The maker of a pancake and waffle mix sold at Walmart and Kroger issued a recall after it discovered “potential foreign material contamination” in products distributed across the U.S.In announcements the Food and Drug Administration issued last week, Continental Mills described the contamination as “fragments from a cable used to clear the processing line.” The…Continue Reading
A hacking group that previously took responsibility for attacks on Nvidia and Microsoft claimed Monday that it had compromised Okta, which provides “single sign-on” identity services to thousands of companies.Driving the news: Okta confirmed Tuesday there was an incident in January where hackers used a customer support worker employed by a third-party company to gain…Continue Reading
A powerful tornado struck the New Orleans area Tuesday evening, knocking out power to thousands of customers and causing extensive damage.The latest: Authorities in St. Bernard Parish, which borders New Orleans to the southeast, told reporters late Tuesday that at least one person had been killed after the tornado touched down in the area. There…Continue Reading
A fully paralyzed patient with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, has regained his ability to communicate via a new brain implant, according to a study published by European researchers in Nature Communications on Tuesday.Why it matters: The number of people diagnosed with ALS has risen every year and is projected to reach 300,000 by 2040.…Continue Reading
Most of us were reading less — until 2020.By the numbers: The average American read 20 minutes a day in 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey. That’s up 21% from 2019, and the most since the early 2000s.Print books had their best sales year of the decade in 2020. Sales climbed even higher last…Continue Reading
The Oklahoma House voted 78-19 Tuesday to ban all abortions unless it’s necessary for saving a pregnant person’s life.Why it matters: The bill, which would incentivize private citizens to sue anyone suspected of helping a person get an abortion, would surpass Texas’ six-week abortion ban to become the most restrictive in the nation.The bill now…Continue Reading
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told President Biden the White House needs to create a “Marshall Plan” to develop more domestic gas and other energy resources, Axios has learned.Why it matters: The Biden administration has been struggling to convince oil and gas companies to increase production more quickly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent prices…Continue Reading
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Tuesday vetoed a bill banning transgender children from playing school sports, noting in a letter explaining his veto that “rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few.”Driving the news: Cox is the second Republican governor this week, after Indiana’s Eric Holcomb, to veto legislation that…Continue Reading
For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS | Published: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 8:47 [IST] New Delhi, Mar 23: The problem of radicalisation in Kerala is nothing new. It has been often spoken about but successive governments have buried the issue and pretended as though everything is hunky dory. In…Continue Reading
For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS | Published: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 8:37 [IST] Lviv, Mar 23: Russian military forces have destroyed a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that among other things works to improve management of radioactive waste, the Ukrainian state agency responsible for the…Continue Reading
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