Amber Heard has moved to Spain and changed her name to Martha Jane Cannary. The 38-year-old American actress moved to Spain months after the trial concluded, People reports, but a more recent update details she has reportedly changed her name to Martha Jane Cannary. If the name sounds familiar, it just might be. It’s the real name of American frontierswoman and sharpshooter Calamity Jane. She was portrayed by screen icon Doris Day in the 1953 musical-Western film, Calamity Jane. The publication El Diario de Mallorca reported on the name change, and they suggested it could pique Johnny’s interest for all the wrong reasons.

Team Trump believes questioning Harris’ racial identity is smart politics — and is behind him “100 percent,” says a person close to Trump Donald Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is Black were not an off-the-cuff expression of racism, but part of a broader campaign strategy that Trump and many of his key lieutenants plan to make a heavy focus of their final three-month sprint to retake the White House. Asked on Wednesday about Republicans accusing Harris of being a “DEI hire” or “DEI candidate,” Trump responded by questioning Harris’ racial identity. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black,” he said, adding: “She made a turn, and she became a Black person, and I think somebody should look into that.” As unhinged as this sounds — and is — Team Trump believes this is a politically smart message, according to three people on and close to the 2024 Trump-Vance campaign. In their private conversations, Trump and some of his closest advisers appear to believe that leveling this attack as loudly as they could help sell the idea that Harris is a “phony” in the minds of independent voters. Trump believes he wins battles when he gets to define the messaging terrain and have Democrats and his media nemeses fight him on his terms (hence, Trump’s deep annoyance at Harris and Democrats’ relentless drive to call him, J.D. Vance, and other conservative leaders “weird”). So, Trump and his allies have been reveling in this line of racial-identity sniping, hoping to bait Democratic leaders into a mud fight. Some Trump advisers have even argued — including long before Trump began this Harris-isn’t-Black crusade — that painting Harris as inauthentically Black could potentially resonate with certain Black voters, particularly disaffected, young men — who are already skeptical of Harris and President Joe Biden. Popular on Rolling Stone The sources stressed that Trump’s comments were not — as has been the case numerous times in his campaigns and during his administration — a situation in which the former president has gone rogue on the stump and indulged his own lack of political impulse control. (These sources in the past have generally had no trouble privately admitting it when that has been the case.) Rather, this is a case of Trump and an array of his aides and influential allies settling on a race-baiting strategy that they are, for the time being at least, convinced will work out well for them in this presidential election. Editor’s picks “It’s not by accident; it’s intentional. We’re behind the [former] president, 100 percent,” a person close to Trump tells Rolling Stone. In that sense, it is similar to the relatively new, extreme Republican Party-wide policy aim of bombing or invading Mexico. What sounds like an unhinged, errant Trump thought is a mainstream conservative view and plan of action. The line of attack, of course, has its share of critics among the conservative elite. As Politico reported last month, House Republican leadership practically begged their own rank and file during a private meeting to avoid talking about Harris’ race. Those entreaties clearly aren’t sticking. On Thursday, Vance — the Ohio senator who Trump tapped for his 2024 vice-presidential slot — swooped in to further buttress the Team Trump tactic. “She is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of,” Vance told CNN. “I think it’s totally reasonable for the president to call that out, and that’s all he did,” Vance said.” The latest round of Trumpian gutter politics appears to be motivated by a sudden sense of urgency within the upper echelons of MAGAworld — a sense that did not exist just weeks ago, when Republicans thought Trump was cruising to a landslide against Biden, before he bowed out of the 2024 race and endorsed Harris. According to two sources familiar with the matter, behind closed doors, Trump has expressed bewilderment — or genuine surprise even — at Harris’ uptick in the polls, her latest fundraising hauls, and the ease with which her party rallied to her, as opposed to devolving into a disastrous intra-party power struggle ahead of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Indeed, almost immediately after Biden dropped out, close allies and trusted associates to Trump started directly warning him not to underestimate Harris as a general election rival.) Related Harris responded to racist Trump’s comments Wednesday evening at an event in Houston. “It was the same old show: the divisiveness, and the disrespect,” she said. “And let me just say the American people deserve better.” Trump delivered his broadside against Harris, questioning her racial identity, during a remarkably hostile Q&A before the National Association of Black Journalists convention. It soon became apparent that this was not just Trump being himself, but a coordinated campaign message. The former president posted a video on Truth Social of Harris cooking with the actress Mindy Kaling, and talking about her South Asian heritage. He wrote: “Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black. This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!” Before Trump arrived at a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a Business Insider headline was projected on screen at the event that read: “California’s Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American U.S. senator.” Trump did not specifically repeat his attack on Harris at the rally, though his legal spokeswoman and lawyer Alina Habba certainly tried. “Unlike you, Kamala, I know who my roots are,” she said, stumbling over her words. “I know where I come from.” Trending In a throwback to Trump’s incessant demand to see President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, far-right activist Laura Loomer posted an apparent copy of Harris’ birth certificate online, writing that the document “proves she is NOT BLACK.” The attack on Harris has been bubbling up in pro-Trump circles for years. Ali Alexander, the far-right Trump supporter who organized the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, tweeted in 2019: “Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves. She’s not. She comes from Jamaican Slave Owners. That’s fine. She’s not an American Black. Period.”

