The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

The latest tranche of emails from the estate of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein includes one that contains what appear to be references to President Donald Trump allegedly performing oral sex, raising questions the committee cannot answer until the Department of Justice turns over records it has withheld, says U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. Garcia insists the Trump White House is helping block them. In a Friday afternoon interview with The Advocate, the out California lawmaker responded to a 2018 exchange, which was included in the emails released, between Jeffrey Epstein and his brother, Mark Epstein. In that message, Mark wrote that because Jeffrey Epstein had said he was with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, he should “ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.” “Bubba” is a nickname former President Bill Clinton has been known by; however, the email does not clarify who Mark Epstein meant, and the context remains unclear.

The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Court found that the US company had used copyright-protected song lyrics to train its ChatGPT language generator.

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.

Reactions mounted Thursday after a woman sharing her story for the first time said that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sexually abused her when she was just 17, while she was living in a homeless shelter and trying to save money to buy braces to fix her teeth. Laura B. Wolf, an attorney for the then-teenager and now-woman, spoke to The New York Times about the ordeal. Times journalists reached out to Wolf after a federal judge in Florida unsealed court documents that described the victim as "a then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler."

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.

The area usually receives an average of 0.78 inches of rain in November.

For Hannah DeLange, the most rewarding part of managing Redhead Hemp’s Durham location has been “creating a space for people to feel comfortable and confident” — crafting an inviting social setting much like a coffee shop or bar. The shelves are lined with CBD gummies, Delta-9 sangrias, and THC caramels, among a host of other drinks and candies with promises like “sleep with benefits” and “lower calories, higher vibes.” The shop interior has a cozy feel, with plants lining brick walls flush with brightly colored artwork, and plush sofas and chairs to relax on. At the store’s “Canna Cafe,” customers can sit down with hemp-infused teas and coffee. “It’s just kind of a space for all,” DeLange said. “It should be a plant for all the people, and it should be accessible — and just creating a space that’s able to really just personify that.” Now, the future of that space and many others like it are in doubt, with the vast majority of their hemp-based cannabinoid products set to become illegal in November 2026. North Carolina hemp business owners and their counterparts across the U.S. are bracing for the ban’s impact, with some pursuing advocacy efforts to reverse the ban and others working to pivot to the narrow slice of CBD products that will remain legal.

As Jeffrey Epstein was reeling from a 2018 Miami Herald investigation about the sweetheart deal he struck with federal prosecutors to settle claims he had sexually abused teenage girls, the financier turned to a trusted confidant for advice: journalist Michael Wolff. In a series of messages found in the trove of more than 20,000 documents released Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee investigating Epstein’s crimes, the independent journalist and author suggested that any potential response needed to be “war gamed out” and initially proposed that they find a sympathetic reporter to interview Epstein. Wolff rejected Epstein’s proposals to attack the reporting or publicly claim that the alleged sexual abuse was really “prostitution,” saying that Epstein had lost the “high ground.” Eventually Wolff and Epstein reached a consensus.

The Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition reported 329 arrests in Oregon last month.

The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.

A Sierra Club BC report reveals a gap between B.C.’s forestry promises, including old-growth deferrals, and reality

At the World Stone Skimming Championships off Scotland's west coast, hundreds of contestants go the distance to be crowned champion. But at this year's event, on the tiny car-free island of Easdale, some contestants went a stone's throw too far. Organizers say a handful of overly zealous stone skimmers cheated by doctoring their stones. ... But Matthews says the stones in question were "suspiciously round." "The competitors had taken larger stones from the island, and they had ground them down so that they were perfectly shaped and perfectly circular and fitted the ring of truth almost too exactly," he said.

The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.

House Oversight Committee Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared to discuss President Donald Trump's knowledge of his criminal activities

Fred Kudrna, 29, was arrested for DUI and malicious injury to property Tuesday morning after Post Falls police say he took an excavator and used it to demolish a newly completed home. ... Post Falls Police Lt. Brian Harrison said the home still belonged to Sorbonne Homes LLC, an affiliate of Greenstone Homes. (Whew)