An academic study has revealed a troubling trend: 3 million Texas workers paid less than minimum wage, and $99 million in judgments from the Texas Workforce Commission that are essentially being ignored by employers. For Texas to attract the workforce it needs, those numbers must improve. A study by Rutgers University’s Workplace Justice Lab@RU, in partnership with the Workers Defense Project, revealed that wage theft — the practice of withholding wages already earned — has cost Texas workers at least $12 billion over the past 14 years. Most disheartening, even workers whose complaints are upheld by the Texas Workforce Commission don’t always get what they earned. When the agency verifies a case of stolen wages, its judgment is called “ordered wages.” More than 39,000 cases of ordered wages haven’t been paid, the study found. The problem is almost certainly bigger than those numbers depict. Many workers are reluctant to file claims, preferring to avoid scrutiny or possible retaliation. Those who do can’t always navigate the red tape or prove their case. What’s clearly broken is the low collection rate even for those cases where wage theft is verified. According to the report, 80% of wages ordered by the Texas Workforce Commission between 2010 and 2020 have gone uncollected.

Promoted accounts are one of the oldest ad formats offered on the platform. The ads appear as text-based posts within the X timeline and include a "Follow" button for the account promoting them. But follower ads, while easy to sell, are static. They don't leverage any of the multi-media tools, like video, that X is trying to lean into. (SCOOP: WORLD’S DUMBEST MAN PIVOTING TO VIDEO IN 2023)

*sad trombone noise*

Supply alone will not solve a problem that large sections of the population don’t want to fix

The latest in District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

Former NFL player Michael Oher, whose life story was portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie “The Blind Side,” has filed a petition in a Tennessee court to end Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s conservatorship over him.

Still, in interviews, Florida Republicans described an aloof governor who believed in “sticks and no carrots,” according to a senior Florida official, and whose idea of negotiating was “my way or the highway,” in the words of another. An insular governor who infrequently talked to some senior members in his own Cabinet, including his top law enforcement officials, or other leading Republicans. A congressman who seemed to avoid any opportunity to make friends with others in the delegation. A politician who rarely tried to connect with donors and supporters and seemed to not enjoy being around crowds or attending events. A governor who sometimes declined to participate in a lot of the customary niceties in politics, such as thank you notes and calls to donors.

The mysterious attacks began on July 11. “Strange beings,” locals said, visiting an isolated Indigenous community in rural Peru at night, harassing its inhabitants and attempting to kidnap a 15-year-old girl. “These gentlemen are aliens. They seem armored like the green goblin from Spider Man. I have shot one twice and it didn’t fall. Instead, it elevated and disappeared,” Jairo Reátegui Ávila, a local leader of the Indigenous Ikitu group living in the northwestern Maynas province, told Peruvian radio station RPP Noticias on August 1. “We’re frightened by what is happening in the community.” “Their color is silver, their shoes are round in shape and with those, they rise up. They float one meter high and have a red light on their heel,” said Ávila. “Their heads are long, their mask is long, and their eyes are sort of yellowish.”

After a June gathering in Fort Worth sponsored by a new company, Influenceable, social media leaders began backing the suspended Texas attorney general and a controversial human trafficking film. Those who favor transparency in political advocacy are concerned.

Eventually, two and a half hours after the pain started, the expectant mother said she was allowed to leave the Middleton Unit. As quickly as the pain would allow her, Issa drove to a nearby hospital, where doctors rushed her into emergency surgery after being unable to find a fetal heartbeat. The baby was delivered stillborn. If Issa had gotten to the hospital sooner, medical personnel told her, the baby would have survived, the lawsuit claims.

Rutgers’ time in the Big Ten, college football's most lucrative conference, has been a competitive and financial nightmare.

A fighter jet performing at an air show near Willow Run Airport crashed on Sunday, just seconds after two pilots ejected from the aircraft.

Scientists also unearthed body of medieval woman at the site last year who was also buried with a padlock attached to foot

The postmaster general has struck up an unexpected partnership with the president’s green guru, John Podesta. *barf*

A defiant Trump triumphantly takes the oath of office and becomes the 47th president of the United States. He makes his way to a small table nearby with the presidential seal affixed and an aide hands him a document. The new president, the second in history to serve nonsequential terms, signs it, pardoning himself.

But critics of the strategy are plentiful as well. Benson’s Stanford colleague Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric scientist, calls the program “a boondoggle” and “a complete waste of money.” He argues that because DAC requires so much energy to capture CO2, purify it, and pump it underground for permanent storage, it is one of the most expensive and inefficient ways to sequester carbon. A better climate strategy, Jacobson says, would be to simply spend the money on building out renewable energy faster, so that coal and natural gas electricity plants can be retired more quickly.

The experiments at Fermilab are not the only ones to suggest the possibility of a fifth force: work at the LHC has also produced tantalising findings, albeit with a different type of experiment looking at the rate at which muons and electrons are produced as certain particles decay.

A top Republican pollster shows DeSantis now polling third behind Donald Trump and biopharma executive Vivek Ramaswamy.

While policies like redlining helped entrench housing discrimination, it was real estate agents who laid its foundations — and they should be held accountable.

[from a couple weeks ago before the fires] Popular among visitors to Hawaii, the hotels and resorts lining the South Maui beaches in Kihei and Wailea are lush and green, with many pools, water slides and fountains. But this is all a facade. The coastline is actually dry, receiving less than 10 inches of water per year. It gets the majority of its water from Central Maui — the area of Kahului and around Wailuku — where residents are sometimes urged to conserve. “The fact is that the people where the water originates are hurting for water,” Lucienne de Naie, chairperson for Sierra Club Maui Group, told SFGATE. “There are definitely shortages of water from overtourism, and those shortages of water are impacting an area we call Na Wai Eha.” In English, Na Wai Eha means “the Four Waters.” It refers to the four streams and rivers that flow out of the West Maui Mountains to Central Maui. Hawaiians used the abundant resource to cultivate taro farms and farm fishponds for subsistence living, but that changed following colonization and the sugar plantation industry. Today, much of the water is diverted, and Central Maui residents continue to dispute its allocations.