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Fisher-Price on Thursday recalled two components of its Snuga Swings, which are designed to soothe infants by swaying back and forth, and warned parents that the products should not be used for sleep due to a risk that babies could suffocate. Between 2012 and 2022, Snuga Swings were linked to the deaths of five infants […]

The forecasts called for 13,000-mile per-hour winds in Chicago, 832-degree temperatures in Brazil, and slightly higher ones in Kenya. But those predictions, thankfully, were erroneous. They were the result of a glitch on the BBC Weather app that warned Thursday of disaster around the world. The BBC apologized for the mistake, and the forecasts were […]

This month Jonah Weiner made a purchase that was a cry for help. Or at least a new financial adviser. He spent $910 on a fleece pullover. “My wallet wept,” Mr. Weiner said. But, as Mr. Weiner, 43, the co-writer of the ur-cool guy fashion newsletter Blackbird Spyplane, pleaded, this was no prosaic Polartec. It […]

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will be making her pitch to Latino voters at a Las Vegas town hall on Thursday night. The town hall, hosted and broadcast by the Spanish-language network Univision, comes as Democrats have been losing ground with Latino voters, once a reliably blue voting block. While Harris continues […]

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel’s strategy in Lebanon, the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, and the death of an Indian business icon. Israel Fires on U.N. Peacekeepers Israeli forces fired on several positions used by United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Wednesday and Thursday. According to the Lebanese mission, known […]

NATO is devising a commercial space strategy as allied militaries realize just how much they might need industry’s satellites in wartime.  It will resemble the Pentagon’s six-month-old commercial space strategy, said Maj. Gen. Devin Pepper, deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and policy at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.  The U.S. strategy aimed to define […]

An eruption of particles from the sun collided with Earth on Thursday morning. The Space Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported that the solar particles, which were ejected on Tuesday evening, arrived at 11:15 a.m. Eastern time, traveling at nearly 1.5 million miles per hour. The center warned that […]

President Biden warned on Thursday that Florida was in for “a long haul” after Hurricane Milton, and for a second day in a row he singled out former President Donald J. Trump for spreading misinformation, telling him to “get a life, man.” Speaking from the White House, Mr. Biden also issued a direct appeal to […]

Tim Johnson, a Democratic senator from South Dakota who suffered a brain aneurysm in 2006, throwing his party’s narrow majority into question for months, then not only returned to work but also won a third term, died on Tuesday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 77. A spokesman for his family said the cause of […]

"He just went, ‘f--k off. You’re a food writer,’” Tom Parker Bowles recalled.