Faarea Masud Business reporter, BBC News Birkenstocks may be cool enough for Barbie but the sandals do not qualify as works of art, a German court has ruled. The company had claimed its footwear could be classified as art and so was protected by copyright laws in a case it put forward to stop rivals
Some of the 157 dolphins stranded on a Tasmanian beach. (Handout/Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania/AFP) Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures would be euthanised after attempts to refloat them failed. A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species
Shares of “better for them” pet food maker Freshpet (FRPT -18.52%) were down by 19% as of 1:50 p.m. ET Thursday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. While the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report was generally impressive, the shares had previously been priced for near perfection, and the figures Freshpet delivered didn’t quite
President Donald Trump late Wednesday directed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to disband a committee to identify and reduce systemic barriers that people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans encounter when trying to access government health care programs. The directive came as part of an executive order on “commencing the reduction
A new bill in the California Senate could help residents fight back against denials by health insurance companies. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has introduced Senate Bill 363, the Health Insurance Accountability Act, which intends to provide “critical transparency and accountability for health insurance companies for baseless denials of coverage for medically necessary care,” Wiener’s
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Trump rolls back protections for about 520,000 Haitian migrants Axios Trump Cuts Protections for Haitians, Putting Them on Track for Deportation The New York Times Trump administration rolls back extension of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status Miami Herald Trump administration throws out protections from deportation for roughly half a million Haitians The Associated Press
Three buses have exploded in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, in what Israeli police say is a “suspected terror attack”. Devices in two other buses failed to explode, they said, adding that “large police forces are at the scenes, searching for suspects”. Transport Minister Miri Regev paused all buses, trains and light rail trains
Deportees from US cry for help from Panama hotel (Image credit: AFP) A group of about 50 Indian deportees from the US arrived in Panama on Wednesday, en route to India. According to diplomatic sources, they have been temporarily relocated to the central American country before they are deported to India in a US aircraft.
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