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People who received guaranteed basic income in one of Texas' largest cities reported reduced rates of housing insecurity.

And the number of participants who reported being unable to afford to eat a balanced meal decreased by 17 percentage points, not 17%. »

A jury handed down a $2.25 billion verdict, including $2 billion in punitive damages, against agrochemical giant Monsanto, according to the lawyers of a man who said he developed cancer from using the company’s weed killer, Roundup.

It said the jury’s verdict “conflicts with the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence and worldwide regulatory and scientific assessments” on Roundup.

Bayer agreed in 2020 to pay about $10 billion in a settlement to tens of thousands of claimants over the allegation that Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, without admitting wrongdoing. »

The developer of the Yakuza series, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, had its biggest launch ever on Valve’s digital platform, Steam, with the release of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

According to the concurrent player count statistics for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth on SteamDB, developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio had its biggest game launch ever on Steam, with a peak concurrent player count of 37,426.

As such, the latest entry in the Yakuza series ended up being the biggest launch yet for Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. »

A small town in Maine is grieving after one of its top government officials died while lifting his son out of an icy pond into which they both fell.

“Kevin was a wonderful, wonderful … standout guy,” the chairperson of the governing council in Carmel, Maine, said of Howell to the Portland Press Herald.

The father was able to lift his son out of the icy water and told him to go home and get his mother, Howell’s wife, Katie. »