A Texas investigation into the death of a mystery woman ended when officials realized her corpse was made of silicon. The Harris County Sheriff's Office responded to a call Wednesday afternoon from someone saying they found a dead body in a bag in woods in the northeast part of the county. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Twitter that investigators suspected foul play was involved. “False call on this one- upon closer inspection, not a body,” Gonzalez tweeted nearly two hours later. He added that the sheriff’s office waited for homicide detectives and Crime Scene Investigation to continue the investigation.

Yifen Chen says her boyfriend raped her. But when she tried to seek help, he found an unthinkable way to keep her from seeking justice

The UK’s average annual rainfall is about 1,100mm, compared with less than 300mm in Pakistan or double figures in Egypt. However, despite our winter storms, significant parts of the UK are staring down the barrel of empty water butts. Much of that four-figure rainfall average is propped up by the rainy Highlands of Scotland, Wales and northern England. In south-east England, where I live, the average annual rainfall lingers about 600 mm – comparable with Lebanon or Kenya, and drier than Sydney, Australia. This also happens to be the UK’s most populated area, with about 18 million inhabitants packed into just 19,000 sq km, including London’s 1,500 sq km. And it’s drying up, fast. Government figures show that, in England, 28% of groundwater aquifers, the layers of porous sand and rock that hold water underground, and up to 18% of rivers and reservoirs, have more water taken out than is put back in. This is clearly unsustainable.

The Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles has re-acquired the domain name written on 798,000 Maryland license plates meant to commemorate the War of 1812 but was recently in the hands of a Filipino online casino showing a scantily-clad lady advertising attractive betting rates. The DMV paid $1,000 for the URL starspangled200.org, according to a spokesperson. The URL, which still appears on hundreds of thousands of Maryland license plates, now redirects to the DMV home page instead of its original purpose as an informational website on the War of 1812.

Mark Dicara was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm without a valid Firearm Owners Identification card and reckless discharge of a firearm.

Ongoing legal sparring between Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast and the company popularly referred to as ‘NuTSR’ were postponed on June 12, thanks to TSR’s recent bankruptcy filing. First reported by Polygon, TSR filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in North Carolina’s Eastern Bankruptcy court on June 8th. A few days later, the court had collected the necessary paperwork from TSR’s legal representation to send through the bankruptcy filing, and in doing so paused all ongoing cases or legal obligations involving the company. In the US, Chapter 7 bankruptcy means TSR’s assets and property will be liquidated to pay off as much debt as possible. . . . Perhaps more importantly was the claim that TSR’s new version of Star Frontiers contained "blatantly racist and transphobic" and “reprehensible content”, according to Wizards of the Coast’s 2022 injunction that aimed to stop any playtesting, distribution or design work on Star Frontiers.

A grand jury has indicted former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train. The exact charges will not be unsealed until Penny appears in court at a later date, the sources said. Penny was initially arrested on a second-degree manslaughter charge. Video showed Penny, 24, putting Neely in a chokehold on May 1. Several witnesses observed Neely making threats, assistant district attorney Joshua Steinglass told the judge. Some witnesses told police that Neely was yelling and harassing passengers on the train, authorities said. Police sources told ABC News that Penny was not specifically being threatened by Neely when he intervened and that Neely had not become violent and had not been threatening anyone in particular.

The state’s top criminal court ruled on Wednesday set the venue for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton felony securities fraud charges.

Warren County residents want a special election to vote for a new county auditor after it came to light that newly appointed auditor David Whipple has a history of promoting conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the 2020 election. In Iowa, county auditors oversee elections. Whipple, who has no experience in government, was appointed to serve as auditor by the three-member Warren County Board of Supervisors during a special meeting on June 6. His term expires Dec. 31, 2024. Besides Whipple’s lack of experience, Warren County residents and the county’s Democratic Party became more concerned with his appointment after they became aware of Whipple’s since-deleted social media posts where he shared various conspiracy theories about the election, QAnon, and even the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

All of the platform's major competitors, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, have music licensing deals.

The Ohio senator quietly delayed the timeline for safer tank cars that regulators say could help prevent train spills like the one in East Palestine.

Workers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, train manufacturing complex Wabtec are poised to walk off the job should they decide the company’s contract offer is insufficient. One of their main priorities is a rarity for US unions: the right to strike over grievances.

The massive medical group says it has some value, but called for a better standard.

Lara Logan was once a respected "60 Minutes" correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened?

The Marine was one of two people arrested in connection with the attack, which occurred at a Costa Mesa clinic in 2022.

Dr. James Eason, who earned acclaim by operating on Steve Jobs, led the transplant center named in his honor at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis. An internal analysis by Eason’s own team details the preventable deaths under his watch.

The Kansas City police officer who fatally shot two people during an encounter Friday night previously shot and killed an unarmed man in 2020 and was accused of excessive force in two other cases, according to sources with knowledge of the most recent shooting investigation. The officer, Blayne Newton, killed two people and injured a third around 9 p.m., near the McDonald’s restaurant at 31st Street and Van Brunt Boulevard.

Alphabet's Google may have to sell part of its lucrative adtech business to address concerns about anti-competitive practices, EU regulators said on Wednesday, threatening the company with its harshest regulatory penalty to date.

However, when the same nutrients were given via feeding tube to people considered medically obese, brain activity did not slow, and dopamine levels did not rise. This was especially true when the food was lipids or fats. That finding was interesting, Farooqi said, because the higher the fat content, the more rewarding the food: "That's why you will genuinely want a burger instead of broccoli; the fat in the burger will biologically give a better response in the brain."

Chile has been hit by its most severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) outbreak in years, killing four infants and putting strain on pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) capacity.