Our investigation into AdVon Commerce, the AI contractor at the heart of scandals at USA Today and Sports Illustrated.

Clearing the territory of ordnance and rubble could pose a challenge unseen since the Second World War.

The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, has died of a heart attack

In late 2018, Richard Washington sent a memo to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with the subject line “Notice I am being killed.” The 64-year-old man, who decades earlier was convicted on armed robbery charges, was serving a 63-year prison sentence in Arizona. In his letter, he alleged that the Department of Corrections was refusing to give him medication for his various health issues, which included diabetes, hypertension, and hepatitis C. Because of the lack of treatment, Washington wrote, “My greatest fear is that I’m going to die more sooner than later.” About six weeks later, he was dead. In state after state, prison systems have long been plagued by inadequate health care, resulting in the spread of treatable diseases and, in many cases, preventable deaths behind bars. But a key demographic trend threatens to make that problem even worse: Over the last several decades, America’s prison population has been rapidly aging, and, as in Washington’s case, prisoners’ health needs have become more significant as a result. People who were 55 years old or older made up about 3 percent of the US prison population in 1991; by 2021, they accounted for 15 percent. The total number of older prisoners is also steadily growing, with no signs of abatement: In 2020, there were about 166,000 incarcerated people aged 55 years or older; that number grew to about 178,000 in 2021 and 186,000 in 2022.

The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.

The worst ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie could have been the best if Fox had made this incredible screenplay that was supposed to star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The word “antisemitic” is the press and power’s favored adjective to describe the student protests in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even though there a lot of Jews in these protests. Few people making these accusations ever offer any kind of explanation for how protests that include Jewish groups are antisemitic, the people in charge of this narrative just want us to see pictures of keffiyeh’s and assume it’s all antisemitism. It’s very telling that Columbia University suspended a Jewish group in the wake of campus protests and it has been tossed completely aside in the coverage around the school, as it does not aid the lie the American empire is trying to sell to us right now.

Cindysnacks, a vegan market in Huntington, Long Island, took to Instagram claiming that the Savory Fig, a Patchogue-based baker, was allegedly attempting to pass off Dunkin’ Donuts products as homemade vegan and gluten-free donuts. The Division of Food Safety and Inspection department of New York and Suffolk County Department of Health are investigating the accusations, according to a Washington Post report. John Stengel, the owner of Cindysnacks, posted a photo of the doughnut delivery which appears to be garnished with “D” shaped sprinkles — if true, it would mean that not only was doughnut not homemade, but also had the potential to endanger people who have celiac disease.

“They’ve venerably preserved everything over the last 150 years,” Fleischer said. “It was literally sitting in their attic and in the family estate’s library. It was just time for it to go.”

Microsoft closing several Bethesda studios shows that even making great games--and making money--doesn't count as success

On 25 April, a large group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up an encampment on the main quadrangle of their campus. Flanked on all sides by plywood barricades, the Palestine Solidarity Encampment included smaller tents for sleeping as well as larger enclosures for food, first aid, electronics (phone chargers, batteries), musical instruments and art supplies. There was also a library, which a paper sign taped to a tree designated the Refaat Alareer Memorial Library, in honour of the Palestinian writer and teacher who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in December 2023... Over the weekend, following the formation of the encampment, a large group of counter-protesters, few to none of whom appeared to be UCLA students, arrived on campus. They screamed, hurled racial slurs and sexual threats (‘I hope you get raped’) at the students, and opened a sack full of live mice – swollen, seemingly injected with some substance – on the ground near the camp. When the counter-protesters dispersed, they left behind a Jumbotron – a massive flat-screen TV, about ten feet high – in the middle of campus facing the encampment and surrounded by metal barriers. Paid security guards remained inside the barriers to protect the screen. For the next five days, the Jumbotron played, on a loop, footage of the 7 October attacks along with audio clips describing rape and sexual violence in explicit terms. Mixed in among the clips were speeches by Joe Biden vowing unconditional support for Israel and ‘Meni Mamtera’, a maddeningly repetitive children’s song that went viral earlier this year when IDF soldiers posted a video of themselves using it as a form of noise torture on captive Palestinians.

The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.

The long-shot third party candidate got what is perhaps an unwanted boost from the accused sexual predator.

From the FBI to the Forest Service, the government’s antisemitism police have their marching orders

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The lawmakers also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell pro-Palestine protests and connected the protests to the TikTok ban.

Norway's Supreme Court is deliberating on a case that could grant local control over a vast area in the country's far north — and set a groundbreaking precedent for Indigenous land rights in Europe. The case will determine whether the largely Indigenous Sámi municipality of Karasjok will get collective ownership over its roughly 5,450 square kilometres of land — the second-largest municipal area in Norway and one of the most productive in terms of natural resources. The Sámi are Europe's only formally recognized Indigenous group, with traditional territories spanning the national borders of Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. Across traditional territories in four Arctic nations, Sámi communities are already engaged in high-profile conflicts over land as the appetite for industrial projects on their territories appears to be ever-rising. Within the northern coastal area known today as Finnmark, a county roughly the size of Nova Scotia, decisions about land are currently made by a private company, jointly managed by Sámi and a local public government. If the court decides for Karasjok, the community will achieve direct, local control over development decisions in their territory — and call the future of the existing system into doubt.

A diner who tried the armpit delicacy said they tasted no different. Some restaurants openly demonstrate the process, proudly promoting their star chefs and the unique technique by allowing customers to visit the kitchen. Intriguingly, scholars have studied the sexual significance of armpits.

The study postulates that the weakened magnetic field may have caused high levels of hydrogen to escape into space, leading to an increase in oxygen levels on Earth.