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A California appeals court's decision could soon make it harder for Amazon to skirt responsibility for unsafe products sold on its platform.
On Thursday, the California Fourth District Court of Appeals ruled that Amazon can be held liable for damages caused by a defective replacement laptop battery that caught fire and gave a woman third-degree burns. The woman, Angela Bolger, alleges she bought the laptop battery from a third-party seller, Lenoge Technology HK Ltd., on Amazon's marketplace.
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While the 49th annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts won’t fill Kentuck Park in Northport with hundreds of artists and thousands of art lovers this year, the organization will be supporting artists with a virtual celebration and marketplace.
Kentuck’s Board of Directors canceled the event held the third weekend in October because of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
The Kentuck Festival Virtual Marketplace is an online spot where artists can connect with Kentuck customers online. It will feature online shops for each participating artist, where they can list art for sale and create videos to demonstrate their craft.
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The Labor Department reported 963,000 first-time claims last week, to be precise. Since mid-March, those claims have ranged from 1.2 to 6.8 million.
Also, the number of people continuing to claim unemployment benefits — on state and federal programs — fell under 30 million.
But this improvement in the jobless data starts from a really bad place of record unemployment during the ongoing pandemic.
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"This is off-the-charts bad,” Zandi said. “We're digging out, but we have a long way before we get out. And we don't know how long many of these unemployed folks will remain unemployed and not get back to work."
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He has spent about $1,500 building a desk, TV tables, a plant stand, a nightstand and a corner table.
"You know, I wake up on Saturday just thinking like, what the hell am I going to do to fill my time today?" Fenske said. "So I just walk around until I see something that needs to be fixed."
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Kai Ryssdal: There’s a part of an interview I did a couple of months ago with Raphael Bostic, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, that I keep thinking about:
Raphael Bostic: For many people, the systemic racism is so ingrained in everything that we do on a basic level that they don't even see it. They don't think about it as a structured inhibitor of African Americans' ability to do the things that other people get to do with no questions.
Essential workers pressured by mental health issues - Marketplace
Ashli Hinds works not one, but two essential jobs in Fort Worth, Texas. She's a package handler for a shipping company and does on-site tech support for an aerospace firm. But last Monday, she just needed a break.
“It was just one of those days,” she said. “I was able to tell my boss, you know, ‘Hey, I want to take a mental health day.’ “
She worries about her own health — as a Black woman with diabetes, she's particularly at risk. And because she works outside the home, she doesn't want to endanger her friends or family, so she's usually alone.
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"The rush to battery power was not particularly well thought through," said former cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith. "This turns out to be a bad idea because the biggest producer of batteries is China."
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