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New York’s Grieving Families Act Vetoed for a Third Time
On December 21, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York vetoed, for a third time, the Grieving Families Act (“Act”), a significant bipartisan legislative proposal in New York aimed at reforming the state’s wrongful death statute, which has remained largely unchanged since 1847. The Act’s provisions, including expanding recoverable damages, extending the statute of limitations,…
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Using Sport Nets
On December 19, 2024, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) unilaterally issued a warning to consumers to stop using Sport Nets 4’ x 8’ portable soccer goals. According to CPSC, an exposed metal tip at the top of the vertical poles on the soccer goal poses a hazard if a consumer falls onto the tip…
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Tenth Circuit Hears Challenge to Lower Court’s Ruling on High-Powered Magnets
Continuing the Zen Magnets saga, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) faces a challenge to a rule banning products containing small, high-powered, separable magnets. CPSC has asserted that these kinds of small, high-powered magnets can cause serious medical issues when more than one magnet is swallowed because the magnets attract each other through internal body…
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Trump Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ as Feud Escalates Over Ukraine Peace Talks
President Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator without elections” after the Ukrainian president said Mr. Trump was in a “web of disinformation.”
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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp
The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.
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Alarmed by Trump’s Gaza Plan, Arab Leaders Brainstorm on Their Own
Since President Trump suggested depopulating Gaza, Arab officials have offered other ideas for reconstruction. But the emerging consensus repackages old plans as new ones.
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Jet-Skis in Rwanda. Bodies Ashore in Congo.
The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same lake was recently the site of devastation and misery after a rebel offensive.
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As Moscow and Washington Discuss Ukraine, Russians Hope for Normalcy
Many people in Russia expressed relief that an end to the conflict in Ukraine seemed nearer and that the hardships of war, and the shunning of their country by much of the world, may soon end.
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Pixar’s Charming But Compromised “Win or Lose” Catches A Few Foul Balls
Pixar Animation Studios has finally stepped up to the TV plate with their first original series, “Win or Lose.” The Disney-owned animation studio previously produced television specials, miniseries, and shorts, but they were all extensions of their existing films. “Win or Lose” presents an imaginative examination of the interpersonal dynamics within a middle school softball…
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Talkin’ About His Generation: New Book Chronicles the Making of Millennial Touchstone “Superbad”
Andrew Buss was 14 when he, his father, and grandfather went to see “Superbad” at the Regal Cinema in Lake Zurich, Illinois. He has two memories of that night. The first is that it was a bonding experience between the three generations that the Buss’s rarely seen outside of a Cubs game. Second, was the…
