Chinese authorities have fined a company the equivalent of about $120,000 over an advertisement it created for American chocolate brand Dove that featured a woman in a “situationship,” saying on Thursday it promoted the “wrong views on marriage and relationships.” The video, first posted online in August, showed a woman getting chocolates from a man…
Jane Doe in the Cornell University case is one of more than 45,000 people who have reported being raped or sexually assaulted to their college or university between 2019 and 2024, according to federal data — and experts say that number wildly undercounts campus sexual violence. More than 80% of the largest four-year colleges and…
A Virginia state agency has fined a data center nearly $2.5 million for exceeding emissions limits last year, the state’s largest civil penalty against a data center to date. The notice published online details an event in June of 2025 when the Microsoft facility in Leesburg, Virginia, reported a failure of an electrical substation and…
The summer of 1936 wasn’t just hot; it was dangerously hot. At least 5,000 people ended up dying from heat-related causes. “New York City, Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, Minneapolis – I mean, cities were hammered,” said Geoff Williams, the author of “The Summer of Death,” about that great heat wave. “For weeks, some cities…
A person in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic has been fined $5,255 for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear, local officials said Thursday. The incident took place earlier this month when a vessel was sailing in a fjord in northeastern Svalbard, around 620 miles from the North Pole. “Its occupants are…
