The attempted coup in Niger is the latest in a long line of military uprisings in West Africa, many of them led by U.S.-trained officers.

The political mainstream is blind to their allure Much as the mainstream parties have failed to stop it, liberal commentators have also struggled to comprehend the phenomenon. They blame the party’s rise on extraneous factors, from an insufficiently democratic culture in the east (where the AfD enjoys extensive support) to Russian disinformation. A new taboo seems to have been erected around even discussions of the AfD’s popularity, whereby attempting to understand their rise is seen as some kind of endorsement. But the reality is that the party has benefitted from saying out loud the ugly things that others won’t. It would be simpler if the AfD could be shrugged off as another evanescent populist movement. But while gaining from a generalised political dissatisfaction, in their language and rhetoric, they give voice to some fundamental objections to Germany’s political culture — some of which date back to the refounding of the modern nation in 1989.

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – The case of an alleyway shootout would gain local infamy since the father and son were arrested in September 2018. As accounts go, the Millers and their alleyway neighbor, Howard, were arguing in the alley over a box spring discarded between their homes. As arguments escalated into a shouting and cursing match, Howard’s then fiancé, Kara Box, took out her phone to film the fight.

For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people in Arizona have been burned just by falling on the ground. “Summers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is really unusual — the number of patients that we’re seeing and the severity of injuries — the acuity of injuries is much higher,” said Dr. Kevin Foster, director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health. “The numbers are higher and the seriousness of injuries are higher, and we don’t have a good explanation for it.” Every single one of the 45 beds in the burn center is full, he said, and one-third of patients are people who fell and burned themselves on the ground. There are also burn patients in the ICU, and about half of those patients are people burned after falls.

, this is not surprising, but unfortunate. With the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to be debated in a Congressional hearing on Thursday, the White House had President Joe Biden come out and give a full throated endorsement of the horrible, dangerous, bill that will damage privacy and harm children. We’ve got to hold — we’ve got to hold these platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on — on our children for profit. Later this week, senators will debate legislation to protect kids’ privacy online, which I’ve been calling for for two years. It matters. Pass it, pass it, pass it, pass it, pass it. I really mean it. Think about it. Do you ever get a chance to look at what your kids are looking at online? But that’s not even remotely close to accurate about anything. Remember, the Republicans have been quite vocal about how they support KOSA because they know they can use it to suppress LGBTQ voices. They flat out said that they believe that “keeping trans content away from children is protecting kids.”

One person died as fire took hold of the ship as it burned off the Dutch island of Ameland.

A collapse of Amoc would have disastrous consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and west Africa. It would increase storms and drop temperatures in Europe, and lead to a rising sea level on the eastern coast of North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told OutKick that Disney's Florida-based employees sided with his government's position amid its feud with the company over parents' rights in education.

U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's proposed deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to tax charges and avoid a gun charge hit a snag on Wednesday when the judge in the case said she needed more time to review their agreement.

A former Air Force intelligence officer has testified that the U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects.

A few minutes later, the Senate minority leader walked back to the news conference by himself.

Two sisters and a teenage son moved to a Colorado campsite last July, living off canned food. They had wanted to take a break from a world that distressed them, a local coroner said.

Multiple injuries have been reported after a crane caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, officials said

The viral TikTok "perpetual stew" has been cooking for over a month and is drawing hungry crowds of soup lovers from near and far.

Sherrie Curry walked past an unused library at Shadydale Elementary School each day for years, watching books collect dust on the shelves. It bothered the teacher enough that she went back to school to earn a master's degree in library science and spent the next four years rejuvenating the library with hundreds of new books purchased through grants, STEM activities and bean bag chairs placed among seasonal decorations. Curry sang and danced anytime boxes of new books arrived, hoping they would help cultivate in her students the passion for reading that has helped her navigate life since her own childhood. When she left the role this spring, burned out from juggling extra responsibilities, Curry knew she was leaving the library in good shape. The book check-out rate had more than tripled under her watch, she said, with students cramming books into their backpacks to carry home. She left a welcome note for the next librarian and hoped her successor would keep building on her years-long push to instill among students a strong reading culture. Instead, Curry was crushed this summer to learn that her former students and scores more Black and Hispanic children attending school in northeast Houston will return next month to campuses with no librarians or even libraries.

Part of the old sign was taken down before San Francisco police interrupted the work to see whether there was a permit to close a lane of traffic, NBC Bay Area reported.

On Saturday, @desantiscams, an anonymous pro-DeSantis account followed by several of his campaign aides, tweeted out a video bashing former President Trump for not building a border wall and for promoting the COVID-19 vaccine. The video hyped up DeSantis to the tune of Kate Bush's "Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)," and ended with an image of DeSantis in the center of Florida's state seal — which then morphs into a rotating Sonnenrad.

Republicans and Democrats are joining forces to stop people from voting against the massive police facility.