The driver accused of causing a bus crash that killed eight people and injured dozens of others in Ocala has been arrested on DUI manslaughter charges, Florida Highway Patrol said. According to FHP, the driver, Bryan Maclean Howard, was traveling east in a pickup truck on SR-40 when he drove close to the center line and sideswept an International school bus traveling west on the same road. The collision caused the bus, traveling with 53 farm workers, to run off the roadway, strike a tree, then overturn. Eight people were killed and more than 40 were hospitalized.

After several people went live on social media, dozens of people came to the corner and bought all the "flower grandma's" flowers.

A Baltimore County woman accused of planning attacks on Baltimore’s power grid as part of a white-supremacist plot with a Florida-based neo-Nazi leader pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to damage an electrical facility and illegally possessing a firearm. Prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence of 18 years in prison for the woman, 36-year-old Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville. Clendaniel is accused of plotting with 28-year-old Brandon C. Russell, the founder of a neo-Nazi hate group, to shoot and destroy multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore region. The pair espoused a “white-supremacist ideology” and believed in “accelerationism,” according to a statement of facts read in court. Far-right groups have adopted the ideology to call for the intensification of racial conflict through violence. Clendaniel boasted that the attacks around Baltimore “would probably permanently completely lay this city to waste,” according to a recorded phone conversation she had with an FBI informant.

In the late 18th century, officials in Prussia and Saxony began to rearrange their complex, diverse forests into straight rows of single-species trees. Forests had been sources of food, grazing, shelter, medicine, bedding and more for the people who lived in and around them, but to the early modern state, they were simply a source of timber. So-called “scientific forestry” was that century’s growth hacking. It made timber yields easier to count, predict and harvest, and meant owners no longer relied on skilled local foresters to manage forests. They were replaced with lower-skilled laborers following basic algorithmic instructions to keep the monocrop tidy, the understory bare. Information and decision-making power now flowed straight to the top. Decades later when the first crop was felled, vast fortunes were made, tree by standardized tree. The clear-felled forests were replanted, with hopes of extending the boom. Readers of the American political anthropologist of anarchy and order, James C. Scott, know what happened next. It was a disaster so bad that a new word, Waldsterben, or “forest death,” was minted to describe the result. All the same species and age, the trees were flattened in storms, ravaged by insects and disease — even the survivors were spindly and weak. Forests were now so tidy and bare, they were all but dead. The first magnificent bounty had not been the beginning of endless riches, but a one-off harvesting of millennia of soil wealth built up by biodiversity and symbiosis. Complexity was the goose that laid golden eggs, and she had been slaughtered. The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late.

It might add weight to the theory that viruses contributed to the extinction of the species.

Nobel laureate Alice Munro has died. The Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers was 92.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search

From his New Left days to his neoliberalism and embrace of interventionism, The Controversialist is a portrait of his own political trajectory and that of American liberalism too.

An Allen Superior Court judge’s ruling that “tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches” in a civil case Monday may have opened the door for a second Famous Taco location to …

Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza, some at the European Hospital, due to Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing.

Accuracy in Media’s 2022 tax return lists donations from billionaire Jeff Yass and the family foundations of Richard Uhilien, Adam Milstein and Peter Coors.

Colleagues reportedly called Lucy Letby an “angel of death,” and the Prime Minister condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored.

Adams said the efforts will ramp up in the coming weeks.

Investigation by Middle East Eye reveals that a company owned by an ally of the Egyptian president may have earned at least $118m in three months

Accusations of antisemitism are the tip of the spear in a frightening illiberal project serving an autocratic agenda

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Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of B movies and discovered Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98.

A thriving retail niche caters to the performative masculinity of the right wing, oftentimes bilking its chauvinistic client base

Police said the theft occurred early Monday morning.

A trip to the Beijing Auto Show reveals just how advanced China's EVs are. So what are the so-called "foreign" automakers doing about it?