ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving the company to take a job in college basketball

ESPN NBA star Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring from the company, according to a post from his X account on Wednesday morning.

The longtime sports reporter will take a job at St. Bonaventure, his alma mater, and become the general manager of its men’s basketball program, the university said.

Wojnarowski has often hit big news in the NBA world, so often that his breaking news reports on player transactions have become known as “Woj bombs.” He and The Athletic’s Shams Charania often compete for scoops on the latest news.

“I have known and admired Woj since we first worked together at Yahoo! in 2007. His work ethic is second to none,” ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro said in a statement. “He’s extraordinarily talented and fearless. He’s led the industry at ESPN, and his dedication to the craft and the fans is legendary.”

The general manager position has grown in popularity in college athletics since the introduction of the Name, Image and Likeness era as athletic departments look for ways to help their programs and student-athletes to navigate the new era when they can ink endorsement deals.

Special treatment? How judges are handling Trump’s lawsuits before the election.

 This was supposed to be the week.

Former President Donald Trump’s legal work was about to reach its first dramatic conclusion. Fifty days from a presidential election in which he is the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump would be sentenced in a Manhattan courtroom.

Why we wrote this

A focused story

The US justice system is meant to treat every accused equally. But when that accused is both a former president and a presidential candidate, the courts show the flexibility that accompanies the fundamental principles.

So what would be the punishment? Jail time? A wrist shot?

The answer, the norm in the cases of Mr. Trump of late, is that America will have to wait. Sentencing is now scheduled for late November, following a decision by New York State Judge Juan Merchan.

The cases have charged the courts with an unprecedented challenge: how to accommodate the unique circumstances of this single defendant while upholding the expectation that every defendant is treated equally under the law. But they also revealed that the principles of the justice system have flexibility.

All of this matters because of concerns that Mr. Trump is being treated too harshly, or too lightly, and what that could mean for democratic norms.

“No other former president of the United States has ever been prosecuted, so he’s unique in that way,” says David Alan Sklansky of Stanford Law School. The question, he adds, is whether judges ensure “that the law applies equally to everyone.”

This was supposed to be the week.

Former President Donald Trump’s legal work was about to reach its first dramatic conclusion. Fifty days from a presidential election in which he is again the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump would be sentenced in a Manhattan courtroom.

The prosecution of a former leader is perhaps the latest stress test of the justice system of democracy. So what would be the punishment? Jail time? A slap on the wrist?

Why we wrote this

A focused story

The US justice system is meant to treat every accused equally. But when that accused is both a former president and a presidential candidate, the courts show the flexibility that accompanies the fundamental principles.

The answer, as has become the norm in Mr. Trump’s cases, is that America will have to wait. Sentencing is now scheduled for late November, following a decision last week by New York State Judge Juan Merchan. The decision is symptomatic of the pressures that judges weigh in all four criminal cases against the former and possibly future president.

The cases have charged the courts with an unprecedented challenge: how to accommodate the unique circumstances of this unique defendant while upholding the basic expectation that every defendant is treated equally under the law. But they also revealed that the fundamental principles of the justice system have some flexibility.

All of this matters because of ongoing concerns that Mr. Trump is – or will be – treated too harshly or too lightly, and what that could mean for democratic norms and the rule of law.

Judges presiding over Trump’s cases have made different use of that flexibility. With little precedent for the judges to look to, Mr. Trump has received what some experts see as undue special treatment. Other judges took a harder line. The U.S. Supreme Court set up a new challenge in July — and even delayed some of the cases going to trial — when it ruled that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity from criminal prosecution in connection with his presidential acts.

“No other former president of the United States has ever been criminally prosecuted, so he is unique in that way. But every criminal defendant is unique in some ways,” says David Alan Sklansky, a professor at Stanford Law School.

The real question, he adds, is whether the unique characteristics of the cases “are to be taken into account with the idea that the law applies equally to everyone.”

Judge Juan Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, March 14, 2024. Trying to balance an unusual client in unusual circumstances, Judge Merchan modified Donald Trump’s gag order in June, freeing former president to comment publicly on the criminal process of money. led to his felony conviction.

