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Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He’s been quite cagey about what most of this land is for and was more than a little bit hostile with the NPR journalist who broke the story about it. Now, in what really seems like…

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on 11 May 2023, that it has officially dropped restrictions that prohibit gay and bisexual men from donating blood under many circumstances on 11 May 2023. The ban was initially put in place in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, but for years medical professionals and gay rights advocates have argued that the ban was no longer medically justifiable and that it unnecessarily discriminated against men who have sex with men.Ayako Miyashita is a health policy researcher at the…

May is Military Appreciation Month and Activision Blizzard is supporting the initiative with a $1 million donation to its Call of Duty Endowment charity that raises money to help support military veterans. This is happening through an in-game campaign inside Warzone 2's DMZ mode.For every match where a player extracts $30,000 worth of in-game cash, Activision will give $1 to the Call of Duty Endowment, up to $10 per player and $1 million in total. This is part of a campaign called "Loot for Good," which…

Photo: STRMX (AP)Leer en español.The government of Latvia is killing two birds with one stone with a new program that sends the cars it seizes from drunk drivers to Ukraine to support its war against Russia. Latvia, a country of roughly 1.9 million people, has the highest drunk driving rate in all of Europe, according to the BBC News. In 2022, it registered 4,300 drivers who surpassed the legal blood alcohol limit of 0.5%. That same year, the Latvian government passed a law that allows it to seize and sell the cars of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision by the United States Supreme Court earlier this year overturned constitutional protections of reproductive choice for Americans. The ruling sparked protests, political action and outreach to women affected by the decision, including a flood of…

Jeff Bezos donates his wealth as a repentance for the mass Amazon layoffs of 10k employees Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will donate most of his wealth to charities that focus on climate change and social and political discrimination. As per Forbes, Bezos is currently the world’s 4th richest man with a net worth of $124 billion. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Bezos and his partner, journalist-turned-philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, said they intend to donate the majority of his wealth within his lifetime and…

Last year, in a public stand following January 6th, Amazon pledged to stop its corporate PAC contributions to politicians who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.“Given the unacceptable attempt to undermine a legitimate democratic process, the Amazon PAC has suspended contributions to any Member of Congress who voted to override the results of the US Presidential election,” the company wrote back in January 2021. Amazon made that promise along with multiple other tech leviathans.But now, the company has…

Rebecca George doesn’t mind the vultures that complain from the trees that surround the Western Carolina University body farm. Her arrival has interrupted their breakfast. George studies human decomposition, and part of decomposing is becoming food. Scavengers are welcome.George, a forensic anthropologist, places the body of a donor in the Forensic Osteology Research Station—known as the FOREST. This is Enclosure One, where donors decompose naturally above ground. Nearby is Enclosure Two, where researchers study bodies…

Over the past two decades, fewer and fewer Americans have given to charity. In 2000, roughly two-thirds of American households gave to a charitable organization. In 2018, just under half of American households did. In other words, about 20 million Americans had stopped giving. While the amount of money going to charity in the US keeps growing — last year, giving exceeded $480 billion — the number of Americans giving to charity has shrunk. And there hasn’t been an easy explanation for why so many had stopped. Unless, of…