Federal investigators found that the state agency excessively used pepper spray on children, employed dangerous restraint techniques and kept children isolated for days or weeks on end.

Vance told the Nelk Boys' podcast he's not going to be 'dickish' and make his Secret Secret detail pick up his dog's poop.

A naked man who has been spotted by campers in Kananaskis Country, Alta., several times over the last month has so far been able to evade efforts to find him. RCMP and Kananaskis Emergency Services have received several calls about a fully nude man around Mount Kidd RV Park, including sightings as recent as July 16 and 23. “There’s no report he’s been in acts other than being naked but it is a little weird he keeps getting spotted and then runs away,” said RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff.

(Posting entire article text because fuck a Bloomberg) CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way. Several years ago, Americans emerging from the early days of the pandemic found that aisles at some of the country’s biggest retailers had begun to change. After a year of shoppers mainlining online deliveries and battling unpredictable product shortages, stores finally replenished their shelves, but with a catch: Many products were locked behind acrylic barriers. The plastic shields, once used sparingly to secure certain kinds of expensive or heavily regulated items such as cellphones or cigarettes, were now holding hostage run-of-the-mill toiletries and cleaning supplies. To negotiate their release, you’d need a key-wielding store employee. If no one was around—and no one ever was—you could press a call button and hope for the best. The practice has since metastasized to so many kinds of products in so many more stores—big-box discounters, beauty retailers, chain pharmacies—that it’s become routine to discover entire aisles transformed into untouchable product galleries armored in plexiglass. The whole thing has a whiff of pawnshop, which might actually be unfair to pawnshops. They, at least, have someone ready and waiting to take things out of lockup. To understand how we got to this demoralizing retail reality, we have to go back to the Great Shoplifting Freak-Out of 2021. In the aftermath of pandemic upheaval and widespread protests following the murder of George Floyd by police, an unsettled country turned its attention to a handful of viral videos showing bands of thieves ransacking stores in violent smash-and-grab robberies and making off with huge quantities of everything from shampoo to luxury handbags. According to retailers, these videos were evidence of a larger problem: More and more organized crime rings were swiping large quantities of desirable, easily resold goods from brick-and-mortar stores and listing them online. Some retailers, including Target Corp., have cited these losses as justification for the decision to close stores, often in dense cities or less wealthy neighborhoods. (Not all of these claims stand up to scrutiny—Target, for example, said that it was closing its East Harlem store in Manhattan in part because of crime, but also plans to open a new store nearby, closer to major transit lines.) Illustration: Saratta Chuengsatiansup for Bloomberg Businessweek Illustration: Saratta Chuengsatiansup for Bloomberg Businessweek These companies say the only way to stymie crime without closing stores is to harden their on-shelf defenses. Less obtrusive options, including increasing in-store surveillance and carrying fewer name-brand goods, haven’t done enough to cut down on theft, they claim. Retailers are generally reticent to discuss these tactics in any detail, and when I tried to interview the biggest ones, they stuck to that vagueness: Walgreens didn’t respond to a request for comment, and a Target spokesperson declined to respond to questions, instead emphasizing in-store safety and a positive customer experience in a statement. A spokesperson for CVS—one of the retailers that uses hard plastic barriers most liberally—would only describe putting products under lock and key as “a last resort.” In retailers’ eyes it might be their best option, but it’s one that appears to be backfiring. Neil Saunders, managing director of the retail practice at the firm GlobalData, describes the locking up of merch as “a blunt instrument.” Several years into this experiment, the instrument’s outcomes are becoming clear: miserable workers, irritated customers, abandoned shopping carts and more reasons than ever to shop online. The modern American store is designed around self-service, which encourages customers to buy more. If you can’t just grab most of the things you want, the brick-and-mortar retail system as we know it stops working. At a Target in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the locked cases shielding the men’s underwear are so vast, you begin to wonder whether, at some point, this store had been the target of a massive undies heist. The logistics of such a robbery would present some challenges. Briefs are on the second floor. So even if someone were to load all the undies into a cart, push it onto the cart escalator and try to make a break for it, they’d still need to wait at the bottom for the loot to slowly make its way down. As I roamed the store, I found myself making similar getaway calculations every time I encountered an aisle of sealed-off shelves. Deodorant, body wash and toothpaste were inaccessible, but most shampoos and conditioners fended for themselves. To get a $24 tube of La Roche-Posay moisturizer, I had to get in an impromptu line of customers following a red-vested young woman like ducklings as she unlocked one clear, tiny cupboard after another. But an endcap displayed $45 allergy medication, free for the taking. An aisle filled on both sides with giant jugs of laundry detergent looked like the freezer section at the grocery