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The Hidden California Tax on Everything You Buy Source link
The U.S. is one step closer to selling sunscreen products similar to those you might find in cosmetics stores across Europe, Australia and parts of Asia. More than 20 years after chemical manufacturer DSM Nutritional Products first applied for approval, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to an active sunscreen ingredient bemotrizinol (beh-moe-TRI-zinol), sometimes called BEMT, which protects people against harmful ultraviolet radiation. Dermatologists are enthusiastic about the ingredient’s upcoming introduction to U.S. products. “It expands the available options for UV protection in the U.S.,” said Dr. Marisa Garshick, a clinical dermatology professor at New York Presbyterian-Weill…
Right now, the indicators still seem to point toward a House controlled by Democrats, but by a smaller margin than was originally thought. Source link
There’s vastly too much hand-wringing over President Trump’s diplomacy and potential dealmaking with Iran, and it’s coming from friends and foes alike. I think it has more to do with America’s crumbling political infrastructure, than it does regarding the merits of Mr. Trump’s efforts. First of all, the so-called memorandum of understanding is a nonbinding political document which simply outlines topics to be covered in the months ahead for some kind of final deal. Some people are taking parts of this MOU completely out of context for their own political gain. Let’s step back for a moment. Over the past…
Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Injustice System newsletter. The month of June is rapidly coming to a close, and the U.S. Supreme Court has officially begun its mad dash to the finish line, aiming to release all opinions in argued cases by either the end of the month or—judicial vacation plans permitting—by sometime in early July. How are the justices doing in terms of the workload? Well, a little over a month ago, I wrote about the “11 big cases that I’ll be watching out for in the weeks ahead.” As of this writing, a whopping…
Good intentions and personnel changes at the Federal Reserve can’t rewrite the deeper structural reality of inflation and economic instability. Kevin Warsh’s ascension to Chair will be another case in point: a case study in cautious optimism meeting institutional reality. A former Fed Governor (2006–2011), investment banker, and Bush administration veteran, Warsh brings experience, a monetarist-leaning skepticism of recent Fed overreach, and a welcome emphasis on price stability. Yet the core constraints remain: the Fed exerts significant control over the price of money—not the actual quantity in circulation—and enhanced forecasting cannot eliminate the inherent unpredictability of complex economies. Warsh, now 56, earned a BA in public policy from…
Bleached coral covered with. algae. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 fr It’s official: El Niño is back. By late fall 2026, forecast models give a 2-in-3 chance of a strong-to-very strong El Niño affecting the weather, climate and ocean temperatures across the planet. El Niño is the climate system’s biggest player and one side of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. It’s the heads to La Niña’s tails. During El Niño, a swath of ocean stretching 6,000 miles (about 10,000 kilometers) westward off the coast of Ecuador warms for months on end, typically by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit (about…
Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within seconds Wednesday evening, killing at least 164 people, injuring nearly 1,000, and sending residents fleeing into the streets as buildings collapsed in Caracas and coastal communities, officials said. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 7.2 quake hit near Yumare, west of Caracas, followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 quake in the same area. The agency said that the final death toll would probably reach thousands and could exceed 10,000. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez declared the Venezuelan province of La Guaira a…
From the Ohio State Employment Relations Board in In re City of Youngstown, decided in December by Chair W. Craig Zimpher, Vice Chair Sandra Drabik Collins, and Board Member Robert Walter, but just posted on Westlaw: City violated RC 4117.11(A)(1) when Fire Chief yelled at, physically threatened, uttered racially oriented names (i.e., “punk ass white boys”), and accused Union President and Vice President of being “racist” when they requested information about, and demanded to bargain over, effects of offering EMT class to bargaining unit employees, constituting restraint and coercion in exercise of rights guaranteed to them. City violated RC 4117.11(A)(1)…
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Three progressive candidates emerged victorious from U.S. congressional primaries in New York on Tuesday, overcoming millions of dollars in spending by corporate interests and AIPAC with grassroots campaigns that centered the working class. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller, defeated Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman in New York’s 10th Congressional District, nearly doubling the incumbent’s vote count with over 90 percent of ballots tallied. In New York’s 13th, Darializa Avila Chevalier — who was recruited by Justice Democrats — defeated five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat. Claire Valdez, a New York state assembly member…