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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Snapchat's Newest Feature Is Helping Parents of Teens Sleep Easier at Night
If you thought late nights and fractured sleep was just a hallmark of the baby years, we have some bad news… While it's true that parents will start to get more sleep as their child grows, it's also true that you'll spend many nights anxiously waiting by the door for your teen to get home. We can't help it! If our child is out in the world, we are going to worry about them. Snapchat's latest feature is designed to give parents of teens peace of mind — so maybe (fingers crossed!), we can finally sleep easier at night. Snapchat's latest feature is called HomeSafe, and it's an automatic alert that will let trusted family members and friends know when you arrived home after a drive. (If your mom has ever frantically woken you up in the middle of the night to check on you because you forgot to text her you made it home, then you know exactly how important this is!) More from SheKnows What Is 'Imagined Surveillance' - & How Is it Changing the Way Gen Z Is Dating? HomeSafe works like this: teens can set their home location on their Snap Map. Before heading home from a late night at work, a concert, a date, or any other reason, users can open the conversation, tap the Map icon, then tap the Home Safe button. It will give this private chat an automatic, one-time alert that you've arrived home, so you don't have to remember to send that follow-up text. Because every anxious mom fears the worst when their child doesn't text them that they returned home! 'Home Safe alerts are designed with safety and privacy in mind,' a statement by Snapchat read. 'Alerts can only be sent to friends you already share your location with, and the notification goes out only once, then shuts off automatically. As always, location sharing on Snap Map is off by default, so no one can see your location or receive a Home Safe alert unless you proactively choose to share it.' More than 400 million people use Snap Map every year to connect with loved ones and find places to visit nearby. In 2024, the company brought Snap Map to its Family Center, where parents of teens can request that they share their live location (and can share their location back) to keep everyone in the family updated. Last year, boys in our SheKnows Teen Council said that at least 100 people could see their location on Snap Map at any given time and sometimes more. 'There's probably about 250 people that can see my location,' Griffin, 16, told us. Other teens feel let out if they see their friends without them. 'Sometimes I get a little bit of FOMO when I see people together without me,' Calder, 16, shared. 'Especially if it's my friends, and it's a plan I wasn't invited to. Or, even that I was invited to and I couldn't go.' Still, if your teens are going to use Snap Map anyway, might as well make it beneficial for parents as well by keeping us informed of their whereabouts —and letting us know when they make it to their end-of-night destination (home, a friend's house, a co-parent's house) of SheKnows Celebrity Parents Whose Kids Have Big Age Gaps Rocky77, Aquaman, & More Unique Celebrity Baby Names How to Watch These 25 Halloween Movies on Disney+ for Summerween Antics Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
As INEOS looks to grow in the US, it must deal with Trump's tariffs and the 'Chicken Tax' on trucks
While Land Rover has its new Defender, some customers yearn for the old boxy, body-on-frame brute. The one that seemed to be in every issue of National Geographic in the '70s and '80s. Enter the INEOS Grenadier. The brainchild of billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, founder of London's INEOS Group, the Grenadier is the spiritual successor of those older British off-roaders. The rugged Grenadier went on sale in the US last year, and things started well, with decent sales of around 8,000 units, starting at $78,900, and targeted sales growth of 50%. But then, INEOS got hit with President Trump's tariffs. INEOS builds its vehicles in France, and that means it's under EU trade restrictions and gets hit with a 25% US auto sector tariff, which could be more if the EU doesn't get a deal done with the White House by Aug. 1. 'We find ourselves right in the eye of the storm,' INEOS CEO Lynn Calder told Yahoo Finance. 'So even once there was a tariff deal negotiated ... between the UK and the US, that meant nothing for us.' Currently, UK auto imports to the US "only" face a 10% tariff rate. Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet In April, INEOS said it would be capping tariff price increases at 5% on its vehicles. While a 15% proposed tariff on EU goods like autos sounds better than the alternative of 25% and up, a peculiar issue affects INEOS with regard to its latest product, the pickup truck version of the Grenadier known as the Quartermaster. 'The Quartermaster is also a European-made pickup truck that also attracts [a] 'chicken tax.' So we've taken an absolute double whammy on this vehicle, which is a perfect car for the US market,' Calder said. The "chicken tax" is a remnant of trade policy originating in the 1960s. Following European tariffs on US poultry, the US imposed a 25% tariff on foreign-made light trucks — a trade policy that still stands today. At the time, the tariffs on light-duty trucks were a protectionist measure against Volkswagen (VWAGY). This means there is a 50% tariff right now on the Quartermaster, Calder said, which currently starts at $92,900. A quick trade resolution can't come fast enough for European automakers like INEOS. If and when that comes to pass, INEOS can focus on its next offering in the US, the midsize Fusilier SUV, which will come in both EV and range-extending hybrid options and likely have a lower starting price. And looking beyond that, Calder said the option of building INEOS vehicles in the US is on the table. Assuming it's feasible, the move would make sense for an automaker targeting the lion's share of its sales in the States. INEOS is going to need all the help it can get. It is competing in a hyper-competitive luxury SUV market in the US dominated by Cadillac (GM), BMW ( Mercedes (MBGAF), and Land Rover. A hybrid, midsize SUV like the Fusilier, made in the US, would help make INEOS a bigger player in an SUV-crazed market. Chicken tax or no chicken tax. Pras Subramanian is the lead auto reporter for Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on X and on Instagram.
