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A new agreement has been reached between Schumer and Manchin that would bring back the ability for automakers to offer their customers federal tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles. The new deal would also introduce another tax credit. “Under current regulations, buyers of electric vehicles get a $7,500 tax credit when purchasing an electric vehicle, but that full credit is limited to the first 200,000 electric vehicles sold by any given manufacturer,” CNN explains....

Analysts at BusinessFinancing wanted to find out more about beer preferences around the world. More specifically, they were curious about which beer was the favorite in the world and which countries have the same taste in beer. To find each country’s favorite beer brand, BusinessFinancing gathered data in March 2022, looking at consumer brand lists from business publications, industry journals, and reports. Then, they took the list and used Google Ads API to find the search volume data for each brand in nearly every country....

“Love what you do is, I think, the biggest thing,” says Rudolph, during an evening Zoom interview from her home in Los Angeles. “Find something you love and try to do that.” Yeah, that pretty much sounds like the type of low-key common sense advice her “H.V.P.I.C” aka hot vice president in charge would dole out. Harris is peak Rudolph (or perhaps vice versa): She’s already won an Emmy as the winking, gently scolding “fun aunt” on Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member until 2007....

RELATED: The Best Military-Style & Tactical Baby Gear for Dads At first glance, the 1000D nylon outer shell of Mission Critical’s military grade baby carrier might be mistaken for Kevlar. It’s an honest mistake — the thing absolutely looks like something the SWAT team would wear on “Take Your Daughter To Work” day. While these 7 baby carriers are definitely dad-friendly, this one is designed specifically for guys; both active dads who need a piece of tough high-performance kit for their many outdoor adventures, and less active ones, who just want to look totally badass walking through Pottery Barn....

After having my 3-year-old watch a bunch of Miyazaki, she can now recite her favorite characters – she even has developed a fondness for movies where Miyazaki only assisted in story-concept, like The Cat Returns! (Not included on this list) I think a huge part of why she loves Miyazaki’s movies is because of the worlds he creates: vivid, rich escapes from reality set often in everyday reality, rife with magic and adorable and memorable critters....

According to BuzzFeed News, Paige Ward is raising her four kids in Oklahoma, including her youngest, 2-year-old Emma. Paige said that her daughter Emma is a joy, and she has been the light of the family since the day she was born, impressing everyone around her with her outgoing personality. Like so many others, Paige has been working overtime. Recently, she crashed after working a 60-hour workweek at the urgent care clinic and woke up early in the morning to take Emma to school the next day....

According to Good Morning America, Deb Plafker from Danville, California, aka Principal Mom, has gotten used to her new routine while her oldest son does school from home. With the help of her daughter, Jamie, Deb has been sharing morning announcements she makes for her less-than-thrilled son, Max, every day. If you’ve got stress, might as well make fun of it, right? The announcements are spoofs of what a typical high school announcement would be, but with a twist for the remote school realities....

“The dramatic epidemic of asthma and allergies in the West in the last 50 years is still largely unexplained,” coauthor on the study Annabelle Bedard of Queen Mary University of London, told CNN. “One potential culprit is a change in diet.” The study, published in European Respiratory Journal, analyzed data from 8,956 mother-child pairs obtained from a large dataset on children born in the 1990s. When Bedard and her team compared the 20 percent of mothers with the highest sugar intake to the 20 percent of mothers with the lowest sugar intake, they found that kids born to sugar-obsessed moms were 38 percent more likely to test positive for any allergen, 73 percent more likely to test positive for two or more allergens, and 101 percent more likely to have asthma along with at least one skin allergy....

Aubrey was born into professional music as both of his parents were in the cast of the Off-Broadway show STOMP. Aubrey is sensational in the sense that he does not only play the drums, but he is able to create music with almost any instrument or tool handed to him. From playing the drums, to clarinet, to piano, to guitar, tap dancing, and even singing, Aubrey is a rock star in every way possible....

