Fox News Agrees to Pay $12 Million to Settle Hostile Workplace Suit

Fox News has agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer who had accused the network of operating a hostile and discriminatory workplace and of coercing her into providing false testimony in a deposition.

Parisis G. Filippatos, a lawyer for Ms. Grossberg, said that the settlement concluded all of Ms. Grossberg’s claims against Fox and the people she had named in her complaints, which included the former host Tucker Carlson and some of his producers.

Ms. Grossberg’s legal team filed a request in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday to dismiss a remaining lawsuit against Fox in light of the settlement.

Ms. Grossberg said in a statement on Friday that she stood by her allegations, but she was “heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously.”

“I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,” she said.

A spokeswoman for Fox did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The settlement with Ms. Grossberg is the latest development in a series of legal battles involving Fox. In April, the company paid Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million, in what is believed to be the biggest settlement figure in a defamation case. Days later, Fox took Tucker Carlson, its most popular host, off the air after the company’s leadership concluded he was more of a problem than an asset and had to go.

Fox faces a second defamation case by another voting technology company. Smartmatic, like Dominion, says Fox knowingly spread false information about its products, baselessly claiming that they contributed to election fraud in 2020.

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Building lean muscle protects against Alzheimer’s disease, leads to ‘superior cognitive performance’

SAN FRANCISCO — Regular gym workouts could be a significant factor in warding off Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research. A team in California has found that individuals with leaner muscles have a lower risk of developing the condition.

“Based on human genetics data, those with a lifelong higher lean muscle mass had a 12 percent lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and exhibited superior cognitive performance,” reports Dr. Iyas Daghlas, the lead study author from the University of California-San Francisco.

The research team analyzed data from over a million volunteers, which included 450,243 participants from the UK Biobank with detailed DNA information. The team used a method known as “Mendelian randomization,” involving variants linked to specific risk factors.

Lean muscle mass can be naturally inherited or developed through resistance training, such as weightlifting, combined with a healthy diet. Given the projection that dementia cases will surpass 150 million by 2050, with a third resulting from preventable factors like weight gain in midlife, focus on protective lifestyles is growing.

“Despite the consistent rise in Alzheimer’s prevalence, we currently have no effective treatments for this debilitating disease,” Dr. Daghlas’ team explains in the journal BMJ Medicine. “The identification of modifiable risk factors and prevention of Alzheimer’s is therefore a crucial public health objective.”

Weight gain contributes to inflammation and has been connected to an increase in neuron-damaging proteins called amyloid beta. Furthermore, lower levels of lean muscle mass have been associated with dementia. This study brings new insights to the relationship between muscle mass and Alzheimer’s disease.

The analysis found that individuals with high levels of lean muscle mass had a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The results remained “statistically robust” even after accounting for age, sex, and ancestry.

“Our analyses provide new evidence supporting a causal relationship between lean mass and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. They debunk the notion that fat mass has a significant effect on the risk of Alzheimer’s and underscore the importance of distinguishing between lean and fat mass when investigating the impact of adiposity measures on health outcomes,” the study authors write.

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