The threat of toxic fandoms — from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings to Bridgerton and Game of Thrones — has become an intractable headache for almost every studio.

District attorney investigators and Atlanta police raided the Northeast Atlanta offices of “A List Smiles Atlanta” on Thursday.

Officer Brendan Sullivan was hit with a fine for harassing a Brooklyn resident who had complained about illegally parked police cruisers.

Cheaper versions of the “gamechanger” HIV prevention drug lenacapavir are to be made available in 120 low- and middle-income countries, manufacturer Gilead Sciences has announced. However, campaigners said the deal “abandons” many countries with a high HIV burden, particularly in Latin America, and urged transparency over exact pricing. Lenacapavir, given as a twice-yearly injection, has shown strong results for HIV prevention. It stopped infection in a trial involving girls and women in South Africa and Uganda, and offered almost complete protection in a second trial that mainly involved men across Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Thailand and the US. Gilead has faced pressure to make lenacapavir available as soon as possible and as cheaply as possible globally. Already approved as a treatment for HIV, it is sold for $42,250 a year under the name Sunleca in the US. Researchers say it could be profitably produced for just $40 (£30) a patient, a year.

They’re used to rebuilding their homes and businesses after hurricanes, but most Terrebonne Parish residents are struggling to weather a different kind of storm. “It’s not going to be hurricanes that run people out of here. It’s going to be the insurance rates.”

A second asteroid hit Earth around the same time causing a "catastrophic" event.

In a fast track court in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, a judge gave a 42-page order detailing what the term ‘love jihad’ means after sentencing a Muslim man to his ‘entire life’ in jail, despite the woman rescinding her testimony, reported The Times of India. Additional district and sessions judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar made the case an example of ‘love jihad’ and highlighted the “deceit” and “religious conversion” that defines these cases. Judge Diwakar was also known for his role in calling for a survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi in 2022.

Ah! Well. Nevertheless

The competition was delayed after a female bear was killed by a male rival in the Brooks River on Monday.

A seemingly non-competitive Senate race in deeply Republican Nebraska is no longer a safe bet for two-term incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer.

Private equity barons just pocketed as much as $850 million from the company behind this week’s massive chemical blast in Georgia.

Cuba has been sanctioned for longer than any other country in modern history. But almost a decade ago the Obama administration softened sanctions on the island and restored diplomatic relations with Havana, admitting that over half a century of immiserating the island had failed to oust the communist government. The economic rebound was swift. But in the final weeks of the Trump administration, the White House put Cuba back on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, alongside Iran, Syria and North Korea, for nakedly political reasons and without providing evidence. Cuba watchers expected that Biden would restore Obama’s raft of achievements. After all, on the campaign trail in 2020 Biden promised that as president he would “reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families.” Instead, Biden has one-upped Trump by going further than the previous administration in attacking Cuba’s tourism industry – the main engine of the island’s economy. Two years ago, the Biden State Department barred foreigners who visit Cuba from visa-free travel to the U.S. That meant that people from the United Kingdom, France, Spain and 37 other countries found out that a mere holiday in Cuba could forfeit their visa waiver, and many decided not to risk a visit to the island. Unlike the rest of the Caribbean, tourism in Cuba has not rebounded since the pandemic. European travel to the island is only half what it was before the pandemic.

“Transsexuals for Trump!” Trump supporter Juliet Germanotta yelled as she grabbed the “Do you hear Trump lying?" signs from the protester inside Collect Pond Park.

But did he appear isolated?

Many homeowners in North Carolina won’t be insured against flooding or landslides due to the fragmented way in which disasters are covered.

“It becomes increasingly more challenging to understand and debug the AI-generated code, and troubleshooting becomes so resource-intensive that it is easier to rewrite the code from scratch than fix it.”

The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels and semiconductor chips.

Ryujinx, a Switch emulator has ceased development. But what did anybody expect after Yuzu went down? It was always going to end like this.

Active-duty U.S. military units may be needed in the long-term post-Helene recovery in western North Carolina, particularly as local water systems remain offline. Right now there are 92 search and rescue teams working around the clock to try to find people who are still alive, according to North Carolina Emergency Management. Duke Energy crews made some progress on Tuesday with power outages at 272,672 — down by 100,000 from noon Tuesday. People throughout the mountains were told to drink only boiled, bottled or treated water as more than two dozen water plants remained closed as of Tuesday and not producing water. That includes Asheville, where city officials have said restoring full-system service could take weeks as repairs needed for treatment facilities and pipes are extensive.

Hurricane Helene’s death toll has surpassed 150 as searchers use helicopters to get past washed-out bridges and hike through wilderness to reach isolated homes. Crews were still trudging through knee-deep muck and debris in the wake of the deadly category 4 storm that dumped more than 40tn gallons of rain on the southern US after it crashed ashore in Florida on Thursday. The amount of rainfall is enough to fill Lake Tahoe – with its depth of 1,645ft and surface area of 191 sq miles – or 60m Olympic-sized swimming pools. It could also fill the Dallas Cowboys’ 80,000-seat stadium 51,000 times over. “That’s an astronomical amount of precipitation,” said Ed Clark, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)’s water center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, according to the Associated Press. Clark said the estimate of 40tn gallons was, if anything, conservative. Also, if that amount of water had fallen in the parched western states, it would have been enough to fill Lake Powell and Lake Mead twice over, he said.