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Prime Day officially takes place on July 16th and 17th, but that doesn't mean you have to wait to get involved. The sales are still on, with Amazon moving a ton of products to its outlet section for a 48-hour sale. Right now, everything from fitness equipment to golf gear to running shoes and more is on sale for up to 50% off.Read more: Everything you need to know about Prime Day 2024We'll share some of the hottest deals right now, plus details on how to use Amazon Outlet, so keep scrolling to find out more.View Amazon's overstock outlet hereRead…

Jeff Bloodworth is an author and professor of American political history at Gannon University. This article is adapted from an article in UnHerd.”Democrats just don't care what their constituents think,” fumed Eva Posner, a Virginia-based Democratic political consultant, who worries the progressive establishment will pay the price for ignoring rural voters in 2024.Abandoned by the Democratic Party, rural America has given its soul to the MAGA movement. Donald Trump won 65% of rural voters in 2020, up from 59% in 2016. The 2020 figure was even higher among rural whites, at 71%. The resulting polarization between blue cities and red…

Brenda Goodman, CNN Published on June 26, 2024 at 7:32 AM PDT | Updated on June 26, 2024 at 7:32 AM PDT A customer buys milk at a grocery store in San Anselmo, California, in December 2023. The FDA says it will further test dairy products that have been removed from grocery store shelves after government health agencies released new research on the potential impact of an H5N1 avian flu outbreak on dairy cows. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via CNN New Source) (CNN) — US health officials are launching a new round of testing of dairy workers and dairy…

Credit: Elliott Brown / Flickr (Creative Commons) Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to acquire AIG’s global personal travel insurance and assistance business for $600m. The deal will combine AIG Travel with Zurich’s Cover-More travel insurance provider and expand the firm in the US. It also gives Zurich access to a new retail customer base and boosts its footprint across the globe. Furthermore, Zurich will add AIG Travel’s Travel Guard brand to its Cover-More multi-brand model to bolster Cover-More in the US. In addition, Zurich will gain AIG Travel’s global service centres as part of the acquisition. Cara Morton, CEO Zurich…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fans of Texas Roadhouse Rolls might want to head to your local Walmart in the not-too-distant future. What you need to know The news was announced on social media by food blogger Markie DeVoe, who posted a photo of the packaging and information about the product's release in select Walmart stores. The blogger said he obtained the photo from the T. Marzetti Company, a specialty foods manufacturer and distributor that lists Texas Roadhouse as one of its licensing partners. The rolls will be available at Walmart stores in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky starting June 29th. Following in…

When is Life is Strange: Double Exposure release date? Max Caulfield is back. The hero of Life is Strange is back with all-new powers, new friends, and a new murder case. Max is a resident photographer at Caledon University, where she mentors young artists. So far, she appears to have moved on from the events of the first game, but in the announcement, Square Enix acknowledged that the game will also reflect on the past while welcoming new players. It is not clear to what extent previous endings will affect the game, but Nine Deck Games stressed that the endings…

Primaries: Westchester County Mayor George Latimer defeated Congressman Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary for New York's 16th congressional district, shaking up the party's progressive wing, but other US primaries also made headlines. Utah Congressman John Curtis defeated a Donald Trump-backed candidate to earn a chance to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat currently held by Mitt Romney. Far-right Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert won the primary for Colorado's 4th congressional district seat. Conservative commentator Jeff Crank won the Republican primary for Colorado's 5th congressional district, defeating Trump-backed candidate Dave Williams. PIER: CNN reported this morning that an…

Rising food prices are putting a strain on consumer budgets. In an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shared her views on rising food prices and agricultural investment.Yellen said higher food prices were due to rising costs, including higher labor costs, but noted that “profit margins may be increasing somewhat.”However, Yellen does not see the need for government intervention in the agricultural sector, saying, “I find it difficult to agree that we should be involved in subsidizing agriculture.”Read the full Yahoo Finance interview with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen here.This post was written by…

Translational Science June 26, 2024 Researchers from the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota published a paper in the journal Clinical and Translational Science that offers a new framework for explaining how racism impacts the heart health of people of color in Minnesota, with a focus on addressing those disparities. Dr. Sean Phelan “This framework will help scientists study and measure how chronic exposure to racism, rather than race, affects health outcomes,” said Dr. Sean Phelan, a health services researcher at Mayo Clinic and senior author of the paper. “This will enable researchers to address the root causes of…

Virtually no one expects the first 2024 debate between President Biden and Donald Trump to be a substantive discussion of the challenges that the next occupant of the Oval Office will face. But what if it were? We asked 21 Post Opinions columnists to pose one policy question with no easy answer that will define the next four years. Here’s what they came up with.What should be done about the Black-White wealth gap?The median Black family has around $45,00 in wealth; the median White family about $285,000. It was remained large, even as more African Americans have college and professional…