>>Multnomah County Sues Oil Companies For Billions Over Deadly 2021 Heat Dome
(Portland, OR) -- On Thursday, Multnomah County sued a collection of oil companies, claiming their use of fossil fuels caused the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome. The County alleges that carbon pollution from the Defendants' fossil fuel products was a significant contributing factor, and the companies should pay over fifty-billion dollars because of it. A three-day heat wave saw temperatures as high as 116 degrees. A lawyer for Chevron said: "These lawsuits are counterproductive distractions from advancing international policy solutions."
>>U.S. Home Prices See Biggest Drop Since 2011 (Minneapolis, MN) -- Existing home prices are seeing the biggest year-over-year drop in over a decade. The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that the median price last month was just over 396-thousand dollars. That's a drop of a little more than three-percent compared to a year ago -- the biggest decline seen since December 2011. Sales of existing homes rose slightly from April to May. However, sales were down a little more than 20-percent from a year ago.
>>Overstock Buys Bed, Bath & Beyond Intellectual Property And Digital Assets
(Union, NJ) -- Overstock is buying Bed, Bath & Beyond's intellectual property and digital assets. It's paying some 20-million-dollars for the Union-based bankrupt retailer's brand name and online business. It doesn't include keeping the brick-and-mortar stores open. A final approval of the sale is slated for a hearing next week.
>>Vice Media To Be Acquired For 225-Million Dollars
(New York, NY) -- Vice Media, once valued at billions of dollars, is being acquired out of bankruptcy for 225-million dollars. Three investment companies will takeover the media group after Vice said in a legal filing that it didn't receive any other worthwhile bids in his search to sell the company.
>>Over Seven-Million Baby Shark Toys Recalled
(Undated) -- Over seven-million Baby Shark bath toys are being recalled. On Thursday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the Pink Frog brand Baby Shark Sing and Swim Bath Toys have hard plastic top fins that pose a risk of "impalement, lacerations and punctures." The manufacturing company has received 12 reports of kids being injured by falling or sitting on the full-size bath toys. There are around seven and a half million units currently on the market. Newer editions of the toy that feature softer silicone top fins are not being recalled.
>>Hasbro Brings Back Furby
(Pawtucket, RI) -- Hasbro is bringing back a toy craze from the '90s. The toymaker launched a new version of its Furby animatronic toy on Amazon Thursday to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The 70-dollar toy will also be available in stores nationwide beginning July 15th after an almost ten-year absence. More than 40-million Furby toys were sold in the three years after it was first released in 1998.
