Milestones

ANNOUNCED

The first documented extinction of a mammal owing to man-made climate change, according to Australian scientists. Their report said rising sea levels “almost certainly” wiped out the Great Barrier Reef’s only endemic mammal species, a rodent known as Bramble Cay melomys.

FILED

For Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Gawker Media. The company known for investigative journalism and gossipy blogging put itself up for sale after a jury ordered it to pay $140 million to wrestler Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea in an invasion-of-privacy suit concerning a sex tape.

RULED

By an Oregon judge, that Army veteran Jamie Shupe can legally change gender from female to “nonbinary,” in what the Transgender Law Center said was likely a legal first in the U.S. State law does not require that a petition specify a target gender, a lawyer for Shupe said.