Columbus Blue Jackets forward Johnny Gaudreau was fatally struck by a vehicle Thursday night while in New Jersey to attend his sister's wedding. Gaudreau, 31, and his 29-year-old brother Matthew, a retired professional hockey player, were both killed in the crash in Salem County. The two brothers were in the area for their sister Katie's wedding ceremony, which was scheduled for Friday, followed by a reception in Philadelphia. According to the sister’s wedding website, both Johnny and Matthew would serve as groomsmen. RELATED STORIES Police said the brothers were riding bicycles in the area when they were struck by a man driving a Jeep. Officers said the 43-year-old driver, a resident of New Jersey identified as Sean Higgins, was taken into custody, and that they believe he was under the influence of alcohol at the time. The cause of the crash is under investigation. r suspicion he was under the influence of alcohol and charged with two counts of death by auto.”

A 60-year-old Arizona Wells Fargo employee scanned into her office on a Friday on what appeared to be an ordinary workday. Then, four days later, she was found dead in her cubicle. Denise Prudhomme, 60, was found dead on Aug. 20 in her office in Tempe, police said. She had last scanned in the building at 7 a.m. on Aug. 16, a Friday, and there was no further scan in or out of the office, authorities said.

The messages show how Ecuador’s attorney general is using her office to attack the left—in alliance with the U.S.

The CDC says this is the largest listeriosis outbreak since 2011.

The U.S. Army said an employee at Arlington National Cemetery who tried to "ensure adherence" to rules that prohibit political activities at the cemetery "was abruptly pushed aside," but that the employee decided not to press charges against the Trump campaign staffers who allegedly pushed her. The statement Thursday comes in response to NPR's reporting on former President Donald Trump's visit to Arlington and an altercation his staff had with a cemetery employee. In the aftermath of the visit to Arlington, the Trump campaign response has taken on a tone of nastiness. One spokesman said the cemetery staffer was “clearly suffering from a mental health episode,” promising to release footage of the encounter but so far declining to do so. On the campaign trail in Pennsylvania Wednesday, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, said Harris could “go to hell” over the Afghanistan withdrawal and blamed reporters for the campaign’s controversy that he called a “disagreement.” “You guys in the media, you're acting like Donald Trump filmed a TV commercial at a gravesite,” Vance said. “He was there providing emotional support to a lot of brave Americans who lost loved ones they never should have lost. And there happened to be a camera there, and somebody gave him permission to have that camera there.” Meanwhile, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who attended the Arlington events with Trump, apologized in a social media post for sending a campaign fundraising email with a photo of him and the former president in Section 60 with the family of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover.

Litt’s online project doesn’t just highlight the enduring allure of brainteasers. It also demonstrates the limits of our mathematical intuition, and the counterintuitive nature of probabilistic reasoning. As Litt wrote, there’s “nothing more exhilarating than posing a multiple-choice problem on which 50,000 people do substantially worse than random chance.”

After special counsel Jack Smith obtained a new, superseding indictment against Donald Trump for his efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election, the former president spent much of Wednesday morning firing off a barrage of posts on his Truth Social platform, including extremist memes that were notable even by the standards of the former president’s previous online behavior. Trump’s posting spree, which lasted about four hours, began with an apparent reaction to Smith’s indictment, which became public on Tuesday afternoon. Among other things, Trump reposted messages from other users that called for his political rivals to be arrested and tried in “public military tribunals.” Trump also shared three images that prominently displayed slogans related to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. The digital deluge began with a post in which Trump shared an image with text describing him as “100% INNOCENT” along with a message suggesting the new indictment is part of a partisan “Witch Hunt” against him.

Facing perceived imminent disclosure of his criminal conduct, the former officer “murdered Birchmore to silence her,” according to investigators.

Picture this — eight groups of bonobos spread across five sites in four countries, all part of an experiment designed to echo previous studies conducted with chimpanzees. The process was simple — expose the bonobos to vocalizations from other groups and observe their reactions.

The day Thomas Shajan was expecting to see a South Indian action epic at a theatre in British Columbia, a spate of shootings thousands of kilometres away disrupted his plans. Shajan, a self-described South Indian film fanatic, said he had been waiting months to see Malaikottai Vaaliban, a blockbuster Malayalam-language film about an aging warrior who reigns over a vast desert. Hours before the scheduled showtime in late January, Cineplex sent a message saying the screening had been cancelled and the company would be issuing a refund “due to circumstances outside our control.” Shajan, who moved to Surrey, B.C., from Kerala in southern India in 2017, said he was “heartbroken.” “I was really sad and we were never told why,” he said in a phone interview earlier this month. But the events that forced the cancellation soon became more clear.

Lobbying groups across most of the device manufacturing industry—from tractor manufacturers to companies that make fridges, consumer devices, motorcycles, and medical equipment—are lobbying against legislation that would require military contractors to make it easier for the U.S. military to fix the equipment they buy, according to a document obtained by 404 Media. The anti-repair lobbying shows that manufacturers are still doing everything they can to retain lucrative service contracts and to kill any legislation that would threaten the repair monopolies many companies have been building for years. In a May hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren explained that “contractors often place restrictions on these deals [with the military] that prevent service members from maintaining or repairing the equipment, or even let them write a training manual without going back to the contractor.”

Alfred Ruf, 71, was sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to poisoning his wife by spiking her Coca-Cola with cocaine and other drugs.

Crypto marketplace OpenSea has been added to the SEC’s list of targets, as the regulator extends its crackdown on the sector.

The dubious rise of the private-security industry Eric Rodriguez works in a white-collar office building in Manhattan, but on the day we met he was dressed for battle in Da Nang. He wore a sweat-wicking gunmetal-gray shirt, black combat boots, and brown cargo pants. Knives peeked out from two pants pockets, and a Leatherman sat on his belt next to a small, swinging bottle of hand sanitizer. There was also a first aid kit strapped to his leg under his pants, or so he said. Rodriguez was prepared for bad things and convinced the worst was soon to come. “I have two to three flashlights on me at any one time,” he said. “And I take about forty vitamins a day.” I met Rodriguez on a rain-drenched morning last fall. It was my first day at Allied Universal Academy, a security-guard training center, and Rodriguez—a tall, broad-shouldered bald man with nearly forty years of guarding under his tactical belt—was my instructor. He worked for my prospective employer, Allied Universal, the largest security firm in the world. When I and more than two dozen other bleary-eyed students first entered his classroom, Rodriguez was standing alert at a lectern adorned with a sign that read: stand back! don’t approach desk! Behind the desk in question—which, for the record, I never approached—stood a miniature American flag and on top of it was a leather binder affixed with a POW/MIA sticker. Early in his introductory remarks, Rodriguez told us about his six years serving in the U.S. Army. While he never saw conflict, Rodriguez still appeared to view himself as a fighter. His Facebook profile picture, he told us, depicted a Revolutionary War soldier running into battle, and his email signature included quotes on patriotism and courage by Mark Twain and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, respectively. As a reporter who mostly covers the military and veterans, I saw in Rodriguez a paranoid intensity that felt both familiar and totally foreign, something akin to anticipatory PTSD. With his decades as a watchman, Rodriguez seemed to be racked by an ever-present fear of chaos—and he was a believer in a guard’s purportedly vital but nebulously defined role in dealing with it.

Researchers allegedly found security protocols "burdensome."

The decision comes in the wake of criticism over a sweeping judicial reform proposal in Mexico.

The superseding indictment against Trump is based on a narrower set of allegations after the Supreme Court ruled Trump had some immunity from prosecution.

The Trump campaign isn't denying Robert Kennedy Jr.'s suggestion that the ex-president would take on "chemtrails"

At the Democratic National Convention, it was clear our industry is once again doing everything it can to fail to meet the enormity of this moment

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million that didn’t really exist. The “dollars” were used for the purchase of expensive email and video visits with their loved ones, as well as games, music and movies. By the time state officials learned what was happening — when they got an anonymous tip on Jan. 3, 2023 — the prisoners had spent nearly $88,000 on digital media products, according to a review of more than 1,700 pages of internal investigative records the Herald-Leader obtained through the Kentucky Open Records Act.