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The company that makes kitchen staples like CorningWare, Pyrex and the Instant Pot has entered bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. and Canada.Illinois-based Instant Brands said Monday that it has "initiated a voluntary court-supervised Chapter 11 process," due to an unmanageable debt load."Tightening of credit terms and higher interest rates impacted our liquidity levels and made our capital structure unsustainable," CEO Ben Gadbois said in a news release.

WaPo has a 28-paragraph article on Trump's scramble to find lawyers to appear at his arraignment today that doesn't mention several things that are undoubtedly making the search harder.First, there are all the details in the indictment that reveal how much information Trump withheld from his lawyers: not just the location of the files Evan Corcoran needed to search on June 3, 2022 (and Tim Parlatore tried to search in November and December, only to find none of the documents that remain unaccounted for), but also the sensitivity of the documents he had them claiming before Courts were merely personal records.

"It was terrifying," said a woman who was denied an abortion."It was horrible not to get the care to save your life."A book entitled "The Right to Abortion" lays on a table at the Hope Clinic For Women in Granite City, Illinois, on June 27, 2022.- Abortion is now banned in Missouri.

The Illegal Migration Bill breaches a number of the UK's human rights obligations, MPs and peers have warned ministers.Most asylum seekers arriving in the UK after the flagship legislation has been passed would have their claim declared inadmissible, according to a report published by Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy emerged from a pivotal one-on-one meeting with President Joe Biden Monday without a deal to raise the debt limit, but expressed optimism about reaching an agreement in time to avert a potentially catastrophic federal default.I felt we had a productive discussion, McCarthy said after the meeting.

After a week of meetings on the debt ceiling, Congress, the White House and the country still do not have a clear path forward to avoid a cataclysmic default with just four days when both the House and Senate are scheduled to be in session before June 1, when the US could default on its obligations.

The Conservatives' decision to water down proposed legislation to remove 4,000 EU laws from the statute books is still a reckless and irresponsible project, leading barristers have said.While the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, was accused of a massive climbdown, barristers say the retention of sweeping undemocratic ministerial powers and the removal of the interpretive effect of EU law will blow up decades of legal precedent set by courts in Britain and makes for legislation like that found in authoritarian states.

I hate being a mom.And I really hate being a single mom.I don't hate my kid; I adore him.But I hate taking care of him, I hate being solely responsible for him, I hate "playing," and I hate supporting him on my own (his father contributes nothing and there's little I can do about it).Most of all, I hate that I often see my son as a burden, and I hate the thought that on some level, he either knows this already or will divine this as he grows older.

Although it's named the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the compromise debt ceiling package that President Joe Biden signed into law this past weekend doesn't do much to fix the nation's enormous financial challenges.The deal, which prevented the US from defaulting on its obligations and unleashing economic upheaval, holds non-defense discretionary spending relatively flat for the coming fiscal year after agreed-upon appropriations adjustments and allows an increase of only 1% the following fiscal year.

The wrangling over the nation's debt limit raises a lot of questions, including what it actually is and why the United States has one.Here's everything you need to know.The debt limit is a cap on the total amount of money that the United States is authorized to borrow to fund the government and meet its financial obligations.

The nation is days away from defaulting on its obligations.The Republican House speaker, pushed by conservatives in his party, demands deep spending cuts.The president, a Democrat, works on negotiating a package to avert a fiscal calamity.No, it's not 2023.It's 2011, when then-President Barack Obama agreed to a debt ceiling deal with then-House Speaker John Boehner that called for more than $900 billion in upfront spending cuts and deficit reduction, as well as the creation of a joint congressional committee that would find at least $1.2 trillion in additional belt tightening.

Top White House and Republican negotiators on Saturday reached a deal in principle to raise the debt limit for two years while cutting and capping some government spending over the same period, a breakthrough after a marathon set of crisis talks that has brought the nation within days of its first default in history, three people familiar with the agreement said.

A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.For weeks, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had been consistently telling lawmakers to act soon because the X-date, when the US could default, could occur as soon as June 1.On Friday, she updated that prediction, giving debt ceiling negotiators an extra four days.

If Congress does not address the debt ceiling by June 5, the US Treasury Department will not have enough funds to pay all of the nation's obligations in full and on time, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday.Based on the most recent available data, we now estimate that Treasury will have insufficient resources to satisfy the government's obligations if Congress has not raised or suspended the debt limit by June 5, she wrote in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders.

