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The campaign, which includes falsified news websites and a feature-length documentary film, is specifically designed to denigrate the reputation of the International Olympic Committee. Russia has stepped up an online disinformation campaign which takes aim at France and the upcoming Paris Olympics, Microsoft said in a blog post published on Sunday.

The civil penalties are for significant delays in providing more than $900 million in refunds owed to passengers due to flights disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and after thousands of airline customers were forced to wait months. The U. S. Transportation Department (USDOT) said on Monday it has imposed $2.5 million in civil penalties in total against Lufthansa, Air France unit KLM Royal Dutch Airways, and South African Airways.

Southwest argues flight attendant Charlene Carter was fired because she violated company rules requiring civility in the workplace by sending ‘hostile and graphic’ anti-abortion messages to a fellow employee. Southwest Airlines is set to return to federal court Monday in hopes of reversing an $800,000 award to a flight attendant who said she was fired for her anti-abortion views and a judge’s related order that the airlines’ lawyers take religious liberty training from a conservative Christian legal group.

Colorado’s booze scene has an old beverage on the rise — mead. While the Centennial State is known for its craft beer scene, Michael Fagan has eyes only for the honey-derived beverage. He founded Honnibrook Meadery in Castle Rock five years ago with DJ Kurtz, when there were only about 10 meaderies in the state. “It’s definitely a fast-growing industry and it’s really kind of fun right now,” Fagan said.

The new set shows how the iconic cathedral was constructed hundreds of years ago. Architectural fans don’t need to wait for the renovation of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral to be done in order to appreciate the building’s beauty. Now, people can build their own small-scale version, courtesy of Lego.