Paying tribute: Hollywood stars have been honoring the two actors. The Conversation director Francis Ford Coppola called Hackman, the film’s star, “ magnificent .” Trachtenberg’s Gossip Girl co-star Chace Crawford called her “ one of a kind .” [Variety/Yahoo Entertainment]

The administration will provide an additional $1 billion to combat the outbreak, with a renewed emphasis on biosecurity.

Soaring egg prices have consumers boiling, and on Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture blamed rising costs on the bird flu epidemic and said it will take new steps to quell the outbreak.