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India.com
4 days ago
- Health
- India.com
Top Sunscreens for Daily Use – Best SPF Formulas for Every Skin Type
Many modern formulas also offer added benefits like hydration, oil control, and antioxidant protection, making sunscreen an essential step in both skincare and daily self-care routines. Whether for everyday wear or outdoor activities, sunscreen is a non-negotiable shield for maintaining healthy, radiant skin. 1. Deconstruct Invisible Water-Cooling & Long-Lasting Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ Image Source: Order Now Deconstruct's Invisible Water Sunscreen is a high-performance formula that offers broad-spectrum protection with a unique water-cooling effect. This ultra-lightweight, gel-like sunscreen absorbs instantly without leaving any white cast, making it perfect for daily use even under makeup. With SPF 50 and PA++++, it defends the skin against both UVA and UVB rays while providing a refreshing feel upon application. Ideal for hot and humid climates, it's especially loved by those with oily or acne-prone skin. Key Features: SPF 50 & PA++++ for superior UVA/UVB protection Water-based, non-greasy, and cooling formula Leaves no white cast Long-lasting and sweat-resistant Lightweight texture, suitable for oily and acne-prone skin Cons: May feel slightly tacky initially before fully drying Not ideal for extremely dry skin unless layered over moisturizer Cooling sensation may not appeal to sensitive skin types 2. Hyphen All I Need Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ Image Source: Order Now Hyphen's All I Need Sunscreen is a multitasking product that combines sun protection with skincare benefits. Infused with ingredients like niacinamide and centella asiatica, it not only guards against UV damage but also soothes, hydrates, and brightens the skin. With SPF 50 PA++++, it provides high protection and a non-sticky, dewy finish. Its skincare-first approach makes it perfect for those looking to simplify their routines without compromising on efficacy. Key Features: Broad-spectrum SPF 50 PA++++ protection Enriched with niacinamide and centella asiatica Hydrating and calming for sensitive or irritated skin No white cast and blends well into all skin tones Dewy finish, ideal for normal to dry skin Cons: Dewy texture might feel greasy on very oily skin Slightly higher price point for a daily-use sunscreen May require powdering if used under makeup 3. Dot & Key Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ Image Source: Order Now Dot & Key's SPF 50 Sunscreen is designed with urban living in mind. It protects against not only UV rays but also blue light and pollution, making it perfect for people who spend time both outdoors and in front of screens. The formula is lightweight, fast-absorbing, and enriched with ceramides and vitamin E for added skin nourishment. It offers a semi-matte finish that suits most skin types and doesn't pill under makeup. Key Features: SPF 50 PA++++ with added blue light protection Contains ceramides and vitamin E for skin barrier support Lightweight and absorbs quickly Semi-matte finish suitable for most skin types No white cast and non-comedogenic Cons: Fragrance may not suit very sensitive skin May require reapplication during long sun exposure Can feel slightly oily on extremely oily skin after a few hours 4. Fabbeu Sun Stoppable Sunscreen SPF 30 Image Source: Order Now Fabbeu's Sun Stoppable Sunscreen offers moderate protection with SPF 30 and is a great pick for those just starting out with sun care or for minimal sun exposure days. The formula is lightweight and feels more like a moisturizer than a heavy sunscreen, making it beginner-friendly and ideal for teens or those with sensitive skin. It nourishes while protecting and can be used daily without feeling greasy or sticky. Key Features: SPF 30 offers decent protection for daily use Lightweight, moisturizer-like texture Beginner-friendly and gentle on sensitive skin Affordable and easy to apply Blends well with no white cast Cons: Lower SPF compared to other products—less ideal for intense sun exposure Needs frequent reapplication for prolonged outdoor activity Limited added skincare benefits compared to higher-end options Sunscreen is an essential part of a healthy skincare routine, offering critical protection against harmful UV rays that can cause premature aging, pigmentation, and even skin cancer. With a wide range of options available today, it's easier than ever to find a sunscreen that not only protects but also suits your skin type and lifestyle. Disclaimer: At IDPL, we help you stay up-to-date with the latest trends and products. It should not be construed as an endorsement to buy. IDPL may make a very small commission from its sale if one chooses to buy the product from any of the links in this article.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
More Navy firepower has joined the US warships helping shield Israel from Iranian missiles
