A fire devasted one of the world's largest secondhand clothing markets in Accra, Ghana.Kantamanto Market receives 15 million garments weekly and employs some 30,000 people.An advocacy group urged the global fashion industry to provide relief.A fire devastated one of the world's largest secondhand clothes markets in Accra, Ghana.The blaze started Thursday and destroyed as much as two-thirds of Kantamanto Market, which employs about 30,000 clothing traders and receives some 15 million garments weekly from wealthy countries like the US, the UK, and China.Thousands of people lost their stalls. Ghana National Fire Service said the fire was fully extinguished, and no injuries or fatalities were reported. They are still investigating the cause of the fire.Now, clean-up efforts are underway, and advocacy groups are calling on the global fashion industry to help provide relief."This is a critical moment for the global fashion ecosystem to show solidarity, not just by recognizing the value of secondhand markets, but by providing tangible help to rebuild and sustain them," Daniel Mawuli Quist, creative director of The Or Foundation, said in a statement.The fire calls attention to the global fashion industry's lack of alternatives for waste handling.Workers in Kantamanto Market resell and remanufacture millions of garments. But the rise of fast fashion has overwhelmed Accra with textile waste piling up in gutters, landfills, and beaches. An estimated 40% of garments go unsold, The Or Foundation found. The nonprofit in Ghana conducts research and offers grants and job training to workers in Kantamanto Market.The Or Foundation pledged $1 million to relief efforts and set up a fund to raise money for rebuilding the market and providing financial assistance to vendors.

Ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani risks being held in contempt in federal court in Manhattan.Two GA election workers said he repeatedly ignored court orders in their federal defamation case.If he's found in contempt, Trump could not issue a pardon or commute his sentence.Rudy Giuliani took the witness stand in federal court in New York on Friday, battling a potential contempt-of-court finding sought by two Georgia election workers and Donald Trump can't come to his rescue if he loses.If a judge decides Giuliani has flouted court orders by failing to turn over assets and evidence in the three-year-old defamation case, he could fine Giuliani or send him to jail until he complies.The federal pardon and commutation powers Trump regains on his return to the White House next month do not extend to civil contempt sentences.According to experts in constitutional law and federal pardons, Giuliani would not be able to rely on his former client to save him from jail or fines."Generally criminal contempt is within the power of the president, but civil contempt is not," said Margaret Love, a lawyer who served as the Justice Department pardon attorney in the 1990s.Giuliani was combative on the stand on Friday, at a daylong contempt-of-court hearing overseen by US District Judge Lewis Liman in a courthouse in downtown Manhattan.The hearing, which will continue next week, is part of a suite of civil cases brought by mother-daughter Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss."This is monstrously overbroad," Giuliani complained of Moss-Freeman asset-document requests during questioning at one point on Friday. "It's abusive and overbroad."A federal judge in Washington, DC, found in 2023 that Giuliani defamed the pair and subjected them to a barrage of racist death threats by repeatedly and falsely accusing them of voter fraud, including by lying that they had tallied suitcases full of illegal ballots for Joe Biden.In December 2023, a jury ordered Giuliani to pay Freeman and Moss $148 million. In recent weeks, the two plaintiffs have sought to have him held in contempt in DC and in Manhattan to force him to comply with judges' demands that he cease defaming them and turn over assets and evidence as ordered.The contempt hearing is scheduled to continue Monday morning.Giuliani's defense has focused on his recent switch of lawyers from Kenneth Caruso, an experienced New York-based attorney he has known for nearly 50 years, to Joseph Cammarata, best known for representing a woman who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct.Giuliani swapped lawyers sometime in November. Giuliani said that changing attorneys had made it a challenge to meet deadlines an excuse that the pair's lawyers did not accept.Cammarata said in court Friday that his client has completed "substantial compliance" with his obligations and should not be held in contempt.He said that Giuliani, who is 80 years old, has struggled to deal with an avalanche of legal proceedings against him, including criminal investigations. Prosecutors in Arizona and Georgia have brought cases against Giuliani over his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump."Mayor Giuliani, as this court knows, has multiple litigations going on in multiple states, both civil and criminal in nature," Cammarata said.Giuliani took the stand struggling up a step by the podium after the court's lunch break. At the beginning of the break, he complained to Jane Rosenberg, a courtroom artist, about how she depicted him in one of her pastel drawings."You made me look like my dog," he told her, Rosenberg said.Giuliani was cross-examined by Meryl Conant Governski, an attorney representing Freeman and Moss, about two sworn declarations he had submitted to the court saying that he's abided by all of the judge's orders and provided proper responses to information requests and interrogatories.He said that the turnaround time required for discovery requests was "unusually