Miners in southwest Virginia have high rates of advanced black lung disease. The largest cluster of cases ever reported was in Virginia in 2018.Now, federal regulators say they could be close to releasing new rules that will help protect miners.

His new book Manhood advocates for a return to ancient values of family and masculinity. In reality, it reveals the Missouri senator’s weird fixations.

Earlier this month, a D.C. tenant named Christine Corbin approached her assistant property manager to discuss notices about forming a tenant association in her apartment building that residents said were being taken down. Moments later, the assistant property manager, a man identified by Corbin in a video as Dexter Clements grabbed a can of pepper spray, stood up and appeared to spray it in her face as she screamed, according to video of the incident that Corbin shot on her cell phone. “I’m not sure you likely did, but if you took the signs down about us forming a tenant association, that’s illegal,” Corbin tells Clements in the video. Clements then tells Corbin he already received her email and asks her to leave the office. “You already emailed us, so you can just leave the office,” Clements says on the video. Corbin then says, “Just so you know, this is Dexter Clements, and he is the most unpleasant officer–” at which point Clements stands up and thrusts something in Corbin’s face. Corbin screams, says “I just got pepper sprayed,” and adds that she will call the police. She was treated and released at a hospital emergency room, she told NBC Washington.

Social credit systems, whether formal or informal, are used to keep individuals in line with the elites’ narratives-of-the-day. Step out of line, and you may find that your social standing, job or assets are targeted as a means to attack your freedoms, including your wealth-building opportunities. If you are a businessperson and you step out of line, or even don’t conform to the desires of the elites, you are attacked using an emerging business social credit system: ESG. This bastardization of capital allocation is so powerful that it can even come for those with substantial wealth and power, like the richest man in the universe — Elon Musk.

Most of the people who were cleared from the square remain unhoused, the city said. And some have been evicted repeatedly from solo camp sites across D.C. In an effort to escape the cycle of evictions that afflict the estimated more than 800 unsheltered adults in the nation’s capital, Brown had made her way to this grassy slice of Northeast Washington called Loomis Park — a place she hoped would be far enough out of sight to afford her some peace. But in mid-May, she learned there was no outrunning the District’s encampment enforcement. City data shows that D.C. has increasingly leaned on an emergency protocol to displace unsheltered adults with little notice. This practice has largely been used to clear solo campers, even those in the District’s most far-flung corners. Using this protocol, D.C. has forced some of Brown’s former McPherson neighbors to move as many as six times since February. Advocates say the practice, known as an “immediate disposition,” has made it harder for outreach workers to keep track of individuals and connect them to services. It also makes it virtually impossible for unhoused residents to assert their rights or challenge the city’s actions, lawyers said. City officials, who have been unable to contain the rapid spread of encampments since the start of the pandemic, say the increase in emergency clearings indicates a rise in health and safety hazards among those who live on the street — not a shift in D.C. enforcement

It’s obvious how to make the roads safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers alike. We just don’t do it. Last week, the Governors Highway Safety Association released its annual preliminary report on pedestrian safety in the United States for 2022. It projected that pedestrian deaths will have increased for the 12th consecutive year, nearly doubling from 4,302 in 2010 to an estimated 8,126—the highest number in more than 40 years. Back in April, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its preliminary report on motor vehicle fatalities in 2022, finding a slight decrease from the prior year but still a 32 percent increase compared to 2011. Also last week, ProPublica and FRONTLINE reported that in 2017, the Department of Transportation started writing a report considering possible regulations for side guards on commercial trucks, which would help prevent pedestrians and cyclists from being trapped and crushed underneath. This prompted a furious backlash from the trucking lobby, which was allowed to provide extensive comments on a draft of the report before its publication. Sure enough, the final product contained no recommendations for new regulations. That’s what I call car supremacy in this country. Drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians are maimed and slaughtered at rates that would count as a hair-on-fire emergency in any other rich country. Yet instead of doing anything about that, the government, half paralyzed by bureaucratic inertia and half comically in bed with the various vehicle industries, twiddles its thumbs.

