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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to appoint Attorney General Merrick Garland. Disrespect for Parliament For refusing to provide audio President Joe Biden’s classified interview The lawsuit marks the latest and strongest rebuke by Republicans to the Justice Department as partisan divisions over the rule of law animate the 2024 presidential campaign. The vote was 216-207 along party lines, with Republicans standing firm in their support of the insults despite concerns from some of their more moderate members, with only one Republican, Representative David Joyce of Ohio, voting no.”It is disappointing to see the House of Representatives…

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“If we feel there is any risk at all, we start diversifying. We have local assembly plants in countries like India and Indonesia, so if there are any issues, we can move to those plants.”Acer, which has 7,725 employees and sales of NT$241.31 billion last year, joins other major Taiwanese tech developers in embracing what analysts see as a shift in recent years to South and Southeast Asia rather than expanding at home or in mainland China.They won’t retreat from China, but they will enter Southeast Asia and South America.James Shea, AcBel PolytechOver the past four decades, Taiwan’s $130 billion…

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In early May, representatives from the California Department of Transportation visited Specialty Sales Classics, a consignment shop in Fairfield that specializes in restoring classic cars. They issued the equivalent of a cease and desist order, telling the business owners that the company’s bond had expired and that they must immediately cease consignment sales and vehicle sales. The company quickly posted a notice at the top of its website reading “Closed indefinitely!” “Specialty Sales Classics apologizes to our customers, community and friends,” the statement read, “We have a history of outstanding performance since 1978. … We apologize to all involved and…

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Brady Sr. reflects on son’s ‘incomprehensible’ Patriots Hall of Fame induction originally appeared on NBC Sports BostonEmotions were high in Foxborough on Wednesday night as legendary quarterback Tom Brady was inducted into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame.Thousands of fans and countless friends and former teammates gathered at Gillette Stadium to celebrate the GOAT’s two glorious decades with the team, and Brady was also joined by his family, including his father, Tom Brady Sr., throughout the event.Ahead of his son’s induction, Brady Sr. sat down with NBC Sports Boston’s Tom E. Curran to reflect on what the night meant…

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(WJET/WFXP) — Bus company Coach USA announced plans to sell its assets Tuesday and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Coach USA operates under several brands, including Megabus, Coach Canada, Dillon’s Bus Company, Coach USA Airport Express and Go Can Galder. Coach USA’s fleet of approximately 2,070 buses carries millions of passengers across North America each year. Applesauce maker files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy amid lead recall lawsuit The company currently has assets of between $100 million and $500 million, but liabilities of about $200 million, according to court documents. The company announced the filing in a press release, citing…

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guides to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and moreStay ahead of the curve with our weekly guides to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more HHave you heard this is the summer of the “Hot Rodent Boyfriend”? Me neither.Sadly, Pizza Rat didn’t get to shine and find love in New York, and the latest internet trend is something far more sinister and vulgar: A certain faction of the internet seems to have decided that for the next few months, the desirable male aesthetic is anthropomorphized vermin.As a short, single man who has…

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Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Laurie Union (right) took over her family’s corrugated roofing company in 1992. Lauri Union After graduation, in 1992, Laurie Union took over her family’s corrugated roofing business, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.As president and CEO at age 27, she successfully turned the company around and sold it a few years later.Union shared five principles that he says helped save the declining business that bears his name. I never planned on joining the family business. My grandfather started a corrugated roofing company in North Carolina in 1946, and…

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Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Elon Musk. Beata Saursel/Getty Images Eight former SpaceX employees are suing the company and Elon Musk.They say they were fired for speaking out about a hostile work environment.The lawsuit alleges that Musk treated women as “sexual objects” and used vulgar language. Eight former SpaceX employees have filed a lawsuit against the company and CEO Elon Musk, claiming they were wrongfully fired in 2022 for speaking out about a hostile work environment.The lawsuit, filed in California, alleges that employees wrote an open letter to SpaceX management expressing their concerns, after…

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Mayor Adams has gone to extraordinary lengths over the years to personally appease the Rev. Lamore Whitehead after Whitehead was in a spat with the mayor’s top adviser, Ingrid Lewis Martin, and pressured him for financial and political help, according to a trove of text messages exchanged between the two men.Federal prosecutors seized the emails as part of their case against Whitehead, who described himself as a protégé of Adams and was convicted in March of defrauding people and banks, including falsely representing a businessman to the mayor as a government favor in 2022. The mayor was not accused of…

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Kristaps Porzingis is the biggest X-factor remaining in the NBA Finals (Photo: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)If the Boston Celtics want to take a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals, they’ll need to do it without Kristaps Porzingis.Celtics Porzingis ruled out for Game 3 He was ruled out of Wednesday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks with a left leg injury, described as a dislocated left posterior tibial tendon.Porzingis was visibly injured in the Celtics’ Game 2 win after a box-out collision with Mavericks center Derek Lively II, limping off the court. He was cautious the rest of the game and did not…

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