It’s a portrayal so undignified that I almost expected ABBA’s “Waterloo” to play over the credits.

The NY Supreme Court just granted an unprecedented temporary restraining order preventing members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 from voting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In 1984, ILWU Local 10 refused to unload goods shipped from South Africa. Today, it’s demanding a cease-fire.

Amid lack of acorns and beechnuts in natural habitats, bears have injured 158 people and killed two since April

The motion calling for the closure of the embassy passed with 248 votes in favour and 91 votes against.

An “extremely venomous” 2-metre green mamba snake is on the loose in the Netherlands, police have said, warning residents to stay indoors and under no circumstances attempt to ensnare the serpent. Police in the southern city of Tilburg said they were alerted by the mamba’s owner on Monday evening that “he was missing a snake”. Issuing a wanted poster with a mugshot of the coiled green mamba, police said on Tuesday: “The snake is very dangerous. The green mamba’s bite is extremely venomous. If anyone is bitten, it is important to seek immediate medical attention.”

Beavercreek, Ohio police say the gunman walked in and just started shooting.

There is a subtle yet unmistakable sense of gloom in Kyiv at the moment, and not only because of the dark afternoons and plunging mercury of an eastern European November. A number of internal and external factors have combined to create perhaps the most downbeat mood about the prospects for a swift and decisive Ukrainian victory over Russia since the first weeks of the full-scale invasion. “At the end of last year and beginning of this one, there was such euphoria. Now we see the other extreme, the down, and I guess we will see some ups and downs for some time to come,” said Bartosz Cichocki, who last month finished a four-year posting as Poland’s ambassador in Kyiv. The much-anticipated summer counteroffensive has been thwarted by impenetrable Russian minefields and fortifications. There are rumours of tensions in Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s team, and of a rift between the president and his commander-in-chief, which were reinforced late on Sunday when Zelenskiy fired the head of Ukraine’s military medical forces and called for operational changes in the army. The exhaustion of two years of fighting, the continued loss of life at the front and frustration at the slow pace with which western partners continue to provide weaponry have combined so that for the first time since the early stages of the war, some voices have quietly pondered the possibility of ceasefire negotiations, while accepting they would be risky and could benefit Russia.

Would you rather yell at your chest or pull out your phone?

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

OpenAI’s interim CEO Emmett Shear was a namechecked character in a seminal Harry Potter fanfiction about “rational thinking” written by the AI researcher and influential blogger Eliezer Yudkowsky. The book is hugely popular among effective altruists and the "AI doomer" community, who are very worried that superintelligent AI will bring on an apocalypse for humanity.

Alibaba Group , has scrapped plans to spin-off its cloud business, citing uncertainties created by U.S. export curbs on chips used in artificial intelligence applications.

When access to the internet exploded across the globe, it was considered the greatest democratizing force in history. And in the past decade, it was the province of free political expression, used to push progress, liberty, and rights. But as malignant, authoritarian strains incubate and fester across the planet, governments are attempting to wrest control of it back. In India, that movement is not just well underway, it’s almost entirely implemented. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, every facet of the internet has come under their control, every public space dominated by high-tech surveillance, every message potentially read by its prying eyes. The party seized control of YouTube, pushing messages of party support while blocking criticism. It’s clamped down on viral videos on X that document a violent, anti-Muslim fervor sweeping the nation. It’s opened encrypted WhatsApp for inspection. Facial recognition litters temples and entire cities. And they can control it all with the flip of a switch. India is the future of the internet under authoritarianism and the Modi government’s playbook is one that repressive regimes, hoping to curb the rights of individuals who oppose them, will all soon adopt. Unless people fight back.

Cartoonist Syd Hoff drew the rich as they are: ridiculous, incompetent, hopelessly out of touch, and boring.

At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors?

Javier Milei has won Argentina’s presidential elections in provisional results, wrenching his country to the right with a bombastic anti-establishment campaign that drew comparisons to former US President Donald Trump – all against the backdrop of one of the world’s highest inflation rates.

District Attorney Larry Krasner’s progressive policies have been blamed for the spike in gun crimes, murders, retail thefts, and lootings across Philadelphia. He has clashed with police and with Republicans in Harrisburg who tried to impeach him, and is a regular whipping boy for right-wing media, including Fox News. Krasner has his faults, but he deserves praise for his relentless pursuit of justice for those wrongly convicted of crimes. Since he took office in 2018, nearly 40 people have been exonerated, thanks to the Conviction Integrity Unit he created. Nearly all the wrongly accused were Black men. Some spent decades in prison. One wrongly convicted man spent 41 years behind bars. Another was on death row for 25 years before being exonerated in two separate cases. In nearly all the cases, the wrongful convictions were the result of misconduct by either the police or prosecutors (or both) who withheld evidence, forced false confessions, or committed perjury.

This spring, rumors were swirling that HERBL, one of California’s largest cannabis distribution companies, was on the verge of collapse. So Mike Beaudry, the company’s CEO, sent out an email on May 18 declaring that “these rumors are categorically not true. HERBL continues to be fully operational.” Less than a month later, HERBL had completely collapsed. HERBL’s failure left a trail of damage that hurt small pot brands and shorted the state some $17 million in unpaid taxes. HERBL is only the latest high-flying California pot startup to crumble, following companies like Flow Kana, which raised $175 million in capital only to collapse, and MedMen, the California startup that earned a billion-dollar valuation calling itself the Apple Store of Weed only to find itself this year on the brink of financial ruin.

On November 19, the Yemeni naval forces have seized the car carrier GALAXY LEADER ship.In a statement about the seizure of this ship, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said: “In line with the implementation of the instructions of our leader “Seyed Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi” and in response to the requests of the great people of Yemen and all free people and based on religious, human and moral responsibility, for the oppressed Palestinian nation and their cruel siege and the continuation of the horrific and heinous killings of the Palestinian people, the Yemeni Navy carried out a military operation in the Red Sea, the result of which was the seizure of an Israeli ship and its transfer to the coast of Yemen.”Brigadier General Saree added asked all countries whose nationals work in the Red Sea to refrain from any joint work or cooperation with Israeli ships or ships affiliated with the Israelis.The armed forces of Yemen also emphasized that Israel is a threat to the security, stability of the region and international corridors, and Yemen will continue military operations against this regime until the end of their aggression on the Gaza Strip and the heinous crimes of Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Galaxy Leader cargo ship The Galaxy Leader is a cargo ship with a Bahamas flag (from Latin American countries) that transports vehicle cargo. According to Hebrew media reports, part of this ship belongs to a Zionist company owned by a Jewish businessman named Abraham Rami Ungar. Forbes ranked Ungar as one of the 100 richest people in Israel, with a net worth of $3.2 billion.The seizure of the Israeli ship by Ansar Allah can be considered the beginning of the naval war between the resistance groups and Israel. Israel is currently engaged in the three fronts of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the north of Palestine, and is unable to fully respond to Hezbollah’s ground attacks in the northern axis and Yemen’s air and sea attacks.

Argentina elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its new president on Sunday, rolling the dice on an outsider with radical views to fix an economy battered by triple-digit inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty. Official results have not been released, but his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, conceded in a speech. His candidacy was hampered by the country's worst economic crisis in two decades while he has been at the helm. Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise, but sparked fears of austerity in others.