Woodford Reserve Distillery and parent Brown-Forman have been ordered to recognize and bargain with a Teamsters affiliate after a judge found that the distillery unfairly influenced a 2022 unionization vote by handing out bottles of premium bourbon and pay bumps. The National Labor Relations Board judge found that Louisville-based Brown-Forman “committed serious violations” of labor law.

O.J. Simpson -- one of the most infamous high-profile Americans of all time -- is dead after a cancer battle.

There’s a lot we don’t know about these early mammals. For example, the first mammals evolved out of the reptilian order Therapsida. These early creatures also laid eggs, much like today’s monotremes (platypuses and echidnas), however the process with which they shed their reptilian features and began to evolve into attributes we know about mammals today remains a mystery.

Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse. The astrology influencer and “divine healer,” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online, called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts Thursday on X. Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

Kids recognize that the world is going to shit, experts respond with “maybe more school psychologists and less social media”.

Dr Hilary Cass’s review into trans children’s healthcare says it aims to “ensure children and young people who are questioning their gender identity” receive “care that meets their needs”. It ensures the opposite. The Cass Review on gender identity services for children, published on Wednesday, boosts Tories, bigots and transphobes and will make life harder for trans+ people. Dr Cass paints a picture of medics stampeding to hand out puberty blockers to children. One look at the waiting lists for trans healthcare shows a very different picture. Some 26,234 adults were waiting for a first appointment with an adult gender clinic as of August 2022—and 23,561 had been waiting for over 18 weeks.

A scammer's dream and a disaster waiting to happen.

The pop-ups are back after a brief pause.

The EPA has established the first-ever federal regulations for six types of toxic PFAS in drinking water, including GenX

Police suspensions across Ontario have cost taxpayers approximately $134 million over the past 11 years, according to an exclusive database compiled by CBC News that surveyed reports about hundreds of officers who were sent home with pay after being accused of misconduct or breaking the law.

Why the West won’t be able to drive a wedge between Russia and China.

But are Lunchables really good choices for your kid’s lunch? To find out, we tested them and similar lunch and snack kits from Armour LunchMakers, Good & Gather (Target), Greenfield Natural Meat, and Oscar Mayer. We looked for lead and other heavy metals; phthalates, chemicals used to make plastic more flexible and durable, and increasingly linked to health concerns; and sodium, which can raise blood pressure, a concern even among young people. We also compared the nutrition info for the two school lunch versions of Lunchables with their store-bought versions. The findings: “There’s a lot to be concerned about in these kits,” says Amy Keating, a registered dietitian at Consumer Reports. “They’re highly processed, and regularly eating processed meat, a main ingredient in many of these products, has been linked to increased risk of some cancers.” We also found that some kits had potentially concerning heavy metal and phthalate levels. And they’re too high in sodium, especially for kids. Do you think the school lunch versions might be better? Sorry: They have even more sodium than the store-bought versions. Bottom line: “We don’t think anybody should regularly eat these products, and they definitely shouldn’t be considered a healthy school lunch,” says Eric Boring, PhD, a CR chemist who led CR’s testing.

Google appears to have quietly struck a deal with AdVon Commerce, the contractor linked to Sports Illustrated's AI explosive scandal.

Venezuela’s once powerful oil minister who quit last year has been arrested on allegations of corruption, the government announced Tuesday. The Ministry of Communications released images of Tareck El Aissami being handcuffed and walking down a hallway flanked by officers. The oil minister resigned a few days before senior officials in the government of President Nicolás Maduro and business leaders were arrested in March 2023 as part of an investigation into corruption scheme involving international oil sales. El Aissami disappeared from public life after last year’s arrests and his whereabouts were frequently questioned and rumored about. Attorney General Tarek William Saab told reporters El Aissami’s arrest took time because of the various steps in the investigation. The top prosecutor tied the former minister to the alleged scheme that involved selling Venezuelan oil through the country’s cryptocurrency oversight agency in parallel to the state-run Petróleos de Venezuela SA.

Voters will likely have a chance to weigh in on the issue, as abortion rights groups are attempting to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot.

Tasmanian tribunal rules Museum of Old and New Art discriminated against NSW man by denying him entry to installation

Dana Rachlin, a prominent police reform advocate, once collaborated so closely with local precincts in North Brooklyn that she often worked out of the office of NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey — who oversaw the patrol area at the time. The nonprofit she founded, NYC Together, was deeply involved in community-based policing efforts that were a priority under former Mayor Bill de Blasio and brought reformers into partnership with police leadership. Rachlin worked intimately with NYPD officers to seek alternatives to incarceration for the mostly Black and brown youth caught up in the criminal justice system. A trust grew — so much so that when Rachlin said she was raped in October 2017, one of the first people she called was Maddrey, who urged her to file a police report, despite her reservations at the time, she told THE CITY. Now Rachlin, 38, alleges in a federal lawsuit that police officials weaponized confidential details of that sexual assault to retaliate against her for her vocal criticism of violent policing — and particularly of a controversial deputy inspector in charge of Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct. In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, Rachlin alleges that in mid-2020 NYPD officials cut off her access to the North Brooklyn precincts her nonprofit serves and told precinct leaders not to work with her. Soon afterward, the lawsuit claims, confidential information about her alleged sexual assault was circulated to community advocates, mixed in with misinformation about the investigation and the notion that she fabricated the attack and falsely accused a Black man of rape. Those same claims later surfaced in two anonymous letters sent to police officials, politicians and others, the lawsuit alleges.

The Oppenheimer actor wasn’t invited to the Oscars, but he’s still got a lot on his plate.

During his deposition, Musk admitted he has a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit against him, said he thought Brody’s attorney was the one suing him, and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X.

The Point: Like some mustache-twirling cartoon villain, the main tech figure behind the Network State cult lays out a "roadmap" for an authoritarian future in which San Francisco Democrats ("Blues") and poor people are barred from entire parts of the city. Tech loyalists ("Grays") will don Gray shirts, carry Gray ID cards (for swiping into the Gray sectors of town). They will also hold weekly banquets for Gray police officers (cops who have confessed their loyalty to tech). And they'll march in "Gray Pride Parades" featuring "drones flying overhead in formation." My previous post introduced Balaji Srinivasan (let's call him B.S. for short), the main brain behind the Network State cult of tech billionaires trying to reinvent government and media. B.S., a former partner at Andreesen-Horowitz and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, wrote an entire book called "The Network State: How to Start a New Country." Tech oligarchs like Marc Andreesen hold him in high regard and consider him some kind of genius oracle. His book outlines how tech billionaires can seize more economic and political power by establishing new sovereign territories under their control. Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator currently leading a campaign to take control of San Francisco Hall, has cast his efforts as part of B.S.'s Network State movement. He did this during a conversation with B.S. at the first ever Network State conference last October. Two years earlier, Tan wrote on Twitter that Y Combinator was a "prototype" for the Network State idea. So what would it mean for San Francisco to be taken over by tech zillionaires who belong to the Network State cult? Well, B.S. is the kind of guy who likes to run his mouth on four-hour-long podcasts hosted by sycophantic fanboys. And he has a LOT to say about what the Network State will mean for S.F.