After special counsel Jack Smith obtained a new, superseding indictment against Donald Trump for his efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election, the former president spent much of Wednesday morning firing off a barrage of posts on his Truth Social platform, including extremist memes that were notable even by the standards of the former president’s previous online behavior. Trump’s posting spree, which lasted about four hours, began with an apparent reaction to Smith’s indictment, which became public on Tuesday afternoon. Among other things, Trump reposted messages from other users that called for his political rivals to be arrested and tried in “public military tribunals.” Trump also shared three images that prominently displayed slogans related to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. The digital deluge began with a post in which Trump shared an image with text describing him as “100% INNOCENT” along with a message suggesting the new indictment is part of a partisan “Witch Hunt” against him.

Facing perceived imminent disclosure of his criminal conduct, the former officer “murdered Birchmore to silence her,” according to investigators.

Picture this — eight groups of bonobos spread across five sites in four countries, all part of an experiment designed to echo previous studies conducted with chimpanzees. The process was simple — expose the bonobos to vocalizations from other groups and observe their reactions.

The day Thomas Shajan was expecting to see a South Indian action epic at a theatre in British Columbia, a spate of shootings thousands of kilometres away disrupted his plans. Shajan, a self-described South Indian film fanatic, said he had been waiting months to see Malaikottai Vaaliban, a blockbuster Malayalam-language film about an aging warrior who reigns over a vast desert. Hours before the scheduled showtime in late January, Cineplex sent a message saying the screening had been cancelled and the company would be issuing a refund “due to circumstances outside our control.” Shajan, who moved to Surrey, B.C., from Kerala in southern India in 2017, said he was “heartbroken.” “I was really sad and we were never told why,” he said in a phone interview earlier this month. But the events that forced the cancellation soon became more clear.

Lobbying groups across most of the device manufacturing industry—from tractor manufacturers to companies that make fridges, consumer devices, motorcycles, and medical equipment—are lobbying against legislation that would require military contractors to make it easier for the U.S. military to fix the equipment they buy, according to a document obtained by 404 Media. The anti-repair lobbying shows that manufacturers are still doing everything they can to retain lucrative service contracts and to kill any legislation that would threaten the repair monopolies many companies have been building for years. In a May hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren explained that “contractors often place restrictions on these deals [with the military] that prevent service members from maintaining or repairing the equipment, or even let them write a training manual without going back to the contractor.”

Alfred Ruf, 71, was sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to poisoning his wife by spiking her Coca-Cola with cocaine and other drugs.

Crypto marketplace OpenSea has been added to the SEC’s list of targets, as the regulator extends its crackdown on the sector.

The dubious rise of the private-security industry Eric Rodriguez works in a white-collar office building in Manhattan, but on the day we met he was dressed for battle in Da Nang. He wore a sweat-wicking gunmetal-gray shirt, black combat boots, and brown cargo pants. Knives peeked out from two pants pockets, and a Leatherman sat on his belt next to a small, swinging bottle of hand sanitizer. There was also a first aid kit strapped to his leg under his pants, or so he said. Rodriguez was prepared for bad things and convinced the worst was soon to come. “I have two to three flashlights on me at any one time,” he said. “And I take about forty vitamins a day.” I met Rodriguez on a rain-drenched morning last fall. It was my first day at Allied Universal Academy, a security-guard training center, and Rodriguez—a tall, broad-shouldered bald man with nearly forty years of guarding under his tactical belt—was my instructor. He worked for my prospective employer, Allied Universal, the largest security firm in the world. When I and more than two dozen other bleary-eyed students first entered his classroom, Rodriguez was standing alert at a lectern adorned with a sign that read: stand back! don’t approach desk! Behind the desk in question—which, for the record, I never approached—stood a miniature American flag and on top of it was a leather binder affixed with a POW/MIA sticker. Early in his introductory remarks, Rodriguez told us about his six years serving in the U.S. Army. While he never saw conflict, Rodriguez still appeared to view himself as a fighter. His Facebook profile picture, he told us, depicted a Revolutionary War soldier running into battle, and his email signature included quotes on patriotism and courage by Mark Twain and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, respectively. As a reporter who mostly covers the military and veterans, I saw in Rodriguez a paranoid intensity that felt both familiar and totally foreign, something akin to anticipatory PTSD. With his decades as a watchman, Rodriguez seemed to be racked by an ever-present fear of chaos—and he was a believer in a guard’s purportedly vital but nebulously defined role in dealing with it.

Researchers allegedly found security protocols "burdensome."

The decision comes in the wake of criticism over a sweeping judicial reform proposal in Mexico.

The superseding indictment against Trump is based on a narrower set of allegations after the Supreme Court ruled Trump had some immunity from prosecution.

The Trump campaign isn't denying Robert Kennedy Jr.'s suggestion that the ex-president would take on "chemtrails"

At the Democratic National Convention, it was clear our industry is once again doing everything it can to fail to meet the enormity of this moment

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million that didn’t really exist. The “dollars” were used for the purchase of expensive email and video visits with their loved ones, as well as games, music and movies. By the time state officials learned what was happening — when they got an anonymous tip on Jan. 3, 2023 — the prisoners had spent nearly $88,000 on digital media products, according to a review of more than 1,700 pages of internal investigative records the Herald-Leader obtained through the Kentucky Open Records Act.

An X-ray revealed the bird had eaten a raccoon.

On June 6, the Thomson Police Department requested that the GBI conduct an investigation into an allegation that Cranford gave alcohol to inmates on June 4, according to the GBI. The case was presented to a McDuffie County grand jury, and a grand jury arrest warrant was issued for Cranford. According to the indictment, Cranford drove to Rimpy’s Store and bought a 750 milliliter bottle of Seagram’s Extra Dry Gin and left it in a ditch along Cobbham Road in the path of a work crew of state prisoners from the Jefferson County Correctional Institution. We spoke to one of the workers who says Cranford is a regular. “At least twice a week? Sometimes it might be three, but usually, at least twice a week,” said Ivie.

A new study from UCLA breaks down exactly what Gen Z wants to see — and not see — from Hollywood, and some of the results are surprising.

The targeted killings of workers from Punjab and security forces point to a dangerous escalation, warn analysts.

The arrest of the site’s founder renews the debate over free speech on social media.

Recent progress in video technology has had some alarming effects in South Korea, as a growing number of tech-savvy youngsters are using deepfake technology to produce sexual images of people, often their own peers, without their consent. A recent report showed that there were 180 criminal cases related to deepfake images in 2023. Of the 120 people punished for those crimes, 91 – or 75.8 per cent – were teenagers, according to a report compiled by Representative Cho Eun-hee of the People Power Party, which used data provided by the National Police Agency.