Senate Concurrent Resolution 1, which would have reopened cases for which the state’s since-repealed statute of limitations has run out, needed a supermajority of support to pass the chamber. It failed by a single vote.

Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail

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The gonzo polymath talks sight gags, caped crusaders, and the pop-culture whiplash of her debut feature.

An Indigenous man couldn’t understand the court proceedings when he was charged with a crime in Texas. He was sentenced anyway.

How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation.

... Driscoll blamed the presence of LGBTQ people on demons who deny male and female binaries and claimed America has become a cult of tolerance. Then he turned his sights on the sword-swallowing male pole dancer. ...

It’s partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers.

What can you learn by looking at recent wars? The wrong lessons, usually, if you follow the dominant news sources.

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A gathering of Europe’s hard-right elite in Brussels descended into chaos on Tuesday as police moved to shut down the conference, barricading the venue’s entrance and causing widespread outrage. The National Conservatism Conference was set to welcome Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán and U.K. politician Nigel Farage over the next two days, but law enforcement arrived two hours into the event at the Claridge venue, near the European Quarter, to inform organizers that the shindig would be terminated. “The authorities decided to shut the event due to possibility of public disorder,” a police officer heard by POLITICO told one of the organizers. The shutters had already come down on the venue where Brexit architect Farage was due to give a keynote speech at 11 a.m. When he got on stage, as drama continue to unfold outside the venue, Farage lambasted the Brussels’ authorities as “simply monstrous” for attempting to cancel the event. “I knew I wouldn’t be welcome back in Brussels,” the former MEP chafed.

Rep. Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, a member of the speaker's own Rules Committee, says he will co-sponsor a resolution to remove Johnson as speaker months before the election.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday he had urged Xi Jinping to press ally Russia to end its "senseless" war in Ukraine and that the Chinese president had agreed to back a peace conference in Switzerland. Scholz said after a meeting with Xi at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Tuesday that "China's word carries weight in Russia". "I have therefore asked President Xi to influence Russia so that Putin finally calls off his senseless campaign, withdraws his troops and ends this terrible war," he said on social media platform X. He said Xi had agreed to back the peace conference in Switzerland, which is due to take place in June without Russia in attendance. China says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict but it has been criticised for refusing to condemn Moscow for its offensive. China and Russia have ramped up economic cooperation and diplomatic contacts in recent years, their strategic partnership only growing closer since the invasion of Ukraine.

The University of Southern California cited safety reasons Monday in keeping its pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking onstage at her graduation ceremony.

The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing.

Suckers who ordered Cybertrucks a few months or years ago and expected deliveries this weekend did not get their cars, nor a precise explanation for why they did not get their cars, but instead were simply told, "Hi, we have just been informed of an unexpected delay regarding the preparation of your vehicle. We need to cancel your delivery appointment for tomorrow and we will reach out again when we’re able to get you back on the schedule." Maybe someone with a hot glue gun will get on this one.

The 75-year-old also is not participating remotely in arguments, as justices sometimes do when they are ill or otherwise can’t be there in person.

Film and television writers face an existential threat Thanks to decades of deregulation and a gush of speculative cash that first hit the industry in the late Aughts, while prestige TV was climbing the rungs of the culture, massive entertainment and media corporations had been swallowing what few smaller companies remained, and financial firms had been infiltrating the business, moving to reduce risk and maximize efficiency at all costs, exhausting writers in evermore unstable conditions. “The industry is in a deep and existential crisis,” the head of a midsize studio told me in early August.* We were in the lounge of the Soho House in West Hollywood. “It is probably the deepest and most existential crisis it’s ever been in. The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are losing out. The top end of the talent are making more money than they ever have, but the nuts-and-bolts people who make the industry go round are losing out dramatically.” Hollywood had become a winner-takes-all economy. As of 2021, CEOs at the majority of the largest companies and conglomerates in the industry drew salaries between two hundred and three thousand times greater than those of median employees. And while writer-producer royalty such as Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy had in recent years signed deals reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and a slightly larger group of A-list writers, such as Smith, had carved out comfortable or middle-class lives, many more were working in bare-bones, short-term writers’ rooms, often between stints in the service industry, without much hope for more steady work. As of early 2023, among those lucky enough to be employed, the median TV writer-producer was making 23 percent less a week, in real dollars, than their peers a decade before. Total earnings for feature-film writers had dropped nearly 20 percent between 2019 and 2021.

Kennedy’s claim, which he posted to followers on X, previously Twitter, comes after several attacks by Trump on Truth Social calling Kennedy “the most radical liberal” candidate in the presidential race.

Nonetheless, the ability to peer inside these networks and understand them analytically has huge implications. For most of us, Fourier transforms and bisecting arcs of circles are a very weird way to do modulo addition — human neurons just don’t think like that. “But if you’re built out of linear algebra, it actually makes a lot of sense to do it like this,” said Nanda.