Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

When UNC Health invited the 4,000 nurses working in its Chapel Hill hospitals to join a new system in July to pick up extra shifts, it did not go over well. Using the software program BidShift, UNC’s hospitals planned to match nurses who were willing to work extra hours with units that needed more help during hard-to-fill shifts. These shifts—mostly on nights, weekends, and holidays—were offered at premium rates, roughly $10.50 above normal hourly pay. They were entirely optional and available only after nurses hit their baseline hours. But that was less than the roughly $13-an-hour premium UNC Health had been paying most nurses to fill coverage gaps, and it was about a third of the $35-per-hour premium the hospital offered before the pandemic, one senior UNC charge nurse told The Assembly. “I guess they thought we couldn’t do basic math,” said the nurse, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation. The extra compensation would also decrease incrementally as nurses “bid” against each other for the shifts. UNC staffing assured its nurses that it would consider other factors, such as skill levels, when making final decisions. But, generally speaking, if a nurse volunteered to work on Thanksgiving for $10.50 an hour above their normal rate, he or she could “lose” that shift to someone willing to work for less.

Urine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee.

Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.

By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil together in their natural environment.

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon after the incident.

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

For years, the headline economic data describing workers’ well-being have been weak: over the year ending in August, the most recent data available, real earnings fell by 0.1 percent when accounting for inflation. Where income gains have occurred, they have largely accrued to higher-income households, reinforcing what economists often call the “K-shaped” economy. But wage measures alone do not capture the full financial pressures facing workers. They measure income without accounting for the debt payments that households must make before they can use their earnings for housing, food, healthcare, and other necessities. As debt obligations take up a growing share of income, conventional measures of real earnings increasingly understate workers’ financial insecurity. This report changes that equation, by comparing workers’ income growth with the growth of their debt obligations since the end of 2022. The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers combined credit records for millions of working-age adults with neighborhood income data, measuring each worker’s debt payments against the typical household income where they live, to map an affordability crisis that is significantly worse than wage data alone suggests.

Five people whose work supported missions at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer.

Anyone who was watching TV in the late 1980s remembers the commercial: probing personal questions appear in white text on a black screen as a Tangerine Dream-esque synth riff pulsates in the background. ”How can you increase your mind’s potential?”; “Why is it so hard to just ‘be yourself’”; “Do you have to live with pain?” With each question, a page number appears in red on the bottom right. Then, the music climaxes abruptly in a shattering chord! An animated volcano erupts, spewing rocks and orange-yellow magma into the purple night sky! The blazing volcano seamlessly becomes the front cover of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics. A voiceover tells us that we can buy the book “wherever paperbacks are sold,” and then concludes, with “Dianetics” spelled out in big white block letters: “A fresh look at today’s problems.” The commercials were part of an “unprecedented” multi-million dollar marketing blitz that started in the early ‘80s and included, in addition to ubiquitous TV time, print ads, neon signs, billboards, bus stop and subway station posters, radio spots, sponsorships, and banners at popular sports and entertainment venues. Dianetics, originally published in 1950, was and is the self-help cornerstone of the Church of Scientology, and was so sacrosanct to Hubbard that it marks, in some sense, the beginning of time: the years after publication of the first edition are referred to as AD, “After Dianetics” (1951 is 1 AD, and so on). Although exploding volcano imagery had appeared on the cover of paperback editions since 1968, the volcano-themed commercials didn’t air until 1987, coinciding with the release of a new edition; Dianetics soon after hit the New York Times Best Seller list (alongside Trump: The Art of the Deal) for the first time since 1950.

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.

A lock of hair, advances in genetic science and a community of descendants all contributed to solving an American mystery

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. The women say survivors should choose what happens to their histories — both painful and illuminating

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.

Many day-shift employees arrived without knowing a co-worker had died after being told only that there would be a "late start."