A report claims that accounts associated with the suspect suggested that he was also ready to join a militia.

To tip or not to tip? It’s a simple question with a deeply complicated answer, at least in the U.S. Here, the practice of tossing a few bucks to a service worker when you pay your total bill is not only common, but expected in many industries, from grocery delivery to coffee shops. And while European tourists may famously struggle to decipher the rules, Americans are all too aware of how it works. And it’s more than likely they have a very strong—probably negative—opinion about it. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who likes the American tipping system, from the customers who resent paying more to the workers who are often paid too little in the first place. However, tipping culture and all of its attendant discourse is really just a means of obscuring the real issue: The continuing existence of the sub-minimum wage, and the ensuing expectation that consumers (and their tips) will make up the lost wages that employers avoid paying.

A former Tacoma officer acquitted in the Manny Ellis murder trial has been hired by the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Christopher Burbank will serve as a Lateral Patrol Deputy, according to a Facebook post from the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office Monday. Burbank was one of three officers acquitted in December for the 2020 death of Ellis while he was in custody. The three Tacoma officers involved in the Ellis case — Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine — were collectively paid more than $1 million during the duration of the murder trial. The Attorney General’s Office charged Burbank and Collins with second-degree murder, and Rankine with first-degree manslaughter in 2021. According to reports, Ellis was beaten, tasered, hogtied and had a spit hood put over his head during the encounter with officers. He was restrained until medical personnel from the Tacoma Fire Department arrived at the scene. The former Pierce County medical examiner concluded that Ellis died from oxygen deprivation caused by physical restraint. During the trial, medical experts testified in agreement that Ellis died due to the way he was restrained by officers. A use-of-force expert also testified that the officers used excessive force.

Eclipses can affect animals, and biologists are preparing to see what happens during totality on April 8.

In Hualien near epicentre, three hikers and a truck driver were killed by falling rocks; tsunami warnings issued on the island and elsewhere in the region.

Opposition to identity politics isn’t confined to the cultural right.

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with. Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

Mayor Eric Adams announced his intention to put weapons scanners on the subway system, but a 2022 pilot at a NYC hospital showed that the technology yields lots of false positives. Over the seven months that the Jacobi pilot was active, 194,000 people passed through Jacobi's scanners, and in just over 50,000 of those cases, the scanners threw up an alarm—an incidence rate of around 26 percent, or over one of every four times someone passed through the scanner. Of those 50,000 alarms, around 43,800, or a little more than 85 percent, were false positives; 7,027 of the alarms, or 14 percent, were law enforcement officers who were presumably carrying their service weapons; and just 295 alarms, or 0.57 percent, were determined to be a non-law enforcement person carrying either a knife, a gun, or a threat type labeled only "other," which likely entails other weapons like bats. Notably, Evolv's scanners did not get any more accurate as the pilot progressed—there was not a single month where the alarm to visitor ratio fell below 25 percent.

A former State Department official explains the Administration’s sharpening public critique of Israel’s war and simultaneous refusal to “impose a single cost or consequence.”

Sarah Joy gained half a million TikTok followers with videos about Amish and Mennonite life — but two friends claim she belongs to neither group.

He opened a medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay in 2006. The feds shut him down nearly a year later. In 2024, they were still after him.

Julie Chávez Rodríguez seems pretty calm, all things considered... The “damage of devastation” she was talking about. What if Biden’s campaign manager can’t manage to keep it at bay? “No matter what, I don’t think people are going to blame Julie like people blame Robby Mook for Hillary. Because Hillary was supposed to win this,” said Morgan, the fretful donor, referring to the last candidate and campaign manager to lose the presidency to Trump. “We all know this is a jump ball,” he continued. “In 2016, we were reading Nate Silver, and we weren’t worried at all. When we woke up, we realized we’ve never been to Wisconsin and we’ve never been to Michigan and then all the Monday-morning quarterbacks are out. That won’t be the case for Julie,” he said. “Because we all are prepared to lose.”

Most vehicles on the road today are multipurpose devices. Your four-door truck can do the school run and haul lumber, while your SUV can tow a camper or take you touring off-road. In contrast, jinkers are single-purpose. These Australian oddities are built to do one thing and do it well. You’ll only find them in one place on Earth. The jinker is an ungainly thing at first glance. They look like a regular vehicle on stilts. Indeed, that is precisely the idea.

The incident shows how aggressively the liberal-branded retailer is responding to union organizing -- and how low-level managers are caught in the middle.

U.S. non-profit World Central Kitchen said Tuesday it was suspending aid food operations in Gaza with immediate effect in the wake of the killing of seven of its workers in an "unforgivable" Israel Defense Forces airstri

Newly released law enforcement footage captures the moment California police fatally shot an unarmed 15-year-old girl who was a reported kidnapping victim. On 27 September 2022, San Bernardino county sheriff’s deputies were searching for Savannah Graziano, who was feared abducted by her father Anthony Graziano after he had fatally shot her mother the day before. Deputies cornered Anthony Graziano’s vehicle on the side of a freeway in Hesperia, 80 miles east of Los Angeles. When Savannah exited the vehicle, they opened fire and killed her. The shooting sparked national concern, with critics questioning how officers wound up killing the teenage girl they were tasked with rescuing. Sheriff’s officials claimed following the shooting that it was unclear whether Savannah was shot by deputies or her father, and they said deputies didn’t realize it was her when she got out of the car. For nearly two years, they refused to release footage of the shooting. But on Friday, the department disclosed nearly a dozen video files to the independent journalist Joey Scott, who filed records requests 18 months prior. The clips – which were shared with the Guardian and include helicopter footage – show deputies shooting at Savannah as she followed their instructions to move toward them. The videos also suggest deputies shot her after two officers remarked that it was the girl who exited. The footage, and the sheriff’s narration of the video, further make clear she was killed by deputies, not her father.

The skies were blue over the Lodi Parachute Center as Francine Turner and her son, Tyler, 18, arrived with his two best friends. It was Saturday morning, Aug. 6, 2016, and the three boys were there to celebrate their high school graduation with their first skydiving experience before heading to UC Merced together in the fall. The day before, over lunch, the boys had half-joked about their chutes not opening. Now, a few minutes before boarding the plane, Francine joined them in the hangar that sits just off Highway 99, a few miles north of Stockton in California’s Central Valley. Francine said that the boys were shown a safety video at the same time as they received safety waivers to read and sign, making it impossible to focus on both. She also recalled the boys being ushered into the next room for a harness fitting before the video was over... Francine would soon learn that 21 people had died in accidents tied to the center since 1985, as reported in a detailed investigation by the Sacramento Bee; five more have died there in the years since her son’s death. Kwon’s parents, still in Korea, would learn of their son’s death on Facebook. After her son’s body was taken away, Francine was left bewildered and angry that the planes just kept going up, loaded with skydivers... The NTSB has repeatedly criticized what it has called the “insufficient regulatory framework” around skydiving, including in 2019, after a skydiving plane crash killed 11 people in Hawaii. The USPA, meanwhile, is currently lobbying against a federal bill that would increase requirements for plane maintenance, which was written in response to the Hawaii tragedy.

Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.

The Florida Supreme Court will allow the state’s voters in November to decide whether to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational use of marijuana.

Corporate interests are funneling far more money to law enforcement than previously known — often with scant oversight.