Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, one tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a young man interested in dating his daughter. It generated criticism, including from Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in […]
A huge fire broke out Saturday at the headquarters of a petrochemical facility in southeast Shanghai and at least one person died. The fire started around at 4 a.m. at an ethylene glycol processing unit owned by Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, a state-owned oil company whose headquarters are in an industrial park in the suburban Jinshan […]
WASHINGTON — Members of the World Trade Organization announced several agreements on Friday at the close of their first in-person ministerial conference in four years, pledging to rein in harmful government policies that have encouraged overfishing and relax some controls on intellectual property in an effort to make coronavirus vaccines more widely available. The agreements […]
Robert Habeck, the German economy minister, said Germany still had access to natural gas after Gazprom’s restrictions, but it would be more costly. Credit…Tobias Schwarz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Officials in Germany are urging residents and businesses to start conserving energy, as the country faced a third day of reduced flows of natural gas from […]
After at least 13 infant deaths in rockers manufactured by Fisher-Price, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned customers about the risks of inclined products for children in the first months of life. The deaths occurred in the past 12 years and were associated with the Infant-to-Toddler Rocker or Newborn-to-Toddler Rocker, according to an announcement […]
June 15, 2022, 1:05 p.m. ET June 15, 2022, 1:05 p.m. ET Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, has been predicting that the central bank might be able to pull off a “soft-ish” landing — cooling conditions down enough to allow supply to catch up without causing a painful recession. But markets increasingly doubt the […]
Vandalism, claims of torture and pressure campaigns are just some of the heavy-handed tactics enthusiasts have encountered in their quest to find a decent court to play their favorite sport: pickleball. A combination of badminton, tennis and Ping-Pong, pickleball was invented in 1965 as an easy-to-play pastime. After years of quiet popularity, it grew in […]
Natural gas prices in the United States plummeted 17 percent on Tuesday after an announcement that fire damage at a Texas gas export terminal would take several more months to repair, blocking large export volumes. Because Europe has grown increasingly dependent on American liquefied natural gas to replace Russian production, the news sent European natural […]
Before Rebel Wilson, the Australian actress and comedian, publicly revealed her new relationship, an Australian columnist who covers celebrities had given her representatives less than two days to comment before he published a column about the new couple. In a since-deleted column published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, the columnist, Andrew Hornery, said […]
U.S. stocks fell into bear market territory on Monday, a 20 percent decline from their peak in January, a sign of growing pessimism about the outlook for the economy. Markets around the world tumbled, as higher-than-expected inflation and lower-than-expected economic growth upend the outlook for interest rates and corporate profits. Stocks in Asia and Europe […]
