Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans for a major ground offensive against Hamas militants in southern Gaza, as the Biden administration attempts to curtail a spiraling humanitarian crisis at a moment of acute strain between the United States and its closest Middle Eastern ally. In talks with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon, Austin ...
Denton Loudermill Jr. was briefly detained in the chaos following a shooting that erupted at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade on Feb. 14. Within hours, a U.S. congressman had tweeted a photo of him in handcuffs and a caption that implied he was one of the shooters and an “illegal Alien.” But Loudermill wasn’t one of the shooters ...
Democrat Marilyn Lands on Tuesday decisively won an Alabama state House seat in a long-held Republican district, notching a special-election victory after centering her campaign on promoting access to abortion and in vitro fertilization. Lands’s win was the latest in a string of Democratic victories around reproductive rights after abortion rights advocates experienced a huge blow nearly two years ago. ...
House Republicans finally felt they were done going through the stages of grief. Over months of infighting, emotions ran the gamut from denial to depression while they watched the conference struggle with the aftermath of ousting the speaker of the House. But many Republican lawmakers had begun to accept that their slim majority was unlikely to find compromise within its ...
The biggest donors in Republican politics largely shunned Ron DeSantis after his presidential campaign began to falter last summer. So his allies turned to donors the Florida governor still held sway over because of his day job. A state coronavirus response contractor, CDR Enterprises, gave $1 million to his aligned super PAC Fight Right in the final weeks of the ...
Headed into the November election — and with a big fight over expiring tax cuts looming in 2025 — Democrats are pushing once again to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Earlier this month, President Biden unveiled a budget plan that proposes to raise more than $4.5 trillion in new taxes over the next decade, largely by targeting corporations. While ...
Hermès is being targeted in a new lawsuit accusing the luxury retailer of selling its coveted Birkin handbags only to customers who have spent exorbitant amounts of money at the store on other goods. The proposed federal class-action lawsuit, which was filed this week in San Francisco, alleges that Hermès is violating antitrust law by making customers buy other goods ...
Reddit shares jumped 48% in their debut on Thursday in the first initial public offering for a major social media company since Pinterest hit the market in 2019. The 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. Reddit and selling shareholders raised about $750 million from the offering, with ...
WeightWatchers CEO apologizes to body positivity influencer after Oprah special on weight loss drugs
The CEO of WW, the weight loss company also known as WeightWatchers, apologized to a body positivity advocate for the company’s role in contributing to ‘toxic’ diet culture in the past. On Wednesday, WW CEO Sima Sistani posted an Instagram story video directly addressing influencer Katie Sturino, author of “Body Talk: How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your ...
Target is ratcheting up bonuses for salaried employees, including leaders in stores and across supply chains, thanks to a surge in profits. The move comes thanks to $2 billion in additional profit growth for 2023, a company spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. Target’s stock surged in November after having fallen for much of 2023 as the company reported it ...