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Trendy running shoe company On is being sued by some customers over what they claim is a defect in the shoes, which they allege emit “a loud, embarrassing and difficult-to-stop squeaking sound … with each step.”The class action lawsuit, filed Oct. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, claims the customers wouldn’t have bought the shoes if they had known about the noise. The complaint alleges that the squeak is caused by the company’s CloudTec shoe design, which relies on “hexagonal, octangular and ovular shaped holes that form the external landing surface of the shoes.” An…
Christian Pulisic was confirmed by AC Milan on Friday to have injured his right hamstring while playing in a friendly for the United States this week.”An MRI scan performed today revealed a low-grade tear in his right hamstring,” Milan said, adding Pulisic “will be reevaluated in approximately 10 days.”Injuries like that can heal in as few as three weeks and a city derby against Inter Milan on Nov. 23 is one target for Pulisic’s return. He has starred this season for Milan, which is third in Serie A.Pulisic seemed to overstretch his right leg in the first half of a…
For the first time in more than 60 years, CBS News will close out the week without a workspace in the Pentagon after declining — along with nearly every major news organization — to sign onto new press requirements that reporters’ associations say could infringe on their First Amendment rights. CBS News had radio correspondents in the building since the 1940s and a TV network booth, or mini-office, in an area designated for media since the 1970s. Over the past two decades, as the networks have been able to go live from the building, “on-air” lights flash on when major news…
Spain still topped the FIFA men’s world rankings published Friday that show Germany back on track to be a top-seeded team in the World Cup finals tournament draw on Dec. 5.Germany rose two places to No. 10 after back-to-back wins in a World Cup qualifying group against Luxembourg and Northern Ireland. Germany had lost its opening qualifier last month against Slovakia.Croatia, runner-up at the 2018 World Cup and a semifinalist in the 2022 edition, fell to No. 11 after drawing one of its games at the Czech Republic last week.The 12 top-seeded nations in the 48-team draw will be the…
[JAKARTA] Indonesia on Friday (Oct 17) launched a new economic stimulus package that includes cash handouts totalling US$1.81 billion for 35 million households, and will also extend a paid internship scheme that began in September, its chief economic minister said.The cash handouts will be distributed as early as next week and will last until the end of the year, Airlangga Hartarto told a press conference.The new package comes on top of a nearly US$1 billion stimulus announced in September, which consisted of food assistance, temporary jobs in construction and also launched the paid internship programme.The new stimulus will expand the…
Washington — The head of the White House Office of Management and Budget said Friday that the Trump administration will be pausing more than $11 billion in Army Corps of Engineers projects, including in four Democratic-led cities, continuing its efforts to increase pressure on Democrats as the government shutdown is poised to extend into another week.”The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers’ ability to manage billions of dollars in projects. The Corps will be immediately pausing over $11 billion in lower-priority projects & considering them for cancellation, including projects in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore,”…
The deals contribute to Singapore’s plans to import 6 GW of clean power by 2035[SINGAPORE] The Republic and Malaysia on Friday (Oct 17) announced updates on two efforts to boost energy trade: the import of 1 gigawatt (GW) of clean power from Sarawak, as well as a study into a new 2GW interconnection for the trade of electricity.The efforts reflect both countries’ “shared commitment to energy security, decarbonisation and regional growth”, said Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry and Malaysia’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation in a joint statement. On Friday, Singapore’s energy regulator granted Sembcorp Utilities, a…
NEW YORK :Wall Street stocks advanced and U.S. Treasury yields rebounded on Friday as investors assessed the health of regional banks and President Donald Trump said his face-to-face trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping are still on.All three major U.S. stock indexes gained ground after struggling for direction in early trading, and remained on course to notch weekly gains.Benchmark Treasury yields and the dollar turned higher, while gold pulled back after a record run sent the precious metal to all-time highs.Worries over potential systemic credit problems in the banking sector abated the day after Zions disclosed it would take…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will immediately pause, and consider canceling, over $11 billion in projects due to the government shutdown, Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought said Friday.”The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers’ ability to manage billions of dollars in projects,” Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said in an X post.The paused funds pertain to “lower-priority projects” in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston and Baltimore, Vought said.The Army Corps of Engineers, which provides a wide range of public engineering services and comprises more than 37,000…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is concerned about the health of the nation’s regional banks, after a few of them wrote off bad loans to commercial customers in the last two weeks and caused investors to wonder if there might be more bad news to come.Zions Bank, Western Alliance Bank and the investment bank Jefferies surprised investors by disclosing various bad investments on their books, sending their stocks falling sharply this week. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon added to the unease when he warned there might be more problems to come for banks with potentially bad…