store, except that the rows of doors weren’t keeping anything cold. They were just making it impossible to buy Tide. PlayPlay1:02 Locked Up Shelves at Retail Stores Endanger Businesses’ Success In general, products that get locked up are those most likely to go missing. But part of the issue with these locked cabinets is that retailers don’t always know if the missing inventory was stolen off a shelf or never made it to the shelf to begin with, says Jennifer Fagan, a retail industry analyst at consulting firm EY. If the merchandise was purloined, little is usually known about the perpetrator, or their intentions—an organized resale theft ring is hardly the only potential culprit. All of this is “an assumption,” Fagan says. “Retailers don’t have the data to give you that exact answer.” This is why, in part, any particular store’s choices about what to lock up can seem completely arbitrary. Most products that end up behind plastic are health, beauty, electronics or cleaning products—but not all health, beauty, electronics or cleaning products. In a Target I visited, the replacement heads for electric toothbrushes were encased, but regular toothbrushes weren’t. Bulk packs of Rogaine selling for $72 were on regular shelves next to $6 deodorant that you couldn’t touch. Pricey toys, home-improvement products and name-brand printer ink cartridges roamed free, but the $1.99 plastic bath loofahs had been imprisoned. Name-brand products are known to be a larger theft risk because they’re more valuable to resellers, Fagan says, but beyond that, what to lock up tends to be guesswork for retailers. Illustration: Saratta Chuengsatiansup for Bloomberg Businessweek Illustration: Saratta Chuengsatiansup for Bloomberg Businessweek Jason Brewer, a senior executive vice president at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade group that often speaks about theft issues on behalf of large retailers, disputes this characterization. “Retailers have developed sophisticated inventory management systems that give them a very good picture of what is happening in stores,” he says, and they’re using that intel to determine which products are at high risk of large-scale theft and need confinement. If a missing product can’t be otherwise accounted for, he says, then it’s reasonable for a retailer to assume it’s stolen. All the industry watchers I spoke with say that large-volume theft is indeed a real and growing issue for the retailers that have shifted into product lockdown mode. It’s just that retailers’ and analysts’ ability to assess these things tend to be largely vibes-based. Retailers “like to talk about it, but they don’t like to put numbers around it,” GlobalData’s Saunders says. Across American retailers, average shrink—the industry term for inventory lost for any reason, expressed as a percentage of total sales—has remained relatively steady at around 1.5% for years, according to the National Retail Federation, a trade group that’s long lobbied for a more robust law enforcement response to retail theft. But shrink accounts for many types of things, including paperwork and checkout errors, losses in transit, returns, spoilage and theft from employees or vendors. NRF’s are some of the only publicly available statistics on the industrywide problem, but they’re compiled using private data voluntarily provided by an undisclosed list of companies. It’s not that product doesn’t get smuggled out the front door, EY’s Fagan says. Shoplifting happens, and some of what’s stolen does get resold, a phenomenon that long predates more recent agita about organized retail theft. The problem is that product goes out the back door too, or doesn’t make it through the door in the first place. Videos of Supermarket Sweep-style deodorant robberies might be popular online, but experts generally regard less visible types of theft and loss as just as much of a threat, if not more. A recent police raid on a warehouse outside Los Angeles turned up millions of dollars in stolen merchandise that law enforcement said they suspected was headed for resale, but they alleged that it had all been stolen in transit, not from retail sales floors. This has always been the preferred operational method of large, sophisticated theft rings (See: Goodfellas and The Sopranos), because stealing from tractor trailers or warehouses yields large quantities of brand-new goods that are packaged for efficient transport, storage and resale. In fact, according to the cargo security firm CargoNet, this type of theft has recently soared—in the first quarter of 2024, 46% more incidents were reported than in the same period in 2023. None of that larceny is going to be thwarted by turning stores into plexiglass wastelands. But for the segment of theft happening off shelves, is putting products behind barriers an effective prevention measure? Although actual data is scarce, the answer seems to be yes. But that yes comes with significant caveats. Locking up merchandise “does work in the sense that it reduces theft” in the most basic way possible, says GlobalData’s Saunders. “The problem is it also reduces sales.” The practice of locking up products is near-universally reviled among consumers. “Congrats, you have created a store that is literally impossible to shop at,” Brooklyn resident MJ Knefel posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, in June, after finding that all the buttons used to call employees to secured display cases at the local Walgreens had suddenly disappeared, even though the cases remained locked. Indeed, when Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., which also owns Duane Reade, announced that same month that it would need to close a “significant” number of its American stores because of underperformance, the response on social media amounted to, “Well, what did you expect?” If stores lock up too much stuff, they cease to be