Four hundred and fifty-five miles of Interstate 80 run through Nebraska. But one 24-mile stretch has become nationally known – or notorious – for a type of traffic stop that sends millions to a single Nebraska county and its sheriff’s department.

The private club, which has included Reagan and Nixon among its members, is accused of failing to pay overtime and not giving breaks (but I'm sure they have no judicial connections to leverage)

A 21-year-old farm worker from Wisconsin who was caught having sex with a female donkey is headed to jail -- after asking a judge to revoke his more lenient initial sentence. Gideon Swartzentruber was originally only ordered to spend a year on probation, undergo counseling and pay a $443 fine after confessing to the sordid sexual encounter at a barn in Neillsville in September, according to the Marshfield News Herald.

Last week, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a teenager in Massachusetts on allegations of providing financial support to the Islamic State group. A flurry of reports picked up on the arrest of Mateo Ventura, an 18-year-old resident of the sleepy town of Wakefield, echoing government claims that an international terrorist financier and ISIS supporter had just been busted in the United States. The Department of Justice’s own press release on the case likewise trumpeted Ventura’s arrest for “knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization.” The only “terrorist” he is accused of ever being in contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him online as a 16-year-old. The only problem with the case and how it has been described, however, is that according to the government’s own criminal complaint, Ventura had never actually funded any terrorist group. The only “terrorist” he is accused of ever being in contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him online as a 16-year-old, solicited small cash donations in the form of gift cards, and directed him not to tell anyone else about their intimate online relationship, including his family.

When they asked the woman why she was wearing only a towel, she reportedly answered, “I was too lazy to put clothes on.”

Social media spying by the Army’s Protective Services Battalion is supposed to keep an eye on embarrassing posts about generals.

She rarely gets more than 500 views per clip, but Dean’s “case study” videos are compelling: She mounts an argument, case by case, that the review ecosystem is filled with enough deceit that it negates any benefits of using Yelp. And it goes beyond Yelp: She’s made videos about posts she believes to be fake on Google Reviews, Trustpilot, Healthgrade and the Better Business Bureau.

It’s been dubbed “DNA Drive Day.” Get a free DNA test to learn more about your ancestry and to whom you are related. The caveat: Those genetic matches may help police identify human remains or link a distant relative to a crime. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan is co-hosting the first-of-its-kind event in the state on Saturday in the parking lot at Newton City Hall, where people can take a free FamilyTreeDNA test from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The goal is to get people — particularly those with missing family members — to understand they can “take some concrete action” to try to help police solve missing and unidentified persons cases by sharing their genealogy test results, she said. At the same time, Ryan said, participants will be told that their DNA matches could help lead police to a suspect in a violent crime. The DNA drive comes as investigators have been making enormous strides in solving cases through investigative genetic genealogy — essentially identifying victims and suspects by uploading their DNA profiles to genealogy databases and searching for relatives.

A near-supermajority of California voters want Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign from office, and her approval rating has fallen off a cliff, according to polling out Monday from Emerson College. The poll, conducted from June 4 to June 7 among 1,056 California voters, shows that 63% of respondents believe Feinstein should step aside, compared to 37% who believe she should finish her term through 2024, when she’d be 91 years old. Her approval rating is at just 22%, compared to 48% disapproval and 31% no opinion. The poll has a 2.9% margin of error.

Could the opportunity for the public to bet on the Special Olympics World Games this week ignite a movement of added exposure to the event or will it lead to controversy?

Press freedom and civil liberties groups nationwide expressed their disappointment at the conviction by a jury of Asheville Blade journalists Matilda Bliss and Veronica Coit for violating a park curfew by recording police evicting a homeless encampment on Christmas night of 2021. “We don’t have secret police in the United States,” said Seth Stern, Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation. “Officers are not entitled to operate without press and public scrutiny just because it’s dark out. The Constitution requires that journalists be given sufficient access to public land to report the news, no matter the time.” The judge reportedly instructed the jury not to consider the constitutionality of the charges against Coit and Bliss. He orally denied their motion to dismiss on First Amendment grounds (a written ruling will follow). He was wrong, as the Department of Justice made clear the same day as the verdict in its report on its investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department: “Blanket enforcement of dispersal orders and curfews against press violates [the First Amendment] because they foreclose the press from reporting.”

On Friday, June 16, Buncombe County District Attorney Todd Williams confirmed a Superior Court jury found Asheville Blade journalists Matilda Bliss and Veronica Coit guilty of misdemeanor second-degree trespass from an incident back in December 2021. The Freedom of the Press Foundation said the two journalists were arrested while covering a police sweep of a homeless encampment at Aston Park and the protest that followed on Christmas night in 2021. The basis for their arrests was that the park closed at 10 p.m., so Bliss and Coit were charged with trespassing.

One of the men recently worked for a local government, a city manager told Raw Story.

Water quality leaders are discussing ways to prevent manatees from dying. Right now statistics show manatees are dying at an unusual rate.

Clients of far-right registrar Epik fear that the recent sale was a ruse to avoid paying them funds wrongfully converted into Masterbucks.

MOHELA is the key plaintiff in the case, Nebraska v. Biden, because no federal judge has yet found any other plaintiff with standing to sue—that is, a plaintiff who can say they are harmed by the administration’s plan to forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 in student debt. Putting aside whether the HEROES Act grants the Education Department the authority to forgive debt after an emergency (there’s strong reason to believe it does), standing is fundamental to our system of jurisprudence. The working theory is that MOHELA, which collects monthly payments from student borrowers on behalf of the government and receives a servicing fee, would lose revenue if many of the loans they service were canceled. The first problem that arises is that MOHELA has admitted in a letter to Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) that their executives “were not involved with the decision of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to file for the preliminary injunction in federal court.” Indeed, MOHELA has no relationship with the AG’s office, which was only able to obtain documents from the servicer through state sunshine law requests. The Supreme Court would be allowing the plaintiffs to win their case thanks to an unwilling conspirator. Missouri has tried to paper over this by saying that if MOHELA lost revenue from debt cancellation, it might be unable to repay a $105 million obligation to the “Lewis and Clark Discovery Fund,” which funds in-state schools in the state. But in Supreme Court oral arguments, it was revealed that MOHELA hasn’t made a contribution to that fund in 15 years. MOHELA has also said in its own financial documents that it doesn’t plan to make any Lewis and Clark payments in the future.

Some tech companies are reportedly filing multiple H1-B visa applications for prospective employees.

Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, he leaked a top-secret history of the conflict, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case.

Two southwest Oklahoma police officers who fatally shot an unarmed Black man have been ordered by an arbitrator to be reinstated, according to an attorney for the two officers. Ex-Lawton Officers Robert Hinkle and Nathan Ronan were fired following the December 2021 shooting death of 29-year-old Quadry Sanders while investigating reports of a man waving a gun inside a home. Both officers have been charged with manslaughter by prosecutors, who said Sanders was unarmed .Body camera footage released by the Lawton Police Department shows Sanders appeared from around a refrigerator, his hands visible and appearing to holding a ball cap.

Mexico fans are yet still again chanting an anti-gay slur at American soccer players on U.S. soil during the two teams’ CONCACAF match Thursday night. This has been a regular occurrence for fans of Mexico, chanting anti-gay slurs at Team USA players or anyone else their favorite team plays. It’s become a ridiculous joke. US Soccer has claimed that they are taking this seriously, though they have taken absolutely zero punitive actions to curb the chant. They had the opportunity to act on a friendly in April, but their inaction has emboldened Mexico fans for this match. US Soccer and others like CONCACAF seem to think they can curb the anti-gay chant with stadium announcements and veiled threats. They cannot.