A three-judge panel in New Orleans ruled that a Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain birth control does not conflict with the goals of the federally-funded Title X program, which has given teens birth control confidentially.

"Both kinds of corporate misbehavior—underpaying taxes and overpaying executives—ultimately make working families the victim through smaller paychecks and diminished public services."

Many of the fans who attended the Kansas City Chiefs wild-card round victory over the Miami Dolphins at Arrowhead Stadium in January and suffered from frostbite due to the extremely cold conditions are now facing the need for amputations, according to a report from Kansas City television station Fox4. Seventy percent of the frostbite victims who have sought medical attention at the Grossman Burn Center this winter are now facing the need for amputations, according to the report. Dr. Megan Garcia, the medical director at Grossman Burns Center, said many of those victims are Chiefs fans who attended the Jan. 13 wild-card game. That contest began with a temperature of minus-4 at kickoff and a windchill that dipped to minus-27, making it one of the four coldest games in NFL history.

Don Lemon said Wednesday that his partnership with Elon Musk went down in flames, hours after the former CNN anchor conducted an interview last week with the erratic billionaire for the debut episode of his new independent web-based show.

The United States is a lonely country. The pandemic didn’t help, but it wasn’t the cause: the amount of time Americans spend talking and socializing with one another has been declining for at least two decades, about an hour and a half less per week in 2019 than in 2003. We’re having less sex than ever — the percent of 18-to 29-year-olds who reported having had none at all in the previous year doubled between 2008 and 2018 — and we’re getting sadder, too: the rate of depression in the same age bracket nearly doubled between 2017 and 2023. Queerness once appeared to offer an antidote of sorts to social atomization. In the mid-twentieth century, queers flocked to cities, escaping the strictures of the nuclear family and the detached houses of suburbia in search of somewhere else, anywhere else, to drink and talk and fuck. If the mortgage and the kids and the normative jobs were the presumed American ideal, then the queer city presented an alternative, one in which the desire for physical contact and communal connection — disco in the ’70s, the East Village in the ’80s, AIDS activism in the ’80s and ’90s — replaced, at least in theory, the desire for consumerist accumulation. Today, one could be forgiven for thinking that we have actualized the queer future dreamt by those mid-century city dwellers. Much of their subcultures has become our mainstream: we gesture at it in house-inspired music (Renaissance, Chromatica, the new Ariana single); we memorialize it through documentaries like Paris Is Burning; we watch it enacted and reenacted (with diminishing returns) on Drag Race; we take sides in the shade war between Eileen Myles and Patti Smith; we study the history of ACT UP and apply it to our own political struggles. And a tremendous number of young people seem to be queer these days: more than seven percent of Americans and twenty percent of Zoomers, by some estimates, now identify as not-straight in some way.

Under legal pressure from Open Vallejo, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office disclosed new footage Tuesday that shows the moment a former Vallejo police officer shot a teenager following a high-speed chase that ended in a North Vallejo neighborhood. The disclosure comes six days after Open Vallejo compelled the Napa County Sheriff’s Office to release hours of video from the Jan. 11 shooting by American Canyon Police Ofc. Joshua Coleman. In 2020, this newsroom named Coleman as among a group of officers who participated in the city’s “Badge of Honor” ritual, in which officers bend the tips of their star-shaped badges to commemorate shootings. The January shooting in Vallejo is the second shooting in as many months by an officer linked to badge-bending. In late November, Vallejo Police Cpl. Matthew Komoda shot and wounded a 17-year-old, who police say was armed. The Vallejo Police Department is one of the most lethal law enforcement agencies in the country, data shows. A 2020 analysis by Open Vallejo found that as of June 2019, almost 40% of officers then employed by Vallejo had been in at least one shooting; a third of those had been in two or more. Nationwide, almost three-quarters of police officers reported having never fired their weapon in the line of duty, according to a 2016 Pew Research survey of 7,917 sworn officers. The January shooting is Coleman’s first since leaving the Vallejo Police Department, and his fifth overall, Open Vallejo research shows.

