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Running for president, Kennedy told me, “is a lot easier” than he’d assumed it would be. Having worked for his uncle’s 1980 race, in which the candidate had given 12 speeches a day and was “always on,” Kennedy had imagined presidential campaigns as “this terrible marathon where you’re exhausted and it never stops.” The modern campaign, he told me, is a breeze: “You can actually do retail politics without leaving your house because of the podcast.”

Vietnam has banned Warner Bros' highly-anticipated film "Barbie" from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China's unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday.

Charges against Officer Kenneth Cha for the 2017 killing of Sean Moore to be dismissed, the third police shooting case dropped this year. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will dismiss San Francisco’s last police shooting case, filed by her predecessor and one-time campaign rival Chesa Boudin, for the killing of Sean Moore by Officer Kenneth Cha. It is the third and final police shooting case brought by Boudin only to be dropped by Jenkins. Kenneth Blackmon, Moore’s brother, said Sunday evening that he was informed by the lead prosecutor on the case, Assistant District Attorney Darby Williams, that the DA’s office would drop the charges against Cha. “I was sitting at home on Friday, and I get a phone call,” said Blackmon, saying Williams was on the phone asking to speak to him and his mother. The prosecutor then told him, “‘I just want to inform you that I filed a motion to dismiss the case today.’” “I was like, ‘What?’” Blackmon said, adding that he felt “angry” about the decision, and quickly ended the call. “I just said, ‘I want to end this conversation right now, because this is totally wack.’” “I’m very angry, I’m beyond angry,” he added. “I’m in disbelief, to be honest with you.” Williams did not give Blackmon a reason for the dismissal, except to say that it was related to actions by a “former prosecutor.”

ast September, while working at his desk in Philadelphia, Samuel R. Delany experienced a mysterious episode that he calls “the big drop.” His vision faded for about three minutes, and he felt his body plunge, as if the floor had fallen away. When he came to, everything looked different, though he couldn’t say exactly how. Delany, who is eighty-one, began to suspect that he’d suffered a mini-stroke. His daughter, Iva, an emergency-room physician, persuaded him to go to the hospital, but the MRI scans were inconclusive. The only evidence of a neurological event was a test result indicating that he had lost fifteen per cent of his capacity to form new memories—and a realization, in the following weeks, that he was unable to finish his novel in progress, “This Short Day of Frost and Sun.” After publishing more than forty books in half a century, the interruption was, he told me, both “a loss and a relief.”

Monday morning, and now money is starting to talk.

One mayor of one small Mexican town wed one crocodile bride inside one long-time-old ritual for prosperity.

A white California woman who styled herself on social media as a “mom influencer” has been ordered to spend three months in prison for falsely accusing a Latino couple of attempting to kidnap her children. State jurors in Sonoma county found 30-year-old Kathleen “Katie” Sorensen guilty in April of knowingly making a false report of a crime in a case that involved her publishing a December 2020 social media post that asserted a man and a woman had tried to steal her two children from her in the parking lot of a Michaels craft store about 40 miles (65km) outside San Francisco. Authorities said both the accused couple and store surveillance video “resoundingly contradicted” the account given to them by Sorensen. And on Thursday, Judge Laura Passaglia gave a 90-day prison sentence to Sorensen, two months of which could be served through a work release program, according to a statement from the local district attorney’s office.

In a country beset by regular bouts of unrest, it can be hard to criticize a force under strain, but experts say authorities must heed accusations of rampant racism and other fundamental problems within the ranks.

Yeah, they hate this guy now.

Recently, Twitter was changed to only be accessible to logged-in users. Before, users that browsed while not logged in would eventually be prompted to create an account or sign in. Now people can’t even access the site unless they have an account currently logged in. This has resulted in Twitter requesting data that never comes, creating what’s essentially a feedback loop that could be overloading their servers.