stores—they become giant vending machines with no place to insert your money. Impulse purchases are thwarted. You can’t browse, because you can’t pick up anything to examine it more closely. If you hit the buzzer to summon an employee, you have to be sure you actually want something, otherwise you’ll waste their time as well as your own. You can’t dither and compare your options once the cabinet is opened, because whoever unlocked the door for you is likely being pulled away. Saunders recounted a recent experience at a chain pharmacy in which even the chocolate bars and bags of nuts were locked up—products that drugstores, by definition, carry for people to spontaneously toss on the counter at the last second. A few weeks ago, when I asked an employee who’d arrived to open a cabinet full of underwear at the Target in White Plains, a suburb north of Manhattan, if she had to run around answering buzzers all day, she said, “Back to back, constantly,” before she darted off to do the same for someone else. At the Bensonhurst store, I asked the attendant who’d arrived to liberate laundry detergent if this got annoying. She hesitated slightly before assenting—yes, it sucks. In both situations, I counted myself lucky that someone came at all. Retail, with its low pay and odd hours, has an industrywide problem with understaffing, a shortage that’s been exacerbated by decades of corporate cuts in labor budgets. That’s left many large retailers with barely enough employees in some locations to keep the lights on and the doors open. You can press that little button all you want, but there just might not be anyone to answer it. Each locked cabinet requires about 500 hours of annual labor to operate, Joe Budano, the chief executive of Indyme Solutions, a company that sells retail security products such as the now-ubiquitous employee call buttons, told the Wall Street Journal in 2023. Fagan says these kinds of loss prevention tactics only make retail work less appealing to potential hires and good employees more difficult to keep. That very well may feed into a vicious cycle for retailers if they don’t find better ways to deal with the theft issues they’re already having: When no one is minding the store, potential thieves feel emboldened. “Where staffing is better and staffing levels are better, theft goes down,” Saunders says. In 2023, Marvin Ellison, the chief executive of Lowe’s, credited the company’s investment in in-store employees for keeping its theft rates lower than its competitors’. Retail Industry Leaders of America’s Brewer disagrees that more workers is the solution. “It’s not a staffing issue,” he says, arguing that professionals engaged in large-scale theft aren’t dissuaded by a couple of extra employees. And, of course, acrylic cabinets can stand vigil in stores all day, every day without becoming legally entitled to health insurance. What most retailers fail to account for is that while these tactics may help shore up quarterly earnings for now, they’re also doing real, long-term damage to their sales and to their brand. Browsing an aisle full of locked-up stuff is a bad user experience. Dare to linger too long, and whoever is watching the store’s security cameras might begin to find you suspicious. At least it might start to feel that way. After all, those plexiglass partitions are a constant reminder that where you are could be as much a crime scene as it is a big-box store—a feeling that won’t exactly, in the mantra of enlightened retailers, surprise and delight you. You don’t have to try and fail to buy deodorant or toothpaste too many times before you simply stop trying to buy those things in person. When foot traffic declines, so do sales on all kinds of things, including those not behind plexiglass. “I worry that’s going to have a long-lasting effect,” says EY’s Fagan. For a lot of shoppers, those locked shelves become another reason to avoid in-person shopping and hand their business over to Amazon. But retailers have already backed themselves too far into a corner for them to admit defeat. Retrofitting so many stores with lockup systems is time-consuming and expensive. Stores have sunk too much effort and money into safeguarding their shelves to fling them open now. Maybe next they’ll mess around with high-tech gadgetry, like RFID tags or facial recognition software. But perhaps a better solution is also the most obvious one: staffing up. It’s workers who make stores pleasant, orderly, convenient places to shop, and attracting more of them and keeping them around would probably require retailers to also raise wages and improve working conditions. To make these stores work again, retailers are going to have to find some way not to treat everyone as if they’re the next thief.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wrote in his college newspaper in 1993 that peace “will never come” to the Middle East and expressed skepticism about the viability of a two-state solution, describing Palestinians as “too battle-minded” to coexist with Israel. Those decades-old views stand in contrast to Shapiro’s stated positions today — he supports a two-state solution in the region — as he’s being vetted to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee. In the opinion article, titled “Peace not possible,” Shapiro, then a 20-year-old student at the University of Rochester, argued that a negotiated accord between Israeli and Palestinian leaders would not end conflict in the region, writing: “Using history as precedent, peace between Arabs and Israelis is virtually impossible and will never come.” He described the Arab world as fractious, and wrote that the then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was in danger of being assassinated “by his fellow belligerent Arabs.” “Palestinians will not coexist peacefully,” Shapiro wrote. “They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”