short" even though his previous attorney, Caruso, had agreed to the 14-day response deadlines.In the morning, Cammarata cross-examined Aaron Nathan, an attorney representing Freeman and Moss, over how he determined whether the former New York mayor had failed to account for his property. Many of the questions concerned Giuliani's framed Joe DiMaggio jersey that once hung over the fireplace in his Manhattan apartment.When Nathan gained access to the apartment in October and searched the residence, it was gone."This jersey has been at the forefront of the case," Cammarata said in one heated moment. "There have been accusations that my client absconded with the jersey. And that is not the case."Cammarata, in winding and plodding cross-examination, pointed out that the photo of the jersey in the apartment was taken in the summer of 2023, and time had passed before Nathan went into the apartment and saw the location himself."Your honor, if I may, I want to take his testimony about the passage of time," Cammarata objected after the judge cut off his questioning on the subject.The day before Friday's hearing, Giuliani asked for permission to attend virtually, due to "medical issues with his left knee and breathing problems due to lung issues discovered last year," as his lawyer, explained it in a letter to the judge.The breathing problems are "attributable to Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani being at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001," Cammarata wrote.Giuliani attended in person after the judge warned he'd otherwise be barred from testifying on his own behalf.Should Giuliani be found in contempt, "the executive pardon power would not extend to a civil contempt sentence," even in a federal court, said former federal prosecutor Ephraim Savitt.That's because Giuliani's jailing wouldn't be a punishment for a past infraction instead, it would be a remedial sentence, meant to force his compliance with the judge's orders."Civil contempt sentences are essentially open-ended," meaning Giuliani could only be freed once he had complied, said Savitt."It's a means of coercing a party to take some action, to compel compliance," said Michel Paradis, who teaches constitutional law at Columbia Law School."So long as Giuliani has the keys to his own cell, and can be freed by simply complying with the judge's order, then there is no crime to be pardoned or punishment to be reprieved," he added.

The US Surgeon General recommended disclosing the cancer risk of alcoholic beverages on Friday.While just a recommendation, the advisory sent shares of some big alcohol manufacturers lower.It also presents a fresh opportunity for makers of alternatives to alcohol.The US Surgeon General's finding Friday that alcohol causes cancer led to stock declines for some of the beverage industry's biggest names and an opportunity for some newer entrants.Drinking is a major cause of preventable cancer, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in the advisory, which also recommended placing a notice about the cancer risk on beer, wine, and spirits similar to how packs of cigarettes include warnings about their health risks.On its own, the recommendation doesn't mean that labels on booze will change. That would require an act of Congress.Murthy is also part of President Joe Biden's administration and will be replaced by President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for surgeon general after he takes office on January 20. That nominee, Janette Nesheiwat, could take a different view on the advisory if she's confirmed by the Senate.However, the advisory prompted a response from some companies and the markets today. Here's what it might mean:Shares of alcohol companies like Diageo and AB InBev lost outStocks of some of the biggest alcohol companies in the world were down Friday after the surgeon general released his advisory.Shares of Budweiser-maker Anheuser-Busch InBev closed down 2.8% in Belgium. In London, shares of Diageo, the company behind Captain Morgan rum and Ketel One vodka, closed nearly 4% lower.Still, there's reason to doubt that the surgeon general's advisory will lead to a lot less drinking and fewer sales for the big booze makers, Kate Bernot, lead analyst at Sightlines, which researches the alcohol space, told Business Insider.Annual per-capita alcohol consumption in the US has hovered around 2 gallons since 2012, Bernot said, citing data from the National Beer Wholesalers Association. Gallup polling shows that the percentage of Americans who say that they drink alcohol has mostly stayed between 60% and 65% since the early 1990s, she added.That stability in habits comes despite previous research into the link between alcohol consumption and cancer as well as the growth of "Dry January," a commitment drinkers make to avoid drinking during this time of the year."Maybe some people change their behavior, but I don't think we're going to see population-level dramatic shifts in alcohol consumption," Bernot said.Makers of non-alcoholic beer and spirits could get a boostEven if there is a nationwide shift away from alcohol, many of the big producers already have alcohol-free options that they have been ramping up for years. In 2023, for instance, Constellation released a non-alcoholic version of Corona beer."The diversification has been happening as a result of consumers' potential thoughts about alcohol's effect on their health," Bernot said.Murthy's advisory came right as many drinkers are trying to cut back on their alcohol consumption in the new year or embarking on a Dry January.That's a potential win for many other brands that make alcohol-free beer, wine, gin, and other drinks.The CMO of non-alcoholic spirit brand Spiritless, Tom Santangelo, told