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Defaming Businesses Doesn't Protect Consumers

If the Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn't have enough data to enact a rule, it shouldn't be making informal recommendations either.

Reason

Unions who think Republicans are warming to labor rights are getting played

The Teamsters president took a gamble and accepted Trump’s invitation to speak at the Republican convention – it backfired

The Guardian - US

Amazon, Target and other retailers pull weighted infant sleepwear over safety fears

Federal regulators, medical experts and safe-sleep advocates have warned of the potential danger of weighted infant sleepwear, but manufacturers say their products have helped millions of families.

WEKU

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Republicans turn up the heat on a new culture war target: gas stoves

The possibility of the Biden administration regulating gas stoves due to new safety fears has the right wing fired up

The Guardian - US

Increasingly under fire as potential health hazards, gas stoves could be banned in 2023, top federal official says: ‘It’s a real possibility’

Citing studies that link gas stoves to health problems, including asthma in children, a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission official said his agency will begin a formal review process that could lead to new regulations.

Chicago Tribune

My guide to a deglobalising world

As nations retreat behind borders, a new global order offers new opportunities, argues Rana Foroohar — if we are willing to embrace them

Financial Times

Labor unions are hot, but their moment may not last

WASHINGTON — American labor leaders see this as a moment for radical change: Workers in Starbucks coffee shops and Amazon warehouses are rising up and demanding representation. Polls show millions more support unions or wish they had the chance to join them. President Biden, with majorities in both chambers of…

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From Simone Biles to Steve Jobs, meet all the Americans being awarded a Presidential Medal Of Freedom this week

Seventeen people will be awarded America's "highest civilian honour" this week. Here's who, and why they were chosen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

ABC News

Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Denzel Washington, Simone Biles, John McCain, among others

Biden’s honors list includes both living and deceased honorees from the worlds of Hollywood, sports, politics, the military, academia, and civil rights and social justice advocacy.

Chicago Sun-Times

From Gabby Giffords to Steve Jobs: Who’s on Biden’s presidential medal of freedom list?

White House says recipients ‘have overcome significant obstacles to achieve impressive accomplishments in the arts and sciences’

The Independent UK

Simone Biles, Steve Jobs to receive highest US civilian honour

Denzel Washington, Khizr Khan among 17 people, some deceased, who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Al Jazeera

Biden will award the Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords and others

The president will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, who also include Oscar-winning Denzel Washington, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe.

WEKU

Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords

The White House says President Joe Biden will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, with whom Biden served in the Senate

The Independent UK

Organizing and adding members are top goals for the newly elected AFL-CIO president

Elizabeth Shuler, the first woman ever elected president of the labor federation, is pledging a massive organizing drive over the next decade, with a goal of adding 1 million new union members.

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Government agency and Fisher-Price warn parents of over a dozen deaths from rockers

The Consumer Product Safety Commission advised parents advised to not let babies fall asleep in rockers after multiple deaths tied to Fisher-Price products.

The Independent UK

Fisher-Price issues warning after 13 infant deaths from rockers - what you need to know

No recall has been issued for the product, but parents are advised not to let newborns and toddlers sleep in the rockers

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