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Several court officials rushed to aid Holthus and attempt to subdue Redden, who was screaming obscenities, the outlet reported. In the scuffle, one officer tripped, dislocated his shoulder, and cut his head in an injury that required 25 stitches, KSNV reported, citing the arrest documents.

In those documents, Holthus told officers that a “big, strong and angry” Redden slammed her head into the wall behind her bench, struck her multiple times, and pulled out her hair. Officers later reported that Redden told them — unprompted — that he had a bad day and had attempted to kill the judge, KSNV reported, citing the arrest report.

Redden faces a litany of new charges following the most recent assault, including coercion with force, extortion, intimidating a public officer, and seven counts of battery on a protected person, among other charges, court records show.

Redden is being held at the Clark County Detention Center, records show, and he is due back in court on January 9. Holthus, who returned to work the day after the assault, has ordered Redden to re-appear in court “by any and all means necessary,” local CBS affiliate KLAS reported, citing court documents.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to an inquiry from BI on Saturday, nor did Redden’s attorney.

Around half of the 96 homes in the community have already sold, Ober said. The success may come as a surprise given that local coverage of the project in the past few months has highlighted a debate over whether the price tags are too steep.

The controversy resurfaced on Tuesday after a Texas-based entertainment TikTok account shared a satirical real-estate tour of an Elm Trails property priced at upwards of $140,000.

Kicking off the video, which has over 213,000 views, the user said there have been plenty of jokes about Elm Trails and the people who have bought homes there.

“Personally, I’m not sure how you can make fun of somebody for investing in themselves and their future,” he says.

He then gives viewers a lackluster run-through of the small home before ending the video by saying: “Change of plans, we actually are going to make fun of people buying these.”

The video comes after Texas-based real-estate agent Billy Rojo, who goes by Billy the Realtor on TikTok, shared a serious tour of one of the properties in Elm Trails in November. At the time, the home was being marketed for $136,900.

In his TikTok, which has over 776,000 views as of Friday, Rojo described the tiny house as “the most affordable home in San Antonio, Texas.”

It’s safe to say that not everyone was convinced. “This home should never exceed 50k,” one skeptical user wrote.

“It’s basically a Home Depot shed,” another commented.

Despite the comments, Rojo told BI that he stands by his video. He also suggested that Elm Trails skeptics don’t know what a good property deal is in today’s housing market.

“It’s $1,000 a month. It’s very, very affordable compared to your average home right now,” Rojo said.

According to Realtor.com, the median listing price for a home in San Antonio is $300,000 — substantially more than the cost of an Elm Trails tiny home.

However, the website also reported that the median home price per square foot in San Antonio is $171. Rojo said the Elm Trails home he toured was 692 square feet, making the price per square foot roughly $198.

The cost of Elm Trails homes could also be considered steep compared to the average cost of a tiny home in the US. In 2023, Forbes reported that tiny-home prices averaged around $50,000.

Pricey or not, Lennar’s tiny-home venture appears to be a success with buyers. Ober told BI that only one floor plan (called the Henley) is still available for purchase in the community. According to the Lennar website, the starting price of the 661-square-foot home is $159,999.

Ober also said people from “all over” have expressed interest in buying in the community and that similar communities will likely be developed in other states Lennar operates in, such as South Carolina and Florida.

“This is the first of its kind,” Ober said. “Lennar San Antonio is very innovative about how they are thinking.”

• A man from Idaho stole a plane from a Las Vegas hangar and flew it 100 miles to southern California.
• The man was arrested and is facing charges of possession of a stolen airplane.
• He may also be behind other attempted plane burglaries in the days leading up to his arrest.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — An Idaho man was arrested after stealing a plane from a North Las Vegas hangar, flying it over 100 miles into a southern California airport and eventually running into a desert area after officers inquired about the aircraft.

The man, who is currently in custody in San Bernardino County, faces charges of possession of a stolen airplane and taking stolen property across state lines from the incident, which occurred on Saturday, according to the county sheriff’s department. There could be additional charges in Nevada, according to KSNV-TV.