Ultra low-cost carrier Flair is Canada's worst airline for complaints, with more than 20 per cent of its flights generating some sort of complaint to the Canadian Transport Agency (CTA), new federal data shows.While gripes about air travel are not unusual, the CTA, the quasi-judicial body that regulates air transportation, found Flair had the dubious distinction of trailing all other major carriers on customer satisfaction in the first quarter of 2023.

The government faces a legal challenge to its decision to cut investment in walking and cycling in England, over claims that the move bypassed legal processes and risks scuppering commitments over the climate emergency and air pollution.Lawyers acting for the Transport Action Network (TAN), a campaign group, have written to the Department for Transport (DfT) to formally seek a judicial review of the cuts announced in March by Mark Harper, the transport secretary.

Boris Johnson has been reported to the police by the Cabinet Office over fresh claims that he may have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic.Information has been passed to two forces over alleged visits from the former prime minister's friends to Chequers as well as potential breaches within Downing Street, The Times reported.

The King is facing a call to apologise for the way LGBT+ people were treated by the armed forces prior to the ban on their service being lifted in 2000.Campaigners are calling for greater compensation and recognition ahead of the publication of a Government-commissioned independent review.LGBT+ forces charity Fighting With Pride and others are calling for the Prime Minister to issue a formal apology on behalf of the Government.

Ministers could be set for a legal battle with the Covid-19 inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries belonging to Boris Johnson.The Cabinet Office has until 4pm on Tuesday to respond to the request from Lady Hallett's official inquiry.There has so far been little sign that ministers are set to shift from the position that the Government has no duty to disclose unambiguously irrelevant material.

is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission once again after the agency proposed more sanctions against the company, which has allegedly failed to fully comply with a 2020 privacy order.Among other things, the agency has proposed a blanket ban on monetizing data Meta collects from users aged under 18, whether they use Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or Quest virtual reality headsets.

Sipping a $12 beer in one of the world's wealthiest capitals, Andrei Medvedev reflected on the question hanging over him since he left the battlefields of Ukraine: Is he a hero or a war criminal?He claims to have deserted from Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary force during the monumental battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and later to have escaped his native Russia by running across a frozen Arctic river.

There are signs that negotiations over raising the nation's debt limit are gaining momentum, but major differences remain and it's unclear how quickly an agreement could come together.Time is running short as the risk of a first-ever default grows.With no bill to vote on, House lawmakers left Washington for the Memorial Day weekend and will be given 24 hours' notice to return if and when a deal is reached.

The Treasury Department is steadily draining the funds it has to pay the nation's bills during the debt ceiling impasse.Treasury had $57.3 billion in cash on hand as of Thursday, according to federal data.The amount bounces around as the agency takes in revenue and makes payments, but the balance has declined from $238.5 billion at the start of the month, when the coffers were relatively flush from tax collections in April.

After a childhood spent shuttling between divorced parents, my relationship with my father (with whom I never lived full time) became rote and dreaded as I matured into adulthood.Not only did I recognize he was a deeply unhappy person with addiction issues which occasionally placed me in danger, I was always bothered by his racist, misogynistic and homophobic jokes.

If the US is not able to pay all its bills for the first time ever, senior citizens could quickly feel the pain.Unless President Joe Biden and House Republicans hammer out a deal to address the debt ceiling soon, the Treasury Department may not have enough funds to fully satisfy all of the nation's obligations as soon as June 1.

With a potential federal default just over a week away, Speaker Kevin McCarthy renewed his call on Wednesday for President Biden and congressional Democrats to accept spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit and allowing the Treasury Department to avoid missing payments.You have to spend less than you spent last year, Mr. McCarthy said at a news conference in the Capitol as Biden administration and Republican negotiators gathered at the White House.

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Wednesday that it was almost certain that the United States would not have enough cash to continue to pay all of its bills on time beyond early June and that she would soon provide Congress with a more precise update about when the nation could default if the debt limit is not raised.

Hillary Clinton weighed in this week on a question that has occupied Senate Democrats and much of the party at large for months: whether Senator Dianne Feinstein of California should resign in light of mounting health problems that have made it difficult for her to do her job.Mrs. Clinton's answer was no but largely based on anticipation that Republicans would exploit the vacancy, not on an evaluation of Ms. Feinstein's health or performance.

