A new lawsuit alleges Leonard Leo directed police to arrest man who called him a ‘fucking fascist.’

A Philadelphia woman who was shot in the head by a private security contractor hired to remove her from her home filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Tuesday, challenging the city’s unusual for-profit eviction system. An attorney representing Angel Davis, a former tenant of the Girard Court Apartments who was shot March 29, sued the shooter, the rental company that sought her eviction, and Marisa Shuter, a lawyer who enforced most city evictions as the court-appointed Landlord-Tenant Officer (LTO). Shuter does not have a contract with the city’s Municipal Court, which adjudicates most landlord-tenant disputes. Instead, former President Judge Marsha Neifield Williams appointed her, granting Shuter the right to collect fees from landlords when her team of private deputies evict tenants on their behalf. Those fees, set by the courts, amounted to more than $1 million dollars annually, prior to the pandemic. Davis’s shooting was one of three incidents over the last four months in which a deputized landlord-tenant officer fired a gun during an eviction, spurring protests from housing advocates and scrutiny from lawmakers. Municipal Court President Judge Patrick Dugan ordered Shuter to suspend lockouts last week until Shuter and her officers receive training in use of force and de-escalation.

The price rise hit prisoners seeking bottled water as temperatures eclipse the 100 degree mark in unairconditioned facilities. The state vendor asked to raise the price and two state agencies signed off.

Joy Alonzo, a respected opioid expert, was in a panic. The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during the talk. In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk. “I am in a ton of trouble. Please call me!” she wrote to Chandler Self, the UTMB professor who invited her to speak. Alonzo was right to be afraid. Not only were her supervisors involved, but so was Chancellor John Sharp, a former state comptroller who now holds the highest-ranking position in the Texas A&M University System, which includes 11 public universities and 153,000 students. And Sharp was communicating directly with the lieutenant governor’s office about the incident, promising swift action. Less than two hours after the lecture ended, Patrick’s chief of staff had sent Sharp a link to Alonzo’s professional bio. Shortly after, Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.”

The Mayor and two city council members pushed the city attorney to take formal action this summer to identify several Wikipedia users who were editing the elected officials’ pages.

Twitter may have hit a snag while rolling out its new logo — it seems like Meta already holds the rights to it. Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, announced that the platform will now be called "X," but Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has already registered an "X" logo in connection to "online social networking services" and "social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development."

By combining high-definition maps with sensors that detect changes in the water column, researchers have created a "centimeter-scale" picture of how currents and tides shape the Monterey Canyon.

The Supreme Court’s dark-money operative bought a church near his tony summer home, where neighbors are protesting his political crusade.

Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.

X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, following a tweet from Twitter owner Elon Musk today, and an “interim X logo” will soon replace the Twitter bird logo. Leading up to the change, Musk spent a lot of time tweeting about it. Around 12AM ET last night, he started tweeting — and did so for hours — about the Twitter rebrand to X, the one-letter name he’s used repeatedly in company and product names forever. It started with a tweet saying “soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” followed by a second tweet adding that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.”

Michael Paul Lindsey II, a locomotive conductor and engineer of 17 years, tried to sound the alarm on railroad safety. Not long after, he was fired.

Decades of deregulation have chipped at union power in the freight industry—in order to turn it around, the Teamsters need to show non-unionized workers what a fighting union can do.

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A fatal shooting in New Zealand has revived debate about the country’s gun laws, after two men were killed and 10 others injured in an attack in Auckland. On Friday, police said the men killed were aged in their forties and worked at the construction site where the shooting took place. The gunman was identified as 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, who also worked at the site and died at the scene. Reid entered the construction site on Thursday with a pump-action shotgun, and opened fire as he moved through the 22-floor building. Ten people were injured in the attack, including two police officers.

On Thursday one cyclist decided enough was enough and changed nine signs on the Valencia Street bike lane to say what she was thinking.

A sea otter launched into the national spotlight after images of her aggressively wresting surfboards away from surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California circulated on social media is building a fan club as she continues to evade capture. A team of wildlife experts with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the nearby Monterey Bay Aquarium have been trying to capture the 5-year-old animal, known as otter 841, since last week because they say she poses a public safety risk. They say they want to examine her and relocate her at a zoo or aquarium —as yet to no avail.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he is directing his state government to launch an inquiry into Bud Light's parent company, AB InBev, over its partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. DeSantis, who's running for the GOP presidential nomination, accused the beverage company of not following its "fiduciary duty" to shareholders and pensioners by collaborating with Mulvaney. "When you start pursuing a political agenda at the expense of your shareholders, that’s not just impacting very wealthy people. It impacts hardworking people who were police officers, firefighters and teachers in terms of the pension," DeSantis said in an interview on Fox News.

Tim Burke’s home office is gutted. In May, FBI agents searched his house while looking for evidence related to leaked Fox News footage, including an anti-Semitic rant from Kanye West and behind-the-scenes footage of Tucker Carlson on his now-canceled show. Burke, 44, had his phone, computers, hard drives and other electronic devices confiscated, though he still hasn’t been charged with a crime. On Friday, his lawyers filed a motion to the U.S. Department of Justice demanding that Burke’s devices be returned. Burke also provided a written statement to the Tampa Bay Times, his first public comments to any media outlet since the May 8 FBI search. He and his legal team argue that he didn’t break any laws, and he wants the government to return his equipment and end what he called a “months-long nightmare.” “Finding and reporting on newsworthy content is not a crime, no matter who is embarrassed by the reporting,” Burke said in a statement emailed to the Times.

The court filing claims that the Federalist Society leader, a champion of free speech, urged police to violate the First Amendment rights of a demonstrator near his Maine home.

One former Louder with Crowder employee told Mediaite that he received unsolicited, sexually graphic texts that included photos of Crowder’s genitalia.