Sentencing delays are not unusual

Mr. Trump is facing four criminal prosecutions. Two of the cases — a federal prosecution in Washington and a state prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia — relate to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A federal case in Florida involves his allegedly illegal retention of documents from the classified government, and the state case in Manhattan concerns accusations of falsifying business records to hide cash payments during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In his order last week, Judge Merchan explained why Mr. Trump, convicted in May in the case of hush money, will not be sentenced until shortly before Thanksgiving.

It is not unusual for sentences to be delayed due to the defendant’s circumstances, and “given the unique facts and circumstances of this case, there is no reason why this defendant should be treated any differently than any other “, he wrote.

The order, he added, “must dispel any suggestion” that the court favors “any political party (or) any candidate.”

Days earlier, in a case in which Mr. Trump faces federal charges related to his attempts to reverse his 2020 electoral defeat, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan had taken a different path. During a procedural hearing in Washington, the lawyers of Mr. Trump proposed put the process on hold until after the election.

“We are put in an incredibly unfair position,” one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers said, according to reports. “We’re talking about the presidency of the United States.”

“I’m not talking about the presidency of the United States,” Judge Chutkan replied. “I’m talking about a four-count indictment.”

Different cases may require different handling

While the two judges appear to be handling their respective Trump cases differently, they are striking injury complaints through the ideological spectrumthey do so because the situations are not comparable, some experts say.

“There is a really significant difference between the stance of the two cases,” says Mary McCord, a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Administrative Office of the United States Courts / AP / File

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan is overseeing the case in which Donald Trump faces federal charges related to his attempts to cancel the 2020 election. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have asked to delay the proceedings.

In one, a judge is asked to sentence a presidential candidate of the major party months before the election. With a possible sentence ranging from a fine and probation to four years in prison, any outcome could be seen as affecting votes for or against Mr. Trump.

In the other, a judge is asked to schedule hearings on a series of preliminary questions, including the extent to which presidential immunity reduces the government’s case. The parties are essentially discussing how to plan those debates. It is reasonable to assume that voters will not be affected by such disputes.

Judge Merchan’s decision in Manhattan also has precedent. A federal judge in Texas, for example, rescheduled a corruption trial of Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar for March 31, 2025.

But Judge Chutkan’s decision, even lower, is also significant. If she pauses the proceedings in the District of Columbia because of the “sensitive” timing of the election, says Professor Sklansky, it will set a precedent that “gets special immunity from being held criminally responsible, as long as you are running for president.”

Is a former president of the United States a single defendant?

Meanwhile, in another federal prosecution of Mr. Trump, Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee — took a more lenient view of this single defendant.

Randomly assigned to the case, Judge Cannon dismissed charges related to Mr. Trump’s allegedly illegal handling of government documents in July after ruling that Jack Smith, the special prosecutor hired to lead the case, had been illegally appointed.

Judge Cannon regularly sided with the former president during two years of pre-trial arguments, and he sometimes suggested that Mr. Trump deserved special treatment.

A prosecution of a former president brings “stigma … in a league of its own,” he wrote in a 2022. order in the case, inflicting “reputational damage of a decidedly different order of magnitude.”

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, August 1, 2023, in an office of the Department of Justice in Washington.

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit disagreed. Creating a “special exception” for a former president, the panel wrote in a decision Announcing Judge Cannon’s order, it would “challenge our Nation’s fundamental principle that our law applies ‘to all, without regard to numbers, wealth or rank.’

In a recent short friend in the case, an ethics watchdog and retired federal judge argued that “a reasonable observer could conclude that (Judge Cannon) acted in the belief that prosecuting a former president … is an intolerable affront to his dignity.”

For this reason, among others, they believe that the 11th Circuit should assign the case to a new judge. Mr. Smith, who is asking the appeals court to revive the case, does not make that argument. Whether he looks at the case or not – assuming that the case is resurrected at all – some experts believe that he gave Mr. Trump a favorable treatment compared to other judges.