BBC News
7 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Will a new law prevent puppies being imported illegally?
Over 1,000 illegally imported puppies in five years have ended up in rehoming centres after being stopped at the British border, new figures Dogs Trust charity said the animals were taken on by its centres after being "illegally landed" at the Channel ports between 2020 and charity hopes a new law that has been proposed, which will be debated in the House of Lords, will help to clamp down on dog and cat government said new measures would close loopholes exploited by unscrupulous traders. Campaigners have warned that for a number of years some breeders have brought under age puppies - younger than 15 weeks - into the country, or smuggled in dogs without health Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), said "illegally landed" did not necessarily mean smuggled, but referred to any animal which did not meet import requirements and would need to be quarantined under anti-rabies its Puppy Pilot scheme, Dogs Trust pays for the quarantine costs of dogs seized at the border to aid the interception of illegally imported puppies by APHA. Once these dogs have been through quarantine, the animal charity then provides care and rehabilitation for them at rehoming centres, prior to them finding their forever homes. The proposed law would give the government power to stop the import of puppies and kittens that are under six months old. The Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill would also ban the import of dogs and cats beyond 42 days of pregnancy and limit the number of animals that are allowed in a Calder, head of public affairs at Dogs Trust, told BBC South East: "We've seen puppies that are too young, unvaccinated, transported in really terrible conditions and some just don't survive that journey."We've tragically seen puppies as young as four weeks old smuggled into the country, or dogs with open wounds from ear cropping and heavily pregnant dogs close to giving birth, so this new bill is incredibly important."Paula Boyden, a veterinary surgeon, said the pet travel scheme had been exploited for well over a decade, with many thousands of dogs imported for sale."In recent years we've also seen an increase in the import of heavily pregnant mums and dogs with mutilations, particularly cropped ears," he said. Any new legislation needs to be robustly enforced at the border, according to professional dog trainer Ryan O'Meara."Passing this law is a good first step, but it has to be backed by proper enforcement," he said."We do need clear and practical rules that make it easier for border officials to do their job, whilst still allowing for recognised rescues overseas to responsibly bring their dogs into the UK."Danny Chambers, vet and Lib Dem MP for Winchester, who put the bill forward, said the illegal smuggling of puppies had long caused serious public health worries that dangerous diseases could be brought back into the UK. "This bill will curb those concerns – stamping out savage practices that endanger animals everywhere," he bill will now go to the House of Lords on its route to becoming law. A Defra spokesperson said: "We were elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation – and that's why we are supporting this Bill."These measures will close loopholes that are cruelly exploited by unscrupulous traders and stop the import of underage, mutilated and heavily pregnant dogs and cats."