North Las Vegas officials said the man could also be behind attempted airplane burglaries in the three previous days before his arrest, according to the station.

The aircraft was valued at about $80,000, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Barber documented the mad dash to secure a 40-ounce Stanley tumbler in one of the limited edition colors — Target red and “cosmo pink” — and said other customers were “starting to argue” over them. The clip garnered more than 873,000 views.

Other TikTokers captured the lines — reminiscent of Black Friday — outside several Target stores in the early morning hours before the cups were unveiled. As stores opened, customers stampeded toward the Stanley display.

One video captured people frantically grabbing several cups at a time despite a disembodied voice noting that there was a limit of two cups per person.

Target did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

The fervor for Stanley-branded drinkware isn’t surprising, given their cult status among young people. But the chaos captured in these viral videos could also be, in part, a result of how profitable the resale market for them has become — especially for limited edition colors of its largest tumblers.

Within days of its release, listings on eBay and Poshmark showed the red and pink cups going for over $100. One Poshmark seller already sold a set of the two cups for $190.

Despite their shiny profit margins, many commenters on TikTok say they’re appalled and “embarrassed” by such behavior.

“Grown ass adults behaving like 2 year Olds over a cup. it’s a cup,” one person wrote. “This is almost as embarrassing as rae dunn people,” another said, referring to the aggression some customers showed trying to secure Rae Dunn home goods at T.J. Maxx stores.

Stanley obsession has seemingly hit a fever pitch. But a youth consumer trend analyst recently told Business Insider that she thinks this is the zenith of its hype, and she predicts that the Stanley tumbler will no longer be as coveted in the coming months and years.

“They are absolutely on their way out. This is peak Stanley. There’s no up from here,” Casey Lewis told BI’s Katie Noutopoulos.

Stanley did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

• Harvard Corporation says it accepts now-former President Claudine Gay’s resignation “with sorrow.”
• Gay showed “resilience in the face of deeply personal and sustained attacks,” a statement says.
• The search for new a president will begin “in due course,” the board says.

After weeks of controversy, including accusations of plagiarism and criticism for her response to a question about Jewish genocide during a congressional hearing, Claudine Gay has stepped down as president of Harvard University.

Her resignation was accepted “with sorrow” by the Harvard Corporation, one of the university’s two governing boards.

Gay, the first Black president of Harvard, took over in July of last year. She — alongside the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania — faced criticism after a disastrous congressional testimony that saw her waffle on whether calls for Jewish genocide violated school policy.

Gay, facing calls for resignation, later apologized for the answer. (Penn’s president resigned in December; MIT’s remains.)

More recently, past plagiarism accusations against Gay came to light. While the Harvard Corporation and faculty members backed Gay, the pressure continued. Gay appeared to allude to the plagiarism allegations in her resignation letter.

She also said that it was “frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” which the Harvard Corporation also seemed to address in its statement.

The full statement from the Harvard Corporation reads:

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,

With great sadness, we write in light of President Claudine Gay’s message announcing her intention to step down from the presidency and resume her faculty position at Harvard.

First and foremost, we thank President Gay for her deep and unwavering commitment to Harvard and to the pursuit of academic excellence. Throughout her long and distinguished leadership as Dean of Social Science then as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences – where she skillfully led the FAS through the COVID-19 pandemic and pursued ambitious new academic initiatives in areas such as quantum science and inequality – she demonstrated the insight, decisiveness, and empathy that are her hallmark. She believes passionately in Harvard’s mission of education and research, and she cares profoundly about the people whose talents, ideas, and energy drive Harvard. She has devoted her career to an institution whose ideals and priorities she has worked tirelessly to advance, and we are grateful for the extraordinary contributions she has made – and will continue to make – as a leader, a teacher, a scholar, a mentor, and an inspiration to many.

We are also grateful to Alan M. Garber, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, who has served with distinction in that role for the past twelve years – and who has agreed to serve as Interim President until a new leader for Harvard is identified and takes office. An economist and a physician, he is a distinguished and wide-ranging scholar with appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We are fortunate to have someone of Alan’s broad and deep experience, incisive judgment, collaborative style, and extraordinary institutional knowledge to carry forward key priorities and to guide   the university through this interim period.

