The mayor was charged with bribery, fraud and other counts. The charges could be refiled. A Justice Department official said that the charges would be reviewed after a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney is confirmed.

Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman’s plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company

A performer in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained on the field and could face charges after unfurling a combination Sudan-Palestine flag with “Sudan” and “Gaza” written on it

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos turn.

Tom Robbins, the bestselling novelist whose early books defined the 1960s for a generation and whose publishing career spanned more than 50 years, died Sunday, according to his wife. She did not say the cause of his death. Robbins, who called La Conner, Skagit County, home, was unclassifiable, and he liked it that way. He was a shy, dreamy kid who became a class clown and bad boy, a native Southerner who moved to Seattle from Virginia because “Seattle was the farthest place from Richmond on the map without leaving the country,” he told Rolling Stone in a 1977 interview. In his books he juggled the roles of writer, philosopher, renegade, mystic and comedian. Critical reviews of his books ranged from rapturous to disdainful, but he was a world-class storyteller and he inspired lifelong loyalty among his devoted fans. His motto, he said from time to time, was “joy in spite of everything.” Robbins was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, a resort town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His grandfathers were both Southern Baptist ministers — one “would literally ride a mule into those hollers, as they called the valleys, and preach to people who were too far removed from civilization to have a church,” he told The Seattle Times in 2014. His mother was a nurse; his father worked as a power company executive, and the family moved a number of times.

Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

Scientists in Canada have invented an electricity-generating slime that could revolutionize medicine, robotics, and even how we power our steps.

At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

The administration of the Brdy protected landscape area, which had gained approval for the 30 million crown project, was dealing with red tape and seeking the respective building permits from the Vltava River Basin authorities when the dam project was completed almost overnight by a local colony of beavers.

The Pentagon just doubled the number of media “rotating out” from 4 to 8 to “make room for other outlets.” OUT- NYT, WAPO, NBC, CNN POLITICO, THE HILL, THE WAR ZONE, NPR IN: NY Post, Washington Examiner, TV, OAN, Newsmax, HuffPo, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, Breitbart

Officials said about 350 passengers were onboard when a fire broke out on a train at Crum Lynne Station in Ridley Park.

Federal law enforcement agents are planning to carry out a “large scale” immigration enforcement action in the Los Angeles area before the end of February, according to an internal government document reviewed by The Times.

Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José.

9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come.

The order is being challenged in court as illegal and unconstitutional.

Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries quietly met with more than 150 Silicon Valley-based donors last week in California — an early step in Democrats’ efforts to repair relationships with a once-deep blue constituency. The meet-and-greet, in tony Los Altos Hills, came at a precarious moment for Democrats in the tech world, which has lurched rightward in the second Donald Trump era. The world’s wealthiest tech mogul is upending Washington, and Democratic leaders are facing criticism from their own base for their halting response. Jeffries, meanwhile, was on the West Coast seemingly trying to avoid the next Elon Musk. “There is a significant fear that these tech folks, who have been with us for a long time, will say, ‘fuck it, we’re going with the other guys,’” said Alex Hoffman, a Democratic donor adviser who works with donors across the country but did not attend the event. “These donors are also pissed, watching former and current colleagues have unlimited, unchecked power, and getting richer off of this and they’re not.”

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, who’s overseeing a “digital assets” committee, is set to hold a luxury weekend donor retreat with a crypto kingpin.

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States. One of the studies would reveal whether veterinarians who treat cattle have been unknowingly infected by the bird flu virus. Another report documents cases in which people carrying the virus might have infected their pet cats.