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Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons, a branch of one of New York City's oldest and most prestigious real estate firms, wrongfully terminated the contract of a Black real estate agent who raised concerns about racial discrimination there, a federal judge ruled last week.Shauncy Claud, who worked as an independent contractor for the firm for eight months, was awarded $788,000 in back pay, punitive damages against the firm and damages for her emotional distress.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a scientist camping in a California state park with his two children in 2018 was sentenced to life in prison for the murder and other charges, the authorities said.In the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on Wednesday, Judge Eleanor J. Hunter sentenced Anthony Rauda, now 46, to 119 years to life in prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.

A 19-year-old Cal State Northridge student was killed early Thursday when the car he was driving was struck by robbery suspects who were being pursued by police, authorities said.It was the second fatal collision during an LAPD pursuit in recent weeks.About 12:30 a.m. at White Oak Avenue and Roscoe Boulevard in Northridge, officers attempted a traffic stop of a vehicle that was wanted in connection with a suspected robbery, according to Officer Drake Madison, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.

In this image taken from Pueblo County Sheriff's police body camera provided by attorney Darold Killmer, Richard Ward sits in the backseat of a vehicle as he is questioned by Pueblo County Sheriff's Deputy Charles McWhorter on Feb. 22, 2022.AP A Colorado sheriff's department is taking heat for giving one of its deputies an award for injuries he sustained during a violent incident last year.

Former American swimming champion Jamie Cail has died in the US Virgin Islands, according to authorities who are investigating her death on the island of St. John.US Virgin Islands Police Department says Cail's boyfriend, who was not identified, left a bar just after midnight to check on her last Tuesday when he found her on the floor of their home.

SMITHFIELD, Maine (AP) - Authorities have recovered the body of a Maine man who died after the UTV he was driving broke through the ice covering a pond early Sunday.Jeremiah Meader, 42, was riding in the UTV with his wife and two others across North Pond in Smithfield around 1 a.m. on Sunday when the vehicle broke through the ice, officials say.

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A man accused of overturning a pair of food carts on a busy street outside a concert at SoFi Stadium on Saturday evening has been fired, stadium officials confirmed Tuesday morning."The individual involved was employed by a third-party vendor, and we have been advised that he has since been terminated," read an emailed statement from SoFi Stadium officials, who did not identify the man.

Oakland restaurant Hi Felicia closed suddenly on May 24 citing a destructive break-in that apparently left the business in disarray, but now former employees tell the San Francisco Standard that issues have been brewing at the ambitious restaurant for months.Employees allege that as a result of owner Imana's mismanagement, paychecks bounced, working conditions were strained due to lack of heating and leaks in the kitchen, and that Imana was rarely in the kitchen at all.

A former Virginia Department of Corrections employee donated hundreds of execution documents, including these photographs, to the Library of Virginia more than a decade ago.NPR is now exclusively publishing a selection of the documents.Library of Virginia, Chiara Eisner and Monika Evstatieva/NPR In January, NPR aired excerpts from four tapes recorded behind the scenes during Virginia executions.

A grand jury indictment says that Josh Sills of the Philadelphia Eagles football team allegedly engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with a woman and held her against her will in December 2019.AP Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Josh Sills was indicted on rape and kidnapping charges in Ohio on Tuesday two weeks before the football team prepares to play in the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Children as young as 13 worked illegally, female teen employees were subjected to sexually suggestive comments, and security guards contributed to violent mayhem at a Popeye's fried-chicken restaurant in Oakland, newly filed worker complaints to state regulators claim.Popeyes said it learned Thursday morning about the worker complaints filed Wednesday with CalOSHA and the California Labor Commissioner, and immediately shut down the restaurant.

Efforts to craft a Canadian grocery code of conduct have reached a major milestone with a proposed final version that includes a process to resolve disputes and impose sanctions on systemic violators of the code.However, the language in a copy of the proposed code obtained by The Canadian Press appears to stop short of imposing fines on companies that fail to adhere to its principles.

Jacquie Holyoak is considering accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) due to the debilitating pain of living with fibromyalgia.But she says it's a choice she might not even contemplate if her disability benefits didn't leave her struggling to make ends meet."I'm just really exhausted ... I need someone to help me, and I've been asking everywhere.

CHEYENNE, Wyo.(AP) - Declaring a mission to liberate "Taco Tuesday" for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force the Taco John's chain to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.Too many businesses and others refer to "Taco Tuesday" for Taco John's to be able to have exclusive rights to the phrase, Taco Bell asserted in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing on May 16.

Astronomers have witnessed the largest explosion in space.The explosive event labeled AT2021lwx was observed to be ten times brighter than any known supernova, the explosions that occur as massive stars die.And whereas supernova explosions only last a few months, this explosive event has been raging for at least three years.

