Since the early 1960s, the East Durham bowling alley—one of the last in the state to still have wooden lanes—has been a beloved community fixture. This month, it closed for good.

10 current or former Israeli intelligence officers were flown to hospitals in Israel via 2 private jets, a source told VICE News.

The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) has taken its chatbot called Tessa offline, two days before it was set to replace human associates who ran the organization’s hotline. After NEDA workers decided to unionize in early May, executives announced that on June 1, it would be ending the helpline after twenty years and instead positioning its wellness chatbot Tessa as the main support system available through NEDA. A helpline worker described the move as union busting, and the union representing the fired workers said that "a chatbot is no substitute for human empathy, and we believe this decision will cause irreparable harm to the eating disorders community." As of Tuesday, Tessa was taken down by the organization following a viral social media post displaying how the chatbot encouraged unhealthy eating habits rather than helping someone with an eating disorder.

“I live on the Gold Coast and am a keen surfer and diver, and understand that when you enter the marine environment, you are entering territory that belongs to potentially dangerous animals, such as sharks and crocodiles,” McGowan said. "I was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time.”

Earlier this month, Talking Points Memo identified a chain of evidence that strongly suggested Rep. Paul Gosar’s (R-AZ) digital director, Wade Searle, was involved with an interlinked group of social media profiles that were deeply enmeshed with white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes’ viciously antisemitic “Groyper” movement. Details highlighted the accounts’ professed loyalty to the hierarchical hate group and their dedication to Fuentes, who referred to the accounts’ administrator as one of the “strongest soldiers” in his “movement.” The news had some impact: Gosar faced condemnation from President Joe Biden, Congressional Black Caucus chairman Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), and multiple Jewish advocacy groups, including the Republican Jewish Coalition. Some have called for an investigation into the report, though Gosar remains, perhaps predictably, silent. I was a source for TPM on the story, contributing research that I’ve independently collected over years of tracking the far-right in Arizona. And while the revelations in the story were significant, they weren’t necessarily surprising. The Groypers are deeply hateful and grotesque, but Gosar has never been shy in his flirtation with various factions of the fascist far-right, including the Groypers’ leader, Fuentes. Or, as Gosar himself has bragged in the past: “I’m considered the most dangerous man in Congress.”

“They’re not getting off the planet, they’re not going to live forever. They’re just living out their fantasies. They are eugenicists. There’s a reason why they got along with Jeffrey Epstein and Richard Dawkins – people who say genes are the only things that matter, we live in an entirely material universe, there is no soul, humans can be auto-tuned and anything between the ones and zeros is just noise,” he said.

Former Senate staffer who made claim in 2020 appears on Russian media alongside convicted Russian agent in US Maria Butina.

The products are advertised online as a kind of golden ticket that will help propel Trump’s 2024 bid and make the “real patriots” who support him rich when they are cashed in.

Those new laws are forcing every California community to follow through on planning for more housing, and while many communities are dragging their feet, Berkeley has recently granted a planning permit for a 25-story apartment building downtown — dwarfing the city’s current tallest high-rise. Berkeley also appears on track to approve two more towers of comparable size and another that, at 28 stories, will be taller than the university’s famous campanile, which, at 307 feet, has defined the city’s skyline for more than a century. All that new construction was on people’s minds, of course, at the meet-and-greet at North Berkeley BART. People my folks’ age, with faint traces of once-hippie identities still visible around their fuzzy, gray-haired edges, gathered facing a man named Jonathan Stern from BRIDGE Housing, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit developers of affordable housing and the lead on the BART project. Stern lives in Berkeley and dressed diplomatically for the occasion in a red Berkeley High School hoodie. He has also done this countless times, including at other BART stations. Stern reassured everyone that none of the current design plans include buildings taller than eight stories and that all the plans include at least some permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless, as well as subsidized housing for people making less than $100,000 a year. The rest would be market rate — which could mean $6,000 a month, or even more, for a two-bedroom. What happened next could easily be rendered as a classic Northern California clown show: an older man with a white beard and Covid mask and sunglasses holding a protest sign saying, “Stop the BART High-Rises” and telling Stern that, because the environmental impact report was already one whole year old, the entire project ought to be paused for a new assessment; a woman in a similar Covid mask and sunglasses with a protest sign reading, “Parks Not High-Rises” yelling: “We need affordable housing for people! This isn’t going to be for people who really need it! I’m an advocate for the homeless and disabled! And there are people dying in our streets, and I just want to say my opinion. We need open space! Not high-rises! This is wrong!”

