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Jool Baby, a brand of baby products, has recalled about 63,000 baby cribs sold at Walmart stores and online because they pose a suffocation risk, federal safety regulators said.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that the Jool Baby Nova Baby Infant Swing marketed, intended or designed for infant sleep poses a suffocation risk because it had an angle of inclination greater than 10 degrees.The product violated the Commission’s regulation of infant sleep products and the Safe Sleep for Babies Act, the agency said.A study cited in the federal regulation of infant sleep products found that infants who sleep…

On the front lines just outside Bakhmut, Ukraine, a 32-year-old commander of a Ukrainian artillery platoon rocked back and forth in the passenger seat of a battered Lada as another soldier drove the car through a dense forest, sometimes mowing down young trees. When they reached their destination, a small village less than two miles from the Russian lines, all that remained were ruined houses, their broken roofs visible in the moonlight.The commander, a female soldier using the call sign Witch, is a former lawyer who, along with two of her brothers and her mother, joined the army the day…

“The really striking thing about Musk is the confusion between his big public persona and his very, very minimal philanthropic presence,” said Benjamin Soskis, who studies philanthropy at the Urban Institute. Where other billionaires aim for a broad impact on society, Mr. Soskis said Mr. Musk’s foundation lacks “any direction or real focus, outside of his business ventures.”Mr. Musk did not respond to requests for comment.A school for his childrenMr. Musk and his younger brother, Kimball, started the Musk Foundation in 2001, a year before PayPal, the online payments company he co-founded, was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. He…

Several Kansas City Chiefs fans who attended a playoff game on a cold January day in Missouri suffered frostbite that required amputations, according to the hospital that treated them.A dozen people — including some football fans inside Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 13 — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes, the hospital, Research Medical Center in Kansas City, said in a statement Saturday.The center said it treated dozens of patients who suffered frostbite during an 11-day cold spell. Not all amputation patients attended the Chiefs game. Some were people working outdoors in the extreme cold, the hospital said.The…

President Biden said Thursday that he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were headed for a “come to Jesus meeting” on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to an audio clip of the president’s remarks posted on social media Friday.Mr Biden’s comment underscores rising tensions between him and Mr Netanyahu in recent weeks, as the civilian death toll in Gaza has risen inexorably and Mr Biden has come under political pressure at home and abroad to do more to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire.In recent days, Mr. Biden had expressed hope that a ceasefire agreement of at least…

In December 2018, a team of federal law enforcement agents flew to Amsterdam to interview a witness in a years-long criminal investigation into Caterpillar, which had avoided billions of dollars in income taxes by shifting profits to a Swiss subsidiary.Hours before the interview was to begin, the agents were dismayed to hear that the Justice Department was telling them to cancel the long-scheduled meeting.The interview was never rescheduled, and the investigation would drag on for another few years before culminating in late 2022 with a Caterpillar victory. The Internal Revenue Service told the industrial giant to pay less than a…

In today’s high-tech, high-stakes automotive industry, fortunes can change quickly, and there’s no better example of that right now than Toyota Motor.Not long ago, it looked like Toyota was dangerously behind in electric vehicles. Tesla, the pioneer of electric cars, has grown rapidly to become the world’s most valuable automaker. Seeing Tesla’s success, other companies such as General Motors and Ford Motor concluded that large numbers of consumers were ready to switch to battery-powered cars and trucks, and began investing tens of billions of dollars to catch up.Toyota, however, was more deliberate — or lethargic, its critics would say. It…

As BMW bodies slid down an assembly line in Munich recently, showered with sparks from robotic welders, it was hard to tell which vehicles would be powered by batteries, fuel engines, or both. In the view of many analysts, this is not a good thing.The German automaker’s electric vehicles are built on the same assembly line as gasoline-powered cars and look similar on the outside. This approach, using the same basic body for electric, hybrid, gasoline and diesel cars, has been seen as an awkward and ineffective compromise that some established automakers have taken as they struggle to compete with…

It’s been more than five decades since Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” was offered a kernel of wisdom about the path to prosperity.”Plastics,” Mr. McGuire, the stuck-up corporate executive offering the advice, told him. “There is a great future in plastics.”Plastics have indeed changed the game for humanity, and the vast array of cheap, durable plastic items, from food containers and PVC pipes to polyester clothing and disposable medical products, have undeniably improved life.The problem, as almost everyone knows, is that plastics last forever and very little of it is recycled. The UN has estimated that most of the…

As most air travelers can attest, the experience at an airport security checkpoint can be anything but calm. There are many rules—often shouted by Transportation Security Administration officers—about what you can bring, how to arrange your belongings, and where to stand. Lines can be painfully long and tensions high. And throughout the process there are security officers.But at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, a new kind of security screening, unveiled by the TSA on Wednesday, is driven by the passengers themselves.The system, which uses video screens, facial recognition software and body scanners, is not about shaving off travel…