How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.

Two weeks after a man fatally slipped into the icy grip of the North Saskatchewan River after police tried to stop him for a bicycle violation, the officers involved have been cleared by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT)... The city police Air-1 helicopter quickly located the man and the pursuing officers, recording the ordeal with its video system which ASIRT has now reviewed. None of the officers used force against the man, and none were nearby when he slipped on the river ice. “During the pursuit, the male can be seen riding a bike without the necessary equipment, which corroborates the officers reasoning for attempting to stop the male,” said the ASIRT release, adding no use of force is shown.

The significant victory for the ‘Squad’ member comes amid concerns of pro-Israel funding targeting pro-ceasefire candidates. Despite the absence of [AIPAC], one Super Pac did get involved in Lee’s primary to boost Patel’s campaign. The Moderate Pac, which aims to support centrist Democrats and is largely funded by Republican megadonor Jeffrey Yass, spent more than $600,000 supporting Patel. Lee and her allies turned Yass’ involvement in the race into a campaign issue, lambasting the billionaire’s Super Pac contributions. “We’re going to send them a message that, whether it’s Jeffrey Yass or Jeffrey Bezos, their billion dollars aren’t welcome here,” Lee said at a rally in Pittsburgh on Sunday. “There is no room for people who would use our communities against each other for their own political ambition.”

BREAKING: TikTok might not be around much longer in the US. The Senate just passed a bill that included an ultimatum for the company: divest or be banned altogether. The next stop is President Biden’s desk.

Queer cinema has always been in a state of continual evolution, but the evolution of trans depiction has come slower, even during agreed-upon golden eras of queer cinema. But in 2024, we are in the midst of a potentially new movement in which three trans-authored films are reshaping the possibilities of what a trans film looks like, and how transness can be expressed in cinema.

Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.

A few days later, on Thursday, McNally reported that, at 8:30 p.m. a man sat at the bar, “released six domesticated white mice from a paper bag, and ran out of the restaurant.” A bartender, he says, ran after the man, while “the mice were quickly caught.” McNally points out how moments after the mice incident occurred, socialite Michelle Manning Barish posted a video of a mouse running in the bar area, echoing his McNally’s Instagram post, calling it, “absolutely REVOLTING.” He cites her as having written, “And the owner is vocally antisemitic, a defender of sexual predators, decided to cyber bully Lauren Sanchez and even creepy with me. Karma,” to which he wonders if she “orchestrated this vile stunt or was at least party to it?” Eater has contacted Barish for comment.

Cooper started doing seagull impressions after being nipped by one of the birds. The family heard about the competition from a random man who overheard Cooper doing impressions at a soft-play centre and suggested Cooper could compete. He scored 92 points out of a possible 100, which meant he won the juvenile category and also had the highest points score in the competition. The other categories were for adults and also for "colonies", meaning a group of people doing seagull impressions. Cooper took his lucky mascot with him - a small model seagull which he calls Stephen and his spells with a "ph", but his parents call Steven Seagull, like the actor Steven Seagal.

A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

Following a trial process, in which 37-year-old Neely Raye Pesognellie Petrie-Blanchard represented herself in her murder trial of 50-year-old Christopher Hallett, jurors deliberated on Friday, April 19, 2024, for roughly 30 minutes before finding Petrie-Blanchard guilty of Murder in the First-Degree with a Firearm.

Snake bite victims are endangering medical staff by bringing the reptiles with them to hospital, doctors say. In Queensland's Wide Bay region, doctors have come face to face with some of the world's most venomous snakes captured by patients believing it'll help with identification and treatment. In one case earlier this month, emergency staff at Bundaberg Hospital, four hours north of Brisbane, were handed a plastic food container with a small eastern brown snake inside peering back at them.

The Granite State could be the first to ditch polio and measles requirements for childcare.

Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former president

The bill now goes to President Joe Biden, whose administration says FISA's warrantless spying power is vital to national security. Amendments to expand privacy safeguards failed.

New York should use its red-light and speed cameras to prevent deadly crashes. If New York City had been able to keep vehicles with five or more speed- or red-light tickets off the roads in 2022, the city could have saved as many as 26 lives, out of the total of 142 lives lost in this 2022 dataset, reducing the death toll by 18%.

The governor of New Mexico spoke with the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week and expressed concern about a recent surge of Border Patrol seizures of marijuana from state-licensed businesses, Marijuana Moment has learned exclusively. But the top Biden official simply reiterated that federal cannabis laws haven’t changed, indicating that the seizures will continue. The office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) shared details about the conversation with Marijuana Moment, adding that her administration is “working on a strategy to protect New Mexico’s cannabis industry” from adverse federal enforcement actions.

A social media manager for an up-and-coming actor reached out to me this week to complain that her client, who’s about to star in a “major Netflix show” and is at a pivotal point in his career, has a Wikifeet problem. When you google him, four of the first 10 photos that show up are shots of his feet that were posted to the celebrity foot-rating site. “This could be harmless enough,” the woman writes, “but unfortunately his Testicles are showing in three! You can imagine that’s something I never thought I’d be putting in an email.”

The departure of American forces from Niger follows the expulsion of French troops in the wake of last summer’s coup.

Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines

Murray Sawchuck, aka Murray the Magician, racked up 65 million YouTube views exposing how simple tricks are done — a cardinal sin among magicians. Now his fate in the Academy of Magical Arts hangs in the balance.