And while US society specialises in oppressing a wide range of demographics – minus, of course, the elite minority that thrives on acute inequality – the treatment of the elderly is particularly cynical. Having outlived their labour-based exploitability as cogs in the capitalist machine, older people become decaying objects from which profit must continue to be extracted until the very last minute.

The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that prosecutors should not have tried the former Nebraska congressman in Los Angeles.

The Lincoln Project dropped a new ad mocking the former president after claims about his bad odor gained traction on social media.

Nor was the habit unique to one time or place, he added. “Quite a few societies encourage fingers to be cut off today and have done so throughout history.”

But one day, on a whim, Thai coated a set of gold nanowires in manganese dioxide and a Plexiglas-like electrolyte gel. "She started to cycle these gel capacitors, and that's when we got the surprise," said Reginald Penner, chair of the university's chemistry department. "She said, 'this thing has been cycling 10,000 cycles and it's still going.' She came back a few days later and said 'it's been cycling for 30,000 cycles.' That kept going on for a month."

A homeless man who argued that he beat a former San Francisco official with a metal pipe in self-defense was found not guilty of all charges Friday in a rebuke of the case filed by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Garret Doty, 25, stood trial at the Hall of Justice on three counts of assault and battery for repeatedly striking Don Carmignani, 54, with the metal pipe April 5. The attack happened after Carmignani confronted Doty for camping outside his home in the Marina District, demanding he leave the area. After deliberating for three days, jurors acquitted Doty of all three counts, as well as lesser assault and battery charges that he could have been convicted of.

Two Denver-area paramedics have been convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man they injected with lethal dose of ketamine.

Last week, I was meant to deliver a talk at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. That talk, along with the entire speaking series to which it belonged, was canceled back in October after the Y abruptly scrapped an event with the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen because he had signed an open letter condemning Israel’s war on Gaza. (I signed the same letter.) The 92NY debacle, which resulted in the resignation of the Poetry Center’s entire staff, was part of a much broader stifling of dissent within our liberal cultural institutions, where a decidedly pro-Israel consensus holds strong among donors and executives. Since Israel began its brutal bombing campaign in Gaza, where the death toll has reached 20,000, we have seen waves of suppression roll across the culture: the editor-in-chief of Artforum has been fired; an award-winning writer has been pushed out of The New York Times Magazine; an actress was dropped from the upcoming horror movie Scream 7. The situation has become especially dire on college campuses, where pro-Palestine students groups are facing doxing and disbandment — even as Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, in a contentious House committee hearing, rebuked several university presidents for failing to discipline students for chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea.” (Penn president Liz Magill has since resigned over this supposed failure.) We should call this what it is: a one-sided, McCarthyist crackdown on pro-Palestine speech. But it is not an ironic new phase of cancel culture, as a score of commentators have already claimed. “Far from being a culture-war canard, cancellation turns out to be a weapon that many people on both the left and the right are willing to wield to silence anyone who violates their orthodoxies,” wrote the pundit Yascha Mounk for the Atlantic last month. In this view, it is the left which has created a climate of censoriousness by recklessly pursuing the firing and deplatforming of those whose views it deems ideologically unacceptable; now those same tactics are being employed against the pro-Palestine left, which yearns too late for the guard rails it helped remove. It is as if the worst fears of the infamous Harper’s letter from a few years ago, in which a number of very serious people admonished the left for abandoning liberal norms of open debate and good-faith disagreement, have come true. To the liberal mind, the only solution to this crisis is for both sides of the aisle to recommit to, as Mounk put it, a “principled defense of free speech” regardless of political content. Now it’s true: A left that supports the deplatforming of transphobes but opposes the deplatforming of anti-Zionists cannot justify itself by appealing to free speech — nor should it. For the liberal, freedom of speech is a deliberately empty principle. It allows a liberal institution to mediate peacefully between differing political views without any (apparent) reference to the content of those views — all while quietly promoting its own views under the banner of neutrality. The left can do better. In fact, the current political moment provides the left with an opportunity to clarify its often poorly articulated position in the so-called culture wars: namely, that the freedom of speech is a crucial public utility in a democratic society but it is not the soul of justice; and that to install it as such eclipses and ultimately degrades the left’s substantive values.

Bargaining-table negotiations over a first contract are never easy, but now they’re becoming excruciatingly slow and difficult. For companies like Trader Joe’s, that’s the goal.

President Joe Biden announced he's pardoning every American who has used marijuana in the past, including those who were never arrested or prosecuted.

A Florida woman who crashed into another car decides to dance an Irish jig in addition to doing field sobriety tests.

Trump pressured two canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.

Suspect Donald Santacroce, 65, waited to police to arrive to the scene and allegedly said he'd keep robbing banks until he was sent to federal prison.

Turns out the real hyperloop was the friends we made along the way.

Prague’s police chief says an armed man who killed at least 15 people was a student at a university where the mass shooting took place.

It’s even worse than it looks.

More than 100 MPs have been suspended from parliament in move the the opposition calls ‘a complete purge’.

Ken Fritz spent decades making the best stereo system he could from scratch. What happened to it when he passed?

Fox News host Laura Ingraham tried to gin up more fears Wednesday of a far-fetched dystopian future under President Joe Biden’s leadership—suggesting that Donald Trump’s legal woes were part of a sinister plot masterminded by Democrats to impose martial law. She suggested Trump’s various criminal charges and even the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to boot him from the state’s ballot were all part of a calculated plan to make Trump’s supporters act out publicly, giving Biden the pretense to institute a “mass crackdown on civil liberties”—which would ultimately clear the way for nationwide mail-in voting during the 2024 presidential election. “What we are seeing in the courts, at the Department of Justice, and even in state attorneys generals’ offices—and given Democrats’ ‘Trump is Hitler’ rhetoric—is it not logical, even to consider, maybe to assume that some on the left are hoping to spark some type of civil unrest here?” Ingraham began. “Which would be followed, of course, by a mass crackdown on civil liberties or the declaration of maybe a nationwide emergency, all as a way—a [protective] way—to usher in, I don’t know, nationwide mail-in voting?” she wondered. “Remember, the left loved the lockdowns. They loved the 2020 riots, and they even loved the weapon that Jan. 6 gave them,” continued Ingraham, sounding like Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway earlier in the day. “And, of course they really, really love the idea of universal mail-in or even internet voting.” On the other hand, it requires no assumptions to see that Trump’s ambitions are rooted in “retribution,” because he has said so. His agenda for a second term, The Washington Post reported last month, includes potentially invoking the Insurrection Act to use the military against civilians. According to that report, Trump has also said privately that he wants to use the Justice Department to go after his political adversaries, like Bill Barr and Gen. Mark Milley. Trump also stated last year that the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” was justified—all because he lost the 2020 election. And in a Fox News town hall earlier this month, he admitted that he would be “dictator” on “day one” and refused to rule out breaking the law if reelected.

Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.