Новости за 03.09.2022

More than 14,000 strollers were recalled on Thursday after a child’s fingertip was amputated, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. UPPAbaby recalled its All-Terrain RIDGE Jogging Strollers, citing openings in the stroller’s brakes that can cut or sever a child’s fingertip if it gets caught while the stroller is in use. Customers who bought...

Rep. G.K. Butterfield was proud to be in Congress. Some years ago, the veteran Democrat installed a vanity message on his congressional license plate, broadcasting the district he represents: North Carolina 1. Those days are over. In recent years, the number of menacing threats against sitting members of Congress has ballooned, forcing the Capitol Police...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is dropping its subpoena of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the software vendor Salesforce for information related to fundraising emails the party sent ahead of the attack, multiple media outlets reported. The Washington Post first reported on Friday that counsel for the RNC and...

Hillary Clinton recently hawked a line of hats with a mocking logo — "But her emails."

Former President Trump criticized his former Attorney General William Barr on Friday, calling him a “weak and pathetic RINO” after Barr defended the Justice Department (DOJ) in its search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for classified documents. “Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory,’ Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “He was a weak...

We’re all working hard this year to just break even.

Human impulses to work have changed, and the economy is changing.

Workers have been trying to unionize Starbucks, Amazon, news groups and automakers, sometimes successfully. This has caused commenters to wonder — again — whether this means unions in America are back.   They aren’t. They won’t be until they drop their ideological shtick that has hurt their prospects for decades. The unions that exist right now...

Progressives say President Biden finally used his words. Democrats who have wanted the president to go hard against conservatives ahead of the midterms are praising his speech Thursday, in which he blasted “MAGA Republicans” and suggested former President Trump and those aligned with him pose “a threat to this country.” While Biden has signaled over...

Serena Williams’ swan-song reached its apparent finale on Friday evening. After two emotionally charged victories in the opening rounds of the U.S. Open, Williams was defeated over three sets by Australian Ajla Tomljanovic. Williams is expected to retire after her defeat in the Open, a competition she first won in 1999 at the age of...

Among the material allegedly seized from former President Trump’s home were numerous empty folders that once contained classified information or intel designated to be returned to the military, renewing questions over fallout from the potential mishandling of records and if they have since been recovered. In an inventory from the Justice Department unsealed by a...

A federal judge on Friday rejected Steve Bannon’s request for a new trial following his conviction on contempt of Congress charges, allowing his sentencing to remain on schedule for next month.  U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said in his ruling that a new trial is only warranted when a “serious miscarriage of justice” might have...

A federal judge sided with the Biden administration in a case related to its oil and gas leasing pause in Wyoming. However, because of another case, the government still appears to be barred from continuing its leasing pause in several other states. At the start of his tenure, President Biden temporarily paused new oil and...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unintentionally posted some private individuals’ tax information on its website last week before taking it down, officials said in a letter to Congress on Friday that was obtained by The Wall Street Journal.  Anna Canfield Roth, the acting assistant secretary for management in the Treasury Department, said in the letter...

The Biden administration is requesting approval from Congress for more than $1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan amid increased tensions with China over the island’s status. The State Department announced on Friday that it approved three separate proposed military sales for Taiwan, and Congress has been notified of them. If approved by Congress, the...

Amazon workers looking to unionize got another win, with the National Labor Relations Board recommending that Amazon’s objections to votes by a union in New York be rejected.   Meanwhile, Google allowed Parler back into the Play store a year and a half after it was removed for a lack of content moderation. This...

Temperatures passed a scorching 105 degrees Fahrenheit at Black Rock City, the psychedelic impromptu settlement put up every Labor Day weekend by revelers in the Nevada desert as part of the Burning Man festival.  "Set the oven to 300 degrees, open the oven, stand in front of it ... and that might be what it's going...

Labor Day is a unique celebration, a holiday conceived nearly 130 years ago by the very people it is intended to celebrate: workers. The holiday’s history speaks to me this year, in particular, as Congress reconvenes after the August passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). While a landmark piece of legislation in many ways,...

Former President Trump on Saturday will hold his first rally since the FBI searched his home in Florida. Trump is ostensibly heading to Pennsylvania to help boost support for the teetering campaigns of Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, both of whom he backed in their Republican primary races.  But Trump is...

Now that the pumpkin-spiced latté has returned, you can take your love of fall even further with these pumpkin-shaped Dutch ovens that Twitter has fallen in love with. Today in health, we'll look at the White House requesting billions in new funding to respond to both the coronavirus and monkeypox, with “difficult decisions” looming if more resources...