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☆ Woman sues McDonald's over hot coffee spill nearly thirty years after the original infamous coffee lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Nancy Luna | Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A San Francisco woman is suing McDonald's over a hot coffee that spilled and burned her. The coffee spilled and gave her severe burns in her groin area, the court filing said. The most famous scalding incident came in 1994 when 79-year-old Stella Liebeck sued McDonald's for a hot coffee burn. Liebeck initially received a $2.9 million jury award after receiving third-degree burns from spilled McDonald's coffee. Years later in 2014, a Los Angeles woman sued McDonald's for allegedly serving her a hot coffee drink that badly burned her.

Persons: McDonald's, Mable Childress, San Francisco McDonald's, Childress, Peter Ou, Stella Liebeck, Liebeck Organizations: Service, San Locations: Francisco, Wall, Silicon, San Francisco, Los Angeles

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been charged with performing acupuncture without a license after he punctured a woman's lungs during treatment, sending her to a hospital for emergency surgery, prosecutors announced. Jiang began to feel unwell during the last session on Oct. 28, Katz said in a news release. Lin performed additional acupuncture and a cupping treatment and sent Jiang home, Katz said in a news release. A bystander called 911 and Jiang was taken to a hospital where it was determined that both of her lungs had collapsed because of the acupuncture treatments. Lifesaving surgery was performed and Jiang remained hospitalized for six days.

Persons: Yong De Lin, Jiang, Melinda Katz, Lin, Katz, Lin “, ” Lin, Kathleen Gallo, didn't Organizations: Queens Locations: York City, Flushing, New York

☆ Boebert's 'Beetlejuice' incident at a Denver theater was beyond embarrassing and voters are sick of it, says her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Lauren Boebert's Democratic challenger thinks her "Beetlejuice" incident was embarrassing. Boebert and her date were kicked out of a "Beetlejuice" performance in Denver last week. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe congresswoman's campaign manager initially denied reports that Boebert had been vaping during the performance, but surveillance footage showed Boebert vaping in her seat. "She even lied about her lie," Frisch told Sanders-Townsend on Sunday. I was laughing, I was singing, having a fantastic time," Boebert told the outlet.

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☆ Sporadic protests continue in Iran as Mahsa Amini anniversary passes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Newspapers, with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police" are seen in Tehran, Iran September 18, 2022. Iran International, a London-based television station critical of the Iranian government, in February said it was moving its live broadcasting studios to the United States following threats it faced in Britain. "(Iran) International is a terrorist network, and we will take action wherever and whenever we recognise any terrorist act," the semi-official news agency Fars quoted the minister, Esmail Khatib, as saying. AMINI 'INSPIRED A MOVEMENT'In the demonstrations that followed Amini's death more than 500 people, including 71 minors, were killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested, rights groups said. Iran's Foreign Ministry rejected as "double standards and lies" Western expressions of support for women's rights in Iran.

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☆ Lauren Boebert says she 'genuinely' doesn't remember vaping at 'Beetlejuice' show after surveillance video is released
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized after footage of her behavior while watching "Beetlejuice" was released. Boebert, who initially said she did not vape at the show, said she "genuinely" did not recall doing so. A pregnant woman who asked Boebert to stop vaping told the Post that Boebert lashed out and called her a "sad and miserable person." In the video, Boebert appears to be seen putting something to her lips and blowing out aerosol mist. Boebert said in a statement sent to Insider that she "genuinely did not recall vaping that evening" when speaking with her team about what had happened.

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☆ Iran's security forces crack down on protests a year after Mahsa Amini's death
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, which said the incident was linked to the protests, said special forces entered the ward, beat up the women and fired pellet bullets. In a separate incident, human rights group Hengaw said security forces opened fire in the Kurdish city of Mahabad, wounding at least one person. Earlier, social media and reports by rights groups spoke of security forces taking up positions around Amini's home in Saqez, in western Iran. Speakers led the crowd in chants of "Say her name ... Mahsa Amini," and also recited "We are the revolution" and "Human rights for Iran!" Iran's Etemad daily reported in August that the lawyer for Amini's family also faced charges of "propaganda against the system".

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☆ Lauren Boebert's divorce is likely to be finalized next month, and it's unclear if her husband is cooperating
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's divorce will likely be finalized next month. According to the court docket, Boebert and Jayson Boebert have a non-contested hearing scheduled for October 10. The Daily Mail claimed the unnamed patron was a bar owner, whom the tabloid claimed Boebert has been dating for months. Lauren Boebert for CongressMany of the records in Boebert's divorce proceedings are not publicly available. What remains unclear is to what extent if any Jayson Boebert is now cooperating.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Varshan Brown was charged with murder and taken to trial after sheriff's deputies fatally shot his cousin in a violent drug raid at Brown's southeast Georgia home. But jurors concluded the death of his cousin, Latoya James, wasn't Brown's fault. James was killed May 4, 2021, after deputies with a search warrant for drugs came to Brown's darkened home at about 5 a.m. Body camera video released prior to the trial showed deputies announcing themselves and then immediately forcing their way inside. He was the only deputy equipped with a body camera during the raid, Higgins said.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in federal prison in the carjacking of a U.S. congresswoman's sport utility vehicle in a Philadelphia park almost two years ago. Josiah Brown, 21, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Brown, then 19, said he didn’t know who the congresswoman was and his weapon was unloaded. He also didn't know that the vehicle had a tracker that quickly led authorities to his Wilmington home. Brown was charged with federal counts of carjacking and brandishing a gun during a violent crime, which carries a seven-year mandatory minimum term.

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☆ How Justin Roiland used his ‘Rick and Morty’ fame to pursue young fans, text messages show
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kat Tenbarge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +22 min

Roiland frequently followed and interacted with the starstruck "Rick and Morty" fans on social media and dating apps. "However, now that the legal case has ended, I'm determined to move forward and focus both on my creative projects and restoring my good name," Roiland wrote. Haha," Roiland wrote. Veronika Sweeney tweeted screenshots of direct messages Roiland sent her in 2014 when she was 22. "But I felt like you weren't okay," Roiland wrote in another text message.

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☆ A paralyzed woman couldn't speak for more than 20 years. With AI, now she can — just by thinking.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A development in neurotechnology has given a stroke survivor her voice back after nearly 20 years. The woman had a brain stem stroke that left her paralyzed and unable to speak at age 30. Her new implant uses AI to decode brain signals and convert them to computerized speech. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe neurotechnology uses artificial intelligence to decode the woman's brain signals while she tries to speak. It's amazing I have lived this long; this study has allowed me to really live while I'm still alive!"

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They claim the Florida Constitution's privacy clause for more than 40 years has explicitly protected a right to abortion in the state. Florida officials contend the Supreme Court has in the past erroneously concluded the privacy clause covers abortion rights when it was actually intended more as a guard for “informational privacy, like the disclosure of private facts." The six-week ban DeSantis signed into law earlier this year would take effect 30 days after a Supreme Court decision to affirm the current ban. The privacy clause was put into the Florida Constitution by a voter referendum in 1980 and later affirmed as including abortion rights by the state Supreme Court. An appeals court overturned the injunction, bringing the case before the state Supreme Court.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, —, Dobbs, Roe, Wade, ”, Jennifer Canady, Charles Canady Organizations: Republican Gov, GOP, Planned, American Civil Liberties Union, Voters, Supreme, Republican, American College of Obstetricians, American Medical Association Locations: Florida, Tallahassee, “, U.S, Leon

☆ Factbox: Who is attending the G20 summit in New Delhi?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

People stand infront of Nataraja, a statue of Hindu lord Shiva as the cosmic dancer, installed next to 'Bharat Mandapam', the main venue of the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, September 7, 2023. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies kick off an annual summit meeting on Saturday to coordinate policy on food security, debt problems of vulnerable countries and climate action. Here is a list of those attending and some key leaders who are skipping the meeting in the Indian capital, New Delhi. G20 LEADERS:ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT ALBERTO FERNANDEZ AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVABRITISH PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZINDIAN PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI INDONESIAN PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODOITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONIJAPANESE PRIME MINISTER FUMIO KISHIDA SAUDI ARABIA'S CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMANSOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT YOON SUK-YEOLTURKISH PRESIDENT TAYYIP ERDOGAN U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDENEUROPEAN UNION: PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION URSULA VON DER LEYEN AND PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, CHARLES MICHELSPECIAL INVITEES:BANGLADESH PRIME MINISTER SHEIKH HASINAEGYPT PRESIDENT ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISIMAURITUIUS PRIME MINISTER PRAVIND KUMAR JUGNAUTHNETHERLANDS PRIME MINISTER MARK RUTTE NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU OMAN'S SULTAN HAITHAM BIN TARIK AL-SAID SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG UAE PRESIDENT SHEIKH MOHAMMED BIN ZAYEDOTHERS ATTENDINGU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet YellenThe heads of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, the World Trade Organisation, the International Labour Organisation, the Financial Stability Board and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. NOTABLE MISSING GUESTSCHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING (represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang)MEXICAN PRESIDENT ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADORRUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN (represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov)Sources: Reuters, officials, state media and domestic mediaCompiled by Aftab Ahmed and Shivangi Acharya; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Raju GopalakrishnanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ I left Russia and moved to Florida. These were the 5 biggest culture shocks.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Anastasia Chernikova | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Elena Brandt grew up in Moscow and moved to Florida in 2018 with her husband. AdvertisementAdvertisementOur relationship progressed quickly; in 2018, I got my visa and moved to Florida. In the five years since moving to Florida, I've started a business, had two children, and worked through grad school. Russia has a much better deal for working mothersRussia offers working mothers more support than in the U.S. When my third baby was born in 2021 in Florida, I was working part-time and teaching at a university.

