Tobacco companies will be forced to reduce nicotine in cigarettes sold in the U.S. to nonaddictive, or minimally addictive, levels, if the Biden administration has its way. The policy could be announced as early as this coming week, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. But it likely won’t take effect for several years. The U.S. Food and Drug administration would have to draft a proposed rule and open it for public comment. After it published the rule, tobacco companies could sue, delaying… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Hockey series. The Lightning have won three games in a row, and if they make it four, they will be back in the Stanley Cup Finals. Saturday, they are at home for Game 6 against the Rangers. For possibly the final game of the Eastern Conference Finals, you have $130 in salary for your five-player roster. Your Superstar will get you 1.5 times the points as well. Here’s a roster I would consider seriously. SUPERSTAR Andrei Vasilevskiy, TAM vs. NYR… Source link

The U.S. beat Grenada 5-0 on Friday night in its last stateside match before the 2022 World Cup. (Photo by John Dorton/ISI Photos/Getty Images) In an alternate universe devoid of corruption, the 2022 World Cup began Thursday before 90,000 festive fans in Los Angeles. That’s how American soccer officials dreamed it, anyway, and this, the second week of June every four years, is when the planet’s most prestigious sporting event typically begins. But in a universe disrupted by Qatar, the U.S…. Source link

Lumber prices hit a nine month low as borrowing costs surge.Carolyn Cole/Getty Images Lumber prices are spiraling as red-hot house prices and the rising cost of mortgages is hitting affordability. Nearly 80% of National Housing Survey respondents reported now is the worst time to buy a home. It’s set to worsen as Americans foresee their financial situations deteriorating over the next year. Lumber prices have been on a steep decline as a combination of rising interest rates, record-high… Source link

Placeholder while article actions load SAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type. “Hi LaMDA, this is Blake Lemoine … ,” he wrote into the chat screen, which looked like a desktop version of Apple’s iMessage, down to the Arctic blue text bubbles. LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is Google’s system for building chatbots based on its most… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Saturday’s main slate on Yahoo starts at 4:05 p.m. ET and covers 11 games. Not included in the mix are the two in the doubleheader between the Padres and Rockies. It’s at Petco, so you aren’t missing a Coors Field opportunity. Here are my lineup recommendations. Pitching Kevin Gausman, TOR at DET ($51): Look, you can’t go wrong targeting the Tigers with your pitcher. Their offense has been truly futile this year, something I know… Source link

During the pandemic, Aaron Mulherin would travel as far as 150 miles from his home in Marion, Iowa, to do jobs for his glass installation company. But with a gallon of gas in Iowa now going for $4.73, compared to $2.88 a year ago, he has had to shrink that radius to around 60 miles. “We have been trying to be careful with a lot of things,” Mulherin, owner of AM Glass Repair, tells Fortune. High gas prices are far from the only pain point Mulherin’s small business is feeling amid… Source link

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(Bloomberg) –Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp. — three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power — are sounding the alarm that a nearly $4 billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa isn’t necessarily in the best interest of customers, including them. If approved, it would be the largest complex of wind farms in the entire country when it comes online by the end of 2024, producing enough… Source link

Joining LIV Golf has been a major financial boon (and moral quandary) for multiple golfers, but making the big leap has come with some costs as well. Bryson DeChambeau, who joined LIV Golf earlier this week for a reported $100 million, was publicly dropped by sponsor Rocket Mortgage on Friday, according to The Detroit News. The company cited its relationship with the PGA Tour, which holds the annual Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, in cutting ties with DeChambeau. The statement, via Detroit… Source link