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WorkWorkFDA to Require ID From Smokers Under 30 - Inc.com (No paywall)Smokers under 30 need photo IDs to buy tobacco products, US FDA says(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has mandated more people show photo identification when buying tobacco products, as the health regulator raised the age verification requirement by three years.
WorkWhy Companies Should Embrace Disruptive Climate Activism - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Most companies’ climate targets are inadequate responses to the climate emergency. And while many companies are falling behind or exaggerating progress, other companies are responding by dialing back on their goals altogether. Employees, peer businesses, and activists are responding in turn. More disruptive management and corporate practices are urgently needed to address the climate emergency. The authors argue that instead of criminalizing and marginalizing climate activists — citing examples like and Amazon and ExxonMobil — companies should promote disruptive activism for their own well-being and for the global good. They cite three successful practices as well as companies that have implemented each: supporting external disruptive activism, enabling internally disruptive activism, and competing to disrupt. WorkLos Angeles County: the epicenter of urban maternity ward closings - STAT (No paywall)But when she received the text from her OB-GYN last week that the hospital will be closing its maternity ward and NICU in November, DeRoche felt a wave of disappointment and sadness. She’d enjoyed the experience of giving birth at the Glendale, Calif., hospital, calling it “a special place.” DeRoche said she has options, including giving birth at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, a mere 10- to 15-minute drive from her home in La Crescenta. But she’s uncertain where she’ll end up, or what the experience will be like — she’s recently heard stories about overcrowded area hospitals where deliveries are happening in the ER. The news about Verdugo Hills hit home: She knew about rural hospitals closing maternity wards, but not urban area hospitals.
WorkWorkThe Trump Arlington National Cemetery controversy, explainedIndependent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce.
WorkWhy NASA Has Cut Two Astronauts From the Next SpaceX FlightNASA's Nick Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch in September aboard a SpaceX rocket for the orbiting laboratory. The duo will return with Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore in February. NASA decided it’s too risky for Williams and Wilmore to fly home in their Boeing Starliner capsule, marred by thruster troubles and helium leaks. Work
WorkStrange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on EarthWhen I arrived at Wickford Harbor in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, early one June morning, the sea was moderately calm, with a distinct metallic sheen, like a wrinkled sheet of foil someone had tried to rub smooth. Vitul Agarwal, a young oceanographer, waved to me from beside a research trawler with the name Cap’n Bert painted on its hull. Dressed in jeans and a diamond-patterned sweater, Agarwal welcomed me aboard and introduced me to the captain, Steve Barber, whose grey hair spilled from the back of a baseball cap. Work
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WorkWork WorkWorkCrows Are Even Smarter Than We ThoughtCrows and ravens, which belong to the corvid family, are known for their high intelligence, playful natures, and strong personalities. They hold grudges against each other, do basic statistics, perform acrobatics, and even host funerals for deceased family members. But we keep learning new things about the savvy of these birds, and how widespread that savvy is among the corvid family. WorkWorkUS and Iraq launch joint raid killing 15 Islamic State militantsA coalition of more than 80 countries led by the US was formed to fight Islamic State, which lost its hold in Iraq and 2017 and in Syria in 2019. The militants have continued to operate in the Anbar desert in Iraq and Syria, while claiming attacks carried out by others elsewhere in the world. The IS branch in Afghanistan is known to carry out intensely bloody assaults. WorkDonald Trump at Moms for Liberty says Ivanka 'hired millions of people'Paula Steiner, a Republican activist from Vienna, Virginia, said in an interview that Trump is the one "standing in the way" of further attacks on parents' rights. "Tim Walz and Kamala Harris will do everything they can to make America the most liberal country we've seen," she added. "They will go beyond England [and] the other European countries." WorkAre American rents rigged by algorithms? - The Economist (No paywall)Imagine that you are about to enter a room with a group of nine other people. You will display a number—any between, say, 2,500 and 3,000. Once the group enters the room other players will start to come in. Each will choose one of your group, picking the lowest number. You do not know how quickly or slowly the other players will trickle in to pick from the group. What is the highest number you can display while still getting picked quickly? WorkWorkWorkMany Americans Dislike JD Vance. Donald Trump Isn't One of Them.In a quintessentially Trumpian display of bravado, the former president has privately praised Mr. Vance by comparing himself to Vince Lombardi, telling people that his eye for political talent was now on par with the Hall of Fame football coach’s ability to find Super Bowl-caliber players. WorkLeonard Riggio, 