A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy. In the special election, voters approved a measure to redraw congressional district lines to favor Democrats in the upcoming midterm election. The measure passed in the county by a margin of more than 80,000 votes.

A different kind of bone marrow transplant changed Tatyana Thompson's life. A January 2026 study published by Brodsky and fellow researchers found that their bone marrow transplant process, developed at Johns Hopkins, has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. The once-tough barrier to curative treatment is toppling. Because nearly everyone can find a partial match donor, “(a cure is now) available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients,” says Brodsky. Their study findings also concluded that this treatment can better preserve fertility, something that’s typically at risk with other sickle cell therapies. Patients only require six months of immunosuppression following the transplant, compared to a year with other therapies, and patients’ hospital stays were significantly shortened.

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Phoenix police will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

It took one second for a Southern California cop to shoot and kill a Black teenager who was running away from another teen who had been shooting at him. San Diego police say they found a gun concealed under the teen’s clothing after shooting him, but body camera footage released Friday shows the teen never threatened police with the gun, nor was he even holding the gun in his hands. In fact, San Diego police officer Daniel Gold never even gave him a chance to surrender before opening fire. And he did not even identify himself as a cop until after he had shot the teen, yelling out “San Diego police” once the teen was doubled over on the street, crying out in pain.

North American ESRB ratings are bucking global trends Last week, the Pan-European Game Information rating system, better known as PEGI, announced significant changes to how they assess games. The updated guidelines will take into account many recent game design trends that have become commonplace, such as online player behavior, dark patterns that pressure continuous play, and randomized elements attached to purchases like loot boxes. In response, the ESRB, the North American game ratings board, says adopting the new PEGI guidelines would be “confusing” for players and parents. “ESRB’s age and content rating are based on the content of a game and the context in which it is presented to the player,” an ESRB representative told The Game Business. “It could be confusing if non-content-related features influence rating category assignments. As such, there are currently no plans for ESRB to allow any factors outside of the content and context of a game to influence the age rating assignment.” The new criteria could upset a wide number of popular games long understood to be “for everyone.” EA Sports FC is the most obvious example, a paid game whose financial success revolves around gambling on randomized card packs. Roblox, too, is overwhelmingly popular with children despite the hazards of its online ecosystem.

No leakage of radioactive materials reported in the area in central Iran, Tehran's atomic energy organisation says.

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The left-wing Brazilian president is critical of US actions throughout Latin America, though he does not name Trump.

A team of wildlife experts with the Pacific Whale Foundation snapped a photo of a breaching dolphin flying 15 feet into the air off Maui’s west shore on March 4. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, larger species of dolphin can leap more than 20 feet over the surface of the water. The dolphin seen in this photo is a pantropical spotted dolphin — a smaller species that typically grows 6 to 7 feet long and weighs approximately 250 pounds when fully grown. Despite the dolphin’s smaller frame, the animal was still able to catch some big air, leading the Pacific Whale Foundation to dub the animal “the Michael Jordan of dolphins.”

Gilliam’s remarks comedays after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including oneat the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies department.

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63

Faced with reports that two US prosecutors have opened probes, the left-wing leader denies links to drug traffickers.

Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?

Best known for playing the lovable sidekick on the groundbreaking drama, he also had a recurring role in 'Criminal Minds' and starred in the film adaptation of Charles Busch's 'Psycho Beach Party.'

Elon Musk was sued in late 2022 after completing his acquisition of Twitter, which he later renamed X.

The case is strikingly similar to a 2015 arrest where prosecutors later dropped the charges. “The law hasn't changed. It is still not a crime to take misoprostol,” a reproductive justice lawyer told Autonomy News.

Czech investigators are investigating an overnight fire at an industrial complex as potentially being a deliberate attack, officials said on Friday, following media reports that a group protesting against Israeli weapons claimed responsibility.

Hundreds of cats and dogs were the focus of a large-scale animal rescue operation Friday morning when authorities served a warrant at a property in northern Los Angeles County. The warrant for a violation of animal welfare laws was served in Lake Hughes, about 65 north of Los Angeles. Authorities estimated that about 700 dogs and cats were on the property. County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control staff members and mutual aid partners were at the location. The county departments of public works, public health and regional planning also responded due to other possible violations at the property, authorities said in a news release. The DACC said it is the largest number of cats and dogs ever seized in an operation and might be the largest such case ever in the United States, the agency said in its release. It was not immediately whether anyone was arrested in connection with the violations. The property owner operates a nonprofit animal rescue and took in more animals than they could properly care for, county animal care officials said.

One expert says that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be not recessionary, but depressionary. The war in Iran reached a new extreme this week, as both Israel and Iran launched strikes on oil and gas production and export facilities. The attacks up the stakes in a war that was already choking energy and commodity markets, and will threaten the long-term health of the global economy. On Friday, the International Energy Agency recommended that people work from home, drive slowly, and use gas stoves sparingly in order to alleviate price shocks from the crisis. The situation in the Persian Gulf is so extreme, analysts told WIRED, that it’s almost unbelievable.