Monthly Archives: August 2022

Yelp is flagging listings for crisis pregnancy centers as places that ‘provide limited medical services’ so users can tell them apart from abortion clinics

Yelp is flagging crisis pregnancy centers on its platform. Yelp Yelp is flagging business pages for crisis pregnancy centers with a consumer notice.  The notice lets users know these centers “typically provide limited medical services.” The company hopes it will help clear up confusion between the centers and actual abortion clinics.  Yelp is rolling out…

A Trump ally produced an unpublished letter meant to help him. It actually spells out even graver concerns over documents at Mar-a-Lago docs.

The Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.; former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Wilfredo Lee/AP, left; Morry Gash/AP, right. A conservative journalist posted a letter online between the NARA and a Donald Trump lawyer.  The journalist pointed to the arms-length involvement of President Joe Biden. It…

Florida holds primary elections that will decide who will face off against superstar GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in November

Insider Florida is holding several primaries on Tuesday. Polls close at 7 p.m. ET.    The race and the stakes:  Florida is a “closed” primary state — meaning that residents have to be affiliated with a specific party to be able to vote for candidates within that party.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has received a…

RESULTS: Markwayne Mullin and T.W. Shannon face off in the Oklahoma GOP Senate primary runoff election

Insider Oklahoma is holding a key Republican Senate runoff election on Tuesday, along with several other statewide runoffs. Polls in the state close at 7 p.m. local time and 8 p.m. ET. The races and the stakes:  US Senate runoff Rep. Markwayne Mullin and former state House speaker T.W. Shannon are competing in a Republican…

RESULTS: New York holds high-stakes congressional primaries and 2 special elections

Insider New York is holding congressional primaries and two special elections on Tuesday. Polls close at 9 p.m. ET.  The races & the stakes New York is holding a slew of hotly-contested congressional primaries on Tuesday, featuring messy games of political musical chairs and internal Democratic Party fights partly spurred on by the redrawing of…

RESULTS: Top House Democrats Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler compete in a contentious primary to represent Upper Manhattan

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, left, and Rep. Jerry Nadler, right two of New York’s longest-serving members of Congress, have turned from allies to rivals after a court redrew the state’s congressional maps. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, left, and J. Scott Applewhite, File Two top House Democrats, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Rep. Jerry Nadler, are facing off in…

China’s emergence as an EV powerhouse has been a long time coming

Though primarily still known for its school buses here in the US, BYD has become China’s largest automaker with a one trillion yuan market capitalization (~$149 billion) — that’s bigger than Ford and GM’s market caps ($66.01B and $56.63B, respectively) put together. And while Americans were gearing up for Fourth of July festivities, BYD was…