The North Carolina gubernatorial candidate has no experience and few accomplishments. But he sure is mad.

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This morning, it was announced that Virginia Education Unions, a joint coalition of Virginia-based AFT and NEA locals, had won a historic union election to represent over 27,000 teachers and school staff in Fairfax County, Virginia. 97% of all teachers voted to unionize, and 81% of all support staff voted to unionize, voting to unionize by a margin of 9 to 1. “Today marks the culmination of a 47-year-long fight to win collective bargaining at Fairfax County Public Schools. The reason our campaign was successful was because we all took agency over our own lives,” says David Walrod in a statement. The union victory in the 9th largest school district is one of the largest teachers union elections in decades. It also has the potential to dramatically reshape the politics of Northern Virginia.

The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope.

Don’t feed them after midnight. Don’t get them wet. But do read this deep dive into Gizmo and the nasty Gremlins, featuring words from director Joe Dante, actors Phoebe Cates and Zach Galligan, and many more.

At the same time, the space station is aging. The Zvezda module was launched nearly a quarter of a century ago, in July 2000, on a Russian Proton rocket. The cracking issue first appeared in 2019 and has continued to worsen since then. Its cause is unknown.

The opportunity to consume frosty drinks and desserts opened up an entirely new vocabulary of sensation. Some found the cold shocking at first. “Lord! How I have seen the people splutter when they’ve tasted them for the first time,” a London ice-cream vender recalled in 1851. One customer—“a young Irish fellow”—took a spoonful, stood statue still, and then “roared out, ‘Jasus! I am kilt. The coald shivers is on to me.’ ” The earliest recorded description of brain freeze seems to have been published by Patrick Brydone, a Scotsman travelling in Sicily in the seventeen-seventies. The victim was a British naval officer who took a big bite of ice cream at a formal dinner. “At first he only looked grave, and blew up his cheeks to give it more room,” Brydone wrote. “The violence of the cold soon getting the better of his patience, he began to tumble it about from side to side in his mouth, his eyes rushing out of water.” Shortly thereafter, he spat it out “with a horrid oath” and, in his outrage, had to be restrained from beating the nearest servant.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s extravagant, luxury lifestyle is fueled by millions in gifts from billionaire benefactors, but a new study puts into context just how extreme the 75-year old jurist’s accumulation has been compared to all other justices who have served over the past two decades. Fix The Court, a government watchdog that advocates […]

An off-duty armed security guard shot and killed a teen who he thought had a gun and was about to rob a Renton sporting goods store, detectives said. According to court documents, the teen didn't even have a real gun on him. Myers reiterated to detectives that the teens would not follow his commands. It should be noted that Myers is not a uniformed law enforcement officer, and they did not need to follow his commands. In Washington state, a citizen's arrest can be conducted to detain someone you see committing a misdemeanor or felony, like when store employees restrain a shoplifter. Private citizens don't have the authority to detain someone or take them to jail for believing a crime could be committed. If a person detains someone they didn't see commit a crime, it could be considered false imprisonment. Myers said he thought he saw a teen reach for something in his waistband, so he fired multiple times. According to court documents, he stood over the teen on the ground and continued to fire.

Aaron Brown Myers tells police he thought the teens had a Glock and were about to commit an armed robbery. The teens say they told him they only had BB guns.

As more and more Texas school boards seek to censor books deemed too controversial or sexual in content, a conservative court in Texas ruled Friday that government entities, including public libraries, cannot just ban or censor books they disagree with. The ruling has far-reaching implications for the broader movement in Texas to restrict books from public school shelves. In recent years, school boards in Cy-Fair, Katy, and beyond have moved to ban books deemed too controversial, including young-adult and children's books that show "butts," cause sexual arousal or depict LGBTQ+ relationships. In 2022, Texas attempted to ban more books than any other state, according to the American Library Association. The case itself originated from parent complaints that books in the Llano County public library system showed "butts and farts," prompting local officials to instruct the library director to take the books off shelves. Officials then requested the director to cull books said to contain "pornographic filth." The list of offending titles included a book about a farting leprechaun, a book about a transgender teen, two books about the history of racism in the United States and a book about puberty. Seven library patrons sued to reinstate the books, claiming the censorship violated the First Amendment. After a district court sided with the patrons and Llano residents appealed, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction to reinstate the offending titles, ordering the books should return to shelves within 24 hours. "Librarians may consider books’ contents in making curation decisions," judges ruled. "Their discretion, however, must be balanced against patrons’ First Amendment rights... a book may not be removed for the sole—or a substantial— reason that the decisionmaker does not wish patrons to be able to access the book’s viewpoint or message." Although the case focuses on public libraries, the ruling could have implications for future lawsuits against censorship in public school libraries. In the past year alone, school boards in Katy, Fort Bend, and Cy-Fair have moved to censor titles based on subjective beliefs. After some back-and-forth, the Katy Independent School District eventually backed down last year from a decision to remove titles including No, David! and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret on grounds that they contained nudity and/or sexual themes. In his majority opinion, Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. did say that librarians could continue to remove titles based on existing criteria to weed out unpopular, damaged, or outdated books, regardless of content. Wiener also countered the dissenting opinion by Judge Kyle Duncan that called him and Judge Leslie Southwick "library police," referencing a short story by horror author Stephen King. "King, a well-known free speech activist, would surely be horrified to see how his words are being twisted in service of censorship," Wiener wrote. "Per King: 'As a nation, we’ve been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn’t approve of them.' Defendants and their highlighters are the true library police."

KUALA LUMPUR - More than 500 people from seafaring communities along the coast of Sabah state have been evicted from their homes this week as part of a Malaysian government crackdown on undocumented migrants, local activists said.

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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.

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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.