Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed an order activating up to 1,000 National Guard members in the state on Friday.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the...

Arizona State University's College Republicans United is asking for donations to support Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested on Wednesday and faces six criminal charges including homicide.

In her new book, writer Vicky Osterweil argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society.

The House of Representatives is set to vote on marijuana legalization on the federal level next month, Majority Whip James Clyburn announced Friday. While individual states would have to vote on guidelines and legality, 11 states have already legalized marijuana within their borders. If voted into effect, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would take marijuana off the list of illegal substances in the Controlled Substances Act. This is the first time Congress will vote on removing marijuana from the controlled substances act.

Kurt Andersen looks at the not-so-secret conspiracy by the rich, right and big business.

Blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre of the funnel at the Yamal peninsula.

Ubisoft finds itself embroiled in controversy again today, as the intro video for its mobile game Tom Clancy: Elite Squad appears to cast the player in opposition to global protests that use Black Lives Matter iconography, making for another public misstep for a company that has long had trouble separating militaristic messages from games that it claims to be free of politics. The video suggests a fictional world gripped by widespread unrest and protests, a particularly resonant image in the wake of the very real protests that have spread across the country and the world in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in late May, now re-inflamed by the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha Wisconsin and the vigilante shootings that followed. In the game, the protests are being controlled by a shadowy organization known as “Umbra” in an elaborate conspiracy. “Imagery that appeared in the opening video sequence of Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad featured a ‘raised fist’ was insensitive and harmful in both its inclusion and how it was portrayed. We have listened to and appreciate the players and the broader community who have pointed it out and we apologize. It will be removed in our next title update this Tuesday, September 1 on Android and as soon as we’re able to on iOS.” The inclusion of the first iconography was certainly a troubling detail in the trailer, but it was far from the the only problematic piece of this puzzle. The premise of the game, at least as depicted here, is that protests and unrest around the world are being controlled and manipulated by a shadowy organization bent on world domination. This is a classic right-wing trope leveled in an effort to de-legitimatizing grassroots protests, frequently tinged with antisemitism and references to George Soros. Releasing a game that leans on this trope would be irresponsible at any moment, but feels especially dangerous right now. Several contract writers on the project tweeted that they were told that Umbra was more like a James Bond, Spectre-style organization, and had no idea it would be framed this way. This problem is not new to Ubisoft or its Tom Clancy games. The Division cast the player as a member of an elite, shadowy organization tasked with bringing the country under control in the event of catastrophe—in this case a lethal pandemic. They player, however, spent huge portions of the game shooting “looters”. The company, in the meantime, insists that its games avoid political messaging even as those games dance awkwardly around real-life issues. As Elite Squad shows, the company has a long way to go when it comes to handling these issues with care.

Physical distancing should be seen as only one part of a wider public health approach.

An Arkansas sheriff resigned Friday after coming under fire over a leaked racist recording. Sheriff Todd Wright of Arkansas County, about 85 miles southeast of Little Rock, resigned effective immediately on Friday during a public meeting on the incident at the county's Quorum Court, which is its governing legislative body. The meeting, which was recorded live and posted on Facebook, was held after a local news outlet, the Pine Bluff Commercial, identified Wright as the man heard in a five-minute audio recording delivering a racist rant.

Mail delivery has been cut off at the Mar Vista Gardens public housing complex, and residents must now collect their mail more than a mile away.

The video, widely shared on China’s Twitter-like Weibo, shows the parked EV emit smoke and burst into flames seconds later.

Aformer Liberty University student says Becki Falwell, the wife of the university’s then-President Jerry Falwell Jr., jumped into bed with him and performed oral sex on him while he stayed over at the Falwell home after a band practice with her eldest son in 2008. The student was 22 at the time of the encounter, near the start of Liberty’s fall semester. He said she initiated the act, and he went along with it. But despite his rejection of further advances, he said, Falwell continued pursuing him, offering him gifts and engaging in banter through Facebook messages.

T. Denny Sanford, the richest man in South Dakota and a major donor to children’s charities, was being investigated for possible possession of child pornography, according to four people familiar with the probe. Investigators with the South Dakota attorney general’s Division of Criminal Investigation obtained a search warrant as part of the probe, according to two of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. They said the case was referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for further investigation. Sanford has not been charged with any crime. It’s not clear what evidence, if any, investigators used to obtain the search warrant or what they collected from the search. It’s also not clear how the investigation may have progressed since federal authorities received the referral or if it is still ongoing.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) reelection campaign confirmed that it has hired Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky teenager who garnered national attention for his viral encounter with a Native American elder in a crowd last year at

Some states have recently increased the severity of criminal penalties for protesters along political lines.

Divinity consultants are designing sacred rituals for corporations and their spiritually depleted employees.

Former President Barack Obama spoke to James, National Basketball Players Association president Chris Paul and a small group of players late Wednesday evening, advising them to play and utilize the opportunity to contextualize action they want in order to play, The Athletic has learned. James, Paul and others wanted to seek the guidance of the 44th President of the United States (2009-2017), and on the call broached forming a committee for player action that they want Obama involved in, sources told The Athletic. The call took place following a contentious players meeting in which Lakers and Clippers players voted to refuse to play the remainder of the season.

The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election’s remaining weeks. Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump’s virus management, while the president is hammering a law-and-order message. ... Mr. Trump’s aides said he enjoyed the frustration and anger he caused by holding a political event on the South Lawn of the White House, shattering conventional norms and raising questions about ethics law violations. He relished the fact that no one could do anything to stop him, said the aides, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal conversations.