Author: James Martin
Placeholder while article actions loadEveryone can agree that overturning Roe v. Wade will have major consequences for individual women in the US. Less obvious is the impact on American corporations that will emerge from the Supreme Court’s expected simultaneous reversal of Planned Parenthood v. Casey — the 1992 decision that emphasized the value of upholding precedent and avoiding social upheaval to justify keeping Roe in place.By overturning Casey, the court will send a clear message to state legislators that it is open season for them to pass blatantly unconstitutional laws in the hopes that the justices might reverse more precedents. Legislatures can…
In March, her usual distributor said it didn’t have any of that Nutricia product in stock and didn’t know when it would get more. Steiber had five days of formula left. “I spent hours calling Walgreens and CVS, and I was calling manufacturers,” she said. Still, she had no luck. She and her husband were finally able to find some of Owen’s formula online. “The prices were way up,” Steiber said. “It’s really sad when you are talking about meeting a child’s basic needs, that people will take advantage of the situation and increase the prices.”But they were out of…
Hoff had a way of explaining things that made them really stick, and that was particularly clear in his lecture called “GSW.” Anyone who works in a hospital probably knows that the acronym GSW stands for “gunshot wound,” and the way Hoff wanted us to learn the topic was for us see the impact firsthand.So on the last day of his class, we went to an outdoor gun range in Ann Arbor for our GSW lecture. There were handguns there, as well as rifles. In the distance, I saw several watermelons on top of old barrels that would serve as…
Placeholder while article actions loadSecurities exchanges sometimes halt trading or very occasionally cancel transactions when technology glitches or “fat finger” errors cause one-off mistakes. But it’s rare for one to cancel whole sessions after the fact, or to take days to allow trading to resume freely. Yet that’s what happened with one of finance’s oldest institutions, the London Metal Exchange, or LME. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a period of chaos in the nickel market, exposing the vulnerabilities of the exchange. The incident sparked a push for more transparency in one of the darkest corners of the financial markets.1. Why…
America grapples with Trump’s role in insurrection after January 6 committee airs evidenceGood morning, US Politics blog readers. Yesterday evening, the January 6 committee released a slew of new evidence showing how Donald Trump acted during and in the run-up to the attack on the Capitol. If you missed the hearing, you can watch it here.The aftermath of those revelations will be one of today’s main stories, but that’s not all that’s going on:The labor department has released horrid inflation numbers that were worse than expected and sure to fuel public discontent with Joe Biden, whose approval is languishing at…
CNN — Moderna said on Wednesday its bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster that contained a vaccine targeting the Omicron variant showed a stronger immune response against the variant. Bivalent boosters address two viral strains in the same vaccine. The updated booster contains Moderna’s original vaccine, and a vaccine candidate that targets the Omicron variant. The vaccine was generally well-tolerated, the company said, with side effects similar to booster doses of the current vaccine. The 50-microgram bivalent booster, called mRNA-1273.214, generated a stronger antibody response against Omicron than the original Moderna vaccine. Omicron subvariants are driving virtually all the new Covid-19 cases…
Placeholder while article actions loadEven allowing for Iran’s well-honed skill at shooting itself in the foot, its actions over the past couple of weeks have been exceptionally self-defeating. As a consequence, the regime in Tehran is more isolated that it has been in years, giving the Biden administration a golden opportunity to seize the advantage in nuclear negotiations.In its initial blunder, the regime in Tehran refused to give the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, satisfactory explanations for traces of uranium found in sites that Iran had failed to declare to the agency’s monitors. This made it inevitable that…
IKEA has partnered with electronic music giants Swedish House Mafia to release the new OBEGRÄNSAD (“unlimited” in Swedish) collection themed around music and creativity. The highlight so far is a surprisingly slick record player, which has Bluetooth speaker support and a minimalist design. IKEA has form for intriguing tech-homeware collaborations, having already launched music and lighting products in collaboration with Teenage Engineering just a few years ago. (I still have their tiki cups – I don’t know why the collection included tiki cups…) There’s also some furniture in the new line, including a desk for music production, complete with two…
(CNN) — The quality of Europe’s bathing waters has improved dramatically in recent decades, and a new report released this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals that almost 85% of its bathing sites now rank as “excellent.” The annual Bathing Water Report monitored nearly 22,000 inland and coastal swimming spots across EU member states, Albania and Switzerland in 2021. The UK, having left the EU, was absent from the report for the first time. The landlocked country of Austria, known for its many beautiful lakes including the Alpine waters of Achensee in Tyrol and the emerald-hued Weissensee in…
The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, will raise the case of two Britons sentenced to death for fighting Russian forces when she speaks with her Ukrainian counterpart.Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, have been convicted of taking action towards violent seizure of power at a court in the self-proclaimed republic in Donetsk.Truss has called it a “sham judgment” and said it had “absolutely no legitimacy”.She will speak about the matter during a phone call with Dmytro Kuleba later on Friday, the BBC said, while No 10 has said the men are entitled to combatant immunity as prisoners of war.Truss…