In a statement given on Monday, the extremely progressive ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s said they will discontinue sales of their products in “Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).” OPT has previously been used to mean the entirety of the nation of Israel, and the company did announce that they will not renew a license with their Israeli distributor.

It has finally been empirically demonstrated that dogs are indeed man’s bestfriend. Researchers at Duke have finished a study whereby they objectively showed that dogs have a deeper understanding of human beings than any animals studied for compatibility thus far. In the study the researchers compared dog puppies to wolf puppies and found that in every test the dog puppies consistently had an innate knowledge of human beings far superior to any of the wolf pups.