Satellite imagery, sealed court documents and interviews with survivors suggest that hundreds of deaths were preventable. From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast of Greece in a slowly unfolding humanitarian disaster. As terrified passengers telephoned for help, humanitarian workers assured them that a rescue team was coming. European border officials, watching aerial footage, prepared to witness what was certain to be a heroic operation. Yet the Adriana capsized and sank in the presence of a single Greek Coast Guard ship last month, killing more than 600 migrants in a maritime tragedy that was shocking even for the world’s deadliest migrant route. Satellite imagery, sealed court documents, more than 20 interviews with survivors and officials, and a flurry of radio signals transmitted in the final hours suggest that the scale of death was preventable. Dozens of officials and coast guard crews monitored the ship, yet the Greek government treated the situation like a law enforcement operation, not a rescue. Rather than send a navy hospital ship or rescue specialists, the authorities sent a team that included four masked, armed men from a coast guard special operations unit. The Greek authorities have repeatedly said that the Adriana was sailing to Italy, and that the migrants did not want to be rescued. But satellite imagery and tracking data obtained by The New York Times show definitively that the Adriana was drifting in a loop for its last six and a half hours. And in sworn testimony, survivors described passengers on the ship’s upper decks calling for help and even trying to jump aboard a commercial tanker that had stopped to provide drinking water.

No, there isn’t a pile of tires on fire nearby; what you smell is smoke from the wildfires You may have noticed by now that the smoke from this year’s fire season has been more dense and potent than previous years. Some people may have also noticed recently that the smoke has transitioned from a campfire-like smell to more of a burning plastic or rubbery smell. Well, unfortunately, neither observations are just your imaginations. In fact, some locations in Ontario will be making the list of the worst air quality in the world in the coming days. The wildfires in Canada this year, especially the fires in Quebec, have produced so much smoke that our overseas neighbours in Europe and neighbours to the south have also been experiencing our hazy skies. Recently, many Ontarians have noted that the smoky skies are now coming with a burnt plastic smell rather than the classic smell of burning wood that we have become accustomed to over the last few weeks. With that, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there is in fact not a plastic fire burning anywhere, but the bad news is that there isn’t a plastic fire burning anywhere – meaning the wildfire smoke has been in the atmosphere for so long that chemistry is happening.

The spill of highly radioactive waste beneath a building on the Hanford nuclear reservation north of Richland and near the Columbia River is both deeper and broader than anticipated. In a statement Thursday, the Department of Energy said the contamination in the soil at the Hanford 324 Building 1,000 feet from the Columbia River and a mile north of Richland is “much larger” than previously identified. Now the Department of Energy is rethinking the cleanup plan for the spill discovered 13 years ago, with work crews making preparations for the excavation of the radioactive material over the past six years. The spill of cesium and strontium in the soil beneath the 324 Building is so radioactively hot that it would be lethal to a worker on direct contact within two minutes, DOE has said previously.

The rare attack happened on Selden Neck Island in Connecticut's Selden Neck State Park, state officials said. Three adults killed the bobcat.

Fifa has confirmed that players in Australia and New Zealand will not be able to wear the rainbow armband, with eight alternative options instead

An all-female team tracked it down amid deadly snakes and 50C heat in a forest known as 'hell on Earth'.

If you’re not logged into your Twitter account and try to view a tweet, you’ll be presented with a sign-in screen. And if you don’t want to have an account on the bird app, too bad! Twitter hasn’t commented on this change, and given how sloppy the platform has been since Elon Musk’s takeover, it might just be a glitch. However, in a time when Twitter is struggling to grow its user base, it’s possible that this is a tactic to force silent lurkers into creating an account. Like many of Twitter’s recent changes, this could easily backfire. If tweets aren’t publicly accessible, search engine algorithms could rank the site’s content lower, meaning that fewer people would be directed to the site from Google. Also, it’s just kind of annoying.

In the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchforks and torches” unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis. At an investment conference organised by Spear’s wealth management magazine, members of the global elite and their financial teams were told by progressive advisers that there was a “real risk of actual insurrection” and “civil disruption” if the yawning inequality gap between rich and poor was allowed to widen as a result of energy and food price hikes hitting squeezed households. Julia Davies, a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a group of super-rich people calling for the introduction of a wealth tax, warned that global poverty and the climate emergency were going to get “so much worse” unless the wealthy did more to help poorer citizens.

“Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people,” Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion