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Follow our updates for the latest heat wave in the USIt’s shaping up to be another hot summer, with extreme and prolonged heat waves forecast for many parts of the United States and Europe.The sweltering conditions could affect millions of travelers and wreak havoc on vacations in some of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. Multiple heat-related tourist deaths have been reported in Greece and Saudi Arabia in June following extreme temperatures in the Middle East and Aegean regions. Even those who have booked trips to traditionally cooler places may not escape the summer heat due to the increasing unpredictability…
Representative Tom Cole, the veteran Oklahoma Republican and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, fended off a primary challenge Tuesday from a well-funded right-wing businessman, putting him on track to win a 12th term.Mr. Cole, who was first elected to Congress in 2002, has long been a fixture of Oklahoma politics and a powerful legislative voice behind the scenes in Congress. The Associated Press announced the race less than an hour after polls closed as Mr. Cole led by a landslide.Mr Cole took the helm of the influential Appropriations team in April, taking a coveted post on Capitol Hill that…
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday called for a statewide ban on the use of smartphones in California schools, joining a growing national effort to curb cyberbullying and classroom distractions by limiting access to the devices.Mr. Newsom, who has four school-aged children, said he would work this summer with state lawmakers to dramatically limit phone use during the school day in the nation’s most populous state. His directive came hours before board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district, voted to pursue their own smartphone ban that could begin in January.”When children and teenagers go…
A California labor regulator said Tuesday it has fined Amazon nearly $6 million for thousands of violations of a safety law that takes effect in 2022.The measure, known as the Warehouse Quotas Law, allows employees to request a written explanation of any productivity quotas that apply to them, as well as an explanation of any discipline they may face if they don’t meet the quotas.The state labor commissioner’s office said Amazon violated the law more than 59,000 times at two warehouses in Southern California between October and March.The system Amazon used in the two warehouses “is exactly the kind of…
Move over, Microsoft and Apple. The stock market has a new king.On Tuesday, Nvidia overtook two of tech’s biggest names to become the world’s most valuable public company, according to data from S&P Global. Its rise has been fueled by the boom in genetic artificial intelligence and growing demand for the company’s chips — known as graphics processing units, or GPUs — that make AI systems possible.Nvidia’s rise is one of the fastest in market history. Just two years ago, the company’s market valuation was just over $400 billion. Now, in the space of a year, it has gone from…
Fisker filed for bankruptcy late Monday, the latest electric vehicle start-up to fail after raising large sums of money from investors with high expectations.Fisker’s bankruptcy filing, about a year after delivering its first vehicle and nearly four years after going public, came after months of doubt about its financial viability. The start-up has repeatedly cut production targets for its flagship Ocean SUV and faced escalating financial turmoil, warning of “substantial doubt” it could continue as a going concern in February, halting production in March and defaulting on a loan in May .Talks with another automaker about a potential investment collapsed…
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced Monday that he will push for a warning label on social media platforms advising parents that using the platforms can harm teenagers’ mental health.Warning labels — like those found on tobacco and alcohol products — are one of the most powerful tools at the nation’s top health official’s disposal, but Dr. Murthy cannot demand them unilaterally. the action requires congressional approval.The proposal is based on years of escalating warnings from the surgeon general. In a May 2023 advisory, it recommended that parents immediately set limits on phone use and urged Congress to quickly…
A native New Yorker who lives not far from the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, Mr. Eckstein started with a hit list of 150 museums that eventually whittled down to the 75 featured in the book. He spent just over a year visiting the institutions to photograph and sketch them and collect stories from curators, guides and visitors.His illustrations capture the feeling of walking through a gallery or pausing to contemplate a work of art such as John Singleton Copley’s “Watson and the Shark” from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (his wife, the artist Tamar Stone, is the woman…
Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to President Biden, met Tuesday with senior Lebanese officials in Beirut, where he pressed for a diplomatic solution as increasingly deadly skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia. , they did the situation in Israel. Lebanon’s borders are dangerously unstable.For the past eight months, as the war has raged in Gaza, another battle has erupted along Israel’s northern border. During that time, Hezbollah, a well-armed and tested fighting force, and the Israeli military played a dangerous game of passions, carrying out muscle-flexing attacks but avoiding full-scale war. Despite the seemingly measured approach taken…
The University of Michigan and the City University of New York mishandled complaints of campus discrimination during widespread protests over the war in Gaza, the Department of Education said Monday.The department’s Office for Civil Rights has launched dozens of investigations into anti-Semitism and anti-Arab discrimination as students have rallied and camped out in support of the Palestinians and called for their schools to withdraw from Israel.The Michigan and New York cases were only the first to reach a conclusion. More are expected to be completed in the coming weeks and months as schools continue to grapple with the limits of…