The Oregon Democrat wants Biden to promote the tech industry’s policy agenda worldwide. His wife owns up to $3 million in Big Tech stock.

An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct.

This is what happened when MAGA people thought I was one of them.

In the video, Thompson casts Nex’s action of squirting water in response to ongoing harassment as legally tantamount to the violence inflicted upon them. Thompson elaborates on the potential legal ramifications, suggesting that the altercation could be viewed as a “mutual fight,” a perspective that equates the water with physical assault. He warns Nex that if they were to press charges, the girls that beat them could also press charges against them for splashing water on them. "I will also tell you though is the saying 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander'," he says.

After a short trial, a Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination. [ed: the school district argued that the student was still violating the dress code even if he did bundle his hair up on top of his head at school] [ed2: that fuckin' judge is named Chap Cain III]

Flaco escaped the Central Park Zoo in February 2023 after someone apparently cut the mesh of his zoo exhibit.

A city official found negligent after an investigation into the 2020 coal plant implosion in Little Village that left the community blanketed in dust is now leading the city’s department responsible for making sure buildings are safe. Mayor Brandon Johnson named Marlene Hopkins acting commissioner of the Department of Buildings after firing her former boss last week. Almost four years ago on Easter weekend, Hopkins and another buildings department official were in charge of making sure the implosion of an almost 400-foot chimney was performed safely. Instead, Hopkins and the other official failed to put a plan in place that would have prevented the dust-cloud mishap even “in the face of information that an implosion posed a high risk of environmental harm to the neighboring Little Village community,” former Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson wrote in a once-secret report the Sun-Times made public last year. The actions by Hopkins and the other official, then-Chief Building Inspector Jorge Herrera, “constituted poor public administration and a negligent dereliction of regulatory responsibility and duty,” Ferguson added. Hopkins, a city employee for more than 25 years, was the top buildings official overseeing the implosion of the former Crawford power plant on Pulaski Road just north of the Stevenson Expressway. Ferguson recommended both Hopkins and Herrera be disciplined, but former Mayor Lori Lightfoot chose not to do so. Ferguson also recommended the firing of a city public health official, Dave Graham, for his part in the bungled planning of the implosion, though Lightfoot also ignored that advice. Neither Lightfoot nor Johnson have officially released the Ferguson report on Crawford.

Utah could become the first state in decades to enact a law codifying ritual abuse. Others passed similar laws at the height of a since-debunked satanic abuse hysteria.

The jury ordered LaPierre, 74, to repay almost $4.4 million to the powerful gun rights group that he led for three decades.

Marshals Service records indicate Sotomayor was the only sitting justice to request such care. Some progressives have called in the past for her to retire while Biden is president.

The state's surgeon general grants parents permission to send unvaccinated children to school during a measles outbreak, risking their health and that of others.

As a cash crunch looms, Trump’s campaign is miraculously not reporting donor refunds—an untested trick that makes it harder to tell how tired his donors really are.

A 28-year-old serving police officer has been charged with two counts of murder during an investigation into the disappearance of former Channel Ten presenter Jesse Baird and his Qantas flight attendant partner, Luke Davies. Police on Friday alleged that ballistic testing at the Paddington home of Baird – a partner of Sen Const Beau Lamarre until a couple of months ago – found evidence a police firearm had been discharged. This included the discovery of one cartridge case, as well as a large amount of blood at the home. The firearm used was later placed in a police gun safe, detectives alleged.

In his decision, a judge agreed that the alleged white nationalists were being selectively prosecuted instead of 'far-left extremist groups, such as Antifa.'

The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology.

The use of police dogs enacts cruelty on people of color and the dogs themselves. To fully rid society of slavery, the dogs must be retired.

The forgotten remains of a beloved, 16th-century papal pet. Beneath the Vatican's Belvedere courtyard, just a few feet below ground, lies the skeletal remains of an elephant. Yes, an elephant. The story of how and why it got there is an especially peculiar chapter of papal history. The skeleton was discovered in 1962, writes Sarah Laskow for Atlas Obscura, while maintenance workers were installing a heating and cooling system. It dates back to the 16th century, when Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici became Pope Leo X. At the time, Christian rulers would present gifts to the Vatican to curry favor; when Pope Leo X was elected in 1513, Manuel I, the king of Portugal, decided he would outdo all of his rivals.

A new government is preparing to take the reins in Pakistan, but not the one its people elected. Nearly two weeks after the general election, Pakistan finds itself on the brink of being governed by a coalition of the also-rans. Defying all odds, candidates affiliated with imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, emerged from the Feb. 8 polls as the largest voting bloc in Parliament. This resulted in several rounds of negotiations between the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and the Pakistan People’s Party to create a coalition government that could counter PTI’s influence. On Tuesday night, the two parties reached a power-sharing agreement.

The private equity firm that now owns the one-time digital publishing giant is planning the slash what remains of its existing workforce in the next few days.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office will not move forward with criminal charges against Seattle Police Officer Kevin Dave in the Jan. 2023 death of Jaahnavi Kandula. Dave was driving 74 miles an hour without continuously running his siren while supposedly responding to a drug overdose call, on a street with a speed limit of 25 miles an hour. Months later, footage was released of Seattle Police Officers Guild Vice President Daniel Auderer joking about Kandula’s death over the phone with SPOG President Mike Solan. In that recording, Auderer can be heard laughing as he referred to Kandula as “a regular person,” going on to say, “Just write a check -- $11,000, she was 26 anyway, she had limited value.”