“The argument that Judge Cannon made was that you should get a special dispensation not necessarily because you’re running for president, but because you’re a former president,” says Professor Sklansky. “I think giving special dispensation to both presidential candidates and former presidents is inconsistent with the idea that no one is above the law.”

The pace of criminal cases should be fair for both parties

However, the situation in Florida is unlikely to be resolved before the election. So, as Mr. Trump makes his final appeals to voters in the coming months, he will do so free of any imminent legal danger.

In what is expected to be a close presidential race, spending valuable time on the campaign trail instead of in a courtroom is a boon for him, as is having less media and public attention on potentially harmful legal proceedings. But this is an example of the justice system working as intended. Criminal cases should proceed at a pace that is fair to both parties, not at a pace that is convenient for political campaigns.

“Trump has been very successful in all these cases in using his legal strategy to delay justice,” says Professor McCord.

“He has that right as a defendant,” he adds. “A team of lawyers filing brief after brief … can really overwhelm the works,” he continues. But, “A lot of defendants don’t have (their) resources.”

Justice Department files $100 million lawsuit against owner of ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge

 

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the owner and operator of the container crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, seeking $100 million in damages for the structure’s collapse, which killed six construction workers and led to massive economic losses.

In a call with reporters, Justice Department officials said the Singapore-based companies, Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, were “well aware” of the problems on the ship, the Dali, which they could cause power outages before the accident. . The massive building hit one of the bridge’s columns in the early hours of March 26 after losing power, causing a section of the structure to collapse into the water.

“The civil claims filed today allege that the collision was caused by a series of catastrophic failures aboard the Dali in the minutes before impact, all as a result of the alleged negligence,” said the US attorney. United Erek Barron for the District of Maryland. call

The Dali container is seen in the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly a week after it hit a structural pier that caused the subsequent bridge to collapse, on April 1, 2024.

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Justice Department officials said the US government has spent more than $100 million to respond to the disaster and reopen the Port of Baltimore. The state of Maryland, officials said, may seek damages for the bridge’s reconstruction.

The lawsuit was filed in the case in the federal district court in Maryland that began shortly after the tragedy, when Grace Ocean Private Limited filed a motion to limit its legal liability for the disaster. On Tuesday, the families of three of the construction workers who died on March 26 announced that they will seek to keep the Singapore-based company legally, a request that, if granted, could allow them to receive monetary compensation .

In an exclusive television interview with CBS News this week, Maria del Carmen Castellon, who lost her husband, Miguel Luna, when the bridge collapsed, said that “justice” for her would be to have him back in her life. She called her husband and the workers who died that day “heroes”.

“They were here”, he noted, “so this country can have better roads. And those bridges, to have better conditions”.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez

Camilo Montoya-Galvez is the immigration reporter at CBS News. Based in Washington, he covers politics and immigration policy.

Nine device explosions reported in Lebanon

 

More device explosions were reported in Lebanon on Wednesday, a day after pagers belonging to Hezbollah members detonated across the country, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 3,000, state media reported.

According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, or NNA, “a number” of the injured had been taken to hospitals in the southern suburbs of Beirut after their wireless pagers exploded.

At least three people were killed in the explosion of the device on Wednesday, said NNA. Lebanon’s health ministry said more than 100 were injured by exploding electronic devices across the country, according to the Associated Press.

Al-Manar, a Hezbollah-affiliated news agency, reported that wireless devices were exploding in the hands of people across the country.

U Associated Press reported that his own reporters were in Beirut at a funeral for four people killed by the explosion of pagers the day before when they heard “multiple explosions at the site.”

Ambulances arrived at the scene, AP reporters said.

The Lebanese Red Cross said it deployed 30 ambulances across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in response to the device’s explosions.

The country civil defense Forza said it was helping transport the injured to hospitals, but its teams were also working to put out fires “inside houses, cars and shops” that were ignited by the explosions.

Two US officials said Israel was behind the Hezbollah attack with explosive pagers on Tuesday. The militant group and Lebanese officials also blamed Israel, which did not take responsibility publicly.