BI he sees these comments as the "front end of a tipping point.""My guess is that for a lot of America, this surgeon general statement is kind of the message they need to come to a realization that this is something serious," Santangelo said.He said the industry has already grown significantly in the last few years as alcohol moderation and abstention have become increasingly normalized. Similar to cigarettes, change may not come quickly, but he said, "It's a message that's going to carry a lot of weight."Milan Martin, the CEO of non-alcoholic spirit brand The Free Spirits Company, told BI that the US Surgeon General's comments are another "nugget" of insight that will contribute to cultural change around drinking."All of these teeny little nuggets sit in our minds and sit there at the point where we're ready to order our third drink and impact our choice," Martin said, adding that conversations among peers and in the media around drinking are contributing to changes in drinking culture.Athletic Brewing, which sells non-alcoholic beer, similarly said that while it is "aware of the ongoing discussions about alcohol and health," it "has never been anti-alcohol.""We believe the alcohol and non-alcoholic sectors are synergistic," the company told BI.Innovative soft drinks, from seltzer to kava, could benefitBesides alcohol-free beer and cocktails with all the ingredients other than the, well, alcohol, there are other beverages that have attracted attention from the sober-curious and could benefit if people cut back on booze.Celebrity seltzer and soda brands often pitch themselves as upscale, healthier soft drinks, BI reported last year.Others have turned to kava, a beverage that's common to the Pacific and is supposed to help you relax and put you in a better mood. While the most authentic kava is served on its own, brands that have added juice, sugar, and coloring before canning it have popped up over the last few years. Some point to their kava as a healthier choice than a cold beer or cocktail.Cannabis products could become more attractivePeople looking to cut back on alcohol sometimes turn to cannabis as a replacement, especially as governments loosen restrictions. That could be good news for makers of everything from CBD-infused beverages to marijuana dispensaries. Cannabis company Canopy Growth, for example, rose more than 2% Friday.In 2022, the number of daily or near-daily cannabis users outpaced the number of daily or near-daily drinkers, research from Carnegie Mellon University found.Some states, such as Minnesota and Texas, already allow liquor stores to sell drinks that contain THC, the main psychoactive component in marijuana, right alongside liquor.

Its been a contentious 24 hours in South Korean politics, after impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol narrowly avoided arrest for insurrection on Friday, a month after his martial law declaration. Its the latest development in a month-long political meltdown that has not only thrown Korean politics into turmoil, but surfaced the countrys deep political polarization, evidenced most dramatically by dueling protest movements one calling for Yoons ouster and arrest, and a smaller but still vocal one trying to protect him.The crisis took a dramatic new turn on Friday, when officials with the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) tried to enter Yoons residence to arrest him for his martial law declaration on December 3 and possible attempted self-coup. Though many South Koreans took to the streets demanding the arrest, counterprotesters blocked the road leading to the presidential palace and used social media to insist that an arrest was illegal.CIO officials eventually called off the attempt to detain Yoon after his presidential security detail, aided by military personnel, blocked the CIOs entry to the palace. Regarding the execution of the arrest warrant today, it was determined that the execution was effectively impossible due to the ongoing standoff, according to a CIO statement. Concern for the safety of personnel on-site led to the decision to halt the execution.That doesnt mean Yoons troubles are over, however; there is an ongoing case against him in South Koreas constitutional court which will ultimately decide whether the impeachment stands and Yoon will be permanently removed from power and the arrest warrant is still valid through Monday. If he is detained, he will be the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested. (While Yoon has not yet been removed from office, an acting president has been carrying out his duties since the National Assemblys December 14 vote to impeach him.)The intensity and instability of the past month means theres no clear sense of what comes next for South Korea. As Fridays unrest underscored, however, whatever the fate of Yoons political career, the future will likely revolve around the divide between the countrys two main political parties: Yoons conservative People Power Party and the more liberal Democratic Party.How did we get here?When Yoon declared martial law, he was in the second year of his five-year term (South Korean presidents are allowed to serve just one term). During his tenure, his approval rating fell below 20 percent, as his political agenda stalled in South Koreas legislature, the National Assembly, which is controlled by the center-left Democratic Party.According to Celeste Arrington, a professor at George Washington Universitys Elliott School of International Affairs and director of the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies, Yoon certainly is unpopular and frustrated by an inability to do politics.Yoon is the first president in democratic South Korea to rule without his party in the majority in