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Children in crisis amid Russia’s war in Ukraine took center stage during a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday as UN members cited numerous staggering statics and once again called on Moscow to end the war.World leaders condemned Russia’s deadly invasion and the effects it has had on global food shortages, the spike in internationally displaced people and the energy crisis it has helped plunge the world into.”Last Thursday, the UN released its global humanitarian overview for 2023 which set another record with 339 million people in need of assistance and a price tag of $51 billion,” U.S. Ambassador Lisa Carty…

Consider penciling this tasty sloppy Joe recipe into your weeknight dinner calendar. “The key to executing dinnertime and gathering around the table with your family is a dinner that you can batch cook and meal prep, like this classic sloppy Joe recipe that I developed in partnership with ‘Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner,'” Natalya Drozhzhin of Momsdish.com said.HAMBURGER CASSEROLE FOR DINNER: GRANDMA’S SUPER SIMPLE RECIPE”It’s a no-fuss dinner that’s beef, kid-friendly and so filling,” she added. For a balanced meal, Drozhzhin recommends pairing sloppy Joes with air fryer asparagus or a garden salad to get those veggies in.SPICY GRILLED SHRIMP AND…

General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks during a visit of the US president to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 2021.Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesAs 2023 approaches and the prospect of a recession looms, corporate America is preparing for a slowdown in consumer spending.CEOs of major companies including Walmart and General Motors joined CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday morning to talk inflation, interest rates, geopolitics and what it all means for their outlooks in the new year.Here’s what they said:Jamie Dimon, JPMorganRising interest rates, record inflation, geopolitical pressure and…

After yesterday’s market drop, stocks continued to tumble today. As for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, they remained flat in the morning but have started seeing some slight losses later in the day. Despite these recent losses, cryptos are still up from where they were a week ago.Although the cryptocurrency market is still in bear territory, now may be a good time to start DCA investing, as bear markets are opportunities to buy assets at a lower price before the next bull market. Token presales should also be on any crypto investor’s radar, as one can often find highly discounted tokens…

Apple has been sued by two women who allege their previous romantic partners used the company’s AirTag devices to track their whereabouts, potentially putting their safety at risk. The proposed class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday on behalf of one woman from Texas and another in New York. They are seeking unspecified monetary damages. One of the women said her ex-boyfriend allegedly placed an AirTag – a small tracking device, slightly larger than a quarter and intended to help locate lost items – into the wheel well of a tire on her car.…

An industrial cleaning company accused by federal investigators of hiring dozens of children to clean slaughterhouses during the graveyard shift has resolved the allegations with the U.S. Department of Labor, according to a federal court filing filed Tuesday morning. As part of the consent order, Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, will review and enhance its existing policies and training materials and hire a third-party consultant to conduct “quarterly child labor compliance training” and monitor the company’s compliance for three years. The company will also provide a new child labor provision in its contracts with clients and will notify the Labor Department…

BuzzFeed on Tuesday said it would lay off approximately 12% of its staff, making the digital news and entertainment conglomerate the latest media company to make painful cuts amid a deteriorating economic climate. In a note to impacted employees, Jonah Peretti, the company’s founder and chief executive, blamed the cuts on “a combination of worsening macroeconomic conditions” and changes in how people consume media. The move to cut operating costs also comes as the company’s stock hovers at an all-time low of about $1.10 per share, down nearly 90% over the past year. The cuts, which are expected to impact…

Beechcraft King Air turboprop aircraft are seen on the assembly line at the Textron Aviation Inc. production facility in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday, June 7, 2018.Luke Sharett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading.Textron – Shares of Textron jumped 6% after the company won a U.S. Army contract that could be worth $70 billion to provide next-generation helicopters.Charter Communications – Charter Communications fell 5% after analysts at Citi added a negative catalyst watch to the company heading into its analyst day.Paramount — Shares of media company Paramount slipped 7.5% after the CEO said it…

A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online went on trial Tuesday in the western city of Cologne accused of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuse.Prosecutors told the Cologne regional court that the man documented the abuse of babies, children and teenagers, and shared videos and images of “unimaginable brutality” with dozens of people, German news agency dpa reported.Investigators who discovered vast amounts of incriminating data last year at the married man’s home, in the town of Wermelskirchen, said at the time that they had never previously “encountered such a level of inhuman brutality and callous indifference…

A Ukrainian family arriving in the EU was separated due to problems with their documentation being recognised, according to an NGO.“Because of the war, many people lost their travel documents, as well as internal documents,” said Svitlana Botenko, from NGO Right to Protection. “Often the only thing they possess is [digital] identification.”Through the NGO, the family recounted to Euronews their harrowing story of being separated upon arriving in Italy.Karyna Voronova sent her 13-year-old daughter Ksenia, a keen competitive cyclist, to Italy at the beginning of the war to continue her training. The family split up as they left Ukraine in…