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, as it’s formally known, includes a nationally representative sample of public and private school students from across the country. The most recent results of the NAEP’s long-term assessments, released Thursday, compared scores for nine- and 13-year-olds who took the test during the 2019-20 school year (pre-school closures) to students the same age who did so in the early ’70s and in 2012. “This was the first time in the almost 50-year history of the long-term trend assessments that we observed declines among 13-year-olds,” said National Center for Educational Statistics Commissioner Peggy G....

In the just-released trailer, the idea of a large red dog roughly the size of four horses mushed together is demonstrated as correctly horrifying parents, but totally wonderful for kids. As we all know, kids love unlovable monsters in ways parents do not. But, to be fair, this is the elephant (or the red dog) in the room with like half of all children’s entertainment anyway. It’s not like parents are going to enjoy every minute of the new Clifford the Big Red Dog, no more than they enjoy every minute of reading the old books....

In a brand-new mid-season trailer for the Disney+ series Loki, we get a brief recap of everything that has happened up until Episode 3, and then, a quick glimpse of what’s ahead. If you haven’t watched the trailer, and you want to remain surprised for Loki Episode 4 and beyond, look away now and don’t watch that video! Spoiler alerts! So, among other things, the new mid-season trailer for Loki reveals…Kid Loki!...

After 12 years, Playmates Toys is, once again, doing Star Trek action figures and accessories. For those who may have forgotten, or weren’t Trek-inclined in the ’90s, what made the Playmates toys so great is that you could actually play with them. All the figures had a billion points of articulation, all the vehicles and playsets (like the Shuttlecraft and the Enterprise Bride) were super-detailed, and the sheer number of different characters you could get was staggering....

Often differences in sleep patterns don’t matter until they do. By the time couples with clashing schedules realize they have to hash out their bedtimes and alarm clock settings, they’re past the point of no return, i.e. they’ve fallen in love. So despite the off-beat in circadian rhythms, they have to make it work. And that’s not always easy, especially when kids come into the picture. But sometimes it is!...

Nintendo Japan announced that it’s ending repair service for the original Wii, nearly 15 years after the console was released in December of 2006. The last day for Japanese gamers to submit their Wii for a repair will be March 31. The announcement is somthing of a death knell for the console, akin to Microsoft ending technical support for Windows XP or Apple not updating its software for older-model iPhones....

Earlier this week, the official @LEGO_Group Twitter account tweeted out a cryptic GIF featuring a digitized rendering of a Mario-esque mini-figure with a rotating question block in his chest, accompanied by an all-too-familiar greeting: “It’s a me, Lego Mario!” (Sorry, “LEGO Mario.”) The enigmatic tease set off a round of wild internet speculation, with some presuming we’d be getting toys and others betting on a new video game in the style of Lego Star Wars....

Good lord. Having the legal right and technological ability to monitor poorly behaved children does not make it a good idea. And let’s be clear, putting an ankle monitor on a kid is a no-good, terrible, shitty idea. Parents who opt for this extreme measure are not just being assholes, but working against their best interests. Not only will constant surveillance erode trust, but it will also likely destroy any hope for having a good relationship....

The ads are singularly petty, but Paul Gosar is not alone in being called out as a political stain on his family name. White House political adviser Stephen Miller’s family members have come out against his harsh immigration policies. White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway’s husband has criticized her boss and distanced himself from her message. And lest anyone believe it’s just a liberal thing, Randy Bryce, a Democratic candidate for Paul Ryan’s seat in Wisconsin, was recently the target of an attack ad featuring the harsh criticisms of his brother James....

McCartney, who used to play an instrument or two and sing in a fairly popular band called the Beatles, authored the children’s picture book, Hey, Grandude, in 2019. It shot to #1 on the best seller list, with more than 300,000 copies snapped up around the globe. Now, the grandfather of eight has penned a sequel, Grandude’s Green Submarine, due out in September. Like its predecessor, Grandude’s Green Submarine will be published by Random House Books for Young Readers and feature illustrations by artist Kathryn Durst....