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Climate protesters in England are being accused of having “blood on their hands” after their protest scaling a bridge caused a traffic jam that reportedly kept first responders from quickly tending to two crash victims who died. “The eco-warriors may have thought it was an innocent protest, but they’ve got blood on their hands,” Mark Heap, 55, told the Daily Mail after suffering a broken back and a broken leg on Monday when he stopped to help a stranded motorist and was struck by a speeding car that was attempting to avoid a traffic jam caused by climate protesters who had…

Progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner made seven-term Rep. Kurt Schrader the first Democratic congressman to lose his reelection bid this year when she defeated him in their May primary.His ouster from Oregon’s 5th District, along with new boundaries that make the district a little less blue, is complicating Democratic efforts to hold the seat in the November midterm elections.As Election Day approaches, national political analysts are pegging the race between McLeod-Skinner and Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer as a toss-up. The election of either candidate would be historic: McLeod-Skinner would be Oregon’s first openly gay congressional delegate, while Chavez-DeRemer is one of two House…

Social media giant Twitter is expanding its trial of Tweet Tiles, which were previously tested with major medial outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A selection of NFT marketplaces has been selected for the functionality which allows tweets to feature an interactive customizable widget.“OpenSea, Rarible, Magic Eden, Dapper Labs and GuardianLink’s Jump.trade marketplaces have been selected for the pilot. As a result, the featured partners will be able to display colorful NFTs directly within tweets for the first time. The format allows for a larger picture of the…

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Three dads will embark Friday on a 3,000-mile trek across America. They’re on a very important mission: to cure a rare genetic disorder affecting their children. Peter Halliburton, Brett Stelmaszek and Kevin Frye will live-stream their journey from New York, N.Y. to Los Angeles, Calif. inside a decked out Tesla Model-X to raise awareness and money for The SynGAP Research Fund (SRF), a charity dedicated to funding the research and development of treatments, therapies and support systems for SYNGAP1 patients.They won’t be hard to miss either. The car will sport vibrant zebra stripes and the SRF logo as it makes its way…

The disappearance of a young Belgian backpacker in Australia has confounded authorities for more than three years, and his fate remained a mystery after an inquest concluded Friday.A coroner ruled that 18-year-old Theo Hayez likely died soon after he left a nightclub in the coastal town of Byron Bay, but she couldn’t say whether it was from an accident or if he was killed by others.Suicide appeared to be highly unlikely and there was no reason for Hayez to intentionally vanish, said New South Wales State Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan. But she said she couldn’t make a finding on the two…

Xavierarnau | E+ | Getty ImagesSocial Security benefits will go up by more than $140 per month on average in 2023, as a record 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment kicks in.Exactly how much of an increase the approximately 70 million Americans who rely on the program for income will see will vary.More than 65 million Social Security beneficiaries will see their benefit checks increase in January, while more than 7 million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries will see bigger payments starting on Dec. 30.More from Personal Finance:IRS: Here are the new income tax brackets for 2023How much you can earn and still pay…

Electric buses at a charging station.Koiguo | Moment | Getty ImagesPlus, the tax credit for bigger trucks is worth more money — up to $40,000 in contrast to the $7,500 maximum for passenger cars and smaller commercial electrics.”I think it’s going to be a lot more straightforward and easy to take advantage of than the light-duty-vehicle tax credit,” Ingrid Malmgren, policy director at Plug In America, said of the tax credit for commercial EVs. “It’s really a great opportunity for business owners to reduce emissions in a cost-effective way.”Business owners can get the tax credit for new vehicles purchased on…

The UK’s great gift to the world through its very British omnicrisis of the past month — beyond the comedy value and schadenfreude — is to provide a useful reminder that in markets things can fall apart quickly, with grim real world consequences.Some politicians have sought to blame the wild scenes in sterling and, more importantly, in gilts, on global factors, as if the toxic “mini” Budget played only a bit part. This notion is for the birds. But one thread of this thinking does make sense, which is that the market impact of former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s doomed fiscal…