Month: February 2024

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it was proposing new regulations on how airlines must treat passengers in wheelchairs, an effort aimed at improving air travel for people with disabilities.Under the proposed rule, damaging or delaying the return of a wheelchair would be an automatic violation of an existing federal law that prohibits airlines from discriminating against people with disabilities. The Transportation Department said the change would make it easier for the agency to penalize airlines for mishandling wheelchairs.The proposed regulations would also require more robust training for workers who physically assist disabled passengers or operate their wheelchairs."There are millions…

The Center for Public Integrity, one of America's oldest and most historic nonprofit newsrooms, is considering merging with a competitor or closing amid top turmoil and financial difficulties that have exhausted its reserves significantly, according to two people with knowledge of the organization's internal workings.The nonprofit fell about $2.5 million short of its budget goal of about $6 million for 2023, according to the two people, who would speak only anonymously to protect their relationships within the organization. .This month, Paul Cheung, the organization's chief executive, resigned after an employee accused him of unethical behavior. The board also eliminated the…

Formula 1 has two new team names this season, following a trend in the sport of focusing on marketing: Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team and Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber.Sauber motorsports It has been racing since 1993 under various names, most recently as Alfa Romeo. For this season and the next it will take the name Stake, taking over from Audi in 2026."Before the arrival of Audi, we felt it was important to present ourselves with this new identity and have a commercial partnership," said Alessandro Alunni Bravi, representative of the Stake team. “The Sauber Group has been…

Hasta el momento, Apple TV+ no ha revelado muchos detalles sobre Constelación temporada 2. Sin embargo, podemos especular sobre algunas posibilidades basadas en la primera temporada: La historia: Es probable que la segunda temporada continúe la historia de los personajes principales, Joanna y Errol, y su viaje a través del multiverso. Nuevos personajes: Es posible que se introduzcan nuevos personajes para agregar complejidad a la trama y explorar nuevos universos. Mundos: La serie ya ha mostrado una gran variedad de mundos en la primera temporada, y es probable que la segunda temporada nos lleve a aún más lugares increíbles. Misterio:…

Macy's said Tuesday it would vastly overhaul its retail strategy and presence, closing about 150 Macy's stores over the next three years and expanding its upscale Bloomingdale's and Bluemercury chains.The moves put the stamp of the company's new CEO, Tony Spring, in an effort to improve the profitability of the largest U.S. department store operator and avoid a possible takeover bid.This is the second major reduction for the Macy's chain since 2020 and will leave the company with 350 stores, just over half of what it had before the pandemic.Macy's called the stores it planned to close “underproductive locations” that…

An independent federal agency has become one of the most trusted enforcers of President Biden's attempts to combat inflation, at a time when the White House has few weapons of its own to quickly reduce stubbornly high prices for consumer staples such as the edibles.The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Monday, joined by several state attorneys general, challenging a merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons. He agency foundation In many ways it echoed Biden's renewed attempts to blame corporate greed for rising prices and shrinking portions in supermarket aisles."If permitted, this merger would substantially reduce competition, likely resulting…

The Federal Reserve may have a housing problem. At the very least, you have a real estate conundrum.Headline inflation has decreased substantially over the past year. But housing has proven to be a tenacious and surprising exception. Housing costs rose 6 percent in January from a year ago and rose more rapidly on a monthly basis than in December, according to the Labor Department. That acceleration was a major reason for the rebound in overall consumer prices last month.The persistence of housing inflation poses a problem for Federal Reserve officials as they consider when to cut interest rates. Housing is…

Single-use insulin pens changed Brian Brandell's life.Growing up with type 1 diabetes in the 1970s, I had to carry glass syringes and insulin vials everywhere. So in 1985, when Novo Nordisk first introduced a disposable prefilled pen that combined multiple doses of medication with one syringe, Brandell quickly adopted the new device.“They were a blessing from heaven,” he recalled.But more recently, he began to weigh the effects of all the plastic in the pens he had thrown away over the years and the potential harm to people and their environment."I'm using this life-saving product," he said in frustration, "but in…

AT&T will offer a $5 credit to customers affected by a widespread outage Thursday caused by technical problems the company encountered while trying to expand its network, its CEO said Sunday.The outage, which began around 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time, temporarily cut connections for users across the United States.Some of the cities affected were Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York. according to Downdetector.comwhich tracks user reports of telecommunications and Internet outages.At its peak, the site had received about 70,000 outage reports from AT&T. Service was fully restored after about seven hours."No matter the timing, one thing is clear: We disappointed many…

The December day in 2021 that set off a revolution across the videogame industry appeared to start innocuously enough. Managers at a Wisconsin studio called Raven began meeting one by one with quality assurance testers, who vet video games for bugs, to announce that the company was overhauling their department. Going forward, managers said, the lucky testers would be permanent employees, not temps. They would earn an extra $1.50 an hour.It was only later in the morning, a Friday, that the catch became apparent: One-third of the studio’s roughly 35 testers were being let go as part of the overhaul.…