It was unclear why Israel carried out the attack when it did and whether it was an opportunistic operation or something more strategic that would be followed by other actions, the officials said.

Lebanon’s Public Health Minister Dr. Firas Abiad said 12 people were killed in Tuesday’s attack, including an 8-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy. More than 2,700 were injured, with an estimated 10% in critical condition, according to the National News Agency.

Also on Wednesday, the Israeli commander said that troops near the border were “on the edge of readiness”.

“The mission is clear – we are determined to change the security reality as soon as possible,” said the head of the Northern Command of the Israel Defense Forces, Major Gen. Ori Gordin

Hezbollah, an Iranian militia and a political party in Lebanon, has exchanged fire with Israel since October as it aligned with Hamas following the Palestinian group’s attack on October 7.

International officials have worried for months that exchanges between Lebanon and Israel’s shared border could prolong the Israel-Hamas war and further destabilize the region.

Thousands of civilians in southern Lebanon and northern Israel have been displaced by the exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Monday that he and his cabinet have updated their list of war targets to include the safe return of its residents to the north.

Officials in the country have also warned the United States, its closest ally, that “military action” would likely be the only way to deal with growing hostilities with Hezbollah.

How to get involved with your Jackson County school board this year

 Editor’s note: This story was originally published by the lighthouse, a nonprofit news organization serving Missouri and Kansas. The Star is republishing up to two stories a week as part of a new partnership with The Beacon.

If you want to speak at a Lee’s Summit school board meeting, you don’t have to plan too far ahead. Simply sign up by 4 pm the day before the meeting.

But in the Blue Springs School District you will have to add an agenda item, or join someone else who adds one. Adding an item involves requesting a meeting with the superintendent, who has 20 working days to find time to talk. You can then register to address the council, but you must register five working days in advance.

Depending on the timing of the initial request, the process could leave district residents waiting up to two months to speak to the board in public. But it complies with a Missouri law on community engagement of school boards which went into full effect last year.

The laws governing school boards in Missouri set basic requirements, such as the mandate to open their meetings to the public, with a few exceptions.

But districts have some leeway when setting policies on public comment, live-streaming meetings or providing access to recordings. These policies vary from district to district or from year to year.

For example, while livestreaming and recording meetings has become a common practice in many large-area districts, it is not universal. Independence School District decided not to record the meetings in spite of the requests from the public, but it was review whether meetings should be televised at the end of August.

If you want to know what your school council is doing, contact members or comment in a meeting, here is an updated guide.

The lighthouse

Blue Springs School District

Regular board meetings are most often held at 6:15 pm on the second Monday of the month, but a school calendar shows some exceptions, especially in autumn.

The working sessions of the Council are usually on the first or second Monday of the month, with at least one exception in September. They start at 6pm most of the year, but are held at 5pm on the same day as council meetings during the summer.

Meetings are typically held at the Bartow Administrative Center at 1801 NW Vesper St., Blue Springs. They are also broadcast live and archived on the the district’s YouTube channel.

Agendas and minutes they are available on the district’s website from mid-2023. The lists are alphabetical by name of the month, so click “modified” twice to sort for the most recent.

Members of the public can add agenda items to the work sessions by following the process outlined in state laws. Inquiries to add an agenda item should go to board secretary Karin Keener at kkener@bssd.net.

Once the board has added an agenda item, the member of the public may speak on it for up to five minutes, and up to three other members of the public may sign up five business days in advance to speak. as well.

A list of members and their positions on the board is available on the district’s website.

Independence School District

The school board meets at 6pm on the second Tuesday of the month. A list of future and past meeting agendas it’s on the district’s website with the meeting minutes.

Meetings are typically held at the district’s central office, 201 N. Forest Ave., Independence. In September, there is no livestream or recording of meetings.

You can sign up for public comment by submitting a written request to the superintendent’s office. The deadline is 4 pm on the Friday before the meeting or 24 hours after the agenda is published, whichever is later.

Annette Miller is the board secretary and contact for the superintendent’s office. She is available at annette_miller@isdschools.org or by calling 816-521-5300 and asking to be transferred.

