasionally screw up, whether by misusing pronouns or making assumptions based on our own unconscious bias. When we do, we should stop, drop (our egos) and apologize. Then, course-correct. It’...

It's not just you. We're all socially awkward now. Lisa Bonos, The Washington Post April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail "I'm looking for a kumquat. Do you know what that looks like?" Kay Kingsman flagged down a fellow shopper in the grocery store with that question - and no, he couldn't identify a kumquat. But she kept on talking. "How's your day?" she recalls asking. "Having a fun grocery trip?" Kingsman, a 27-year-old manufacturing engineer in Portland, Ore., dragged the conversation on so long that this stranger in the citrus aisle interjected with an answer to a question she hadn't ponder...

The past week's bullish calls included the iPhone maker, Google's parent and an automotive leader. Financial and energy giants and COVID-19 vaccine makers were among the bearish calls seen during the week. The markets kept hitting new all-time highs in the first full week of the second quarter, and the big three U.S. indexes ended the week higher, led by the Nasdaq's gain of about 3%. March jobs data and vaccination progress helped boost the market, the reopening trades and even the beleaguered FAANG stocks. As people argued over the meaning of "infrastructure," the 10-year Treasury remaine...

It often feels entirely effortless, but that doesn't mean breathing is simple: There are about 10 pounds of muscles surrounding your lungs that help you inhale and exhale at least 17,000 times a day. Some of these muscles you're familiar with, such as the diaphragm; others you may have never heard of, like the intercostals, located in the spaces between your ribs. They all work in synchrony to bring oxygen into your body and expel carbon dioxide. This process not only keeps you alive but also affects your digestion, blood pressure, mood, cognitive function, athletic performance, even your imm...