These past several months have seen Harvard and higher education face a series of sustained and unprecedented challenges. In the face of escalating controversy and conflict, President Gay and the Fellows have sought to be guided by the best interests of the institution whose future progress and well-being we are together committed to uphold. Her own message conveying her intention to step down eloquently underscores what those who have worked with her have long known – her commitment to the institution and its mission is deep and selfless. It is with that overarching consideration in mind that we have accepted her resignation.

We do so with sorrow. While President Gay has acknowledged missteps and has taken responsibility for them, it is also true that she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of deeply personal and sustained attacks. While some of this has played out in the public domain, much of it has taken the form of repugnant and in some cases racist vitriol directed at her through disgraceful emails and phone calls. We condemn such attacks in the strongest possible terms.

The search for a new president of the university will begin in due course. We will be in further touch about the process, which will include broad engagement and consultation with the Harvard community in the time ahead.

For today, we close by reiterating our gratitude to President Gay for her devoted service to Harvard, as well as to Provost Garber for his willingness to lead the university through the interim period to come. We also extend our thanks to all of you for your continuing commitment to Harvard’s vital educational and research mission – and to core values of excellence, inclusiveness, and free inquiry and expression. At a time when strife and division are so prevalent in our nation and our world, embracing and advancing that mission – in a spirit of common purpose — has never been more important. We live in difficult and troubling times, and formidable challenges lie ahead. May our community, with its long history of rising through change and through storm, find new ways to meet those challenges together, and to affirm Harvard’s commitment to generating knowledge, pursuing truth, and contributing through scholarship and education to a better world.

The Fellows of Harvard College
 
Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow
Timothy R. Barakett, Treasurer
Kenneth I. Chenault
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Paul J. Finnegan
Biddy Martin
Karen Gordon Mills
Diana L. Nelson
Tracy P. Palandjian
Shirley M. Tilghman
Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Russia’s state-run media service TASS reported the politician was found dead in Toblosk, the city where he lived. Baza, an unofficial Telegram channel with links to national security services, clarified that the politician was found dead in the courtyard outside his home, per CNN’s report.

An autopsy is underway to confirm details of Egorov’s death, which couldn’t be confirmed by investigators at the time, Kommersant reported. Investigators found no “external signs of criminal death” on his body, the outlet said.

Egorov’s death adds to a string of mysterious high-profile deaths in Russia, which include public figures and prominent businessmen falling out of windows, death by suicide, or otherwise dying of unclear or bizarre circumstances.

Some of those figures have been noted to be vocal critics of Putin. Patel Antov, a policymaker who criticized Russia’s war with Ukraine, died falling from a hotel window in late 2022.

Ravil Maganov, an energy oligarch who was also critical of Russia’s war, died falling out of the window of a hospital room, which law enforcement said was likely a suicide.

But not all of those who have died under mysterious circumstances were overtly anti-Putin. Anna Tsareva, an editor at a pro-Putin newspaper who was found dead in her apartment in mid-December, TASS originally reported. Her death comes about a year after the death of her boss, editor-in-chief Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, who was also known to be a Putin supporter.

“Reese’s Pieces Pumpkins are pictured on the product label as containing carved out eyes and a mouth as follows,” the lawsuit says. “However, the actual Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins product contains no carvings for the eyes and mouth.”

Hershey did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider on Sunday.

The lawsuit also takes issue with the Reese’s Peanut Butter Footballs, which have carved out laces on their packaging, but instead “look like an egg” when viewing the actual product.

The complaint claims that the products’ labels are “materially misleading” and that “numerous consumers have been tricked and misled” by their packaging.

The suit includes links to several YouTube videos of people who opened Reese’s products and were disappointed in the product inside compared to the one pictured.

“Reese’s what are you doing! Look at the picture on the packet. It’s like a pumpkin with faces and a little mouth — then you open up the packet and you are presented with that monstrosity,” the lawsuit quotes from one YouTube reviewer.

