Parks Canada says it is investigating a suspected case of whirling disease in Emerald Lake, in B.C.'s Yoho National Park.

The mayor of Dallas is switching parties after serving in public office for years as a Democrat, making the north Texas city the country’s largest led by a Republican. Eric Johnson, a former Democratic Texas state lawmaker, wrote in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he was switching parties because “too many Democrats insist on virtue signaling,” and argued that Democratic policies have not sufficiently addressed crime and homelessness. “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary,” Johnson wrote in a piece with the headline “America’s cities need Republicans, and I’m becoming one.” Johnson was elected to the nonpartisan office — meaning candidates don’t run as Democrats or Republicans — in 2019 and reelected in May, but said he will leave the position in 2027 as a member of the GOP. “American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities,” Johnson wrote. He went on to say that he was switching because American cities are “in disarray,” as local Democratic leaders haven’t, in his view, made public safety a priority. He also claimed Democrats spent tax dollars in a way that made homelessness worse while “finding new ways to thumb their noses at Republicans,” rather than focusing on solving problems. Johnson called for other mayors to stand up for law and order while reducing taxes.

The Miami man was charged with 48 counts of discharging a weapon in public.

Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.

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New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez was indicted on federal corruption charges for the second time in his senate career, authorities announced on Friday. Menendez, his wife, and three others are accused of a bribery scheme that allegedly saw the Menendez couple accept lavish gifts in exchange for the senator using his position to help the men. Federal prosecutors held a press conference at 11 a.m. to formally announce the charges against Menendez, who was acquitted in a mistrial on federal bribery charges in 2017. Among the many allegations, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams claimed that Menendez “took steps to secretly aid the government of Egypt” and provided non-public information to Egyptian officials, abusing his position as the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. For his role in the scheme, the senator has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.

The Paris prosecutor’s office has recommended that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 26 members of her National Rally party stand trial over the alleged misuse of EU funds. The request, which will be considered by judges, comes after a seven-year investigation into allegations that the party, then called the Front National, had used money destined for EU parliamentary assistants to pay staff who were instead working for the party between 2004 and 2016. EU lawmakers are allocated funds to cover expenses, including their assistants, but are not meant to use them for party expenses. Rules state that assistants paid by the European parliament must work directly on Strasbourg parliamentary matters.

Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

King Charles’ “sausage fingers” have become infamous, and many have wondered why they’re like that. A doctor has given insight into the potential cause of the 74-year-old monarch’s swollen fingers — and even shared that there’s a technical name for the condition.

Missing winter sea ice signals changes that could be a "disaster for the world", scientists say.

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Federal prosecutors are looking into whether an admitted felon helped arrange to give gold bars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez or his wife in exchange for help, sources familiar with the matter tell News 4. Investigators want to know if Menendez, a Democrat, offered to contact the Justice Department to try to help that man who was accused of banking crimes. Those questions are now before a federal grand jury in Manhattan that is considering whether to hand up corruption charges against the senior senator from New Jersey. Sources say witnesses are now testifying before that federal grand jury. Part of the investigation centers on the senator's ties to Fred Daibes, a New Jersey developer and one-time bank chairman. Officials with the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation want to know if Daibes or his associates gave gold bars to the senator's wife, Nadine Arslanian -- gold bars worth as much as $400,000.

A multi-level marketing guru who described herself as the “number one network marketer in the world,” has died after pursuing “natural” remedies to cure her colon cancer.

