Temu is facing a fresh legal complaint filed by 17 companies in the European Union. The Chinese online retailer is accused of “failing to protect consumers” and “using manipulative practices which are illegal under recent EU legislation”, according to consumer group BEUC. Temu was only launched in September 2022, but has quickly become one of the most popular online marketplaces ...
An outbreak of a waterborne disease in Devon has prompted urgent warnings for residents to boil their tap water. At least 22 cases of cryptosporidiosis disease have been confirmed in and around the town of Brixham in South West England. But what is the parasite that is making people sick, what are the symptoms of being infected with it and how ...
Do you have a very wealthy friend who is considering spending gobs of money trying to get elected to political office? You might want to show them the results of the Maryland Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday — and, of course, this post. Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) spent $62 million of his own money on the race, only to lose ...
Beyoncé gave tickets to Vice President Harris for the superstar’s concert last year as a gift, according to a new financial disclosure by Harris. The tickets were valued at $1,655.92, according to the disclosure, which the White House released Wednesday. Harris also disclosed that ESPN gifted her tickets to a college-football game last year. Harris, a Howard University graduate, attended ...
When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2015, he promised that he would implement a process for deporting the 11 million residents of the United States who are here without authorization. There would be a “deportation force,” he said, one that leveraged local law enforcement to identify and expel undocumented immigrants. He offered words of praise for the deportation ...
A Jewish American Biden political appointee resigned from her post at the Interior Department on Wednesday, saying she could no longer work for the administration because of President Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, cited her Jewish upbringing and ties to Israel in her ...
The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to African American voters and Democrats less than six months before the November election. The order was in response to emergency appeals filed after a federal three-judge panel in the state threw out the recently redrawn map last month, ...
For much of the last year, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and a bipartisan group of his colleagues have been huddling with tech CEOs, civil rights leaders and top researchers to develop an “all hands on deck” plan to address the urgent threats posed by artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, the Senate AI Gang, as the group is known, unveiled ...
NEW YORK — Prosecutors who are trying to convict Donald Trump of falsifying documents bet big on Michael Cohen this week. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has relied on Trump’s fixer and attorney to make their case at trial that the former president was directly involved in a scheme to conceal a hush money payment on the eve of the ...
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) prepped his run for a fiercely contested Senate seat by bashing the incumbent for “abandoning the Democratic Party” and Arizonans, and standing in the way of expanding voting rights and abortion access with her support for the filibuster. Now, after Sinema decided not to seek reelection, Gallego says he would “love to have” ...