Italian authorities have partially solved the mystery of the substance that changed the color of Venice’s canal water. A patch of water in Venice’s famed Grand Canal turned a shocking—literally and figuratively—green over the weekend, sparking an investigation. Samples collected by firefighters and analyzed by the local environmental protection agency soon revealed there was no danger of pollution, as announced by Veneto’s governor Luca Zaia. The analysis of the water samples revealed the presence of a non-toxic tinting agent called fluorescein, which is most commonly used in eye tests. Fluorescein can easily be purchased online, and 250 grams is enough “to produce the effect seen on Sunday,” local newspaper La Nuova Venezia reported. “A person who pours a teaspoon, not seeing the result immediately, can dissolve an excessive dose.”

Authorities say a New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients has died in a plane crash

A journey into the Republican soul in 2023.

The OpenAI CEO is one of hundreds of experts to warn artificial intelligence's risk to humanity is on par with pandemics and nuclear war.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes began serving her 11-year sentence Tuesday inside a minimum-security, female-only federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas. What will her new life look like? Days start early at FPC Bryan, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Holmes' hometown of Houston. Holmes, 39, has to wake by 6 a.m. and then report to work after she has breakfast, which starts at 6:30 a.m. Her attire most days will be a combination of khaki shirts and pants. Pay rates for her work will range from $0.12 to $1.15 per hour.

It was a groundbreaking smash, but things got so toxic behind the scenes that even co-showrunner Damon Lindelof now says: “I failed.” A powerful excerpt from the new book ‘Burn It Down.’

Defector in pursuit of a journalists’ utopia Deadspin, the influential sports and culture blog that all but imploded a few years ago, made its name by savaging those it deemed “assholes.” Founded in 2005 under Gawker Media, Deadspin used “asshole” as shorthand for anyone the staff disliked: Floyd Mayweather Jr., the boxer, who defended Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” line; Dan Snyder, formerly the owner of the Washington Commanders—who, according to a whistleblower with the National Park Service, paid to have more than a hundred trees chopped down to improve the view from his mansion; Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, also known to readers as a “hypocritical shitstain.” That is to name just a few. Colorful barbs were a way of punctuating Deadspin’s journalism, the staff maintained. “A lot of people confuse that with being mean,” Megan Greenwell, a former Deadspin editor, told me. “But I actually don’t think that having fun making fun of people and also doing accountability reporting are mean at their heart.”

In the state of Missouri, a high school athlete who signs with an in-state college, such as the University of Missouri, can begin earning compensation for their name, image and likeness before enrolling at the school. Soon in Texas, Texas A&M donors will earn priority points through the school’s fundraising arm for donations that eventually funnel to athletes. For months now in Arkansas, college athletes have been paid for charity appearances through a nonprofit organization that is owned by the school’s fundraising foundation. Meanwhile, on the Florida Gulf Coast, where the SEC’s most powerful officials gather this week in Destin for their annual league meetings, none of the above is permitted. If the University of Florida carried out those actions, it would be in violation of NCAA rule and its own state law. The same can be said for a handful of other SEC schools in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.

Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances. But Britain’s news media has a complicated relationship with outing its own.

After Iowa protesters decried the imminent demolition of a partially collapsed apartment building – saying some residents might still be trapped inside – Davenport city officials appeared to reconsider plans to topple the building Tuesday morning.

The amount of sodium coming out of the tap is now more than twice the World Health Organization recommendation and 10 times normal levels. When the headaches began, María Sosa thought back to breakfast a few days earlier. She had been boiling eggs in their kitchen. Her husband, drinking water, asked if she thought it tasted off. “A looked at the pot and it was white, tainted with salt,” said Sosa, 62. “I knew right there: This was going to be a problem.” Uruguay, beset by high temperatures and drought, is running out of freshwater. Montevideo, the capital, is down to just a few days’ supply. This small, affluent South American nation is not alone in its suffering. Historically hot, dry conditions are harming crops and shaking economies across the Southern Cone. Amid global climate change, the region is warming more rapidly than the rest of the world. Precipitation during the last four months of 2022 fell to half the average, the lowest level in 35 years.