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(WASHINGTON) — Boeing has violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday. It is now up to the Justice Department to decide whether to file charges against the aircraft maker amid increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes.

(SAN FRANCISCO) — The dating app Bumble got stung after running billboard ads that appeared to sneer at celibacy as an alternative to meeting people online. On Monday, the company backtracked and apologized for billboards that bore the message “You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer” juxtaposed against an introduction to “the new Bumble.” The app launched a brand redesign in April in hopes of reviving user interest, which had been lagging. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Women on social media castigated the company for suggesting celibacy isn’t a valid personal choice.

(NEW ORLEANS) — Storms that slammed several Southern states added to the region’s recent string of weather-related destruction and death, including that of a Louisiana woman who was nine months pregnant. The woman was killed after Monday night’s storms knocked a tree into a home in West Baton Rouge Parish, officials said. Kristin Browning, 31, was nine months pregnant, and her unborn child did not survive.

The actor Lori Beth Denberg, who starred on the hit Nickelodeon show All That from the mid to late 1990s, has accused Dan Schneider of showing her pornography when she was a teenager. In an interview with Business Insider Tuesday, Denberg said that in 1995, shortly after the first season of All That wrapped, Schneider invited her into his office to discuss having heard that a female producer had spoken with her about her weight gain.

The summer of 2023 was the hottest on record since 1850, and this summer could be just as sweltering. That puts older adults—a group especially vulnerable to heat-related illnesses—at elevated risks for a number of health conditions and outcomes. Older people are less able to regulate changes in body and environmental temperatures, and higher temperatures put them at increased risk of dehydration, heat stroke, blood pressure changes, muscle cramps, and dizziness. These issues are likely to become far more prevalent than they currently are.

Just over two years after its second season, the first part of Bridgerton Season 3 will finally drop on Netflix on May 16, with the second batch of episodes arriving June 13. Starring Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington, the youngest of the Featherington daughters, and Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton, the third oldest Bridgerton son, the new season has been positioned as a friends-to-lovers plot. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The upcoming episodes untangle some thorny plotlines woven through the first two seasons, notably Penelope’s girl-next-door crush on Colin, and the ongoing fallout between Penelope and her best friend Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie), the second oldest Bridgerton daughter, Colin’s younger sister, and most contrary of the Bridgerton bunch. Here’s what you need to know before watching Season 3.