US Navy warships have helped defend Israel from Iranian ballistic missiles in recent days. A US official told BI that the two destroyers involved are in the Eastern Mediterranean. Another destroyer just joined them, with more possibly on the way. More Navy combat power has moved into position alongside the US destroyers that are helping shield Israel from Iranian missiles. A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss military movements, said the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner is now in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, joining destroyers USS Arleigh Burke and USS The Sullivans, and additional warships could be heading that way. The official said Arleigh Burke and The Sullivans have, in recent days, launched missile interceptors in defense of Israel amid Iranian retaliatory attacks. It's unclear if there have been confirmed intercepts. The official said that in addition to sea-based air defense, the US military also provided land-based support to Israel. This potentially involved the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile battery or the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system. US warships helped provide air-defense coverage for Israel twice last year, in April and again in October, when Iran launched its first- and second-ever missile attacks against the country. Since Friday, Iran has fired more than 370 ballistic missiles at Israel, killing two dozen people and wounding over 590 others. Many of the munitions have been intercepted, including by Israel's advanced Arrow systems, which, like THAAD, can strike targets in space. Iran's missile and drone attacks are retaliatory and come after Israel launched operation "Rising Lion" aimed at severely degrading Tehran's nuclear program, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had described as an existential threat to his country. Iran has said its nuclear program is for civilian purposes. Israeli fighter jets have carried out scores of airstrikes across Iran recently, targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and its leading scientists, as well as key military sites like weapons production facilities, missile launchers, and air defenses. Israel has also eliminated some of Tehran's senior commanders. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that Washington is not involved in Israel's targeting of Iran's nuclear program, limiting its participation to defensive efforts. Tehran has buried its most critical nuclear facilities underground, and Israel lacks the air-dropped weapons to reach them, meaning it likely can't completely wipe out the nuclear program without the US help. Beyond the warships in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Navy also has destroyers in the Red Sea and a carrier strike group elsewhere in the Middle East, with another carrier heading that way. All of these assets are capable of providing air defense, though it's unlikely that all of them will take on that role. Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Yahoo
In NCLA Amicus Win, Supreme Court Revives Innocent Family's Suit over FBI's Wrong-House Raid
Curtrina Martin, et al. v. United States of America, et al. Washington, DC, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of Martin v. United States, an Atlanta family's Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit against the government for a wrong-house raid in 2017. FBI agents invaded the home of Trina Martin and her family, shackling her partner on the floor and holding a half-naked Ms. Martin at gunpoint, while she expressed concern for her seven-year-old son's safety elsewhere in the house. One big problem: the FBI SWAT team had knocked down the door of the wrong home, on the wrong street, because the agent in charge had failed to verify its clearly marked address. The Justices remanded the case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration. As NCLA's amicus curiae brief urged, the Eleventh Circuit should ultimately rule on remand that the FTCA does not shield the government from liability when federal law enforcement officers raid the wrong house. Ms. Martin and her family filed FTCA claims against the government for assault, battery, and false imprisonment, as well as Fourth Amendment claims against the individual FBI agents. The Eleventh Circuit below upheld the district court's dismissal of the case, concluding that the agents' actions violated no 'clearly established' law. It ruled that the family suffered harm resulting from an agent's 'discretionary act' (i.e., failing to check the house address), warranting total governmental immunity and no path to relief for the Martin family. The Eleventh Circuit also determined that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution could shield the FBI and its agents from FTCA suits. NCLA's amicus brief forcefully argued that the Eleventh Circuit's mode of inquiry—which departed from the analytical process employed by all sister circuits—was inconsistent with the language and intent of the FTCA. Congress