A massive operation to rescue victims of human trafficking and arrest offenders was carried out over the weekend at San Diego’s Comic-Con, resulting in the arrests of 14 “sex buyers” and the recovery of 10 victims, including a 16-year-old girl. The investigation was led by the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force, which specifically used Comic-Con as a backdrop for its sting operation. The world-famous convention doesn’t just attract comic book fans, but criminals too, according to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. “Unfortunately, sex traffickers capitalize on large-scale events such as Comic-Con to exploit their victims for profit,” Bonta said. “These arrests send a clear message to potential offenders that their criminal behaviour will not be tolerated.” Law enforcement workers went undercover as potential customers to find victims of trafficking and arrest their traffickers. At the end of the three-day operation, authorities rescued nine adult victims of sex trafficking and one 16-year-old minor.

Wesley Bell, the AIPAC-backed challenger to Cori Bush, also said the decision not to release Darren Wilson’s side of the story was “tragic.”

“The eight-hour workday was a hard-won victory by labor organizers of yesterday. Today, gig corporations are actively undermining those victories.”

Yanis Varoufakis has worn many hats over the course of his career: Economist. Academic. Politician, even briefly becoming Greece’s minister of finance during a tumultuous period in 2015. Author, most recently of Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism. But many people forget that, back in 2012, he also helped Valve study hats – or at least, the market surrounding them in Team Fortress 2. At the time, Varoufakis was Valve’s economist in residence, playing a role in pioneering the sorts of digital markets that now dominate Steam, video games, and to some degree, the Earth. Varoufakis is not a fan of many of these markets, as he outlines in Technofeudalism, which posits that the likes of Amazon and the App Store have evolved into algorithm-powered fiefdoms that exist not to foster commerce or competition, but to modify behavior and extract rent from all who produce goods for them. Other people do the work, while big companies and platforms reap the rewards. At this point, it’s a well-documented dynamic that most ascribe to late-stage capitalism. Varoufakis believes that capitalism fell to this new system’s claws some time ago – that we’re now tussling with a wholly different beast. In fact, he doesn’t believe that what companies like Amazon offer are markets at all.

