Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

In 2022, police in Adams County, Ohio raided the home of Afroman, the musician who had a huge novelty hit with the 2000 song "Because I Got High." The cops suspected him of drug possession and kidnapping, but they found no evidence in the raid, and no charges were filed. Afroman wasn't hope during the raid, but his wife filmed it, and he used that footage, as well as security camera footage, while singing about the raid on viral songs like "Will You Help Me Repair My Door" and "Lemon Pound Cake." Soon afterward, some of those cops sued Afroman for using their images without permission, and the ACLU filed an amicus brief in Afroman's support. Now, the case is going to trial, and the video of Afroman's testimony is the kind of thing you might really want to see. In the run-up to the trial, Afroman has been putting out more songs and videos about the raid, and he's been using them to name his police adversaries directly. On Monday, for instance, he shared a DIY funk song called "Randy Walters Is A Son Of A Bitch," all about one of the officers involved in the raid. It's going to be stuck in my head for a while.

Arizona's attorney general is accusing Kalshi of operating an illegal gambling business in the first-ever criminal charges filed against the wildly popular prediction market site, where people bet billions of dollars a week wagering on sports, elections and what politicians will say during public appearances. State prosecutors allege that Kalshi, which is based in New York City, is running an unlicensed online gambling operation that lets residents bet on sports and elections without ever having received approval from Arizona regulators. Sports betting is regulated by an Arizona gaming commission and gambling on elections is illegal in the state.

“It’s all hands on deck for the legal community.”

For years, Trump has been throwing hefty charges at protesters and seeing if he can win convcitions. He always failed — until now.

WASHINGTON — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war in Iran. Kent said on social media Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

A savvy detector dog at Toronto Pearson Airport sniffed out more than 22 kilograms of raw meat from the luggage of a traveller hailing from Egypt earlier this month, says Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA).

A Calgary driver was likely draped in embarrassment when they were caught by police while driving with curtains installed over the windows of their vehicle.

A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American economy.

Many of the city’s newly constructed buildings, including swanky digs with top-dollar rents, are mired in violations and complaints.

On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war. Rescue services scrambled to the scene in search of possible casualties, though as it turned out, the projectile had struck a forested area just outside the city, around 500 meters from homes. On The Times of Israel’s liveblog that day, I reported that the missile had hit an open area and no injuries were caused, citing the rescue services, as well as footage that emerged showing the massive explosion caused by the missile’s warhead. But what I thought was a seemingly minor incident during the war has turned into days of harassment and death threats against me.

Trump’s decision last summer to launch a mission to strike three Iranian nuclear sites, known as Operation Midnight Hammer, convinced him that he could bomb Iran, absorb a brief backlash and then personally dictate the off-ramp, U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter said.

In an interview this week, Graham Platner started to push back instead, defending the tattoo as merely a 'skull-and-crossbones' and 'an eminently reasonable thing'.

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Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.

After about two days of deliberation, the 12 jurors found Benjamin Song alone was guilty of attempted murder, but defendants were convicted of rioting and other charges.

On Peru’s arid coast, some ancient elites signaled their power and standing by wearing headdresses festooned with brilliantly colored feathers from birds found in distant rainforests. A study out today in Nature Communications reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago: from wild Amazonian parrots captured hundreds of kilometers away in the Amazon and transported, live, high over the Andes. “It’s extraordinary the effort people went to, to obtain these prestigious objects that didn’t have anything to do with food or subsistence,” says Calogero Santoro, an archaeologist at the University of Tarapacá who was not involved in the research. The effort underscores their value, notes José Capriles, a Pennsylvania State University archaeologist who was likewise uninvolved. “Feathers were incredibly important for signaling wealth and prestige and had deep social and religious meaning for Indigenous societies across the Americas.” The feathers analyzed in the new study come from tombs of a pre-Inca culture called the Ychsma on the arid coast near present-day Lima, Peru. Feathers adorn only select Ychsma graves within a complex known as the Pachacamac necropolis. “The highest status individuals have feathers,” says Lucía Watson Jiménez, a Lima-based bioachaeologist who works with Poland’s University of Wrocław and is not involved in the new study.

The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

The videos had been posted on YouTube by groups who were suing to restore grants cut by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. [Cowards. --B.]

Just eight months in, not even the tech bros are eating there