A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter and YouTube activity.

Union leaders identified the man who died Friday while working at a Kroger Distribution Center in Memphis. Members of Teamster 667 are demanding change at the facility located in the 5000 block of Bledsoe Road, following the death of Tony Rufus. The union said Rufus died Friday while desperately trying to find a way to cool off amid extremely hot temperatures. “This guy was just humped over on a jack laying there dead,” said Teamster 667 Union Representative Jeremy Austin. “Tony, he deserved better than that.”

Michael Gonzales talks with Adam Rowe about his new book, Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s Coming of age in the 1970s I was an aficionado of all things visual: from comic books on newsstand racks to paintings on museum walls to paperback covers on the shelves of my favorite bookstores. Gazing at the beautifully painted covers in the science fiction and fantasy sections, it wasn’t long before I became a fan of various cover artists including Frank Frazetta, Leo & Diane Dillon, Jeff Jones and numerous others. Though considered commercial art, many of the illustrators were as visionary as Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dalí, and deserved to be taken seriously. Decades later I stumbled across the wonderful site 70s Sci-Fi Art, a Tumblr curated by writer Adam Rowe that transported me back to those years of discovering brave new illustration styles. After years of spreading the images through his site and social media, Rowe has recently compiled the innovative book Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 70s (Abrams Books). In addition to the full-color reproductions, Rowe’s book contains interviews, critical evaluations and an introduction by legendary science fiction artist Vincent Di Fate. For fans of the genre, this tome offers the perfect yesteryear view of a speculative tomorrow.

As advocates fight to provide relief to incarcerated people, officials are resisting many measures that could help prisoners combat the heat.

References to Rhodesia, the white minority-ruled African territory now known as Zimbabwe, have been made by the 2015 Charleston church shooter and segregationist lawmakers.

TikTokers, celebrities and their nutritionists are nerding out on apple cider vinegar—with varying results.

The best rodeo bulls on earth are bred to buck, and treated more like athletes than livestock. Can Cool Whip join the greats?

Longtime fans have turned on the product-recommendation website. An evolving internet may be to blame.

Last November, voters approved Measure 113, which bars lawmakers from seeking reelection if they rack up 10 or more unexcused absences in a legislative session. Public employee unions and other backers wanted to put a stop to the tactic, recently favored by outnumbered Oregon Republicans, of leaving the Capitol to block the passage of bills they found objectionable by denying Democrats a quorum. This session, Republicans walked out anyway—and five of them, including Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, watched 10 absences fly by from their rearview mirrors. (The hill they chose to die on was a bill that would have expanded abortion access and gender-affirming care to teenagers. A much-reduced version of the bill passed after a deal was reached in June.)

The new docuseries Telemarketers borrows one of Michael Moore’s oldest tricks—and understands how it really works.

Marilyn was the charismatic leader. The rest of us tried, constantly, to please her.

With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump. (genuinely terrifying in its scope)

The NLRB has brought 100 cases against the coffee chain over anti-union activities – but it cannot punish the company With more than 340 victories at Starbucks stores across the US, the campaign to organize the coffee chain’s workers is one of the most successful union drives in a generation. But Starbucks’ fierce union-busting campaign has badly slowed its momentum and exposed deep flaws in US labor law that threaten other promising unionization efforts. Two years on since workers at a Buffalo Starbucks started the first successful campaign to form a union at a company-run store, labor experts say the coffee chain’s aggressive union-busting is shining a harsh light on the shortcomings of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and how that 88-year-old law which governs unionization campaigns is proving far too weak to stop a powerful, multibillion corporation from using an arsenal of illegal tactics to stifle a highly promising union drive.

Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending. Now, they are making a play that could end in their biggest victory since the Citizens United ruling in 2010. The GOP is growing increasingly optimistic about their prospects in a little-noticed lawsuit that would allow official party committees and candidates to coordinate freely by removing current spending restrictions. If successful, it would represent a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent and upend a well-established political ecosystem for TV advertising. An eventual victory in the lawsuit, filed last November by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, would eliminate the need for House and Senate campaign committees of any party to set up separate operations to make so-called independent expenditures to boost candidates with TV ads. Committees could work in concert with their candidates, opening up millions of party dollars to individual campaigns and allowing party committees to purchase TV air time at the much cheaper rates offered to candidates. “What they’re trying to do is just pry open another barn door to get very large unlimited contributions toward candidates,” said Tom Moore, a former longtime aide to a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission who now works for the liberal Center for American Progress. “This is money that they don’t have to raise in small-dollar increments from actual voters.”

A judge has refused to dismiss the case against a father who helped his son obtain a gun license three years before authorities say the younger man fatally shot seven people at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient's skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps to pull out the parasite, which measured 8 centimeters, or 3 inches. "I just thought: `What is that? It doesn't make any sense. But it's alive and moving,"' Bandi was quoted Tuesday in The Canberra Times newspaper.

In 2021, a strange lead box was discovered at the base of a monument to Thaddeus Kościuszko, a Polish military leader who fought in the Revolutionary War, at the U.S. military's West Point academy. Officials determined it was placed there in 1828. Calling it a "unique discovery" and "another example of past generations of cadets gripping hands with present and future generations," the academy planned a dramatic opening ceremony that featured a panel of military personnel and experts. The event was live-streamed on Monday, and began by hyping up the possibilities of what could be inside the box. As the box's lid was carefully opened, academy historian Jennifer Voigtschild asked, "What do we see?" The answer was nothing, as the crowd laughed and groaned. "Oh, shit…" someone could be heard whispering.

In July, Wurzelbacher reflected on his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, his family and his faith in an interview with The Blaze’s Glenn Beck, saying, “You can take strength from God and know that there are a lot more good people out there than bad. You know, we have some differences out there but ultimately people want to do good things and that’s been … incredible to see.” He is survived by his wife and four children. His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, remembered his father as a man of faith and someone who believed in the country. “He wanted a united America. Of course, he had his views on that. But look, you know, we live in a wonderful republic where, you know, those views helped cultivate something amazing,” he said Monday.

Because as hurt and attacked as Newell feels — lifted by her defenders, but also vilified by fresh critics — she also remains defiant, unapologetic and righteous in her belief that whatever villains exist in the controversy that has engulfed Marion, she is not one of them. In her view, she is being unfairly demonized

“if you can’t disagree and commit... it’s probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week.” Disagree and submit (to what others say) Disagree and ignore (the fuckup that is coming because of ignoring valid objections) Disagree and seethe (over the lack of autonomy and input)