Senator Ron Wyden has found that the DoD banned the use of such locks for U.S. government systems, but deliberately kept information about the backdoors from the public.

With Trump allies taking over the RNC and cleaning house, one of the casualties was a minority outreach program that seemed to be working for Republicans.

In reviewing dozens of MrBeast videos from over the years, Donaldson has nearly erased himself as a person from his episodic output. If viewers don’t really see him having fun, that’s by design. Donaldson has outright said he sees “personality” as a limitation for growth, once noting in a podcast that hinging your content on who you are as a person means risking not being liked. And if someone doesn’t like a creator as a person, they may not give the videos a chance. McLoughlin’s comments hit at another bleak possibility: Viewers may hardly see MrBeast having fun in his videos because he’s not actually having a good time. In podcasts, Donaldson tells hosts that he goes so hard, he won’t stop working until he burns out and isn’t able to do anything at all. With a laugh, he admits that he has a mental breakdown “every other week.” If he ever stops for a breather, he says, he gets depressed. MrBeast is so laser-focused on generating content on YouTube that he describes his personality as “YouTube.” He acknowledges that this brutal approach to videos, which has cratered many creators over the years, is not healthy. “People shouldn’t be like me. I don’t have a life, I don’t have a personality,” he said in a podcast recorded in 2023.

In testimony to Congress, the mother of a deepfake porn victim says the students accused of creating the AI-made nude images continue to share class with her daughter.

For decades, we’ve been told police officers just need training and resources to do their jobs correctly. These items, including cultural sensitivity training, implicit bias training, de-escalation training, and so on, cost billions every year. But we know from the senseless killings of Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, and many others that no amount of training or resources will stop police from killing Black and brown people. Nor will it ensure that police treat people with dignity and respect. Worse still, the “training” that cops already receive often glorifies violence, reinforces racist ideas, and is taught by officers with histories of misconduct. A damning new report has once again underscored that point. A recent investigation by the New Jersey Comptroller revealed that at least 46 states have paid a for-profit training company called NJ Criminal Interdiction—which does business under the name “Street Cop”—to fill police officers’ heads with hateful rhetoric and bad legal advice. At a conference attended by more than 1,000 law enforcement officers from across the country, Street Cop trainers urged police officers to make unconstitutional traffic stops and indiscriminately shoot at those who defy their authority.

The North Carolina Department of Labor last week fined a farm in Nash County $187,509 after the death of a seasonal farm worker from apparent heat exhaustion last September. The department cited Barnes Farming with what’s called a “willful serious violation” along with two other “serious” violations.

Judge Scott McAfee found some of the counts against the former president and some of his co-defendants were lacking details.

The Washington-funded news station Radio Free Asia may leave Hong Kong about the same time the city’s domestic national security bill is expected to be passed at the end of this month, a staff member has revealed. The station, funded by the United States Agency for Global Media, a United States government body, was expected to move some of its Hong Kong staff to Taipei or to its Washington headquarters, the source added.

Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.

Border district Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., who just won a competitive special election, founded the group as co-chairs. It has 26 members.

A French serial killer appeared on a popular television quiz show while being hunted by police in connection with the rape and murder of children and adults. François Vérove, himself a retired police officer, took part in the show Tout le monde veut prendre sa place (Everyone Wants to Take His Place) in 2019, two years before he killed himself after realising that he was likely to be arrested.

An interview with the African immigrant who set up illegal shelters for dozens of recently arrived migrants.

If the president is the man in charge, these press secretaries are his robotic enforcers, playing the same hollow tunes every day.

"... We're at the end of a vast, multi-faceted con of internet users, where ultra-rich technologists tricked their customers into building their companies for free. And while the trade once seemed fair, it's become apparent that these executives see users not as willing participants in some sort of fair exchange, but as veins of data to be exploitatively mined as many times as possible, given nothing in return other than access to a platform that may or may not work properly."