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☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Wells Fargo Securities' Mike Mayo on Goldman Sachs
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Wells Fargo Securities' Mike Mayo on Goldman SachsMike Mayo, managing director and senior banking analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss issues weighing on Goldman Sachs, the downfall of with Goldman Sachs' consumer business program, and the strategic plan David Soloman's has for Goldman Sachs.

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☆ Goldman Sachs waited too long to retreat from consumer banking, says Mike Mayo
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGoldman Sachs waited too long to retreat from consumer banking, says Mike MayoMike Mayo, managing director and senior banking analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss issues weighing on Goldman Sachs, the downfall of with Goldman Sachs' consumer business program, and the strategic plan David Soloman's has for Goldman Sachs.

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☆ Abortion rights at stake as Florida court weighs DeSantis-backed ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 8 (Reuters) - The future of abortion rights in Florida will be at stake on Friday when the state's highest court hears arguments over whether the Florida constitution protects the right to end pregnancies. The case before the conservative Florida Supreme Court concerns the state's current ban on most abortions after 15 weeks, which took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned a national right to abortion. The outcome will also determine the fate of a stricter six-week ban, which has been on hold since Governor Ron DeSantis signed it into law in April. One justice, Charles Canady, is married to a state representative who co-sponsored the six-week ban. But if the court throws out the 1989 decision, Torres-Spelliscy said, it would be nearly impossible to mount a successful legal challenge to the six-week ban.

Persons: Octavio Jones, Ron DeSantis, Charlie Crist, Charles Canady, Ciara Torres, Torres, Spelliscy, Joseph Ax, Colleen Jenkins, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Woman's Health, REUTERS, Florida Supreme, U.S, Supreme, Republican, Stetson University, Thomson Locations: Clearwater , Florida, U.S, Florida

☆ At least 24 House members have spent taxpayer money on their Twitter accounts — and they're overwhelmingly Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

24 House members have reported spending taxpayer money on their official Twitter accounts this year. A recently-published government report on House members' office spending — encompassing April through June of this year — shows that 19 Republicans and 5 Democrats reported spending official funds on "Twitter Paid Features," recently rebranded as "X Premium." Additionally, the amount of money that offices are spending on Twitter is relatively minuscule compared to other expenses. In addition to lawmakers' personal offices, several House committees have spent money on enhanced Twitter features, including the Committees on the Budget, Financial Services, Oversight and Accountability, and Rules. Here are the 5 House Democrats who have spent taxpayer money on Twitter:Rep. Brendan Boyle of PennsylvaniaRep. Joaquin Castro of TexasRep. Jason Crow of ColoradoRep. Maxwell Frost of FloridaRep. Johnathan Jackson of IllinoisAdvertisementAdvertisementAnd here are the 19 House Republicans who have spent taxpayer money on Twitter:

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The lawsuit argued Select Structural Engineering didn't identify the risk of collapse, the danger of such a collapse and repairs that would have avoided a collapse. “At no time did Select Structural opine that the defects in the west wall would require an evacuation of the building,” the lawsuit said. In the email, Van De Wiele wrote, “He was frustrated and whispered to me that ‘the whole side is going to come down. '”Van De Wiele wrote that he told Haut he should tell supervisors Rich Oswald or Beth Bringolf. Since the building collapsed, residents have filed several lawsuits arguing that the building owner, engineering company and city officials were negligent.

