Saturday, December 14, 2024

Influencer Sues Rival She Says Copied Her (Newser Deep Dive)

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December 14, 2024
 
 
It's a case that, per the Verge, was "a long time coming": One influencer is suing another, alleging copyright infringement and more. Alyssa Sheil and Sydney Nicole Gifford (who now sometimes goes by Sydney Nicole Slone after getting married) met each other a few years back, both of them young Amazon influencers (Sheil is now 21, Gifford 24) who lived in Austin, Texas. Keep reading
 
To say the tiny Canadian community of the Tuktoyaktuk in the Western Arctic is worried about climate change is a little abstract. To say they're worried about their small cemetery makes it painfully real for the hamlet's 1,000 Inuvialuit residents. Keep reading
 
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Ask most people what they know about formaldehyde, and they might harken back to a high school frog dissection. A ProPublica investigation provides a far more sobering take: The outlet reports that the chemical is both pervasive—it's "virtually everywhere"—and dangerous, causing more "far more cancer" than any other pollutant, according to EPA stats. Keep reading
 
On April 27, the pope will utter the Latin word "discernimus," meaning "we recognize it," in regard to the sainthood of Carlo Acutis. And thus, Acutis—who died in 2006 from leukemia at age 15—will become the first millennial saint. Keep reading
 
From the Archives
It's the type of problem a city often doesn't act upon until after tragedy strikes, and ProPublica reports that the odds of such events are on the rise. The issue is people getting sucked into storm drains—think culverts or large pipes—during flooding. Keep reading
 
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