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☆ Top Democrats in Philadelphia Mayoral Race Call for More Policing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Scott Calvert | Photographs Rachel Wisniewski For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PHILADELPHIA—The five Democrats best positioned to win their party’s nomination for Philadelphia mayor have each landed on a central pitch to voters: The city needs a bigger role for police. In response to historically high crime, the top Democratic candidates have called for measures such as more patrol officers, bolstered detective ranks and faster 911 response, and they are debating the merits of police investigative stops—often called “stop-and-frisk”—as a tool for getting illicit guns off the streets. They have also called for expanded violence-prevention efforts, increased youth employment and other steps that don’t involve law enforcement, but the role of police has dominated the debate.

☆ AT&T Adds Wireless Subscribers but Growth Cools
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Will Feuer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

AT&T’s quarterly revenue rose by nearly 1.4% to $30.1 billion, just shy of expectations. Photo: Rachel Wisniewski for The Wall Street JournalAT&T Inc. continued to add subscribers for its core wireless business during the first three months of the year, but its customer gains are cooling down after a pandemic-driven boom. The Dallas-based telecommunications company said Thursday it added 424,000 of its most lucrative connections—postpaid phones—in the March quarter, matching Wall Street’s expectations but the lowest tally AT&T has recorded since early in the Covid pandemic.

☆ AT&T Sees Signs of Businesses, Consumers Paring Back Spending
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Will Feuer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

AT&T is the first telecom heavyweight to report results for the March quarter. Photo: Rachel Wisniewski for The Wall Street JournalAT&T Inc. executives said the recent rounds of corporate cost cutting and layoffs as well as the return of employees to offices are denting business demand for wireless plans. Chief Executive John Stankey said Thursday that the company is also seeing signs that some Americans, particularly those with lower incomes, are tightening their budgets.

☆ A tour guide recalls the terrifying moment he was swallowed by a hippo and had his arm crushed
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Paul Templer barely survived a hippo attack after a pod capsized his group's canoe when he was 28. He found himself inside a hippo's mouth three times and was swallowed up to his waist twice. "It was as if I had suddenly gone blind and deaf," Templer told The Guardian in 2013. Templer survived being in the hippo's mouth three timesA hippo is shown in Botswana. A third time, Templer found himself inside the hippo's mouth, this time with arms and legs dangling either side of its mouth.

☆ Hippo attacks: How to avoid one of Africa's most dangerous animals
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

“Hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them,” Lewison said. Larger vessels can offer more protection from a sudden hippo attack. photocech/Adobe StockGet to know the signs of disturbed hippos, Muruthi advised, in case you wander too closely. … If you slap the water, the percussion 99.9 times out of 100 will turn the hippo,” Templer said. Remember to suck in air if on the surface.”Another hippo attack survivor in this National Geographic video also was able to conserve her breath.

☆ Pfizer's Covid drug Paxlovid may reduce the risk of developing long Covid, study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

(Photo by Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post)People who take Pfizer 's Covid antiviral treatment Paxlovid shortly after infection may reduce their risk of developing long Covid, regardless of their age, vaccination status or infection history, new research suggests. The study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Thursday, found that people who took Paxlovid within five days of a positive Covid test saw a 26% lower risk of long Covid compared with those who didn't receive it. The new study comes as researchers work to fill the knowledge gap about long Covid, an often debilitating condition with limited data and no proven treatment available. Long Covid refers to new, returning or ongoing health issues more than four weeks after an initial Covid infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She called the new study "very exciting and promising" because it's the first to show an association between Paxlovid and a decreased risk of long Covid.

☆ Shoplifting Climbs as In-Store Shopping Returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Suzanne Kapner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Rachel Wisniewski for The Wall Street JournalTarget says theft and other shortages are expected to reduce its gross margins for the recently completed fiscal year. Retailers say theft is rising as more people shop in stores, cutting into profits that were already under pressure. “We definitely had an uptick since last year,” Macy’s Chief Executive Jeff Gennette told analysts earlier this month. “It’s an industrywide trend.”

[1/2] The logo for AstraZeneca is seen outside its North America headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., March 22, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski/Companies AstraZeneca PLC FollowLONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Britain's business climate is deterring biopharma companies from investing in the country, AstraZeneca (AZN.L) chief Pascal Soriot said on Thursday, highlighting his company's decision to shift plans for a new manufacturing plant to Ireland. He highlighted AstraZeneca's recent decision to build a manufacturing facility in Ireland instead of the UK as evidence of Britain becoming less attractive for drugmakers. The decision, made in 2021, was also linked to the UK government's Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access (VPAS), a company spokesperson added. Reporting by Natalie Grover and Maggie Fick Editing by Tomasz Janowski, Barbara Lewis and Susan FentonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ U.S. retail sales fall after hefty gains; labor market still tight
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Lucia Mutikani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Economists also noted that goods prices tumbled in November, which could have weighed on retail sales last month. Retail sales fell 0.6% last month, the biggest drop since December 2021, after an unrevised 1.3% jump in October. Online retail sales decreased 0.9%, which was at odds with reports of strong Black Friday sales. Sales at food services and drinking places, the only services category in the retail sales report, increased 0.9%. Data for October was revised lower to show these so-called core retail sales increasing 0.5% instead of 0.7% as previously reported.

☆ Go ahead. Go crazy with avocados. There's a massive glut and prices are cooling off
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNNBusiness —There’s at least one item in the grocery store that is getting less expensive: avocados. A significant supply glut of the buttery fruit has triggered a drop in wholesale prices, sending store prices lower as well. A glut of global avocado supply has triggered a significant drop in prices. “In the first half of 2022, avocado shipments from Mexico were 25% lower compared to the record-high shipments we saw in 2021,” said Magana. Those regulations were quickly lifted, but not before causing a further run-up in store prices.

☆ Texas judge overrules ban on 18-to-20-year-olds carrying handguns because they were 'part of the militia in the founding era'
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-27 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A federal judge in Texas has overturned the state's ban on allowing people 18 to 20 to carry a handgun. Firearms Policy Coalition challenged the Texan law, saying it violated the Second Amendment. The ruling is the first since the Supreme Court dramatically expanded Second Amendment rights in June. As per the new ruling, the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual right to carry weapons in public for self-defense. A girl mourns at a makeshift memorial outside Uvalde County Courthouse in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022.

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