The public comment period is no longer than 30 minutes, unless the board decides to extend it. Each person can speak no more than five minutes, and the comments must be on the agenda items.

Members of the public can add agenda items using the process outlined in state laws. District policy says residents should go through the district’s complaint or concern process before meeting with the superintendent or another administrator.

They can then contact the superintendent’s office and the board in writing by 4pm on the Friday before a meeting to add the item.

A list of board members with biographies and e-mails is available on the district website.

Lee’s Summit R-7 School District

School council meeting dates they are at 7 pm on the third or fourth Thursday of the month. Working sessions are held several months, most often on the first Thursday.

See Board Docs for upcoming meetings and meeting times, including committee meetings.

Meetings are usually held in the Stansberry Leadership Center meeting room, 301 NE Tudor Road, Lee’s Summit.

Agendas, documents and livestreaming links are available online. You can view current and past meetings on the board YouTube channel.

According to board policythe board allows seven people to speak for three minutes or less each.

Comments must be directly related to the district, avoiding profanity and not about individual faculty, staff or students.

Email Linda Ismert, the board secretary and records keeper, at Linda.Ismert@LSR7.net with your name, address, phone number and comment subject to register. The deadline is 4pm the day before the meeting.

You can also ask the council to add an item to the agenda using the process outlined in state laws. Use it this form to send a written request to meet with the superintendent, then use this form if you still want to add the article. For more information, call the superintendent’s office at 816-986-1008.

Click “Read more” below every member of the school for a full bio and email address. You can also message board members using this form.

Raytown quality schools

School board meetings are held at 6:30 pm on the second Monday of each month. Special board meetings are sometimes held at 5:30 pm on the fourth Monday of the month. A list of board meeting dates for 2024-2025 is available online. Meetings are at 6608 Raytown Road, Raytown.

The recordings of the meeting are linked on the the district website and of the district YouTube channel.

Recordings can be edited for content or length, according to a notice at the beginning of a recent video. Suggest that members of the public attend in person or read the meeting minutes for full access.

Meeting minutes and calendars are available online.

The board reserves 30 minutes of each regular meeting for public comment on agenda items. Speakers have five minutes to speak, or three minutes if there are six or more comments. They must notify the council of their name, address and the point of the agenda that they want to address.

Members of the public can also follow the process outlined in state laws to request the addition of items to the agenda of the meeting.

The secretary of the board of education is Rachel Johnston. She can be reached at rachel.johnston@raytownschools.org or 816-268-7000.

The new French prime minister clashes with Macron’s centrist camp

 New French Prime Minister Michel Barnier clashed with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp over tax hikes, according to French media reports on Wednesday.

The disagreement centers around Barnier’s consideration of the tax increase, a departure from the previous government’s position.

Barnier, a former EU commissioner, cited the dire state of public finances as justification for his proposal, which drew criticism from Macron’s camp.

“The country’s budget situation, which we are now discovering, is very serious,” Barnier told French media. “This situation requires more than small talk. It requires responsibility.”

The political landscape in France remains unstable after the recent snap parliamentary elections, which failed to produce a clear majority or a coalition capable of forming a government.

President Macron appointed Barnier as Prime Minister two weeks ago with plans to present a new Cabinet this week.

Barnier’s predecessor, Gabriel Attal, who took over as president of Macron’s center-camp group, had requested a meeting with Barnier to discuss Barnier’s political direction.

However, reports indicate that this meeting was abruptly canceled on Wednesday morning.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin also expressed reservations about Barnier’s proposed tax increase aimed at higher earners and corporations.

Meanwhile, the European Commission has started deficit procedures against France due to the increase in the new debt level, making the goal of reducing the loan below the limit of 3% mandated by the EU even more improbable

France currently has a public debt equivalent to 110% of its gross domestic product (GDP), which places it among the weakest economies in the euro zone.

EU chief in Kiev with promises of winter aid amid energy supply fears

 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kiev on Friday with promises of sustained EU support for Ukraine, including aid for what will be another harsh winter.