President Biden and top congressional leaders are set to meet Tuesday to discuss raising the debt ceiling.Which raises a lot of questions, including what the debt limit actually is and why the United States has one.Here's everything you need to know about the debt limit.The debt limit is a cap on the total amount of money that the United States is authorized to borrow to fund the government and meet its financial obligations.

MiQ, a leading global programmatic media partner, proudly announced the appointment of esteemed media and technology leaders Zillah Byng-Thorne and Rob Norman as non-executive directors to its global statutory board."It's an honour to welcome Zillah and Rob to our statutory board to advise on MiQ's ongoing global initiatives," said Gurman Hundal, co-founder and global chairman, MiQ. "Both possess unique skill sets and leadership experiences that will contribute greatly to MiQ's future growth ambitions in the programmatic arena.

The slow-motion death of the rights holder of many regional sports TV contracts, Diamond Sports, is currently taking place.The Braves' TV contract payments during Diamond's bankruptcy are to be renegotiated as John Ourand of Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal reports.There is some interesting reporting here as the May 31st bankruptcy hearing approaches.

Molly Manning Walker was still bleary-eyed from six months in the editing suite rushing to finish her first feature film when she arrived at the Cannes Film Festival.It's nice to have a deadline," Walker, 29, said while sipping an espresso.I work best with chaos.Six weeks earlier, Walker had just gotten off the Tube in London when her producer, a normally calm person, called her shouting: Where have you been?

US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference following the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 21.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In a news conference over the weekend, President Joe Biden addressed the possibility of using the 14th Amendment to continue US government borrowing in the absence of a deal, suggesting he has the power but not the time to utilize the unilateral action.

iStock Before closing on a house, you need to get to the settlement table.You're near the end of the process of selling your home, but don't breathe a sigh of relief just yet.While it's certainly true that you can let go of the anxiety of needing to show your home at any moment, you still need to cooperate with your buyer, the buyer's agent, and the commitments made in the contract.

Getty Images If you're struggling to save enough for a home down payment, a 401(k) loan might look like a quick and easy solution, especially if you have more money stashed in that account than anywhere else.Among Americans with retirement accounts, including 401(k)s, the median account value was $65,000, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, based on the most recently available 2019 data.

A long-delayed bill introduced to Parliament on Wednesday promises to oversee a once-in-a-generation overhaul of housing laws, according to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, which pledges safer, fairer and higher quality homes for 11 million British renters.The government says the Renters' (Reform) Bill is designed to ensure the systems works for landlords and tenants.

A construction company has been fined 550,000 over the foreseeable and avoidable death of a worker who was impaled on metal piping, according to the Crown Office.Matthew Mason, 20, was working at Bearsden train station in East Dunbartonshire to install a PA system when he fell to his death.The worker was attempting to free cabling which had become stuck when he fell backwards from a step ladder and was impaled on a section of piping being used as the handle on a cable drum.

Penny Mordaunt has said she is grateful after praise was heaped on the Conservative Cabinet minister for her role in the King's coronation.As Lord President of the Council, she was responsible for bearing The Sword of State and presenting The Jewelled Sword of Offering to the King the first time it has been carried and presented by a woman.

Eva Green has won her High Court battle with a production company over the collapse of an abandoned sci-fi film.The Casino Royale star was due to play the lead role in dystopian thriller A Patriot, but the production collapsed in October 2019.Green sued the production company behind the project after the film was abandoned, claiming she is entitled to her $1m (810,000) fee under the terms of their agreement.

Against a cultural backdrop of #TradWives and #BossQueens, the novel delves into the dark side of nuclear family, in scenes shockingly blunt and intimate

If you're as addicted to the internet as I am, you're probably familiar with #TradWives donning aprons, baking cookies, bragging about being housewives, raising kids, and feeding husbands.

More than 70% of U.S. adults feel the health care system is failing to meet their needs in at least one way, according to new data from the Harris Poll, shared exclusively with TIME.Despite spending more money per capita on health care than any other wealthy country in the world, the U.S. struggles to match other nations in life expectancy and other health outcomes.

In a close vote, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of a gene therapy for muscular dystrophy developed by Sarepta Therapeutics.Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images In a split vote, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency approve the first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common form of the genetic illness.

