McLaren were left reeling after both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were ruled out of the Chinese Grand Prix, but team boss Andrea Stella is confident it won’t happen again.
The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback
Good news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling you get when your team scores a late winner, but you’re filled with instant dread that the goal will be overturned on a video replay.
I confess that is how I responded to the double legal blow dealt this week to Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, when two US juries on successive days found against it in a pair of landmark cases. First came a verdict in New Mexico, fining the company $375m (£280m) for enabling harm, including child sexual exploitation, on its platforms and for misleading consumers about their safety. Twenty-four hours later, jurors in California awarded $6m in damages to a young user who had argued that Meta (along with YouTube) had deliberately designed addictive products that had hooked her from childhood, causing her grave harm.
Continue reading...Pete Wilcox says point of investigation into infamous 1984 clashes with police is to ‘enable communities to move on’
Former miners will finally get the chance to speak the truth about their experiences after four decades of silence during a public inquiry into infamous clashes with police at Orgreave, the inquiry’s chair has said.
Pete Wilcox, the bishop of Sheffield, said only an inquiry could help South Yorkshire move on from the events of 18 June 1984, when striking miners unexpectedly found themselves in a pitched battle against thousands of police officers brought in from forces across the UK.
Continue reading...Jerry Murrell seemingly alluded to healthcare CEO killing when he explained giving bonus to workers after bungled promotion
Five Guys’ chief executive officer, Jerry Murrell, said he gave a $1.5m bonus to employees of his US-based burger restaurant chain because “I didn’t want anybody shooting me” after the company recently “screwed … up” a buy-one-get-one-free promotion.
Murrell did not elaborate on the comment, which he gave to Fortune in an interview published on Wednesday – but it came a little more than a year after the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead on a midtown Manhattan street in what was widely considered a murderous rebuke of the US health insurance industry’s profit-driven practices.
Continue reading...Rescuers used boats and excavators to try to guide 10-metre long sea mammal to deeper waters
A humpback whale stranded on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast since early this week has freed itself and swum into deeper waters, rescuers said on Friday.
A flotilla of vessels were following the weakened animal at a distance, hoping to help guide it into the North Sea and toward the Atlantic Ocean, its natural habitat.
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Een tramconducteur heeft klappen gekregen bij de halte Pleinweg in Rotterdam-Zuid. Bij de mishandeling waren twee verdachten betrokken. De politie heeft er inmiddels één opgepakt, naar de tweede wordt nog gezocht.
Veertien jaar geleden zaten PvdA en VVD een béétje in dezelfde situatie als het kabinet-Jetten nu: ze moesten zonder senaatsmeerderheid bezuinigingen door de Tweede en Eerste Kamer sluizen. Drie lessen van toen waar de coalitie van nu iets aan kan hebben.
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Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue
US senators are pushing to require datacenters and other large energy customers to report consumption, arguing the data is essential to hold them accountable to local communities.…