NEW YORK (AP) — MrBeast has ordered a full assessment of the internal culture in his YouTube empire as well as an investigation into “allegations of inappropriate behavior by people in the company," according to a confidential memo obtained by The Associated Press. Addressed to “Team Beast” employees, the message sent Wednesday outlines infrastructure changes including plans to hire a chief human resources officer and require company-wide...

A judge ordered Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home, to pay $950 million to families who sued the couple in a civil suit.

(The Center Square) - For the 12th time this year, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act to combat wildfires. Kotek invoked the act on August 6, 2024, responding to the Town Gulch Fire in Baker County. The Baker County Fire Defense Board asked for assistance in protecting life and safety, plus structural fire protec...

"We need a systematic investigation into the environmental drivers." Researchers make concerning discovery about increasingly common factor putting infants at risk: 'We must tackle this pollution at its source' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Trump has gotten more hostile to Project 2025 and its authors as criticism around the document mounts.

A scientific drilling ship has burrowed further into Earth’s mantle than ever before, obtaining new clues about the processes that feed oceanic volcanoes and the possible origins of life

Monkeypox, typically rare, is spreading around the world. Here’s a quick look at everything you need to know about this viral disease.

The countdown is on.

The deadly strain kills one in every ten people who catches it.

DEL MAR, Calif., Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Phylex Biosciences has achieved positive results with its new mRNA nanoparticle vaccine against the Nipah virus in an immunogenicity study conducted in collaboration with scientists of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. The Nipah virus is a pathogen causing encephalitis and acute respiratory distress in humans, with recent outbreaks in Bangladesh, India,...

The 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's southern island of Kyushu, close to the city of Nichinan, at 4.43pm local time.

'Nazi scum off our streets.'

The Centers for Disease Control on Wednesday alerted doctors to be on the lookout for a deadly new strain of mpox spreading through parts of Africa while U.S. officials committed $424 million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is the epicenter of the outbreak. Why it matters: The so-called clade I virus is more virulent and deadly than the clade II variety that caused a global outbreak in 2022. The CDC alert came soon after World...

An author and leading UFO investigator believes the incident to be in the top five of known UFO crashes

Though they seem to be under control, the fires are part of a concerning trend in the country that has exhausted resources in the region. Hundreds evacuate after massive fires surge across thousands of acres: 'A struggle across the entire Western United States' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Thousands of anti-racist protesters have taken to the streets across the United Kingdom to counter a spate of far-right rallies planned to target immigration centers, seeming to thwart what looked set to be another day of rioting.

Vinesh Phogat of India, who was set to compete in gold-medal match, was disqualified after not making weight.

A supercomputer at NASA produced an immersive, simulation of what happens when an object falls into a supermassive black hole.

Packed “peas in a pod” planetary systems could slow a comet through a game of gravitational pinball to enable a delivery of chemical building blocks for life, Cambridge researchers said.

Thanks to AI technology, we can predict what America's future might look like in 500 years.

Gas stoves have been a staple in many American households for quite some time. They have long been praised for their efficiency and control in cooking. But, new research has revealed a darker side to these common kitchen appliances. Researchers at Stanford University have found that gas stoves contribute to about 19,000 adult deaths in […]

It might have come from cosmic fireballs.

NASA spots ‘surprise’ X shapes in Earth’s atmosphere - and scientists are struggling to explain them -

New calculations reveal the potential timeline for the finale of the universe.

Google’s recent antitrust battle and Microsoft’s 1998 caseare inextricably linked. Google, like Microsoft, lost its case. And in U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta’s 277-page ruling this week, he mentioned Microsoft 266 times.

ERA has filed a lawsuit against the Australian government after their lease renewal request for a major uranium mine was rejected.

(The Center Square) – Job cuts and unemployment rates are going up in Illinois, while workers’ wage growth is slowing. According to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, reports, 1,169 Illinois workers were laid off in July. It marked the third straight month the number of layoffs has increased. Economist and Everyday Economics podcast host Orphe […]