83, Dies; Founded Barnes & Noble and Upended PublishingThe company’s strong-arm practices upended the industry. Thousands of independent bookstores went out of business as Barnes & Noble grew. And Mr. Riggio — a dapper Brooklyn-raised liberal and art lover devoted to civil rights and Democratic causes — found himself roundly vilified as the publishing world’s most heinous bad guy and as a neighborhood killer and a philistine. WorkSomething's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals.In Michigan, among the first states to investigate the chemicals in sludge fertilizer, officials shut down one farm where tests found particularly high concentrations in the soil and in cattle that grazed on the land. This year, the state prohibited the property from ever again being used for agriculture. Michigan hasn’t conducted widespread testing at other farms, partly out of concern for the economic effects on its agriculture industry. WorkWorkGaza, Lebanon, West Bank: Why Is Israel Fighting So Many Wars?Despite the destruction of much of Hamas’s military infrastructure and tens of thousands of deaths, there is no end in sight to the war in Gaza, partly because Israel has set itself a high threshold for victory: the eradication of the Hamas leadership and the rescue of roughly 100 hostages still held by the group. By contrast, Hamas has a low threshold: It seeks to survive the war intact, a modest goal that allows it to weather a level of devastation that might have caused other groups to surrender. WorkAthlete Accused of Abuse Had Harassed Other Paralympians, Lawsuit ClaimsTwo years after sports safety authorities received Mr. Egbert’s report of abuse, that case also remains unresolved. The delay has renewed concerns about the effectiveness of that complaint system, created in 2017 in response to the revelation that the former physician for the American gymnastics team, Lawrence G. Nassar, had sexually abused hundreds of gymnasts. WorkWorkProtest from US after Kosovo closes Serbian officesUnrest in northern Mitrovica has increased since last year, when the Nato-led international peacekeepers force in Kosovo, known as KFor, stepped up its numbers and equipment along the Kosovo-Serbia border, including at the bridge in Mitrovica. WorkMiddle East crisis live: aid agency says four men killed by Israeli airstrike were a local escortThe EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has launched a process that could lead to sanctions on Israeli ministers he said were responsible for “unacceptable hate messages” against Palestinians. Borrell said he had begun consultations with the EU’s 27 member states on whether they consider it “appropriate including in our list of sanctions some Israeli ministers [who] have been launching unacceptable hate messages against the Palestinians” and made proposals that “go clearly against international law” and incite war crimes. WorkMet police officer charged with rape and stalkingPC Jake Cummings, attached to central west command unit, has been charged with two counts of rape, three counts of stalking, three counts of controlling and coercive behaviour and three counts of voyeurism. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkJapan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweekTo ensure none of the NS Group\'s workers feel penalized for choosing an alternative schedule, Ogino asks each of her 4,000 employees twice a year how they want to work. Asserting individual needs can be frowned upon in Japan, where you are expected to sacrifice for the common good. WorkWorkMore Voters, Especially Women, Now Say Abortion Is Their Top IssueBased on New York Times/Siena College polls of registered voters in seven battleground states conducted from August 6 to 15, 2024 and New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College polls of registered voters in six battleground states conducted from April 28 to May 9, 2024. WorkWorkTrump Contorts Himself on Abortion in Search of Political GainBack in 2022, the former president had told allies — as the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade — that the move would hurt his party. Since that year, when Republicans underperformed expectations in the midterm elections, Mr. Trump has been privately emphatic with advisers that in his view the abortion issue alone could kill their chances of victory in November. And he is willing to make as many rhetorical and policy contortions as he deems necessary to win. WorkWhistle-Blower Groups Push to End Secret Seizure of Congressional Communications“Blanket subpoenas for anybody who’s communicated with an office that may be conducting adversarial oversight — it’s a severe threat to institutional constitutional checks and balances,” said Tom Devine, the legal director of the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, a whistle-blower protection group. “It’s a severe threat to whistle-blowers who want to share their evidence in Congress, and is likely to have a chilling effect.” WorkProsecutors Seek Simpler Path in Election Case After Immunity Ruling, as Trump Seeks DelaysLaying out a proposed schedule that reached into the fall of next year, the lawyers told Judge Chutkan that they planned to challenge the indictment on the grounds that Mr. Smith was improperly appointed to his job as special counsel. In July, a federal judge in Florida used that same rationale to dismiss the other case Mr. Smith brought against Mr. Trump — the one accusing him of illegally holding onto dozens of classified documents after he left office. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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