Amway sued by 'independent business owner' claiming employee status
Amway Corp. has long faced controversy over its multilevel marketing business model. Now, the family-owned direct sales giant is accused in a lawsuit of ripping off the people who peddle its products by failing to pay them minimum wage. It’s part of a wave of cases in California over who counts as an employee, a…
French DJ Cedric Gervais floats waterfront villa for sale in Miami Beach
Grammy-winning DJ Cédric DePasquale, better known by his stage name Cedric Gervais, is tuning in to the Miami Beach market. His waterfront villa full of sleek interiors and eye-catching art is on the market for $2.8 million, records show. Click Here: liz claiborne perfume That’s more than double the $1.2 million he paid for it…
GM plans to revive gas-guzzling Hummer as an electric truck and SUV
General Motors Co. is moving forward with plans to revive its polarizing Hummer brand, this time as an electric truck instead of an emblem of gasoline consumption, according to people familiar with the matter. The Detroit automaker plans to debut a pickup around 2022 with boxy styling cues reminiscent of the Hummers of yore, one…
From carriage house to modern family space for actress Erinn Hayes
1/7 Actress Errin Hayes in her favorite room of her Highland Park home, a garage transformed into a family room. (Jesse Goddard / For The Times) 2/7 Actress Errin Hayes in her favorite room of her Highland Park home, a garage transformed into a family room. (Jesse Goddard / For The Times) 3/7 In Errin…
Winter sunsets really are more spectacular. Here's why
Driving west in San Pedro late in the afternoon on New Year’s Day, I watched thick puffs of clouds overhead churn from periwinkle blue to flaming orangey pink in what seemed like seconds. I pulled over, gawked and snapped photos. What was going on? Why did this sunset grab me so hard? Stephen LaDochy, who…
Garden Calendar: Camellia gazing, succulent show and water-saving workshops
If you have a plant-related class, garden tour or other event you’d like us to mention, email [email protected] — at least three weeks in advance — and we may include it. Send a high-resolution horizontal photo, if possible, and tell us what we’re seeing and whom to credit. Through Jan. 12 Moonlight Forest: A Magical…
Could Iran — and Hezbollah — strike in Latin America?
Mexico City — After then-candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed at a Brazilian presidential campaign rally in 2018, some of his allies advanced a perplexing theory. Despite widespread evidence that a Brazilian man with a history of mental health problems had carried out the attack alone, they suggested it had actually been planned by Hezbollah, the Lebanese…
On the streets of Tehran, relief for now at no wider conflict with U.S.
Click:HR Software hkTEHRAN — Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country’s attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be “a dark night for Americans,” and Washington’s “first admission of failure in history.” On the bustling streets of Tehran, however, there was relief Thursday that neither side appeared primed for war. “War is not something like the ‘Call of…
Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump
HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state will reject the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order. In a letter released Friday, Abbott wrote that Texas “has been left by Congress to deal with disproportionate migration issues resulting from a broken federal immigration…
Taiwanese will elect a president Saturday, in a vote guided by anxiety about China
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese voters go to the polls Saturday to pick a president and legislature in an election shaped by ever-shifting threats from political and military rival China. About 18 million people are eligible to vote in a democracy that emerged from authoritarian rule more than two decades ago. Incumbent Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic…