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The saga of Yogesh Raut—and the future of America’s favorite game show. | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 10:46 PM by Wreckard | |
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Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina,made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found. | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 07:47 PM by Mordant | |
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The Commonwealth Fund’s report is the 20th in their “Mirror, Mirror” series, an international comparison of the US health system to nine wealthy democracies including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, Sweden and Switzerland. The foundation calls this year’s report a “portrait of a failing US health system”. | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 07:03 PM by Nibbles | |
For decades, California police chiefs and sheriffs have lamented how difficult it is to fire officers and deputies who act with dishonesty or brutality, blaming powerful labor unions and robust employment protections.
What law enforcement leaders have not revealed, and what has remained a secret until now, is how they have repeatedly turned to an under-the-radar method of getting rid of problem officers — one that not only allows the officers to avoid accountability but, often, to quietly move on to other jobs where they are asked to protect the public.
For years, dozens of California police agencies have executed “clean-record agreements,” clandestine legal settlements that promise to hide the wrongdoing of an officer in exchange for the officer’s guarantee to leave an agency without a fight, an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program found. | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 05:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
The body of a man accused of shooting five people in vehicles on Interstate 75 earlier this month in Southern Kentucky, setting off a massive manhunt, was found Wednesday afternoon near the crime scene.
Joseph Couch, 32, was found near Exit 49 on the interstate, about nine miles north of London, near where he shot 12 vehicles on Sept. 7. The scene was about 65 miles south of Lexington on one of the nation’s busiest highways.
KSP announced at 4:18 p.m. that a body had been found and they were working to identify it. The announcement came about an hour after a couple named Fred and Sheila McCoy posted a live YouTube video claiming they’d found Couch after searching for six days and nights.
The couple went live a second time after finding the body, and they appeared to be discussing what they’ll do with the reward money. Authorities had offered a $35,000 reward for information that led to Couch’s arrest, and police confirmed Wednesday night the McCoys will receive $25,000 of that reward.
Fred and Sheila say they are descendants of the famous feuding families the Hatfields and McCoys from West Virginia and Kentucky.
The couple previously operated the Hatfields and McCoys museum in Casey County, according to the museum’s website. Casey County is about an hour west of the I-75 shootings. | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 03:53 PM by sleeppoor | |
The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable. | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 02:07 PM by NickNoheart | |
Submitted at 09-19-2024, 12:43 AM by sleeppoor | |
A new poll has found that more than half of all Americans support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, with a large number of Democrats also supporting the effort. | |
Submitted at 09-18-2024, 08:52 PM by sleeppoor | |
The European Commission last year charged Google with favouring its own advertising services, opening its fourth case against the world's most popular search engine. | |
Submitted at 09-18-2024, 08:07 PM by sleeppoor | |
Emails reveal Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, a group of officials and election deniers, coordinating in swing state | |
Submitted at 09-18-2024, 05:57 PM by sleeppoor | |
Millions of Americans needing to renew their passports can now do so online instead of mailing the State Department paper documents with a check. | |
Submitted at 09-18-2024, 05:09 PM by Nibbles | |
Paxton applying to be Trumps Attorney General | |
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David Lochridge tells hearing he alerted company to safety fears over submersible that imploded but was ignored | |
Submitted at 09-18-2024, 03:49 PM by B. Weed | |
You married a landlord. | |
Submitted at 09-17-2024, 07:17 PM by Nibbles | |
Submitted at 09-17-2024, 06:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault.
A few months ago, a man crawling along a rooftop in Pennsylvania tried to murder Donald Trump at a campaign rally. Hours later, press releases started to circulate, from analysts, think tanks, politicians, and pundits, all offering to cut through the swell of confusion and misinformation.
One of the people who washed up in my inbox was Ben Swann, whom a New York–based PR team presented as a journalist, and a source “to separate the conspiracy theories from the facts behind Trump’s assassination attempt.”
This was curious for several reasons, the main being that Swann is himself an energetic conspiracy theorist, who first attracted notice in 2017 by touting Pizzagate, a lurid conspiracy about child trafficking, while working for Atlanta’s CBS affiliate. Swann was ultimately fired, but quickly launched a new career as a star of the most conspiracy-addled corner of the online universe, posting to his website Truth in Media. He also began accepting millions of dollars in funding from a Kremlin-backed broadcaster to produce pro-Russian propaganda, according to disclosure forms he filed with the federal government when registering as a foreign agent.
While Swann has prospered by confidently and cynically presenting himself as a force for truth, legitimate researchers of disinformation—the kind he’s spread for much of his professional life—are struggling. Over the last several years, the field has undergone a broadscale attack from politicians, right-wing media, and tech industry giants. As a result, research has been curtailed, people have been laid off, and academics working in the space even fear talking to one another, lest it leave them open to charges of “conspiring” by their adversaries. | |
Submitted at 09-17-2024, 03:45 PM by sleeppoor | |
A church in Mexico is helping people prep for eternity by selling plots of land in heaven. | |
Submitted at 09-17-2024, 03:56 PM by B. Weed | |
Victims of traffic violence in D.C. say the city needs to get drivers who rack up tickets off the roads.
Most afternoons, Paisley Brodie calls her mother when she gets to the public library four blocks from her middle school on Capitol Hill. On Sept. 9, the call came when Deirdre Allen expected it, but her 12-year-old daughter was crying. “Mommy,” she said, “I just got hit by a car...”
Allen never saw the man who hit her daughter with a black Land Rover. A witness told police, and later The Washington Post, that the driver did not stop in time for the red light. After he hit Paisley, witnesses said, the man berated her for being in the crosswalk, claiming she had a red signal. Paisley, unable to walk, was taken to Children’s National Hospital. The driver left with a citation for colliding with a pedestrian, which can lead to up to 30 days in jail.
The driver, Earl Darryl Curtis, of District Heights, Md., said in an interview that he stopped in the crosswalk once he realized the light was red and that it was Paisley who collided with his car, not the other way around.
“If I had ran the light, I would have run her over,” he said. “She damaged my car.” He went on to say, “I didn’t even see the girl. … The only thing they got me on is the crosswalk.”
It wasn’t the first ticket or even the 50th tied to the car. Allen, who was given a photo of the license plate by a witness, learned that the Land Rover has 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras, six for speeding just this month and four for running red lights since July. It’s not clear who was driving each time; the cameras capture only the license plate.
When it comes to tickets linked to the Land Rover, Curtis said that “you can’t prove” who was driving and that his traffic-related record is “irrelevant” to the incident that left Paisley injured. | |
Submitted at 09-17-2024, 03:37 PM by sleeppoor | |
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The saga of Yogesh Raut—and the future of America’s favorite game show.
Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina,made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.
The Commonwealth Fund’s report is the 20th in their “Mirror, Mirror” series, an international comparison of the US health system to nine wealthy democracies including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, Sweden and Switzerland. The foundation calls this year’s report a “portrait of a failing US health system”.
For decades, California police chiefs and sheriffs have lamented how difficult it is to fire officers and deputies who act with dishonesty or brutality, blaming powerful labor unions and robust employment protections.
What law enforcement leaders have not revealed, and what has remained a secret until now, is how they have repeatedly turned to an under-the-radar method of getting rid of problem officers — one that not only allows the officers to avoid accountability but, often, to quietly move on to other jobs where they are asked to protect the public.
For years, dozens of California police agencies have executed “clean-record agreements,” clandestine legal settlements that promise to hide the wrongdoing of an officer in exchange for the officer’s guarantee to leave an agency without a fight, an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program found.
The body of a man accused of shooting five people in vehicles on Interstate 75 earlier this month in Southern Kentucky, setting off a massive manhunt, was found Wednesday afternoon near the crime scene.
Joseph Couch, 32, was found near Exit 49 on the interstate, about nine miles north of London, near where he shot 12 vehicles on Sept. 7. The scene was about 65 miles south of Lexington on one of the nation’s busiest highways.
KSP announced at 4:18 p.m. that a body had been found and they were working to identify it. The announcement came about an hour after a couple named Fred and Sheila McCoy posted a live YouTube video claiming they’d found Couch after searching for six days and nights.
The couple went live a second time after finding the body, and they appeared to be discussing what they’ll do with the reward money. Authorities had offered a $35,000 reward for information that led to Couch’s arrest, and police confirmed Wednesday night the McCoys will receive $25,000 of that reward.
Fred and Sheila say they are descendants of the famous feuding families the Hatfields and McCoys from West Virginia and Kentucky.
The couple previously operated the Hatfields and McCoys museum in Casey County, according to the museum’s website. Casey County is about an hour west of the I-75 shootings.
The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.
A new poll has found that more than half of all Americans support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, with a large number of Democrats also supporting the effort.
The European Commission last year charged Google with favouring its own advertising services, opening its fourth case against the world's most popular search engine.
Emails reveal Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, a group of officials and election deniers, coordinating in swing state
Millions of Americans needing to renew their passports can now do so online instead of mailing the State Department paper documents with a check.
Paxton applying to be Trumps Attorney General
David Lochridge tells hearing he alerted company to safety fears over submersible that imploded but was ignored
You married a landlord.
Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault.
A few months ago, a man crawling along a rooftop in Pennsylvania tried to murder Donald Trump at a campaign rally. Hours later, press releases started to circulate, from analysts, think tanks, politicians, and pundits, all offering to cut through the swell of confusion and misinformation.
One of the people who washed up in my inbox was Ben Swann, whom a New York–based PR team presented as a journalist, and a source “to separate the conspiracy theories from the facts behind Trump’s assassination attempt.”
This was curious for several reasons, the main being that Swann is himself an energetic conspiracy theorist, who first attracted notice in 2017 by touting Pizzagate, a lurid conspiracy about child trafficking, while working for Atlanta’s CBS affiliate. Swann was ultimately fired, but quickly launched a new career as a star of the most conspiracy-addled corner of the online universe, posting to his website Truth in Media. He also began accepting millions of dollars in funding from a Kremlin-backed broadcaster to produce pro-Russian propaganda, according to disclosure forms he filed with the federal government when registering as a foreign agent.
While Swann has prospered by confidently and cynically presenting himself as a force for truth, legitimate researchers of disinformation—the kind he’s spread for much of his professional life—are struggling. Over the last several years, the field has undergone a broadscale attack from politicians, right-wing media, and tech industry giants. As a result, research has been curtailed, people have been laid off, and academics working in the space even fear talking to one another, lest it leave them open to charges of “conspiring” by their adversaries.
A church in Mexico is helping people prep for eternity by selling plots of land in heaven.
Victims of traffic violence in D.C. say the city needs to get drivers who rack up tickets off the roads.
Most afternoons, Paisley Brodie calls her mother when she gets to the public library four blocks from her middle school on Capitol Hill. On Sept. 9, the call came when Deirdre Allen expected it, but her 12-year-old daughter was crying. “Mommy,” she said, “I just got hit by a car...”
Allen never saw the man who hit her daughter with a black Land Rover. A witness told police, and later The Washington Post, that the driver did not stop in time for the red light. After he hit Paisley, witnesses said, the man berated her for being in the crosswalk, claiming she had a red signal. Paisley, unable to walk, was taken to Children’s National Hospital. The driver left with a citation for colliding with a pedestrian, which can lead to up to 30 days in jail.
The driver, Earl Darryl Curtis, of District Heights, Md., said in an interview that he stopped in the crosswalk once he realized the light was red and that it was Paisley who collided with his car, not the other way around.
“If I had ran the light, I would have run her over,” he said. “She damaged my car.” He went on to say, “I didn’t even see the girl. … The only thing they got me on is the crosswalk.”
It wasn’t the first ticket or even the 50th tied to the car. Allen, who was given a photo of the license plate by a witness, learned that the Land Rover has 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras, six for speeding just this month and four for running red lights since July. It’s not clear who was driving each time; the cameras capture only the license plate.
When it comes to tickets linked to the Land Rover, Curtis said that “you can’t prove” who was driving and that his traffic-related record is “irrelevant” to the incident that left Paisley injured.