“My 8th visit to Kiev comes as the heating season begins soon, and Russia continues to address the energy infrastructure,” von der Leyen said in a post on X with a photo of her at the station trains

“We will help Ukraine in its brave efforts. I come here to discuss Europe’s support. From winter preparations to defense, to accession and progress on G7 loans.”

The EU leader will discuss aid for Ukraine’s energy supply with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later on Friday.

The EU will provide an additional 160 million euros ($178 million) to Ukraine to help repair damaged energy infrastructure, expand renewable energy and fund shelters, von der Leyen said before her trip .

The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) warned this week that the coming winter could be the toughest yet.

As Russia increases its attacks on Ukrainian power plants, heating plants and transmission networks, the country’s energy infrastructure is under significant pressure, the IEA noted.

“Strains that are bearable in the summer months can become unbearable when temperatures begin to drop and heat and water supplies falter, causing further displacement of affected populations across the country and abroad” , the energy agency said.

How the decline in birth rates in North Korea compares with the South

North and South Korea have adopted different approaches to dealing with their falling birth rates and impending population decline.

North Korea’s fertility rate, or number of children expected per woman’s lifetime, is 1.78 births per woman, according to projections by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). South Korea is at 0.72, the lowest in the world.

During a speech at the communist country’s annual National Congress of Mothers in December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called on women to stop the trend and raise children to “carry our revolution.”

Children play toys at Changgwang Kindergarten in Pyongyang on June 1 to mark Children’s Day in North Korea.

Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images

North Korea does not regularly publish such figures, so analysts rely on estimates based on past official birth records, censuses and indirect surveys. These include family birth data, age-specific fertility rates, and birth histories from the period 1993-2014.

“In the absence of additional, more recent empirical data, the following figures included in World Population Prospects 2024 are projections based on levels and trends for previous years,” Patrick Gerland, head of the Estimates Section of Population and Projections of the UN Population Division, he said. Newsweek.

A survey of more than 13,000 households conducted by North Korea’s statistics office in 2014 revealed a fertility rate of 1.78,continuing the downward trend that has been underway since around 2008, when the rate of fertility of the country was estimated at 2.1 – the minimum necessary to sustain. a population

Earlier this month, Radio Free Asia (RFA) cited anonymous North Korean sources who shared examples of authorities punishing doctors for performing secret abortions in Ryanggang, a northern province bordering to China.

Traders selling contraceptives have also been swept up in a crackdown, with those found to be dealing in birth control drugs facing heavy fines and lifetime bans from the market.

North Korea, with a population of 26 million, is not alone in changing demographics, and its fertility rate is higher than Russia (1.4), Japan (1.2) , China (1.0) and South Korea, and many of the developed countries. world for that.

Yet international sanctions have deprived North Korea of much advanced machinery, so the country is more dependent on manual labor and less prepared to compensate for a shrinking workforce through automation, the East Asia analyst said. Khang Vu wrote in a May article for the Lowy Institute.

Instead of implementing the broad economic reforms needed to improve living conditions and encourage larger families, the Kim regime has “increasingly cracked down on the black market and tightened state control to root out ‘anti-socialist’ behavior.”

Meanwhile, South Korea continues to struggle to curb its birth rate, despite allocating $300 billion over the past 18 years to initiatives aimed at increasing fertility.

President Yoon Suk-yeol’s government has also established a new ministry that will address this and other key demographic concerns, including aging, immigration and housing.

Additional strategies include matchmaking events with monetary rewards for couples who form relationships, along with policies aimed at reducing travel times and improving work-life balance.

However, these efforts have so far shown limited success. Young South Koreans, especially in the Seoul metropolitan area with its sky-high real estate prices, face substantial financial barriers to starting families.

Additionally, changing cultural norms have led many millennials and Gen Z individuals to prioritize their careers and personal freedoms over traditional family life, contributing to the country’s declining marriage and birth rates.

A recent report from The Wall Street Journal presented the trend in detail, revealing that dog strollers outsold baby strollers on a major South Korean e-commerce site last year for the first time.