amended the FTCA in 1974 expressly to ensure that innocent people subjected to wrong-house raids and similar abuses by federal law enforcement officers would have a cause of action to sue. By expanding the FTCA's discretionary-function exception to encompass wrong-house raids such as this one, the Eleventh Circuit's decision effectively nullified the 1974 law. As Justice Sotomayor underscored in her concurrence (joined by Justice Jackson), 'Courts … should not ignore the existence of the [1974 amendment], or the factual context that inspired its passage, when construing the discretionary-function exception. … [A]ny interpretation should allow for liability in the very cases Congress amended the FTCA to remedy.' Today's Supreme Court ruling does not decide whether the 'discretionary function' exception applies in this case, an issue that the Court ordered the Eleventh Circuit to resolve, but the Justices found that the Supremacy Clause is not a defense the government may invoke in FTCA lawsuits. Justice Gorsuch explained in his opinion for the Court: 'The FTCA is the 'supreme' federal law addressing the United States' liability for torts committed by its agents. It supplies the 'exclusive remedy' for damages claims arising out of federal employees' official conduct.' NCLA released the following statements: 'The Supreme Court rightly held that innocent civilians should not be stripped of any meaningful remedy when they suffer abuse at the hands of federal law enforcement. The Martin family deserves their day in court. On remand, NCLA trusts that the Eleventh Circuit will carefully evaluate what qualifies as 'reasonable' law enforcement—and recognize that a trained FBI agent who fails to check a clearly marked house number before commencing a raid because 'it was dark outside' does not qualify.'— Casey Norman, Litigation Counsel, NCLA 'Law enforcement officers should not be able to evade accountability for entering the wrong house and terrorizing an innocent family in the middle of the night when Congress intentionally provided for redress in cases against the federal government in such circumstances. Thankfully, the Supreme Court's decision reaffirms that the Eleventh Circuit was wrong to preclude relief in this case and others like it.'— Jenin Younes, Litigation Counsel, NCLA 'All too often, court-created doctrines are used to reduce the government's liability to people whose civil liberties it has violated. Congratulations to our friends at the Institute for Justice for convincing the Supreme Court to clip the wings of such a doctrine in this case—at least where Congress had explicitly created a cause of action to sue.'— Mark Chenoweth, President, NCLA For more information visit the page here. ABOUT NCLA NCLA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group founded by prominent legal scholar Philip Hamburger to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State. NCLA's public-interest litigation and other pro bono advocacy strive to tame the unlawful power of state and federal agencies and to foster a new civil liberties movement that will help restore Americans' fundamental rights. ### CONTACT: Joe Martyak New Civil Liberties Alliance 703-403-1111 in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Miami Herald
13-06-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Trump steel tariffs expanded to hit home appliances
WASHINGTON -- Washing machines, refrigerators and other common household appliances made with steel parts will soon be subject to expanded tariffs, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The department said in a notice that levies would take effect on so-called steel derivative products June 23 and will be set at 50%, the current level for all other steel and aluminum imports. The new tariffs will apply to the value of steel content in each import, the notice said. While many products have become subject to higher import taxes since President Donald Trump began implementing his aggressive trade policy, Thursday's announcement marked one of the first times this year that everyday consumer goods were specifically targeted. The result will also apply to imported dishwashers, dryers, stoves and food waste disposals, and could translate into higher costs for American households. Thursday's move came one week after the Trump administration doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum products -- and it follows wave after wave of similar moves that have targeted cars, auto parts and other goods from many of America's trading partners. The government said that the action was necessary to address 'trade practices that undermine national security.' The new tariffs are meant to shield American-made appliances that are made with steel from cheaper foreign-made products. The higher metal levies have rankled close allies that sell to the United States, including Canada, Mexico and Europe. They have also sent alarms to automakers, plane manufacturers, homebuilders, oil drillers and other companies that rely on buying