Neighbors have made at least two dozen complaints to the city’s Buildings Department claiming Paladino is using her home as illegally-converted “boarding house.” Her son blames a “disgruntled neighbor.”

The fringe outlet Creative Destruction Media posts content attacking purported “Black and brown invaders from Northern Africa and the MidEast” with “a primitive culture”; advising readers to arm themselves against transgender people; and falsely claiming that the 2020 election was “fraudulent” and “stolen” from Donald Trump.

He was synonymous with the New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and ‘70s, when young filmmakers wrested creative control from studio suits.

Gen Con 2023 is in full swing, but the day before the festivities started, a heist occurred on the show floor. Per Indianapolis’ WRTV, the tabletop game convention had over $300,000 worth of cards stolen from the show floor. Dicebreaker reported that the theft occurred on Wednesday, August 2 as vendors were setting up for the event at the Indiana Convention Center. Police in the area claim the thieves used a pallet jack to remove a pallet of cards, which allowed them to blend in since everyone was moving product around the convention floor that day. Dicebreaker further noted that the theft was pulled off with two thieves. At time of writing, it’s unknown which specific cards were stolen, and what company (or companies) they belonged to.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg put a proposed mixed martial arts bout with Twitter buyer Elon Musk back in play Sunday by saying, "I'm ready."

The Department of Labor plans to reverse the neoliberal-era gutting of a law that stopped contractors from bidding down wages in federal procurement.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE — Inside the walls of a derelict seaside swimming resort in Weston-super-Mare, UK, mysterious construction over the last month—including a dingy looking Disney-like castle and a gargantuan rainbow-colored pinwheel tangled in plastic—suggested something big was afoot. Suspicion and anticipation surrounding the unusual activity attributed to fabled artist and provocateur Banksy has reached a Willy Wonka-esque fervor. Well, if Banksy’s your bag, continue fervoring. If not, there’s more than a few reasons to continue reading.

Energy gain in this context only compares the energy generated to the energy in the lasers, not to the total amount of energy pulled off the grid to power the system, which is much higher. Scientists estimate that commercial fusion will require reactions that generate between 30 and 100 times the energy in the lasers.

Athletes competing on stretch of UK coastline where reduced water quality at centre of dispute over sewage discharges

A new law allowing Illinoisans to sue so-called crisis pregnancy centers under the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act is on hold after a federal judge late Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against it. After a lengthy hearing in his Rockford courtroom, Judge Iain Johnston issued a brief oral ruling on Thursday evening, saying the law violated the First Amendment. Nearly 24 hours later, Johnston on Friday filed a 14-page order explaining the preliminary injunction, which began by recalling a joke told by the late conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “Justice Scalia once said that he wished all federal judges were given a stamp that read ‘stupid but constitutional,’” Johnston wrote. “SB 1909 is both stupid and very likely unconstitutional.” Johnston, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2020, went on to characterize the law as “likely classic content and viewpoint discrimination prohibited by the First Amendment.”

The National Pastime meets the Sweet Science.

Germany faces the most serious challenge by a far-right party since World War II, one expert said this week, with the hardline AfD party climbing to second place in opinion polls.

The demand for lithium for EV batteries is driving a mining boom in an arid Andes region of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, home to half the world’s reserves. Hydrologists are warning the mines could drain vital ecosystems and deprive Indigenous communities of precious water.

A famous video game influencer known for streaming on Twitch is in custody after a giveaway event attracting thousands of young people sparked pandemonium in Manhattan’s Union Square. The Friday afternoon event advertised by Kai Cenat, one of the most popular streamers online, grew out of control well before its scheduled 4 p.m. start time. Police estimates suggest the crowd…

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz said books he has written are not allowed to be sold at the Martha’s Vineyard book fair because he is a staunch defender of former President Donald Trump. Dershowitz defended Trump at his first impeachment trial and has made numerous television appearances on right-wing media to defend the ex-president against the criminal charges levied against him in multiple venues. But at what cost? Appearing on Newsmax’s The Record, Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren his books have become pariahs on the posh resort island of Martha’a Vineyard in Massachusetts. Van Susteren remarked how those who defend Trump – who was arraigned on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his attempt to overturn the 2020 election – are sometimes shunned. “I used to represent people charged with murder,” Van Susteren said, referring to her past career as an attorney. “I never got ostracized. And I was never for murdering or anything, but you dare represent Donald Trump, you’re gonna be ostracized–”

A boy denied booze at a luxury Upper East Side hotel has since mounted a campaign of defamation, sending paid protesters to chant strange allegations that the five-star destination denies the Holocaust, supports Jeffrey Epstein and has mice, according to court records, video and workers. The Mark Hotel on East 77th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues — whose visitors include Met Gala guests and Angelina Jolie — filed a defamation lawsuit against Theodore Weintraub in July, court records show. Workers told Patch the would-be imbiber has been spotted sitting in a parked Cadillac across the street, smirking as protesters-for-hire chant at his behest. “The Mark has mice, The Mark supports Epstein, pedophiles, bald head,’" the protesters chant, one worker told Patch.

An Orange County, California, judge is under arrest, suspected in the fatal shooting of his wife, authorities say. Pictured: Orange County. How did you get your sausage fingers through a trigger guard, Judge Fed? This guy’s court is #1 in the nation for gravy forfeitures. It’s now also fat joke Friday, and you can’t get mad at me because I am also fat.

The FCC ordered a record $300 million forfeiture, but whether and when that money will be paid is, as always, something of an open question.

Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker, who are Black.

A husband and wife cyber-crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year in New York after police traced their riches back to the crypto heist. While evading police, Morgan masqueraded as a rapper and tech entrepreneur. As part of a plea deal, Lichtenstein admitted he was behind the hack. The couple both pleaded guilty to money laundering, but Morgan pleaded guilty to an additional count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. In spite of attempting to cover up her crimes, Morgan published dozens of expletive-filled music videos and rap songs filmed in locations around New York, under the name Razzlekhan. In her lyrics she called herself a "bad-ass money maker" and "the crocodile of Wall Street".