Move Over, Oumuamua
Remember Oumuamua, that weird and allegedly alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017, when we were all so young and starry-eyed?Now, some scientists have a new and boring explanation for what it was - and reader, it may have nothing to do with aliens.In a new study published in the journal Nature this week, astronomy researchers out of Cornell and Berkeley suggested that Oumuamua, the interstellar interloper that whizzed past Earth in 2017 and has puzzled, mesmerized, and frustrated astronomers ever since, may well have been a gas-propelled comet with a tail so faint that we couldn't see it.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday called on airlines to exercise continued vigilance after a string of high-profile near misses on runways, including at Kennedy International Airport in New York in January.The agency's notice said that while its data does not reflect an increase in incidents and occurrences, the potential severity of these events is concerning.

WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Tuesday that China had rejected a request from Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to speak with his Chinese counterpart on Saturday soon after an American fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.As the debris was settling into the Atlantic and Navy divers were beginning the arduous task of trying to recover the balloon's sensors and other surveillance equipment, the Pentagon reached out to China to clear the air.

Five people who worked for an environmental response consulting firm were killed in a plane crash Wednesday in Little Rock, Arkansas, while on their way to a metal factory explosion site in Ohio, officials said.The plane was carrying employees of the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health when it took off from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock around noon Wednesday, according to the firm and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Jesse Cannon-Wallace doesn't have a TikTok strategy.Still, Cannon-Wallace, who works as asalesperson at Mercedes Benz of Atlanta Northeast, has been able to amass more than 120,000 followers on the platform via organic posts documenting test drives, how-to tutorials and product features for the dealership's fleet.

Nowadays, there's a lot being asked of public relations agencies.The root cause: clients expect more than just press coverage, according to PR pros.In response, some agencies are expanding their services beyond earned media in an effort to keep up with client demand and maintain a competitive edge during economic uncertainty.

Rest assured, Mars Wrigley's beloved M&M characters are still the chocolate brand's official spokescandies, according to a recent news release.What was expected to be an "indefinite pause" and replacement of the candies was a marketing stunt building up to its debut in the Super Bowl.Earlier this week, the chocolate brand dropped the news that the spokescandies would retire and real-life actress Maya Rudolph would be the new spokesperson.

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User generated content has become more important in a society where less polished content performs better than professionally created content,especially in light of today's booming creator economy.For that reason - helped by the post-Covid-19 travel rebound - hotel chain Red Carnation has spent the last seven years bullish on its user generated content strategy as a cost effective way to drum up brand awareness.

In a split verdict, a federal jury on Thursday convicted a Chicago attorney of using insider information from a friend to make a windfall in stock purchases involving an education-technology company, while acquitting the friend on all counts.The jury deliberated for about nine hours over two days before the verdict was announced Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Judge Manish Shah's courtroom.

An employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason for allegedly passing secret information to Russia, German prosecutors said Thursday.The man, a German citizen who was identified only as Carsten L. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Berlin on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Kremlin says International Criminal Court charges against Vladimir Putin are meaningless with respect to jurisdiction in Russia.United States President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin had clearly committed war crimes in Ukraine and the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issue of an arrest warrant for the Russian president was justified.

BRUSSELS - Moscow is "preparing for more war" and Ukraine's allies should send more ammunition to help Kyiv fight off the assault, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in Brussels, where member nations' defense ministers were meeting to discuss Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin "made two big strategic mistakes: He underestimated the strength and the bravery of the people of Ukraine and its armed forces, and he underestimated the unity and resolve of NATO and partners," Stoltenberg said.

Cryptocurrency storage provider Zodia Custody has raised $36 million in funding from Japanese financial services firm SBI Holdings and SC Ventures, the venture arm of Zodia's parent company Standard Chartered.Zodia Custody, which provides digital asset custody services to institutional clients, will use the funding to increase its token coverage and enhance its settlement product, Interchange, which protects clients' assets that are traded on exchanges, it said in an emailed statement.

Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion.Bergeron made the announcement Friday morning, writing in a statement that she would formally step down "by the end of the current semester."

Last month, "After nearly two years of my resistance," wrote a University of Houston Downtown professor, his department published an "anti-racist statement" on its website.Adam Ellwanger, a tenured English professor, wrote this on Campus Reform, a conservative website where he's a higher education fellow.

Temple University's graduate student workers have approved a new union contract that includes thousands of dollars in raises, ending a walkout that began Jan. 31 and had included the university temporarily axing strikers' health coverage and tuition remission.Members of the Temple University Graduate Students' Association (TUGSA) voted 344 to 8 over the weekend to approve the university's latest offer, TUGSA said.