metals. They are beginning to ripple across supply chains. Companies that use steel and aluminum to manufacture products like washing machines and dishwashers in the United States have had to pay higher costs for the steel and aluminum they purchase. That, in turn, makes their products more expensive -- and less competitive with appliances made in other countries, where manufacturers may not be subject to the same tariffs. So the Trump administration created what it called an 'inclusion' process to allow U.S. manufacturers that use steel and aluminum in their factories to petition to have tariffs applied to their foreign competitors' goods as well. Those tariffs will in theory help protect U.S. appliance manufacturers against foreign factories that can purchase steel and aluminum more cheaply, and therefore sell their goods at lower prices. Despite Trump's tariffs, measures of inflation have so far remained muted. Price increases were relatively stable last month, government data showed Wednesday, and the costs of appliances in particular have increased more slowly than overall inflation did last month. Economists caution, however, that the growing list of tariffs could begin to push up prices more noticeably later this year. Trump's economic advisers have tried to downplay the economic toll their trade actions take on American consumers. At a Senate hearing Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted that many companies are opting against passing the costs of tariffs onto their consumers and said that inflation remains under control. 'Inflation in the U.S. is at its slowest pace since 2021 on decelerating cost increases for shelter, food and energy,' Bessent said. 'After four years of price increases diminishing the U.S. standard of living, inflation is showing substantial improvement due to the administration's policies.' In his first term, Trump imposed tariffs on foreign-made washing machines in a bid to bolster domestic manufacturers. Economic research found those tariffs encouraged companies to shift more manufacturing into the United States, but at very steep cost to consumers: About 1,800 new jobs were created, but consumers paid, in total, about $817,000 per job. And the tariffs drove up not just the cost of washing machines, but also dryers -- which were not subject to tariffs, but are often purchased together. Economic studies of the steel tariffs from Trump's first term have come to similar conclusions, finding that the levies stimulated the domestic industry but also at significant costs. An analysis published in 2023 by the U.S. International Trade Commission, an independent, bipartisan agency, found that the metal tariffs encouraged buyers of steel and aluminum to purchase more from American sources, and expanded U.S. steel and aluminum production by about $2.25 billion in 2021. But they raised production costs for firms making automobiles, tools and industrial machinery, which use large amounts of metal in their manufacturing. That shrank production in those and other downstream industries by about $3.48 billion in 2021, more than offsetting the gains to metal makers. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Copyright 2025
Int'l Business Times
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Int'l Business Times
More Democratic Governors Dare Trump's Border Czar to Arrest Them Over Resistance to ICE's Efforts: 'Go For It'
Democratic governors pushed back against the Trump administration 's hardline immigration tactics during a tense congressional hearing, with two daring border czar Tom Homan to try arresting them for resisting federal enforcement. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker were among the state leaders who forcefully criticized federal overreach during Thursday's hearing, Axios reported. Hochul responded to Homan's threat by saying, "If Tom Homan comes to Albany to arrest me, I'll say go for it." Pritzker echoed the sentiment, stating he would "stand in the way of Tom Homan going after people who don't deserve to be frightened in their communities." Both governors condemned the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles as a dangerous encroachment on local authority. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz also weighed in, warning that threats of arrest against elected officials undermine democracy. The clash follows growing tensions between Democratic-led states and the Trump administration over its mass deportation agenda and aggressive use of federal agents. Tom Homan has previously floated the idea of arresting officials who obstruct immigration enforcement or shield undocumented residents. Calls for such arrests escalated after Trump recently suggested California Gov. Gavin Newsom be detained amid protests in Los Angeles. While Republicans used the hearing to blame sanctuary policies for violent crime, the governors defended their records, pointing to declining crime rates and emphasizing their cooperation with ICE in criminal matters. Originally published on Latin Times