The lawsuit also quotes another reviewer who said they were “a little disappointed” to find that the pumpkin had no face carved into it and was instead a “chocolate blob”.”

The lawsuit alleges that Hershey changed the packaging of Reese’s products to “boost sales and revenues” within the last three years.

Consumers are suing brands for what they say is deceptive advertising

Hershey is not the only company slapped with a class-action lawsuit for misleading advertising this year.

In March, a man sued Buffalo Wild Wings claiming the restaurant’s “boneless wings” were “more akin” to chicken nuggets.

Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, previously told BI that the suit against Buffalo Wild Wings is weak because in order to justify a class action lawsuit, damages have to be “substantial.”

“You’re getting all white meat chicken breast,” Rahmani said. “Have you really suffered any damage?”

Kelly’s lawsuit against Hershey claims that it falls under the class action jurisdiction because the “matter in controversy” exceeds the amount of $5 million and affects more than 100 people.

• Airbnb temporarily banned parties in 2020 and made the ban permanent in 2022.
• The company said it uses AI that checks “hundreds” of factors on an account before blocked an attempted booking.
• Last year, the company said it blocked 63,550 US New Year’s Eve bookings.

Airbnb is using AI technology to crack down on people using its properties to host wild New Year’s Eve parties.

Airbnb first banned parties temporarily in 2020 and has introduced a variety of measures to stop them since, BI previously reported. The company made the ban permanent in 2022 and enforces it particularly strictly around holidays like Memorial Day, Halloween, and New Year’s Eve.

For Memorial Day in 2023, the company said it added restrictions to some one and two-night reservations and blocked reservations that it deemed high risk based on the user’s past ratings and their distance from the booking, as well as if their reservation was made at the last minute.

Last year, the company blocked 63,550 New Year’s Eve bookings in the United States, 13,200 in the United Kingdom, and 5,400 in Australia, the company said in a December 18 blog post.

In the post, the company said it will be activating “proprietary AI and machine learning technology” to block booking attempts for full homes over the holiday weekend that “could be potentially higher-risk for a disruptive and unauthorized party.”

“When it comes to how we use technology like AI, we’re focused on taking a thoughtful approach that aims to benefit Hosts, guests and neighborhoods,” Airnbnb head of trust and safety, Naba Banerjee, said in the post. “We’re optimistic these measures will help have a positive impact for the communities we serve.”

The company said it will be using the program over the holiday weekend in the United States, including Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand.

The technology scrapes through “hundreds” of different factors for each potential booking, including the duration of the trip, how far the booking is from their location, and if the reservation is being made at the last-minute, according to the post.

The post states that the company will block some bookings for full homes that are one to three days in length if they are deemed “high risk.” Those who are able to successfully book an Airbnb locally over the weekend will be asked to confirm that they know Airbnb bans parties.

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies transferred there after centuries of cemetery overflow.

• Some Americans are choosing where to live based on the risk of climate-related disasters.
• For example, cities in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana are prone to flooding and extreme heat.
• Insurance broker Policygenius ranked the US cities with the most climate risks. Here are the worst.

Cities in America’s Sun Belt often top lists of great places to move.

Spots in that region, which stretches from Florida in the Southeast to Southern California in the Southwest, are often lauded for their good weather and relatively lower cost of living.

But they’ve got issues, too: The climate crisis is predicted to turn the very sunshine that draws people there into extreme heat in the coming years, and being close to the beach puts people and homes at risk of flooding and damage from rising sea levels.

Online insurance marketplace Policygenius evaluated the climate risks of America’s 50 most populous cities based on their likelihood of experiencing the following issues by the year 2050: heat and humidity, flooding and sea level rise, air quality, and frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

Policygenius also judged the cities’ social vulnerability, or likelihood of death and disruption as a result of these conditions, and community resilience, the ability to prepare for and adapt to a changing climate. It used publicly available data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other studies as laid out in its full methodology.

People are increasingly taking the risks of climate change into account when moving. Read on to find out more about the cities most at risk, and why.