After 22 years on death row and two previous execution dates, Ivan Cantu maintained his innocence as he was put to death Wednesday evening by the state of Texas. The 50-year-old was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville after a flurry of last-minute appeals in the past week were struck down. His attorney, Gena Bunn, said she did not submit a final appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court because she “couldn’t find a viable path” in which the case could be reviewed. Cantu was convicted by a Collin County jury in 2001 for the murders of his cousin, James Mosqueda, and Mosqueda’s girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, who were found shot to death in Far North Dallas on Nov. 4, 2000.

HB 500 is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers.

The owners of Vice and Sports Illustrated seem to only see value the sites' names, even when their actions make those names worthless.

Donald Trump’s federal trial for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is likely to remain on hold for several more months while the Supreme Court takes up his argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president. In a one-page order Wednesday, the court set an expedited schedule to hear the immunity issue, with oral arguments to be set during the week of April 22. In the meantime, proceedings in the trial court will remain frozen. There was no noted dissent or other explanation of the high court’s action. If the court rules on the matter quickly after the arguments and rejects Trump’s immunity claim, it may permit a trial on the election-related charges to occur later this summer or fall.

“I don’t know how else you can put sprinkles on shit, but we were trying to be the sprinkles on shit.”

They're not a majority, based on a new look at education data, but they are wildly overrepresented. The New York Times is the most prominent news organization in the United States — and, by general consensus, the pinnacle of the journalism career ladder. Sure, star reporters sometimes leave the Times for a rival — but more often, it’s the Times that’s busy snapping up other outlets’ talent. Fifteen years ago, it employed about 1% of all American newspaper employees, a number that had held steady for decades; today, that number is approaching 7%. Its remarkable financial success has made it one of the very few news organizations where the next few years can be viewed with more optimism than dread.

Mitch McConnell says he'll step down as Senate Republican leader in November.

Richard Lewis, one of America’s most beloved and revered stand-up comics who also played a fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, died last night at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 76.

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Second Baptist Church pastor Ed Young is once again fearmongering while he promotes an anti-immigrant message to his nearly 18,000 Houston congregants. In a ranting sermon Sunday morning, the longtime pastor of the megachurch—with six campuses across the city—demonized migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, referring to them "undesirables, "garbage" and "raff," and adding that the U.S. is "lost through foolishness." As Young stood on a stage among Texas flags and other memorabilia, he noted the parable of the lost sheep in the Gospel of Luke, in which Jesus rejoiced over the finding of a repentant sinner. Young then cited "The New Colossus," the poem cast on the base of the Statue of Liberty. "Central America, South America, now countries in Asia, China, India, Russia, Iran, Iraq—just pick a number—they have sent not those who are huddled masses longing to be free," said Young, lead pastor of the Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated church since 1978. "They have emptied their jails and their prisons, they've taken they're gangs and they have gone across the border and now we have 8-to-10 million of them scattered across the United States of America." Young called this information "absolutely factual" but did not provide any evidence. "What happened?" Young continued as congregants applauded. "Fools were foolish. And now we really do not have a country. Unless there is a border, you do not have a country. That is where we are. And we have been led by fools."

Over the last couple of years, a mystery has been brewing in this small mountain town. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land — stirring worries about rising housing prices and speculation among locals about what exactly is going on. Waimea is a tightknit community that has a large Native Hawaiian population, and the people here say they don't want to lose that culture... When it comes to Hawaii, Benioff is extremely private. We speak for the first time in December on a Zoom call that lasts 90 minutes. Over the following days, Benioff texts me constantly, often many times a day. The primary focus of these texts is to draw attention to his philanthropy in Hawaii, which has almost all been anonymous. He adds me to several group threads with people who know about his charity... When I ask Benioff about the properties in the anonymous LLCs, things seem to take a turn. He starts speaking more quickly and fidgets with a piece of paper in his hand. He's reluctant to go through the holdings, and his adviser on the Zoom call jumps in to say we can discuss later. He does give me some tidbits. He says he has a private ranch with 10 horses where he lets a local family run their cattle. He says that he has family living here and that he's starting a community meeting center. A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague again, asking for intel on my story. Then he called me and demanded to know the title of this piece. During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, "It's my job. You have a job and I have a job." During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family. I leave the meeting disconcerted and still unclear about what exactly is happening with his land in Waimea.