Victims taken to hospital and one suspect taken into custody after incident at University of Waterloo. An eyewitness told the university’s student newspaper that the suspect was a man aged between 20 and 30, who entered the classroom and asked the professor what the class was about. Jinming Li says that the suspect closed the door and pulled out two knives from his backpack and attacked the professor, while students fled to safety.

A University of Georgia football recruit was accused of sexual assault while on a campus visit. How the university responded highlights how the football program rallies around players accused of violence toward women.

What’s curious about the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case is that no actual offense to religious freedoms occurred in the first place.

South Korean content is likely to become even more important to Netflix it seeks to weather the Hollywood writers’ strike. But many writers and producers in the country feel exploited by the streaming giant. In 2019, South Korean writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk pitched Netflix a script for a dystopian thriller about society’s outcasts competing in Korean children’s games for a cash prize. His story had been snubbed by local distributors 10 years earlier for being too outlandish, but Netflix took a chance on it. “Squid Game” turned out to be a bargain beyond compare. Made for about $2.4 million an episode, about a fourth the cost of “Stranger Things,” the nine-part series went on to win six Emmys, set a Netflix record of 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first 28 days of release and — according to internal Netflix documents — increase the value of the company by an estimated $900 million. The show also made Hwang famous — but not rich. In his contract, he had forfeited all intellectual property rights and received no residuals — royalty payments that writers, directors and actors normally receive when their work is reused after an initial broadcast. He said in an interview that “Squid Game” had earned him “enough to put food on the table.”

The Walt Disney Company is the majority owner of the 135-year-old National Geographic. National Geographic is laying off all of its staff writers, according to reports from senior writers Douglas Main and Craig Welch posted on Twitter today (June 28). Staff were informed “a while ago,” according to Main, who worked at the publication for “a wonderful five years,” reporting on animals and wildlife.

When the pool cleaner arrived at the Dunedin, Fla., home on June 15, he carried a flashlight because it was already dark. The homeowner inside didn’t recognize him and mistook him for an intruder trying to break into the house, officials said. Within minutes, Bradley Hocevar — who was inside the home with his wife, Jana — fired his M4 carbine 30 times, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said in a news conference Monday. Karl Polek, the 33-year-old pool cleaner, wasn’t hit by the gunfire but was injured by shattered glass and shrapnel as rounds blasted through a window with closed blinds. Gualtieri, who called the incident “avoidable,” said no crime had been committed, citing Florida’s castle doctrine and “stand your ground” law that allow people to protect themselves using force.

Three recent deaths of hikers in the severe heat of Big Bend and Palo Duro Canyon are a reminder to “respect the desert,” says one ranger.

The Indian manufacturer of cough syrups that Uzbekistan said last year had poisoned 19 children used a toxic industrial-grade ingredient rather than the legitimate pharmaceutical version.

I am keeping this imagineer anonymous for obvious reasons, but they told me they worked at Disney during the 2016 election season. Here’s what they told me…

A new study delves into the intricate psyche of conspiracy theorists, attributing their beliefs to a mixture of personality traits and motivations. The study suggests conspiracy theorists are not necessarily ‘mentally unwell’, but often resort to conspiracy theories to fulfill unmet needs and rationalize distress. Analyzing data from 170 studies with over 158,000 participants, it identifies a need to understand and feel secure in their environment, and a sense of superiority over others as key drivers. In addition, personality traits such as paranoia, insecurity, impulsivity, and egocentrism were found to be common among conspiracy theorists.

South Carolina, where the Civil War began, illustrates the familial ties between the American political elite and the nation’s history of slavery. Every member of the state’s nine-person delegation to the last Congress has an ancestral link. The state’s two Black members of Congress – Senator and Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott and Representative James Clyburn, a powerful Democrat – have forebears who were enslaved. Each of the seven white lawmakers who served in the 117th Congress is a direct descendant of a slaveholder, Reuters found. So too is the state’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster.

In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.

While guns get purchased, programs on drug addiction and job training get cut at city jails.

After the Dobbs decision leaked, the Supreme Court more than doubled its protective detail, despite no evidence of a heightened threat.