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Peloton, the maker of home exercise equipment, said on Thursday that it was recalling more than two million exercise bikes, an announcement that sent its stock lower.The company’s shares tumbled nearly 9 percent by the market close and have plunged more than 20 percent this month.The company had received 35 reports of seat posts breaking and detaching from the original model of its bike during use, according to a recall notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.Peloton is voluntarily recalling Model PL-01 bikes that were sold from January 2018 to May 2023 in the United States, and is offering customers…

The Harmony of the Seas cruise ship, one of the biggest in the world, with its multiple-deck water slides, zip line and surf simulators, is a favorite among families. But the discovery of a hidden camera in a public bathroom during a recent sailing has many passengers questioning their enthusiasm after the F.B.I. said that minors who appear to be as young as 4 or 5 years old had fallen victim to video voyeurism onboard.According to an F.B.I. affidavit in support of the criminal complaint and arrest warrant, on April 30, a day after the Royal Caribbean ship departed from…

Last May, a team of federal agents chasing the sons of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, caught a break.Through a combination of electronic data and human intelligence, the agents had tracked one of the sons — Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar — to a location in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa.Eager to jump into action, the team prepared to work with the Mexican military and go after Mr. Guzmán Salazar, one of the world’s most wanted criminals.But in the end, according to records obtained by The New York Times and three people familiar with…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Parents of transgender children in Tennessee worry they may have to move their families out of the state because of a recently passed ban on gender-affirming care for minors and policies that target transgender people. “Do we stay here?” asked the mother of a transgender child in Nashville. “It does feel like a risk, and it feels like there is not really a right answer at this point.”Global News is concealing the mother’s identity because of the risk of harassment and future legal repercussions under Tennessee law.“I am fearful of being targeted, my kids being targeted, or…

Russia says the long-range Storm Shadow missiles hit a plant producing polymers and a meat-processing factory.The Russian Ministry of Defence has said that Ukrainian aircraft struck two industrial sites in the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine with Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles supplied by the United Kingdom. The UK on Thursday became the first country to say it had started supplying Kyiv with long-range cruise missiles, which will allow it to hit Russian troops and supply dumps far behind the front lines as it prepares a major counteroffensive. British Defence Minister Ben Wallace said the missiles could be…

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given authorities 72 hours to identify and arrest all those involved in violent acts after former prime minister Imran Khan’s arrest early this week sparked deadly unrest.Sharif said the cases would be tried by anti-terrorism courts.”All available resources including technological aid and intelligence are being deployed to chase down these elements. Bringing these people to justice is a test case for the government,” the premier announced on Saturday.Khan departed court premises late on Friday night and headed towards his hometown Lahore amid high security, after a court granted him bail. His arrest in a…

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered authorities on Saturday (May 13) to identify and arrest all those involved in violent acts after former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest this week sparked deadly unrest. Khan departed the court premises late Friday night and headed towards his hometown Lahore amidst high security after a court granted him bail. His arrest in a land fraud case on Tuesday, which the Supreme Court ruled “invalid and unlawful” on Thursday, sparked violent protests by his supporters. They stormed military establishments, set ablaze a state broadcaster building, smashed buses, ransacked a top army official’s house…

Hugh Masekela – who passed on Jan 23, 2018 – is an integral part of South African modern history, being part of the resistance against ‘apartheid’ oppression, the social issues he addressed in his music as well as being a larger-than-life figure.’Stimela’ was first released in 1974 on the album “I am not afraid” while Bra Hugh was still in exile following the political unrest surrounding the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. Masekela studied at London’s Guildhall School, then later on at the Manhattan School of Music. In New York he befriended Harry Belafonte, who helped him to settle in the United…

India’s opposition Congress party has won power in a key state, partial election results showed, defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP a year ahead of national polls. It removed Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party from office in Karnataka, the only southern state controlled by the Hindu nationalist grouping. With dozens of results still to come in on Saturday, Congress had already won 114 places in the 224-seat assembly, enough for an overall majority, and was leading in another 22, which would give it a comfortable cushion, the election commission website showed. Karnataka has a population of more than 60 million…

Former President Barack Obama is urging Americans to have a dialogue about gun violence as the U.S. recently surpassed 200 mass shootings so far this year, according to CBS News data.Obama discussed the challenges of reducing gun violence and how gun ownership has become an “ideological” and “partisan” issue during an exclusive sit-down interview with “CBS Mornings” co-host Nate Burleson. The full interview will air on Tuesday, May 16. “I think somehow — and there are a lot of historical reasons for this — gun ownership in this country became an ideological issue, and a partisan issue, in ways that it…