Topics discussed by people who called into San Diego’s city council meeting Monday included the following: Sea lions, burning synagogues, electric scooters, criminalizing interracial sex, mental health, and "white fucking power." And it's happening, in a concerted way, all over the country: In May, a Sacramento City Council meeting was paused after an altercation involving a white supremacist. This week, extremists hijacked a city council meeting in Portland, Maine. Last week, they hijacked a meeting in Bangor, Maine. A recent study by Princeton University and the Anti-Defamation League (which is the target of some of the San Diego’s callers ire), found that these threats are literally taking over some city councils with their intimidation and threat campaigns: “These actions make civic spaces feel unsafe, keep public servants from doing their work, and jeopardize democratic processes such as public meetings and elections. Public officials of both parties, and many serving in nonpartisan offices, have become targets of doxing, armed protests at their residences, personal and virtual threats to their body and family, vandalism, and threats of violent acts. Intimidation and threats of violence have driven some out of local office, while a new crop of hardliners and anti-government fringe candidates line up to take their place.”

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All the legal system’s a stage, all the attorneys are merely players, and North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls keeps refusing to play along—to the ire of judges invested in maintaining the facade of impartiality. Earls, the only Black woman on the state’s high court and one of two Democrats, spoke candidly in an interview earlier this summer about how implicit bias impacts the court’s ability to actually administer justice. The interview triggered the state’s Republican-controlled Judicial Standards Commission to open an investigation into Earls for her crime of undermining “public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.” This, in turn, led Earls to file a federal lawsuit to protect her First Amendment right “to bring to light imperfections and unfairness in the judicial system.” In the weeks that followed, the Commission offered to provide Earls with “advisory opinions” about whether her future public statements—for example, her speeches in the coming months, while both the investigation and her lawsuit are pending—conform to the Code of Judicial Conduct’s requirements. Earls called the offer “nothing more than an invitation to participate in an unconstitutional prior restraint of speech in which the speaker must apply to governmental authority.” Now, in a new order, the federal judge hearing the case has wagged a finger at Earls, calling her refusal to participate in this charade an “unnecessary and inflammatory attack on the motives of the Commission and its members.” “This court will remind all counsel and parties that they are members of the Bar and officers of the court,” wrote Judge William Osteen, who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush in 2007 after the retirement of his father, also Judge William Osteen, who was appointed to the same position by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Quoting the state bar’s rules of professional conduct, Osteen (the younger one) continued: “A lawyer has a ‘special responsibility for the quality of justice,’ and should ‘demonstrate respect for the legal system and for those who serve it, including judges, other lawyers, and public officials.”

Mr Kaba, 24, died when he was shot through the windscreen of the Audi he was driving in Streatham Hill, south London Since 1990, there have been 1,870 deaths in or following police custody or contact in England and Wales, as recorded by INQUEST the charity. In that time, there has only been one successful prosecution of a police officer for manslaughter in 2021, and none for murder.

Thailand's legislators will renew a push for an overarching law on use of cannabis for medical and research purposes, a senior lawmaker said on Wednesday, more than a year after the narcotic was legalised without proper regulations.

The Tasmanian tiger, a dog-sized striped carnivorous marsupial also called the thylacine, once roamed the Australian continent and adjacent islands, an apex predator that hunted kangaroos and other prey. Because of humans, the species is now extinct. But that does not mean scientists have stopped learning about it. In a scientific first, researchers said on Tuesday they have recovered RNA - genetic material present in all living cells that has structural similarities to DNA - from the desiccated skin and muscle of a Tasmanian tiger stored since 1891 at a museum in Stockholm. Scientists in recent years have extracted DNA from ancient animals and plants, some of it upwards of 2 million years old. But this study marked the first time that RNA - much less stable than DNA - has been recovered from an extinct species.

The United States has been pumping so much groundwater that the ground is beginning to split open across southwestern parts of the country for miles on end. These giant cracks, aka fissures, have been spotted in states including Arizona, Utah, and California. Groundwater is one of the main sources of freshwater on Earth — it provides almost half of all drinking water, and about 40% of global irrigation. But humans are pumping groundwater faster than Earth can naturally replenish it. When too much groundwater gets pumped up from the natural aquifers below the surface, it causes the land to sag and create these cracks, Joseph Cook, who researches Earth fissures at the Arizona Geological Survey, told Insider.