An AJC investigation of 6,700 GSP pursuits found more than half ended in crashes, often injuring bystanders. GSP’s loose chase policy contributes to Georgia’s police pursuit death rate — the worst in the U.S. The AJC’s investigation found that Georgia has the worst death rate in the country from police pursuits. The state patrol’s aggressive tactics and loose chase policy contribute significantly to this grim ranking. An AJC analysis of state data detailing GSP pursuits from 2019 through 2023 found troopers with the agency were involved in more than 6,700 pursuits in those five years, a figure that alarmed experts who reviewed the AJC’s findings. Many pursuits began with a traffic infraction, then reached high speeds and led to a crash. More than 3,400 crashes involving GSP pursuits have left at least 1,900 people injured and 63 killed during that five-year period. Those killed include a 12-year-old boy in Paulding County, after a trooper intentionally rammed the rear side of the car in which he was a passenger, leading the car to flip; a pedestrian in Savannah, a 56-year-old who was cleaved in half by a car as a pursuit sped through the walkable coastal city; and a 60-year-old man who died when his Toyota Camry was T-boned on the driver’s side by an out-of-control car during a GSP chase in DeKalb County that started over a suspected seat-belt violation.

Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, an alleged mastermind of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, was killed in an airstrike in southern Gaza last month, the Israel military said Thursday.

New data obtained by Bloomberg News show how certain firms got an inside track in the lottery, shortchanging the US economy. More than 11,600 visas went to multinational outsourcing companies, which can use their vast overseas workforces to flood the lottery with entries, crowding out others. Another 22,600 went to IT staffing firms. Bloomberg found evidence that many of them cheated on a massive scale by submitting multiple entries for the same worker. The outsize role of these firms has distorted the H-1B program, which Congress conceived as a way to help American businesses get access to the world’s top talent. Instead, outsourcing and staffing companies bring in applicants with less-remarkable resumes, paying them lower wages and heightening the risk of undercutting American labor. The result is a system that fails US workers, shortchanges the economy, stiff-arms talented immigrants and enriches a class of middlemen. The nation’s skilled-worker visa system has long been overshadowed in Washington by fights over illegal immigration and border security. But the economic stakes are high. A 2023 study from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that for every 10 H-1Bs that top US multinational companies lose out on, nine jobs are moved abroad. An economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond estimated that a mere 10% reduction in high-skilled immigrant workers would shrink the US economy by about $86 billion.

The federal government today expanded the number of children known to have died in the repressive boarding school system that, for more than a century, pulled Native American children from their homes and communities. The Interior Department also called for billions in federal funding to begin a “healing” process. The report concludes a three-year investigation that saw, for the first time, the federal government accepting responsibility for its role in creating the system, which included more than 400 schools across 37 states. “The federal government – facilitated by the Department I lead – took deliberate and strategic actions through federal Indian boarding school policies to isolate children from their families, deny them their identities, and steal from them the languages, cultures and connections that are foundational to Native people,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. The report calculates that the federal government spent the equivalent of $23 billion in today’s dollars on the boarding school system from 1871 to 1969, and calls for spending an equivalent amount toward rebuilding families and communities. Among the proposed initiatives are a national memorial to “acknowledge and commemorate” the experiences of tribes, and a plan to return the land on which the boarding schools were located to government or tribal ownership.

AIPAC’s super PAC, which is backing Wesley Bell, used distorted photos of Bush as part of a $7 million ad blitz against the progressive incumbent.

The shocking Q&A session was a preview of what a face-to-face encounter with Kamala Harris would look like. The tense exchange instantly set the tone of the question-and-answer session that featured Trump attacking Vice President Kamala Harris with racist characterizations. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black,” Trump said. At one point, Trump, while insisting that he, as president, had “done so much for the Black community,” attacked the interviewers as “nasty” and a “disgrace.” The remarks prompted repeated gasps from the audience, as the interviewers—Semafor’s Kadia Goba, ABC News’ Rachel Scott, and Fox News’ Harris Faulkner—continued asking the former president about pardoning Jan. 6 rioters. “If they’re innocent, I would pardon them,” he said. He did this while also claiming that Harris should take a cognitive test because she failed the bar exam. (Harris eventually passed and was admitted to the California bar in 1990.)

The documents show inappropriate police surveillance of social media posts about pizza nights and study groups.

A new website is designed to raise questions about the NYPD's use of facial recognition technology.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran.