Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself for $1 billion after receiving just 10,000 orders for its confuddling, expensive and ultimately pretty useless AI Pin. The device was savaged by reviewers.

The Cherokee tribal council on Thursday voted to expand sales at the tribe’s new medical marijuana dispensary in the North Carolina mountains to any adult in the state. The dispensary is the first and only place people can buy cannabis legally in North Carolina. Until Thursday’s vote, buyers needed a medical cannabis card from the tribe’s Cannabis Control Board. Starting as soon as August, that will no longer be the case. The vote came nine months after Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians members approved a referendum by over 70% to allow adult use of cannabis on their 57,000-acre Qualla Boundary and other lands. Tribal leaders spent months crafting the required adult-use ordinance that the council approved Thursday. The ordinance allows any adult, including North Carolina residents and others, to buy products at the tribe’s cannabis superstore that opened April 30 near Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

The party’s shift toward extremism continued with a nod to an infamous anti-gay slur and an invitation to burn Pride flags.

Six people were arrested for trespassing Wednesday night as fans rushed the pitch at Empower Field during Mexico’s loss to Uruguay.

Broken promises, radio silence, doxing, and a bot problem that should be solved by now: Why is Valve letting this happen to TF2?

The Washington Post has written twice this spring about allegations that have cropped up in British court proceedings involving its new publisher and CEO, Will Lewis. In both instances Lewis pushed his newsroom chief hard not to run the story. According to several people at the newspaper, then-Executive Editor Sally Buzbee emerged rattled from both discussions in March and in May. Lewis’ efforts were first reported by the New York Times. The second Post article in May, which was thorough and detailed, ran just days before Lewis announced his priorities for the paper, which is financially troubled. On Thursday, a spokesperson for Lewis denied the publisher had pressured his editor, saying, "That is not true. That is not what happened." Buzbee did not recuse herself from the stories, which were overseen by Managing Editor Matea Gold, and drew upon reporters from three desks. Lewis did not block the story from running. He unexpectedly announced Buzbee’s departure on Sunday night, about three-and-a-half weeks after the longer story ran, along with a restructuring of the newsroom’s leadership structure. It is not the first time that Lewis has engaged in intense efforts to head off coverage about him in ways that many U.S. journalists would consider deeply inappropriate.

Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that is found in small amounts in fruit and vegetables and is used in sugar-free gum, toothpaste and baked goods.

The suspect had previously given a television interview complaining about the invasive technology.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul reversed course and blocked congestion pricing at the last minute — months after taking more than $30,000 from state auto dealers.

Groundbreaking new research also reports that 11% of surveyed have faced physical violence in their reporting

An official tells Eyewitness News the implementation of congestion pricing in New York City has been indefinitely postponed. It will not start on June 30 as originally planned.

When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up. Distributors of this unsafe-for-human-consumption product deny H5N1—which has the potential to sicken millions of people—is a danger. Dairy farmers decline to allow disease detectives onto their properties. After 25 years of watching, waiting and worrying about bird flu, what finally tips it over into a pandemic could be American contrariness.

A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk — only to be torn apart by social media and pornography addiction, elders complain. Brazil’s 2000-member Marubo tribe has been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Tesla founder’s Starlink service nine months ago, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Ituí River to the web for the first time. “When it arrived, everyone was happy,” Tsainama Marubo, 73, told The New York Times. “But now, things have gotten worse. Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet, they’re learning the ways of the white people.”

Raymundo Rivera was last seen alive on August 5, 2018, fleeing from LA County Sheriff’s deputies. Six days later, his corpse was pulled from inside of a building column outside of a local supermarket in Lancaster. Deputies had chased Rivera, knew he had fallen into the pillar, and “left him there to die,” according to a lawsuit filed this week against LA County by former LA County Deputy Sheriff Aaron Tanner’s ex-girlfriend, accusing him of physical abuse. In light of the revelations, Rivera’s family filed a tort claim for wrongful death against the county this week. “It feels unreal that someone came forward. When it happened, I knew something was wrong,” Rivera’s wife told LA Public Press in a statement. She fears retribution from the sheriff’s department, and her name is being withheld. She said that she learned about deputies’ involvement in her husband’s death when several people sent her an article in the Los Angeles Times about Tanner’s ex’s lawsuit. “Because of that, I literally started crying. It confirmed every suspicion that I had,” she said. The allegations in the lawsuit filed by his ex assert that Tanner openly referred to the Rattlesnakes as his gang, claimed that Rattlesnakes members intimidate other deputies, made false arrests, and framed people for crimes they did not commit. The suit also alleges that members would withhold backup on other deputies’ patrol calls “to endanger their lives,” wrote false police reports, and engaged in other “illegal conduct” – all reported hallmarks of deputy gangs. The US Department of Justice raised concerns about the Rattlesnakes in 2013 in a report resulting from a federal probe into allegations of racist policing. At the time, LASD pledged to stop personnel from displaying the gang’s insignia: a skull wearing a cowboy hat encircled by a Rattlesnake.

A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners on Monday, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory.

In an exclusive interview, President Joe Biden rants like a mad emperor with largely the same views and goals for abroad as his predecessor

The trans-led, trans-hosted late show on Brooklyn Public Access is taking the form and twisting it for a newer, younger audience.

Buried in the April 2022 ruling that struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandate was a section that was unusual for a court decision. The outcome itself was far from surprising. Places all over the country were dropping local mask requirements, and the judge hearing this case — a challenge to the federal mandate to mask on planes and other public transportation — was a conservative Trump appointee, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for the Middle District of Florida. Mizelle ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mask requirement overstepped the agency’s legal authority. What was eye-catching was her explanation of why. In her ruling, Mizelle wrote she had consulted the Corpus of Historical American English, an academic search engine that returns examples of how words and phrases are used in select historical texts. Mizelle searched “sanitation,” a crucial word in the 1944 statute that authorizes the CDC to issue disease-prevention rules, and found it generally was used to describe the act of making something clean. “Wearing a mask,” she wrote, “cleans nothing.” Searching large linguistic databases is a relatively new approach to judicial analysis called legal corpus linguistics. Although it has gained in popularity over the last decade, it is barely discussed outside of an enthusiastic group of right-wing conservative legal scholars. Which raises the question: How did this niche concept wind up driving such a consequential decision in the country’s health policy? Now, new disclosures seen by HuffPost shed some light. Just weeks before she issued the ruling, Mizelle had discreetly attended an all-expenses-paid luxury trip from a conservative group whose primary mission is to persuade more federal judges to adopt the use of corpus linguistics. For five days, Mizelle and more than a dozen other federal judges listened to the leading proponents of corpus linguistics in the comfort of The Greenbrier, an ostentatious resort spread out over 11,000 acres of West Virginia hillside.

A Bronx tax preparer known as “the Magician” was arrested by IRS Criminal Investigations agents in an alleged $100 million dollar tax rip-off scheme.

The students who run the Columbia Law Review sought out the Palestinian scholar Rabea Eghbariah, who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year.