Anyone found guilty of selling or manufacturing cultivated meat in Alabama will face up to a three-month jail sentence and $500 fine.

The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday.

Omar and his Pomeranian, Neptune, were separated when he was swept up in the City College protests and arrested. The protesters helped create a happy ending.

On April 17, a UNC Board of Governors’ committee voted unanimously to repeal the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies the UNC System adopted in 2019. If the full board ratifies the decision later this month, the system and its 17 institutions will no longer have to employ diversity officers or work toward diversity goals. The committee’s decision came without discussion or public comment, but it wasn’t entirely unexpected. Texas and Florida recently eliminated their universities’ DEI programs, and North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders signaled that they’d follow suit if the board didn’t act. Board of Governors member Woody White hasn’t been so muted. On the day of the committee vote, White—a Wilmington lawyer and former state senator and county commissioner who was appointed last year—argued in a Carolina Journal op-ed that DEI “has severely damaged race relations.”

UCLA’s campus echoed with screams and bangs amid violence. “I’d seen something like I’ve never seen before and something that I never would expect to happen – not in the United States, not in California and certainly not in Los Angeles and on campus,” said Ismael Sindha, an alumnus who was in the Palestine solidarity encampment at UCLA on April 30. “I saw people bleeding from their heads. I saw people on the floor. I saw people crying.” From late in the evening of April 30 to early May 1, the Palestine solidarity encampment in Dickson Plaza was attacked by more than 100 counter-protesters and aggressors who sprayed aerosol irritants, launched fireworks, tore away the encampment’s barricades and hit those inside with metal poles and wooden planks. At 12:12 a.m. on May 1, UCLA released a statement that it had immediately called law enforcement to campus, but LAPD officers did not begin directing the aggressors out of the area until 3 a.m. “At first, I could understand why there weren’t police officers immediately,” said Student A, who was in the encampment. “But an hour in, and then two hours in, and then three hours in, it just reached the point where I was like, ‘UCLA knows this is happening, and they don’t care enough to protect their students.’”

It's pretty much what you'd expect.

As Grants Pass, Oregon—and the nation—await a Supreme Court ruling on just how far cities can police the homeless, a volunteer mayor and her unhoused constituents try to weather the backlash. But there is often little daylight between Democrats and Republicans in their efforts to engineer cities as sundown towns. It wasn’t Idaho where unhoused people first called on the Eighth Amendment to protect themselves from criminalization; that distinction was California’s. In a 2007 settlement, the court struck down 41.18, Los Angeles’s “sit-lie” law, a ban on sitting, sleeping, lying, and storing property in public. San Francisco now boasts 24 unique anti-homeless laws. Recent reports show unhoused people account for a disproportionate number of arrests, even in liberal strongholds: one in six in L.A., and one in two in Portland. Liberal politicians appease their housed constituents by empowering them to personally order encampment sweeps. Alongside Amazon packages, DoorDash dinners, and movies on HBO, residents can now expect policing on demand. In this model, UCLA assistant professor of sociology Chris Herring said, constituent emails and 311 calls drive police enforcement. In 2017, complaints from San Francisco residents directed police to address “homeless concerns” nearly 100,000 times. In 2020, San Francisco Mayor London Breed texted the police chief to clear specific people in her line of sight. “Man sleeping on bench on Hayes st near gough,” one text declared. “Can someone come ASAP. I’m in the area having lunch.” Liberal cities met Martin not as an opportunity to diversify their efforts to house people, but to creatively remove them within the confines of the law. In 2021, Los Angeles updated its sit-lie law with exclusion zones—around parks, schools, libraries, underpasses, and shelters—which effectively if not technically blanket the city. Other cities responded to Martin’s demand that unhoused people need “alternative” places to sleep before they can be ticketed or arrested by codifying it into a cold calculus of beds versus tents. Both San Diego and Las Vegas now issue misdemeanors for camping if shelter space exists. “The right to shelter must be paired with the obligation to use it,” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has said. In other words, unhoused people must accept shelter at the penalty of fines or imprisonment.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

A Mid-Michigan woman is looking for a new home after police kicked her out of her previous dwelling… inside of a grocery store sign. Contractors working on the Family Fare grocery store in Midland last week “unexpectedly found a woman, 34, living inside the rooftop sign,” according to a report from the Midland Daily News.

A new coalition of Christian nationalist groups is mobilizing congregations to take over Texas school boards.

The rappers’ fiery diss-battle has raised allegations of domestic violence and sex abuse – but for the wrong reasons

Emperor Karl I was the least successful and most tragic Habsburg monarch. A symposium in Texas makes the case for why he should become a saint.

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator. Police arrested three individuals at the demonstration, including Kahane and the 55-year-old female protester he struck, who sustained a leg injury and was hospitalized. She and a 63-year-old male protester with CUAD were arrested for banging on the hood of the driver’s car when it drove into the crowd, the spokesperson said. The two protesters and Kahane remained in police custody as of 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday. As of Wednesday morning, Kahane was charged with one count of assault with intent to cause physical injury with a weapon, a class D felony. He is reportedly related to Meir Kahane, a rabbi and Israeli right-wing extremist who was assassinated in New York City in 1990. The 55-year-old protester, a Columbia alum, was arrested for attempted criminal mischief in the fourth degree and unlawful assembly, which are class A and class B misdemeanors, respectively. The 63-year-old protester was arrested for attempted criminal mischief in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor.

On June 28, 1997, Mike Tyson infamously chomped off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the third round of the heavyweight boxing championship. Nearly three decades later, John Klene and Eduardo Dumbrique — then 18 and 15 — remember exactly where they were when it happened: They were at Klene’s family home watching the fight, surrounded by friends. But that alibi, with its multiple witnesses, wasn’t enough to keep the teens out of prison when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators wrongly accused them of murder. After 23 years behind bars based on what their lawyers described as “lies” and “made up evidence,” they were exonerated in 2021. They filed a federal lawsuit the following year. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $24-million settlement for the pair, who are both free now.

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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.