There is a significant risk that the federal government will no longer be able to pay all its obligations in the first two weeks of June if the debt limit remains unchanged, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.The forecast reinforces both Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's estimate and the agency's earlier warning that House Republicans and President Joe Biden may only have a few weeks to address the debt ceiling or unleash global economic and financial upheaval.

As the stalemate over addressing the debt ceiling continues and the threat of default looms larger, President Joe Biden has resurfaced the controversial idea of using the 14th Amendment as a way to lift the borrowing cap without Congress.How could a 145-year-old change to the US Constitution that gave citizenship to former slaves serve as a path out of the debt ceiling drama?

With apologies to Dr. Emmett Brown, you don't need a flux capacitor to build a time machine.All you need to do is make a film.Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, a new biographical documentary from Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), zips through the Back to the Future actor's career with humor and style; it gives the impression that its subject is willing to answer any question.

President Joe Biden's anticipated meeting originally scheduled for Friday with congressional leaders aimed at discussing a deal to avert a default on the national debt has been postponed, a White House spokesperson said.Friday's meeting would have been the second time in less than a week that congressional leaders met with Biden at the White House in an effort to reach a solution to avoid default.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

The California Department of Developmental Services has agreed to improve the care it provides to deaf people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as part of a new legal settlement in federal court, according to court filings.The settlement is the result of a 2020 lawsuit in which deaf clients, their guardians and statewide disability rights organizations alleged that thousands of deaf people who attend the department's day programs or live in its housing were being "systematically denied interpreters and other aids and services that are necessary for effective communication," among other injustices.

(Ashley Landis / Associated Press)

Maggie and Joaquin Neto have not missed watching a minute of every game that their son, Angels starting shortstop Zach Neto, has played since getting his call-up to the big leagues this season.Maggie, 52, and Joaquin, 54, live in Miami.They were in attendance to see Zach make his debut in Boston, but because of work and other obligations - they have an older son and a younger daughter who plays college softball - they since have only been able to see Zach play over the broadcasts, three time zones away.

During the 2022 election cycle, voter registration groups in North Carolina ran into a new problem: a shortage of paper copies of registration forms.Groups were forced to pay to print the forms themselves-or, if they couldn't, had to abandon their plans to hold registration drives.And at least one county board of elections tried to charge registration groups for forms, too.

Geoff Kendrick, the head of forex research at the banking institution Standard Chartered, recently said that the price of bitcoin is likely to jump by $20,000 in the event of the United States defaulting on its obligations.According to Kendrick, while bitcoin is likely to surge when the U.S. defaults, other cryptocurrencies like ethereum are likely to go down.

President Joe Biden and House Republicans may have as little as a month to prevent the US from defaulting on its debt, which would impact millions of Americans and unleash economic and fiscal chaos here and around the world.Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Monday that the government may not be able to pay all of its bills in full and on time as soon as June 1.

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37 C.F.R. § 11.18(b) imposes crucial responsibilities on patent applicants, attorneys, and agents.Documents submitted to the USPTO implicitly certify that:


Statements made are true or are are believed to be true (based upon information and belief) and do not include any attempt to conceal a material fact; and
That a reasonable inquiry was conducted to confirm that: (i) statements have no improper purposes, (ii) legal contentions are supported by existing law or valid arguments for change, (iii) allegations and factual contentions have or are likely to have evidentiary support, and (iv) denials of factual contentions are based on evidence or a reasonable lack of information or belief.

In the early days of social media, people scoffed at the idea that posting content could be a way to make a living.Today, the creator economy has exploded, with YouTube, TikTok, and OnlyFans stars earning as much money as bankers, doctors, and lawyers."[The industry] is at the point where there are more road maps, there's more credibility," says Samir Chaudry, one half of Colin and Samir, whose YouTube channel features creators going deep on their craft.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden likely have a little more time to work out a deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default, thanks to procrastinating taxpayers.The Treasury Department got a surge of tax revenue earlier this week, which should provide it with the cash it needs to pay the federal government's bills for a longer period of time.

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The iconic Broken Spoke dance hall is headed for official historic status, ensuring the venue is preserved as the South Lamar corridor continues to develop.The Planning Commission on Tuesday voted 8-0 to recommend approval of historic zoning for the Broken Spoke, which has hosted live country music and dancing at 3201 S. Lamar Blvd.