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Some models of Safety 1st and Maxi-Cosi car seats recalled
Guido Mieth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dorel Juvenile Group announced a voluntary recall of 59,450 rear-facing infant car seats due to concerns over the seat anchoring system that “fails to conform” to safety standards for [Read More…]

Over 3 million Calico Critter toys recalled after 2 deaths reported
Epoch Everlasting Play via CPSC (NEW YORK) — The maker behind the popular Calico Critter toys said Thursday that it is recalling millions of toys with parts that may pose a choking hazard for children. [Read More…]

Keystone pipeline faces new rules after major oil spill
Gavin John/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Oil spills along the Keystone pipeline that runs from Canada to Texas have become more frequent and severe, prompting stricter regulations for a 1,200-mile stretch of the pipeline, [Read More…]

Car repair prices are rising much faster than overall inflation. Here’s why.
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Pat Clynes pushed down the gas pedal on his Ford Explorer during a drive in Houston, Texas, in July 2022, an otherwise routine day became the start of [Read More…]

New gov’t cybersecurity strategy rolls out amid AI buzz, concerns it could be abused by criminals
Getty Images/d3sign (NEW YORK) — The Biden administration is moving to implement a new national security strategy focused on stopping hackers, as buzz around artificial intelligence tools raises concern among some experts that criminals may [Read More…]

Elon Musk publicly mocks laid-off Twitter employee with a disability. Then apologizes.
Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Locked out of his work computer for more than a week, a two-year Twitter employee didn’t know whether he’d been laid off. So he asked CEO Elon [Read More…]

FTC’s new rule could end noncompete agreements for millions of workers
Maskot/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For nearly four years, Arizona realtor Courtney Van Cott has been consumed by a legal battle involving a noncompete agreement. “You just have this cloud over you every single day,” [Read More…]

Hershey’s unveils plant-based Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Hershey’s (NEW YORK) — Chocolate lovers who can’t eat dairy are now in luck when it comes to two beloved milk chocolate treats from Hershey’s. As more people trend toward plant-based snacks, Hershey’s launched two [Read More…]

New dashboard lets parents see if they can sit with kids for free on flights
lechatnoir/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Transportation introduced a new online tool for airline customers on Monday — a dashboard that aims to cut down on and ultimately eliminate extra fees families often [Read More…]

US debt default could cause ‘longstanding harm,’ Fed Chair Jerome Powell says
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday warned of potentially devastating consequences of a U.S. debt default and called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Speaking to the Senate [Read More…]

Justice Department files suit to block JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines
Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to stop the proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. The $3.8 billion merger would create the nation’s fifth largest [Read More…]

Tesla cuts US Model S and Model X prices
Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Electric carmaker Tesla slashed the prices of its two most expensive cars in the U.S., the automaker’s website showed on Monday. The price cuts [Read More…]

Women land top economic policy posts as profession faces wider reckoning
Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, a graduate student studying economics and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, who is Black, said she never would have entered the field if she [Read More…]

Amazon pauses construction of second headquarters in Virginia, dubbed ‘HQ2’
Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amazon has paused construction on its second headquarters in Virginia, known as “HQ2,” the company said Friday. The first phase of the HQ2 campus, called Met Park, [Read More…]

The economy has delivered good news. Are recession fears over?
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Growing recession alarm at the outset of this year warned of a coming business slowdown and significant job losses — until a government report last month showed that unemployment [Read More…]

TikTok imposes default time limit for young users
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Social media platform TikTok will set a default 60-minute screen time limit for users below age 18, the company announced on Wednesday. When the one-hour limit expires, young [Read More…]

Eli Lilly cuts insulin prices up to 70% amid pressure to slash costs
Caíque de Abreu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Eli Lilly will cut the price of its most commonly prescribed insulin products by 70% and expand a program that caps patient costs at $35 per month, the [Read More…]

End of expanded SNAP benefits may push Black, Latino communities into poverty: Study
Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Alyn Carroll received information that her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will soon be substantially decreased, her emotions almost overtook her. “I wanted to cry,” Carroll, 56, told [Read More…]

TikTok faces bans in US and other countries. Here’s why.
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The backlash against China-owned TikTok in the U.S. and other Western countries escalated in recent days, as some U.S lawmakers pushed to give President Joe Biden the authority to impose [Read More…]

Former FTX executive Nishad Singh pleads guilty to charges related to crypto exchange’s collapse
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to criminal charges, according to his lawyers [Read More…]