NEW YORK—Best Buy is recalling nearly 1 million pressure cookers and separate inner pots due to a defect that can cause hot foods to spew out, posing burn hazards. The recalled pressure cookers, sold under the brand Insignia, have incorrect volume markings on their inner pots that can cause consumers to overfill them. As a […]
DETROIT—The U.S. government is turning up the pressure on ARC Automotive to recall 67 million potentially dangerous air bag inflators by ordering the company to answer questions under oath and threatening fines if it doesn’t respond. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) argues that the recall is justified because two people have been killed in […]
Main Street creates two out of every three jobs in the United States. But higher interest rates have put serious pressure on small businesses. What kind of pressure? To find out, NTD spoke with Brent Garrett, small business expert and author of “Swirling the Drain: Why Small Businesses Fail and How to Stop the Leaks.”
A drug manufacturer announced this week it is recalling lots of blood pressure medication Quinapril after a cancer-causing impurity was discovered, according to an announcement carried by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. said that it is voluntarily recalling four lots of Quinapril tablets due to the presence of nitrosamine, which was observed in recent […]
Pfizer said on Monday that it is voluntarily recalling some of its blood pressure drug products and two authorized cheaper generic versions of the drug due to elevated levels of a potentially cancer-causing impurity. The pharmaceutical giant said it is recalling six lots of Accuretic (quinapril HCl/hydrochlorothiazide) tablets, one lot of quinapril and hydrochlorothiazide tablets, and four lots of […]
Britain’s official COVID-19 death toll has now passed 150,000. As quarantine requirements are causing staff shortages, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to decide whether to cut isolation time to five days. And NHS bosses are concerned that the vaccine mandate for front-line staff will make staff shortages worse.
TAIPEI/VILNIUS—Taiwan’s leadership will host a group of Lithuanian lawmakers next week amid a deepening spat between Beijing and Vilnius about the Baltic state’s decision to allow the self-ruled island to open a de facto embassy. Beijing downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania on Sunday in a show of anger over the de facto embassy move. The […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Lithuania’s foreign minister on Aug. 22 and agreed on “bilateral coordinated action” to help the country withstand pressure from China over its decision to develop ties with Taiwan, Lithuania said. The Chinese regime on Aug. 10 demanded that Lithuania withdraw its ambassador in Beijing and said it would recall China‘s envoy […]
The U.S. national debt is $28 trillion—that’s a quarter of a million dollars per taxpayer. Fed chair Jerome Powell says now is not the time to worry about the country’s debt—we can worry about that in the future. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is backing President Joe Biden’s potentially multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Both Yellen and Powell […]
WASHINGTON— The United States imposed terrorism sanctions on Iran’s envoy to the Houthis on Tuesday, a step possibly aimed at pressuring the group to reach an accord to end the five-year war in Yemen. The U.S. Treasury described Hasan Irlu as an official of Iran’s elite Quds Force, the overseas arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary […]
With just two months left to strike a Brexit deal, the pressure is mounting on all sides for UK prime minister Theresa May. As lawmakers return from summer recess, May’s strategy is under fire from within her own party and the EU, with yet more warnings over a “no deal” Brexit. The EU and UK […]
Police detonated a “pressure cooker type device” outside of a Connecticut elementary school Aug. 30. The school was ordered to shelter-in-place, but the police activity coincided with children arriving in buses to start the school morning, NBC Connecticut reported. The state police bomb squad was called in to handle the detonation. Some parents were upset […]
