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☆ Carroll’s Testimony Highlights Trauma of Speaking Out After Rape, Experts Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | Christine Hauser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sexual assault survivors can be traumatized again when testifying years later, experts say. It is not unusual for people who are sexually assaulted to not come forward right away. “The victim has to be prepared to be the sole carrier of the information, and they also carry the burden of all the questions,” said Veronique Valliere, a psychologist who counsels sexual assault perpetrators and victims. “All the defense has to do really is to attack the decision-making of the victim,” she said. “If the offender happens to have resources, like money or status, immediately people go to thinking there is an alternative motive for fabrication,” Dr. Valliere said.

☆ 2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With Transgender Influencer
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | Julie Creswell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The maker of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch, said on Tuesday that two of its executives were on a leave of absence after the beer was featured in a social media promotion by a transgender influencer. Bud Light’s sales have slumped amid calls for a boycott because of the advertisement and criticism of the company’s response to the backlash, which included targeted harassment of one of the executives who is on leave. Alissa Heinerscheid, the vice president of marketing for Bud Light, and Daniel Blake, who oversees marketing for Anheuser-Busch’s mainstream brands, were on leave, the company said in a statement. “We have made some adjustments to streamline the structure of our marketing function to reduce layers so that our most senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brands’ activities,” Anheuser-Busch said in a statement. “These steps will help us maintain focus on the things we do best: brewing great beer for all consumers, while always making a positive impact in our communities and on our country.”

☆ Florida Apologizes After 4:45 A.M. Emergency Alert Test
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Many Florida residents woke up to a screeching alarm around 4:45 a.m. on Thursday, after an early morning test of the emergency alert system blared from their cellphones. The Florida Division of Emergency Management, which coordinates and manages alert systems for emergencies such as hurricanes and other disasters, apologized for the notifications in a statement. “The division understands that unexpected 4:45 a.m. wake-up calls are frustrating and would like to apologize for the early morning text,” Alecia Collins, a spokeswoman for the agency, said in an email.

☆ Bear That Killed Jogger in Italy Is Captured
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Italian authorities on Tuesday announced that they had captured a brown bear overnight after it had killed a jogger earlier this month. The fate of the 17-year-old female bear, known as JJ4, is now in the hands of an Italian court, which will determine if it should be euthanized. The debate has inflamed tensions over a successful effort to reintroduce brown bears to the region after they nearly went extinct in the 1990s. The bear was found in Val Meledrio, a valley in the mountains of Northern Italy, the provincial government of Trento said in a news release on Tuesday. The president of Trento Province, Maurizio Fugatti, said “satisfaction mixes with bitterness” over the capture.

☆ Behind the Backlash Against Bud Light’s Transgender Influencer
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Some conservative commentators and celebrities began calling for a boycott of Bud Light after the beer was featured in a social media promotion by a transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney. After Bud Light’s sales slumped and the brand found itself thrust into the nation’s culture wars, Anheuser-Busch, the beer’s brewer, announced on Tuesday that two of its executives were taking a leave of absence. Ms. Mulvaney is popular on TikTok, where she has more than 10.8 million followers and has been documenting her transition online. The controversy began on April 1, when she posted a video on her Instagram account, where she has 1.8 million followers, to promote a Bud Light contest. Ms. Mulvaney, 26, celebrated one full year of her “Days of Girlhood” series in March with a live show at Rockefeller Center called “Dylan Mulvaney’s Day 365 Live!”

☆ Virginia Fifth Grader Is Celebrated for Spotting Textbook’s Error
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Liam Squires, like many students, usually answers the question “How was school today?” with an evasive answer along the lines of “I don’t know.”This is why weeks passed before his mother, Megan Squires, learned that he had spotted an error in a science textbook that the publisher, dozens of students and his own teacher had missed. Liam, 10, had noticed that two rocks were misplaced in a diagram of the rock cycle. The significance of his discovery was not clear to his mother until months later in March, when Liam was praised by the school district superintendent and received a letter from the textbook’s publisher. Liam saw the mistake toward the end of a school day at H.M. Pearson Elementary School in Catlett, Va., about 50 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.

A blast of Arctic air will also plunge much of the country into bitter and, in some cases, dangerous cold, forecasters say. In some parts of this area, the wind chill could reach as low as minus 70 degrees, according to the Weather Service. Brief bursts of moderate to heavy snow lasting an hour or two are likely to occur immediately behind the Arctic front. Strong southerly winds, combined with the new moon-tide cycle, could also bring coastal flooding from northern New Jersey to northeast Massachusetts, the Weather Service said. Meteorologists warned local residents that this is not a normal lake effect event with a narrow band of heavy snow.

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