After medical instruments called duodenoscopes sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks a few years ago, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care facilities to switch to models with disposable components less likely to carry bacteria from one patient to another.Now the agency says there are problems with those instruments, too.

Members of the House and Senate were informed Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, DC, health insurance marketplace.Employees of the lawmakers and their families were also affected.DC Health Link confirmed that data on an unspecified number of customers was affected and said it was notifying them and working with law enforcement.

Electronics giant Acer has confirmed getting hacked after a hacker offered to sell 160 Gb of files allegedly stolen from the company's systems."We have recently detected an incident of unauthorized access to one of our document servers for repair technicians.While our investigation is ongoing, there is currently no indication that any consumer data was stored on that server," Acer told SecurityWeek in an emailed statement.

While many of us were unplugging from the internet to spend time with loved ones over the holidays, LastPass, the maker of a popular security program for managing digital passwords, delivered the most unwanted gift.It published details about a recent security breach in which cybercriminals had obtained copies of customers' password vaults, potentially exposing millions of people's online information.

Binge-watching wrestling videos, communicating visually with doctors and his family and daydreaming about pizza and steak, a spirited Jesus Rega is "making a fast recovery," his family says, after being shot last month in the Back of the Yards while waiting for his school bus.The nonverbal Rega, 21, remains in the ICU at Stroger Hospital, but did not lose any of his eyesight or taste, which doctors warned were possibilities after he was shot twice in the head - and "just missing" his heart - outside their home, his father, Philip Rega told the Tribune on Thursday.

A tiff between staffers inside a grocery store just after closing escalated, leading to a shooting late Friday in north suburban Glenview.Nobody was hurt and no customers were in the store when the two workers got into a quarrel, which escalated, leading one of them to fire a round at 10:20 p.m. at 25 Waukegan Rd., Glenview police said in an emailed statement.

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Food inflation has jumped 11.3% during the past year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.In January, grocery prices increased 0.4%.The rise last month was driven by eggs, which rose 8.5%, and cereals and baked goods, which increased 1%.Price increases are "not resetting as quickly, or as uniformly, as consumers would like," and will likely remain "elevated in the short term with continued volatility," according to an emailed statement from Andy Harig at the Food Industry Association.

Plant-based milk alternatives can be labeled as "milk," but the FDA recommends that these beverages place nutritional disclosures on their packages so consumers can compare their nutritional quality with that of dairy milk, according to draft guidance on labeling published Wednesday.Studies done by FDA showed consumers are not confused by plant-based products labeled "milk," but many consumers "lack an accurate understanding" about nutrients in plant-based milk, the guidance states.

The ad for Temu, which featured the tagline ' Shop like a Billionaire,' immediately led to a rise in both downloads and daily active users.According to Sensor Tower data, Temu saw a 45% surge in downloads and daily active users jumped by about 20% on the day of the Super Bowl, compared to the previous day.

Over the past year, sexual wellness company Adam and Eve has tripled its investment in video streaming ads to reach new customers, shifting its media mix to better navigate today's increasingly expensive and less efficient digital ad landscape."If we want to continue to be in front of the consumers that we need to be in front of, we have to go with where the eyeballs are," said Chad Davis, director of customer acquisition at Adam and Eve.

Meta's EU headquarters in Dublin, Ireland (Photo: Derick P. Hudson, Shutterstock) The EU issued a 390 million (about $AU575 million) fine against Meta Wednesday, a decision that suggests Europe may be in its final days of widespread targeted advertising.One thing is certain: EU citizens are going to see even more pop-ups asking for consent to track them online than they already do.

The EU issued a 390 million (about $414 million) fine against Meta Wednesday, a decision that suggests Europe may be in its final days of widespread targeted advertising.One thing is certain: EU citizens are going to see even more pop-ups asking for consent to track them online than they already do.

Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with 390 million ($414 million) in fines by the European Union's main privacy watchdog over the way users' data is used for personalized ads on its Facebook and Instagram units, and given an ultimatum to bring its services in line with EU law.Meta has three months to ensure the processing of such information complies with EU rules, the Irish Data Protection Commission said in a statement on Wednesday.

A female truckers association is accusing Meta Platforms of algorithmic bias, alleging its Facebook platform selectively shows job  advertisements based on users' gender and age, with older workers far less likely to see ads and women far less likely to see ads for blue-collar positions, especially in industries that historically exclude women.