The governor pushed for a carve-out that’s perplexed industry observers and benefited a donor.

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

Scientists discover how Danionella cerebrum, measuring width of adult human fingernail, can create noises exceeding 140 decibels

On reservations across the country, tribes are using federal grants to create their own Internet providers. But it takes more than money to get a community online.

Police chases, glamorized in action films, aired in real time by news helicopters and gamified by “Grand Theft Auto,” have long stirred the American imagination. But pursuits like the one that killed the Nievas siblings now claim nearly two lives a day across the country, and public officials are failing at nearly every level to confront the growing problem, a yearlong Chronicle investigation found. Operating under often permissive rules that vary by department, and with immunity from serious punishment in most cases, officers routinely launch chases that begin with a low-level crime — or no crime whatsoever — and end with a violent wreck. At least 551 bystanders died in chases over six years, the Chronicle found. The vast collateral damage has spurred a decades-long push for reform, with law enforcement leaders, regulators and politicians repeatedly promising to reduce the carnage caused by high-speed police pursuits. Yet little has changed — except for the mounting death toll. The federal government, meanwhile, does not even track all the deaths. The Chronicle spent months doing just that, building a database of fatal pursuits from 2017 through 2022 by filing more than 70 public records requests and examining information from research organizations, local news stories and court records.

In advance of a United Nations meeting this week where pollution is on the agenda, a U.N. human rights team has called out a PFAS manufacturing plant in North Carolina as a poster child for irresponsible behavior. Nine independent U.N. human rights advisors put blame for widespread contamination in the area from a Chemours plant near Fayetteville, a Dupont spinoff, and said “even as DuPont and Chemours had information about the toxic impacts of PFAS on human health and drinking water, the companies continued to produce and discharge PFAS.” The experts also rebuked state and federal regulators, alleging lax enforcement and arguing that regulatory bodies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, had been “captured” by the plant’s current and past owners, a term implying the regulators were inappropriately doing the companies’ bidding. At issue are the PFAS chemicals made at the Fayetteville plant, or per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They are known as “forever chemicals” because they last a very long time in the environment. Various PFAS are used to make certain kinds of plastics, and are found in a wide array of consumer products, such as shampoo, dental floss, nail polish, eye makeup, fast food containers and stain-resistant coatings on fabrics. Created in the 1940s, PFAS are now found in the blood of humans and animals all over the world.

Entrepreneur whose botched 'Willy Wonka' event went viral peddles AI-written books about vaccine conspiracies and human trafficking

Trump behaved inappropriately with Grisham, too, she wrote — once calling her from Air Force One to assure her that his penis was not small or toadstool-shaped, as the porn star Stormy Daniels had alleged in an interview.

The VGHF is saving video game history from the basement. Founded by Cifaldi in 2017, the Video Game History Foundation was always going to build a digital library. “Most of us who study and write video game history grew up on the internet,” Cifaldi said. “And I thought that a proper resource for studying video game history should be online.” When people think of video game preservation, they typically think of saving cartridges and disks. With a name like the Video Game History Foundation and a mission statement of, “preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games,” one could be forgiven for assuming its goal is to save actual games before cartridges go bad or a publisher shuts down a digital storefront. But to the VGHF, preserving physical media doesn’t always mean rescuing a Super Mario Bros. cartridge from 1985. In fact, it’s not one of the foundation’s main concerns. “To my mind, at least for old stuff, it is a solved problem,” Cifaldi said... “Everything’s extremely corporate now and proprietary, so it’s really hard to steal things, but you should do it anyway.”