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Last year saw an increase in recalls of unstable dressers and other furniture that posed a deadly risk to children, according to new findings that advocates say bolster the case for proposed legislation that would mandate standards, currently voluntary, to prevent tip-overs.Of 63 children s products recalled in 2020, 11 involved furniture at risk of tipping over, according to an annual analysis of children s products recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC.Re stanley cup leased Wednesday by the Chicago-based group, Kids In Danger, or KID, the findings come on the heels of separate data from CPSC that found between 2000 and 2019, 451 children under 17were killed by furniture and TVs tipping over and crushing them. According to the agency s report, every 43 minutes, on average, a child is treated in an emergency-room visit due to a falling television or furniture tip-over.Unstable furniture remained on the market in 2020 and had to be recalled, but from what we c stanley cup an see of recall effectiveness efforts by CPSC and the recalling companies, most of them are likely still in homes, Nancy Cowles, executive director of KID, stated in a news release. We need to set stronger mandatory standards to keep da stanley cup ngerous products off the market and strengthen CPSC to get them out of our homes and child care facilities. The group is calling for passage of the Stop Tip-Overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth, or STURDY, Act, which wou Twpd Suburban Seattle woman suspected of being kidnapped found dead in Mexico; suspect arrested
Social media has seen a shift from personal pictures and status updates to one of the main ways people get their news. H nike dunk owever, platforms like Facebook and Google have struggled to keep a lid on incorrect information and, as seen in the last 48 hours, false news can take a real personal toll.Fake news stories spread on social media in the hours after the mass shooting in Las Vegas as people looking for information read and shared bogus reports and hoaxes without even realizing it.Geary Danley and his family in Arkansas found themselves in the center of the social media storm, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. The Danleys have been getting death threats and would like people to know that social media has spun this out of control, said Geary Danley s daughter, Dionne Waltrip.Geary s daughters say their father had nothing to do with the shooting.His ex yeezy -wife, Marilou Danley, is considered a person of interestbecause she d been living with gunman Stephen Paddock. Amateur internet sleuths connected her name with Geary Danley s and j stanley cup umped to conclusions. Within hours of the attack, Geary Danley s name ndash; and his photo ndash; were spread across the internet. Some Facebook users saw the Las Vegas crisis response page with a link to an article on The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing political website, incorrectly identifying Geary as the shooter and calling him a Democrat with the anti-Trump army. Geary Danley |
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