Daily Mirror
17-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Ex-Premier League star suing doctor for £7m after 'unnecessary' operation
A former Premier League footballer is suing his surgeon after alleging that his top flight career came to a premature end due to an "unnecessary" and "destructive" operation on his ankle Former Premier League striker Sylan Ebanks-Blake is suing a surgeon for more than £7million after claiming his top flight career was ended by an "unnecessary" operation. Ebanks-Blake broke his leg while playing for Wolves in the Championship back in 2013. And the 39-year-old, who started his career at Manchester United's academy, alleges that his surgeon Prof James Calder performed an "unnecessary" and "destructive" operation on his ankle. Ebanks-Blake believes this caused an early end to his top level career, having been released by Wolves in 2014 and managing just nine appearances in his sole season in the Championship with Ipswich. The player's barrister Simeon Maskrey KC told Mrs Justice Lambert at London's High Court: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Ebanks-Blake also claims that he was not asked for proper consent before the operation on his ankle. However, Prof Calder's lawyers claim that Ebanks-Blake "had an overoptimistic view of his own powers of recovery." The surgeon's barrister Martin Forde KC added: "Far from curtailing the claimant's career, the defendant will argue that his clinical skills prolonged the career of a professional footballer, who had suffered a very serious injury." After leaving Ipswich in 2014, Ebanks-Blake spent the next four years in League One before dropping down to the National League. He ultimately retired in 2019 after playing for non-league side Walsall Wood. Before suffering the initial injury, Ebanks-Blake had enjoyed three seasons in the Premier League with Wolves after helping them win the Championship in 2009. He scored 25 league goals that season and was the top scorer in the Championship. In written submissions, Forde said: "It is arguable that if Professor Calder had done anything other than what he did do, he would have been negligent for not dealing with the loose fragments and unstable cartilage." He continued: "The defendant's position is that through his judgment and skill he prolonged the claimant's career. The claimant's case quite clearly is that his career was curtailed." Ebanks-Blake's lawyers say that the operation caused "stiffness and reduction of movement" in his left ankle and claim that his decision to retire was "the result of the continuing pain and stiffness in the left ankle joint" and not due to another leg fracture he suffered in January 2019. "He was left unable to play football at all without recourse to steroid injections," Maskrey added. "When he did play, the loss of movement and pain hampered his ability to play to his previous standard. "The combination of an inability to play regularly and/or for a reasonable length of time and his reduced standard of play gave rise to transfers from the Premier League to the lower divisions of the English Football League and eventually to non-league clubs. "Following the fracture of the left fibula on the 26th January 2019, the claimant reasonably gave up playing football. He did so not because of the consequences of the fracture, but because of the pain and stiffness in the left ankle joint. "It is probable that without any intervention on the part of the defendant the left ankle joint would eventually have become symptomatic. "However, the symptomology would have been delayed, would probably have been of slow onset and would not have prevented the claimant from continuing to play in the Premier Division and/or the Championship until his mid-30s. "As it is, the claimant can no longer play football. He continues to suffer pain and stiffness in the left ankle. He has developed consequential psychiatric symptoms of depression."
Edmonton Journal
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Edmonton Journal
Hamilton Labour Council wants NHL to apologize for suspending players 100 years ago
The Hamilton and District Labour Council is hoping to right a century-old grievance between the city it represents and the NHL. Article content The labour council demanded the NHL apologize on Wednesday for its treatment of players on the now-defunct Hamilton Tigers when they tried to engage in collective action during the 1924-25 season. Article content Anthony Marco, the council's president, said that when the Tigers went on strike to get better pay, they were engaging in a struggle that resonates to this day. Article content Article content 'We've got labour strife happening at a provincial level, at a federal level, at an international level, and this is a good reminder of the fact that 100 years ago, some of the basic things that these players were fighting for still exist today,' Marco said. 'It's a reflection, in my mind, on how gig work is going these days, that people are being expected to work without pay, our people are being expected to work with very little pay.' Article content Article content The Tigers played in Hamilton from 1920 to 1925 and were atop the NHL's standings that final year. The league expanded its season by six games in 1924-25 but players' pay was not increased. Article content Hamilton players demanded an extra $200 each or they would not lace up for the NHL's playoffs. Then-league president Frank Calder suspended the striking Tigers players and fined them $200 each. Article content Calder then declared the Montreal Canadiens the league champions and representatives in the Stanley Cup final. Montreal lost the cup to the Western Canada Hockey League's Victoria Cougars three games to one in the best-of-five series. Article content Article content The Tigers were then moved to New York City and renamed the Americans. Article content 'The team stuck by their guns, and they said 'this is what it's going to be,' and they probably didn't end with the result that they would have liked, but it certainly was an affront not to just those players, but to the city as a whole, who had for several years gotten behind that team, and for the first time ever saw them finish in first place at the end of the regular season,' Marco said. Article content Marco believes enough time has passed for the NHL — which ratified a new collective agreement with the NHL Players' Association on July 8 — to admit that Calder's treatment of the striking players was too harsh. Article content 'It really speaks to the fact that Hamilton, which has always been known as a union town, had the first basic attempt from the NHL players to start a collective action, it was the first players strike, and it happened at least a full generation before the NHLPA (founded in 1967) ever got into place,' said Marco. 'A hundred years is a good reminder. Article content 'I think we're at the point now where you can say that if the NHL has any moral objection to issuing an apology for this, you can say it's been a century, I think you might be able to get past it.'