A U.S. company that helped build a huge aquarium in Berlin says it is sending a team to investigate the rupture of the tank, which sent a wave of debris, water and tropical fish crashing through the hotel lobby it was located in and onto the street outside.Reynolds Polymer Technology, which says it manufactured and installed the cylinder component of the AquaDom tank 20 years ago, said in an emailed statement that at this point, it is too early to determine the factor or factors that would produce such a failure.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia A top World Health Organization official, reacting to the death of an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia infected by bird flu, said Friday the recent global spread of the virus and human infections are worrying.Dr. Sylvie Briand, the WHO's director for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, said the U.N. agency is in close communication with the Cambodian authorities to understand more about the outbreak.

A person in Charlotte County, Florida, has died after being infected with the rare brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.The infection possibly resulted from sinus rinse practices utilizing tap water, according to a news release from the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County.The release was issued in February to alert the public about the infection.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.The National Marine Aquarium, the largest display for sea life in the United Kingdom, has officially welcomed Heidi, an olive ridley turtle rescued in 2018 from the Maldives.

A 46-year-old snowboarder died at a South Lake Tahoe resort Wednesday."Heavenly Mountain Resort regretfully confirms that a serious incident took place on the mountain Wednesday, March 1, 2023, involving a 46-year-old male," the resort said in an emailed statement.The resort's ski patrol responded to the incident, which occurred on an "expert" trail.

A California law seeking to increase wages and improve working conditions for fast-food workers has been set aside for now, after state officials said an effort by major restaurant and business trade groups to overturn the law had qualified as a measure on next year's ballot.The referendum seeking to overturn Assembly Bill 257 gathered sufficient valid voter signatures, the office of California Secretary of State Shirley Weber certified Tuesday.

A person who was believed to be homeless was struck and killed by a Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation vehicle Wednesday morning in Sherman Oaks, according to police.Los Angeles police responded around 11:45 a.m. to a report of a pedestrian who had been hit by a vehicle in the 15000 block of Burbank Boulevard, a residential area near the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

Attention Westsiders, your ship has come in.Din Tai Fung, the world-famous dumpling specialist known for its juicy soup dumplings, cucumber salad, and pan-fried Shanghai rice cakes, in addition to long lines of adoring fans, will open at Santa Monica Place.And there are already plans for some magical ocean views.

The Church of England is considering whether to use gender-neutral terms to refer to God, a spokesperson said on Thursday, adding that there are no plans to to abolish or substantially revise the existing liturgy.The church said in an emailed statement that Christians have recognized since ancient times that God is neither male nor female.

Last month, Gannett initiated a round of , laying off 200 journalists and placing hundreds more on furloughs over the holidays.Among those affected were entire teams, early-career journalists, veteran editors - and college students.The FSView & Florida Flambeau, a student newspaper for Florida State University owned by Gannett, lost at least three paid positions and had its weekly print pages cut from 12 to eight.

Pedestrians navigate a snow-covered sidewalk in Chicago, on Thursday.Severe winter weather has impacted tens of millions of people in the U.S. Scott Olson/Getty Images "I've got good news and I've got bad news," television sports anchor Mark Woodley said while reporting on eastern Iowa's winter storm on Thursday.

CIBC will settle a 15-year-old class-action lawsuit and pay a total of $153 million to employees who were uncompensated for overtime work, plaintiff lawyers say.Dara Fresco, a former CIBC teller and class counsel, brought the case forward in 2007."It is good news for the class to have this case finally resolved," Fresco said in a statement released by Goldblatt Partners LLP, the Ontario law firm representing the CIBC employees involved in the class action.

Military service members will now be eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental leave, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, announcing a change that doubles how much leave is available to parents and does away with distinctions between primary and secondary caregivers.The Defense Department's under secretary for personnel and readiness, Gilbert R. Cisneros Jr., issued a memorandum on Wednesday outlining the new parental leave policy for service members who have been on active or reserve duty for at least a year.

Coinbase is a U.S.-based publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange.Chris Delmas]/AFP via Getty Images Coinbase, a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange, will pay $100 million in fees because of "significant failures in its compliance program" that violated New York state laws.Wednesday's announcement of the settlement between Coinbase and the New York State Department on Financial Services comes on the heels of other actions by other regulatory agencies to monitor cryptocurrency companies.

Local Residents have raised noise complaints, which the railroad has refuted.A seasonal "Polar Express" train has given way to Christmas controversy on Cape Cod.The holiday train takes several trips a day in and out of Buzzards Bay in Bourne, complete with Santa, sleigh bells, and hot chocolate.

Morocco's national airline said it was cancelling all flights it had scheduled for Wednesday to carry fans to Doha for the World Cup semifinal, citing what it said was a decision by Qatari authorities."Following the latest restrictions imposed by the Qatari authorities, Royal Air Maroc regrets to inform customers of the cancellation of their flights operated by Qatar Airways," the airline said in an emailed statement.