the National Assembly, and so he has been stymied in all of his legislative initiatives by a national assembly thats quite opposed to his ideas, Arrington said in December in an interview with Vox. Those frustrations appear to have contributed to Yoons decision to declare martial law, which he first announced in a televised statement claiming, without evidence, that the opposition party to his government was in the midst of an insurgency and trying to overthrow the free democracy. The move to declare martial law for the first time in South Korea since 1980 took Yoons political opponents and allies alike, as well as the South Korean public and the world, by surprise.In theory, the South Korean Constitution allows the president to declare martial law under certain national emergency states but Yoon appears to have exceeded that authority, also deploying troops in an attempt to block the National Assembly from convening. Ultimately after some legislators were forced to scale walls to enter the assembly building the body voted unanimously to vote down the martial law decree. Yoons declaration was almost universally unpopular within South Korea, reinvigorating fears of the countrys repressive 20th-century dictatorship, which only ended in the 1980s following mass demonstrations demanding democracy and direct presidential elections. Decades later, South Korean citizens turned out in the thousands to protest Yoons move and call for his ouster.The end of Yoons tenure wouldnt fix South Koreas political problemsWhile the past month in South Korean politics has been extraordinary, it also points to the underlying tension in the countrys politics, which in recent years has been defined by a high level of polarization between its two major political parties and their supporters. Through each election thats taken place in the last few years, it swings either from very conservative to very liberal, most recently being very conservative, Emma Whitmyer, a senior program officer for the Asia Society Policy Institute, told Vox. Both progressives and conservatives claim they are protecting democracy. But what conservatives are largely concerned with, experts told Vox, is upholding the stability of the government which happens to be a democracy not ensuring that democratic systems are preserved and utilized. The conservative vision, Arrington said the vision of Yoons party and supporters is rooted in a post-Cold War conception of democracy as oppositional to communism, and centers broadly on making sure that no one threatens the state rather than ensuring that democratic principles remain intact. This political faction was heavily influenced by government propaganda about anti-Communism, and [the] North Korean threat, Joan Cho, a professor of Korean politics at Wesleyan University, told Vox. In their view, whoever is trying to protest against the government, they are North Korean spies. Theyre pro-Communist.In contrast, according to Arrington, supporters of South Koreas Democratic Party grew up in an era of pro-democracy protests in the 1970s and 1980s, which has become a guiding force of their politics and which theyve passed along to the younger generation. I think the contentiousness and concerns surrounding stability [have] to do with the polarization, and its at both elite level and the mass level, Cho said. I think that first became obvious with the impeachment [of former President Park Geun-hye] that was more obvious at the mass level because of these pro-impeachment, anti-impeachment protests that were going on.On a mass level, polarization is expressed through South Koreas strong protest culture; on an elite level, it looks like the kinds of legislative challenges Yoon experienced with a Democratic Party-dominated National Assembly.According to Whitmyer, Yoons impeachment on top of that of Park, who was impeached in December 2016 and removed the next year has created a sense of frustration with the system, even though Yoons actions were also hugely unpopular.There is starting to become this feeling that, [one impeachment] was one thing, but now its happened again, and again, Whitmyer said. Whoever the next president [will be], whether theyre a liberal or a conservative, are they going to face many of the same challenges from the opposition wanting to impeach them, either for legitimate reasons or for maybe more petty or smaller claims?The sense of chaos and ineffectiveness has fueled distrust in the government, but experts say theres no clear path for reform that would allow for a political compromise to reemerge and may not bode well for the future. According to Whitmyer, It seems that the pendulum has swung very far in both directions, [and] there really is no longer a middle ground for both sides to work together. 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When The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters later this year, itll mark the fourth time something has happened in a row. Four times over the past four decades a newly rebooted Fantastic Four movie has been made. And, if you can believe it, theyve all happened almost exactly 10 years apart. Does that bode well for this new film or does it point to a newly rebooted film coming in 2035? Lets break it down.Arguably the most famous Fantastic Four movie to date is the one released in July 2005. Directed by Tim Story, it starred Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and Michael Chiklis as Marvels first family. Despite mixed reviews, it was a big enough hit to get a sequel in 2007 with Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. That was not a hit through and, alas, this iteration of the Fantastic Four was dead (until Evans resurfaced in Deadpool & Wolverine of course). Ten years (and