From Pee-wee Herman (of course) to Buffy to Murphy Brown (and much more), a look back at Paul Reubens' legacy of laughter

Luann de Lesseps, Lisa Rinna, and Mary Bonnet are among those weighing in on Bethenny Frankel's reality union plan

The people that got and sick, disabled, or died -- No mention

Uber Technologies Inc. is headed to court to defend itself against a bicyclist “doored” by a driver’s vehicle on a busy street in bike-friendly San Francisco — the first such case to go to trial in California on claims that the company usually settles privately. Edgard Velarde, 64, refused to settle out of court for injuries he alleges he sustained after being hit by the door of passenger exiting an Uber vehicle, turning down a $1 million offer from Uber in exchange for keeping quiet about the incident. Instead, he’s intent on bringing the case to a trial that’s set to start Thursday. Uber tends to settle personal injury claims against its drivers out of court and public view. Velarde is seeking “many millions” in damages from Uber and promises to expose lies he says the rideshare company told him and details of the lack of training it provides to its drivers. “Uber has told us they will not settle with us unless it’s a confidential settlement, so Velarde and I would have to give up our right to ever talk to anybody about what happened,” said Michael Stephenson, Velarde’s lawyer. “We aren’t willing to do that.” Uber declined to comment on the lawsuit and cases like these can end up settling even after the trial begins. In court filings, it has argued that “Uber does not belong in this case.” Velarde is asking a jury to hold the company liable for injuries that are “completely untethered” from Uber or its app, the company said.

Tricia Cotham, a Democrat who supported abortion rights, was encouraged to run for a state House seat by powerful Republicans. After she was elected, she joined them and delivered a G.O.P. supermajority.

O’Shae Sibley, 28, was vogueing when men attacked him with gay slurs and told him to stop. A hate crimes task force is investigating.

Agents with the West Tennessee Drug Task Force have arrested four people after a large-scale drug trafficking operation, possibly the largest in West Tennessee, was discovered inside a former Humboldt, Tennessee, Walmart.

The large X sign hastily installed atop the Market Street headquarters of Elon Musk’s rebranded Twitter disappeared Monday morning following neighborhood controversy and at least two thwarted inspection attempts.

MY FIRST RESIDENCY WAS RUN by a private equity firm, so I got an early window into what was in store for health care. The idea of family medicine training is that we practice medicine “cradle to grave.” By the time you’re finished with your residency, you can handle 85 percent of all medical concerns: prenatal care, labor and delivery, preventative medicine across all ages, pediatric visits, chronic disease management, acute concerns, reproductive health. If you look at some of the modeling for well-functioning health care systems, 50 percent of all their doctors are either family doctors or primary care physicians. Here, that number is less than one-third. The way medicine is corporatized in this country makes it extremely difficult and thankless to practice family medicine as it was intended. In fact, it’s hard to even train a family physician, because community hospitals where physicians might do all those things under one roof or even in one neighborhood are bordering on extinction. There was a lot of media attention in the aftermath of Dobbs about abortion deserts, but in all those same areas you have maternity wards closing every few weeks, and now this vast effort to outlaw gender-affirming care. As a family doctor, it is difficult to separate the culture-war stuff from an ideological project to justify the deprivation of poor and working-class people of their right to health care, and the intimidation of doctors who advocate for them.

Practitioners of “race change to another,” or RCTA, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to truly become a different race.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

Safely spending some time outdoors when it’s sweltering out could help build up your tolerance to hotter conditions.

A man died from electrocution on Sunday after jumping into Lake Lanier, a destination that has built a reputation among some as "haunted." Lake Lanier is located in Northern Georgia, situated next to Gainesville and roughly 40 miles northeast of Atlanta. A manmade reservoir opened to the public in 1956, the lake has gained a reputation as one of the deadliest bodies of water in the United States, with over 700 deaths reported across its nearly six-decade history.

At least 42 people were killed and over 130 injured when a suicide bomber set off explosives at a political rally in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said.

You don’t say.

Don’t be fooled — cutting interest rates is just another way to accomplish debt forgiveness, this time through the back door. (won't someone think about the starving debt collection agencies?)

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned. The e-books will be available to readers for free via the Palace e-reader app.

Aspiring theocrats want to install Old Testament justice in America: “Society itself has to be the one to purge the evil”

“It’s denial.”

The suspension drew allegations of censorship from right-wing users, while his reinstatement angered people who don’t enjoy looking at child porn.