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☆ Oman's OQ Gas Networks plans Muscat's biggest IPO in almost two decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Hadeel Al Sayegh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

OQGN is Oman's exclusive gas transportation system operator, supplying natural gas to the country's power plants, freezones, industrial clusters, LNG complexes and other customers. OQ, directly and indirectly through Oman Energy Trading Company Limited and Oman Oil Services Limited, is offering up to 49% of the shares, the document said. The company plans to pay a semi-annual dividend in cash to investors after the offering. A first dividend of 33 million rials for the first nine months of 2023 is estimated to be paid around January next year, and a second dividend of 11 million rials for the last three months of 2023 will be paid around April, 2024. Reuters first reported the IPO plans for the company last May.

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☆ New Zealand: 'Dinner plate sized' device found inside woman's abdomen 18 months after cesarean birth
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A surgical tool the size of a dinner plate was found inside a woman’s abdomen 18 months after her baby was delivered by cesarean section, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner. The AWR is a retractable cylindrical device with a translucent film used to draw back the edges of a wound during surgery. The woman suffered months of chronic pain and went for several checkups to find out what was wrong, including X-rays that showed no sign of the device. New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner, Morag McDowell, found Te Whatu Ora Auckland – the Auckland District Health Board – in breach of the code of patient rights, in a report released on Monday. Dr Mike Shepherd, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand group director of operations for Te Toka Tumai Auckland, apologized for the error in a statement.

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☆ Warren Buffett dumps stock, regulators open probes as claims of abuse and fraud mount against a top Globe Life agency
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Susan Antilla | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Five other current or former agents confirmed to Insider that some Arias agents wrote up policies in the names of fictional people or people who were dead. Amy Williamson, an attorney who represents dozens of current and former Arias agents in civil claims, said she received an inquiry from a US attorney's office. With regard to Insider's specific questions about Globe, AIL, and Arias, she said, "It is the Company's policy not to comment." Lusty asked questions about Russin's campaign of aggressive social-media posts since Zinsky filed suit, Williamson said, including posts about his gun purchases. Since Zinsky filed suit against him, Russin has made a string of threatening social media posts featuring firearms.

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☆ Australia: Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman's brain in world first
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The finding unleashed a mad scramble to find out what exactly the parasite was, Canberra Hospital infectious disease expert Sanjaya Senanayake told CNN. “We were able to send the live wiggling worm to him, and he was able to look at it and immediately identify it,” Senanayake said. In this case, the patient was likely an accidental host of the worm, Senanayake said. “There’s more opportunities for humans, domestic animals and wild animals to interact with each other and the vegetation that’s out there. And of those emerging infections, about 75% were zoonotic, meaning there has been transmission from the animal world to the human world – including coronaviruses.

Persons: Dr, Hari Priya Bandi, ” Bandi, Sanjaya Senanayake, “, ” Senanayake, ”, Senanayake, Hossain M, Kennedy KJ, Wilson HL Senanayake Organizations: CNN, Australian National University, Canberra Hospital, Wilson, US Centers for Disease Control, Prevention Locations: Canberra, New South Wales, Australia

☆ Employee Discrimination: Women of All Ages Face Sexism at Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But she was taken aback by the extent to which middle-aged women like O'Neill reported experiencing age-related discrimination at work. "When men get to their 40s or 50s, they're considered to be in the prime of their careers," Diehl told me. In one 2019 poll of 400 US workers ages 40 and older, more men than women reported experiencing or witnessing age discrimination on the job. Research has also found that older job seekers face age discrimination regardless of gender, despite a 56-year-old federal law that purportedly protects against older-age discrimination in employment. It's undeniable that workplace age discrimination occurs across gender lines, but the qualitative experiences surfaced by Diehl, Stephenson, and Dzubinski help paint a picture of how an open culture around age discrimination can ultimately end up fueling good, old-fashioned sexism.

Persons: Julie O'Neill, O'Neill, Julie, WCPO, —, ageism, pats, Amy Diehl, wasn't, they're, Diehl, It's, Amber L, Stephenson, Leanne, dory, she'd, Kelli María Korducki Organizations: Cincinnati Bengals, Harvard Business, Companies, Research Locations: COVID, midlife, Cincinnati, WCPO, New York City

☆ Women Face Age Discrimination at Every Age, According to a New Study
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

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