Dov Charney's Los Angeles Apparel Offers Up Factory Workforce for Mask Production to Combat Coronavirus

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Dreamers urge for protections in Senate hearing on immigrant youth
A Senate hearing focused on young immigrant youth known as "Dreamers," including DACA recipients, and possible avenues to create pathways for their legalization shows the growing political divide on an issue that had longtime bipartisan support and broad public support.
Associated Press
The $230 billion donor-advised fund industry gets an IRS hearing
Congress and the Biden administration are considering what, if anything, should be done to tighten restrictions on donor-advised funds, an increasingly popular way for donors to set aside money to spend on charitable causes. Driving the debates are questions about whether the country’s ultrawealthy are abusing the immediate tax deductions they receive from tucking money into DAFs, where the dollars can sit indefinitely or, more often, until donors decide which nonprofits to support. Many in the nonprofit world have opposed that characterization, arguing the accounts allow for an easy, no-frills style of giving that appeals to both wealthy and average American donors.
Yahoo Finance
Toyota issues muted profit forecast following blowout 2024 results
Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, reported blowout results for its fiscal year 2024, though investor response was muted as the company issued a conservative outlook, reflecting heavy investments that need to be made as its business transforms.
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Apple faces backlash for 'destructive' iPad ad featuring machine crushing books and instruments
Apple, a company famous in large part for its effective and stylish marketing, crushed it with its newest ad — literally, but not metaphorically.
AFP
Lebanon security source says five killed in Israeli strikes on south
A Lebanese security source said five people including two Hezbollah fighters were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, with a Palestinian armed group reporting three fatalities among its ranks.According to the Lebanese security source, "two Hezbollah fighters" were killed in an Israeli air strike on the border town of Adaisseh.
Yahoo Finance
Biden makes a Wisconsin stop to tout AI — and troll Trump's Foxconn flop
President Biden made a trip to the swing state of Wisconsin on Wednesday with two goals: tout an AI investment from Microsoft and highlight a past failure from Donald Trump.
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Suspect in Laken Riley killing indicted on murder, kidnapping and 'peeping tom' charges
A Georgia grand jury indicted the man accused of killing 22-year-old student Laken Riley on 10 charges, including malice murder and kidnapping, according to an indictment filed Tuesday in Superior Court of Clarke County.
AFP
2023 'year of record climatic hazards' in Latin America: UN
Latin America and the Caribbean had their warmest year on record in 2023 as a "double-whammy" of El Nino and climate change caused major weather calamities, the World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday."Unfortunately, 2023 was a year of record climatic hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said in a statement.
AFP
UK says to expel Russia defence attache for intel role
The UK government on Wednesday raised tensions with the Kremlin by announcing it would expel a Russian defence attache for being "an undeclared military intelligence officer".Measures included the expulsion of 23 undeclared Russian intelligence officers from the UK. har-pdh/imm
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1 in 24 New York City residents are millionaires, more than any other city
If it feels like everyone in New York City is richer than you, it might be because they probably are.
AFP
Suspect held in latest attack on German politicians
German police on Wednesday arrested a 74-year-old man suspected of hitting a former mayor of Berlin in the head, the latest in a rash of assaults against politicians in Germany.Officers arrested both suspects, police added, identifying them as a 34-year-old German man and a 24-year-old woman.
USA TODAY
US tornado activity ramps up: Hundreds of twisters reported in April, May
More than twice the average number of tornadoes were reported in April, making it the third busiest April on record. What now?
Associated Press
Southern Brazil is still reeling from massive flooding as it faces risk from new storms
Authorities in southern Brazil rushed Wednesday to rescue survivors of massive flooding that has killed at least 100 people, but some residents refused to leave belongings behind while others returned to evacuated homes despite the risk of new storms. Heavy rains and flooding in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul since last week also have left 128 people missing, authorities said. Staffers of the state’s civil defense agency told The Associated Press they have been struggling to persuade residents of the city of Eldorado do Sul, one of the hardest hit by the floods, to leave their homes.
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Arkansas cannot prevent 2 teachers from discussing critical race theory in classroom, judge rules
A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom, but he stopped short of more broadly blocking the state from enforcing its ban on “indoctrination” in public schools. U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky issued a narrow preliminary injunction Tuesday evening against the ban, one of several changes adopted under an education overhaul that Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law last year. The prohibition is being challenged by two teachers and two students at Little Rock Central High School, site of the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Reuters
US Republicans target noncitizen voting, as Trump keeps up false voter fraud claims
U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections, which is already illegal and rarely occurs, an effort meant to draw more attention to Donald Trump's false claims that U.S. elections are marred by widespread fraud. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has relied on the former president's support to hold off a bid to oust him from leadership by Republican hardliner Marjorie Taylor Greene, said the measure was aimed at preventing noncitizens from voting in November. Republicans say the legislation would provide a needed mechanism to safeguard voting by requiring states to collect proof of U.S. citizenship before registering voters and to purge their voter rolls of noncitizens.
Reuters
US FDA advises healthcare facilities to switch from Getinge's heart devices
The Cardiosave Hybrid and Rescue Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) are electromechanical systems that inflate and deflate balloons in the aorta to provide temporary support to the left ventricle. Getinge did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment. Getinge initiated 12 voluntary recalls in the U.S. for the device between Jan. 1, 2023 and April 11, 2024.
CNN
Black voters ask Supreme Court to back Louisiana’s congressional map in messy fight over race
Civil rights groups urged the US Supreme Court to step into Louisiana’s fraught and potentially far-reaching redistricting battle on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule against some White voters who claim the state legislature violated the Constitution when it drew a second majority-Black district in its congressional map.
Associated Press
Shopify tumbles on weak outlook after a very strong start to 2024
Shopify plunged Wednesday after the Canadian company that helps retailers with online sales warned of easing revenue growth and thinner margins in the current quarter. Shopify Inc. is predicting that revenue will climb by a high-teens percentage rate for the second quarter, well below the 23% jump in the first quarter. The e-commerce company anticipates quarterly gross margin will decrease by about 50 basis points compared with the first quarter, in which its gross margin was 51.4%.
Associated Press
Haley won 1 in 5 Indiana Republican voters in the presidential primary. She left the race in March
The ghost of Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign is ringing up significant support in state primaries despite her withdrawal from the race in March shortly before Donald Trump had clinched the Republican nomination. The backing for Haley — most recently in Indiana, where she grabbed more than 21% of the votes on Tuesday — signals persistent discontent among party voters with the former president. Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador who qualified for the Indiana ballot before she dropped out two months ago, has not endorsed Trump.
Reuters
Reaction to US decision to pause weapons shipment to Israel
U.S. lawmakers reacted to President Joe Biden's decision to suspend delivery of certain munitions to Israel that appeared to be a possible shift in U.S. policy, although the Pentagon said the move was not final. In opening remarks in the Senate, the top Senate Republican harshly criticized Biden as bending "under the heat of domestic political pressure from his party's anti-Israel base and the campus Communists who decided to wrap themselves in the flag of Hamas and Hezbollah." Speaking about the weapons delay in particular, McConnell accused Biden of "creating daylight between America and a close ally," adding that the decision was withheld from Congress and that "we still don't know key facts."

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