As consumers pledged their allegiance to e-commerce amid pandemic restrictions on outdoor experiences, the shipping industry has been at the height of demand. The world’s largest shipping companies and ports are running low on containers, truck drivers, and dock workers.
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In today’s day and age, the topic of immigration is very controversial and while everyday people may have different opinions, the only opinions that matter are those Judges in the Immigration courts. These professionals decide the fate of immigrants and/or migrants on whether they should be allowed to stay in the United States or be deported.
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New York City has been making substantial progress towards a return to normalcy within the past few weeks. Several city traditions such as Broadway and the Met Gala have returned after last year’s cancelations due to the pandemic. One of the most prominent events in the city includes New York Fashion Week. Organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), New York Fashion week is a biannual series of runways shows and demonstrations used by designers to present their collections for the upcoming fashion seasons. Typically, New York Fashion Week brings over 230,000 visitors to the city and generates approximately 900 million dollars for the city’s economy. With a year long hiatus, designers went all out for this year’s event using unconventional and creative ways to show off their new collections.
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Former German minister of Finance Olaf Scholz is likely to be the next German Chancellor after this year’s election in Germany, marking an end to Angela Merkel’s 16 year run as Chancellor. Scholz and his party, the center-left Social Democrats (S.P.D.), emerged victorious in the Sep. 26 election, winning 25.7% of the total vote, compared to 24.1% for Merkel’s party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), which suffered the worst defeat for the party since its founding in the years after World War II. Merkel, however, opted not to run for reelection, marking the first time a sitting chancellor has done so in the postwar era.
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Carles Puigdemont, founder of the separatist movement Together for Catalonia, faced a court hearing on October 4 following his arrest on September 23. He was arrested in Sardinia, Italy due to a, “warrant seeking his return to Spain for trial over a failed independence bid he led four years ago.”
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For a virus that has been around for less than half a decade, the marketing to receive the vaccine for COVID-19 had grown immensely since the first days of it going public. The newest target audience? Kids.
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As streaming and traditional television competes for consumers’ attention, so do advertisers. With advantages in both streaming and traditional advertising, streaming provides a growing opportunity as it captures those consumers who are abandoning the once uncontested traditional TV landscape.
Read MoreVarious fast fashion companies, such as SHEIN and Fashion Nova, continue to thrive within the younger generations. People are advertising these brands all over social media, specifically famous people.
Read MoreThrough the streets of New York City and resellers online, it has become popular for people to buy replicas of luxury items to avoid paying to steep price of the original. Some of the popular brands that are counterfeited include Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Prada. While it provides a self-esteem boost for some to flaunt that they have designer items, despite it being counterfeit, at the end of the day it affects these companies in more ways than expected.
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On September 7th the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional, and established a legal precedent that could lay the groundwork for legalizing abortion across the country. The specific case heard by the court concerned a challenge to the criminalization of abortion in the State of Coahuila, immediately reversing the law in that state and providing the possibility to do the same across the country.
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