one month) later, in August 2015, a new version of the team was revealed. It was directed by Josh Trank, and Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell played the group this time around. The film had its moments but a troubled production ended up manifesting on screen, and in the end, the film was a critical and financial failure.Now its been another 10 years and in July again, yet another Fantastic Four team is on the way. Directed by Matt Shankman, this time the group is comprised of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The difference now, however, is that since Disney bought Fox, these Fantastic Four are part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And no, we didnt forget about the OG. Roger Cormans Fantastic Four film never got an official release due to rights issues, but it first hit the public consciousness in the summer of 1994. That throws off our exactly 10 years hypothesis, but only by a few months.So, aside from the oddity that, since the 1990s, new Fantastic Four teams have introduced in movies almost exactly a decade apart (1994, 2005, 2015, and 2025 respectively), what does this say about the franchise? Its pretty obvious, is it not? None of the creative teams behind the scenes have nailed the alchemy that has made the comic book characters, who originated in 1961, so successful. But maybe, just made, the fourth time will be the charm. At least we hope so. What do you think? Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

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A worker digging up clay in an English limestone quarry discovered a dinosaur highway made up of 200 tracks dating back 166 million years. The Oxfordshire footprints include a mix of footprints from both herbivores and at least one carnivore. Most dinosaur toes pointed northward.So just who were these creatures, where were they heading and why were they going there?Following the FootprintsAt least four sets of tracks were likely made by the long-necked herbivores Cetiosaurus, a dinosaur that grew to nearly 60 feet long. Another set looks like the distinctive three-toed feet of the Megalosaurus, a 30-foot-long predator. One stretch shows the carnivore and herbivore tracks crossing, raising questions about whether and how the two were interacting.Richard J. Butler, paleontologist at the University of Birmingham, who worked at the site, applied some deductive reasoning to pinpoint the dinos intentions. Most of the tracks seem to be heading in the same direction (broadly towards the north), probably following the coastline, Butler says. The herbivores must have been heading towards somewhere with food because there was no vegetation on the mudflats in which the tracks are preferred. One possibility is that the carnivore might have been following/shadowing herds of herbivores.Sauropod Sweet SpotThe Southeast England location appears to have been a sweet spot for sauropods. The first Megalosaurus bones were found within 15 miles in 1824 essentially launching dinosaur science. Then in 1997, researchers found similar footprints within a half mile, but in a different quarry of the same rock type. The two are likely connected.They are in the same limestone surface so actually the 1990s discoveries and the new ones form parts of a huge track site, says Butler. Together, the sites document hungry sauropods that were likely constantly on the march for food.Its clear that a lot of large sauropods were traveling through this particular area, perhaps in herds, says Butler. Where were they traveling to? Thats unclear but it must have been somewhere with plants because these giant herbivores needed to consume a lot of vegetation daily.Documenting the PastUntil the discovery this summer, that earlier location was considered the most scientifically important set of dinosaur prints. However, those have been buried and are now largely inaccessible.Its unlikely a similar fate will befall the new ones. And they have already become well documented. Scientists snapped over 20,000 digital pictures and deployed drones to create 3-D models of the prints. Paleontologists will draw on this data to help understand each dinosaur's size, stride, and speed. The quality of the tracks should make such calculations easier and help reconstruct the world in which these dinosaurs roamed.The preservation is so detailed that we can see how the mud was deformed as the dinosaurs feet squelched in and out, Duncan Murdock, an Earth scientist at the Oxford museum and one of the scientists studying the scene, said in a press release. Along with other fossils like burrows, shells and plants we can bring to life the muddy lagoon environment the dinosaurs walked through.Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:University of Birmingham. Major new footprint discoveries on Britains dinosaur highwayBefore joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

Single crystal electrodes in lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries enable them to last several times longer than existing technology.

The roguelike genre is a complicated thing. There's some disagreement over how exactly to define a roguelike game, but permanent death and procedural level generation are generally held up as two of the most vital features of the genre.

Its no secret that in his downtime from saving the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario likes nothing more than to kick back with his friends and foes for a bit of healthy competition. And where this competition shines best is Mario Kart. This speedy series has been an integral part of the Mario franchise since its introduction in 1992 and remains one of the most popular multiplayer games for casual and hardcore gamers alike.