For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with an incident in which a woman was killed after being hit and run over by a stolen forklift in a Waldorf, Maryland, Home Depot parking lot on Sunday, according to a release from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.

In eight months, Erica Marsh has become one of the most consistently viral left-wing voices on Twitter, gaining more than 130,000 followers for her hyper-liberal, often melodramatic opinions on the biggest flash points in American news. She’s been especially popular with conservatives, who promoted her as a perfect symbol of how overly theatrical and inane progressives can be — like when she attacked the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action decision last week by saying “no Black person will be able to succeed in a merit-based system.” The tweet was viewed more than 27 million times. There’s just one problem: She’s probably a fake. The “proud Democrat” in Washington, as she described herself on Twitter, doesn’t show up in any local phone or voting records. The Biden presidential campaign, where she said she worked as a field organizer, has no record of her; neither does the Obama Foundation, where she claimed to have volunteered. Her only other known social media profile, on TikTok, posts copies of her tweets but has never included her speaking or showing her face. And a digital-imaging expert said that the three purported selfies she’s posted on Twitter — showing a young, smiling blond woman — bear the hallmarks of digital manipulation.

In Texas' court response to that lawsuit, Attorney General Ken Paxton says that Miller "contends the source of her injuries was the confusion and frustration she felt after speaking to her medical providers" and so cannot blame the state.

“To be frank, it was an accident,” says the study’s lead author, Prof Jun Yao. “We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working on that forgot to plug in the power.”

The launch comes after a chaotic weekend in which Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced a limit to the number of tweets users can view in one day. $44 billion down the drain so dead-eyed automaton Mark Zuckerberg can steal his lunch.

A new audit says hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing statewide reports on the race and ethnicity of pulled-over motorists

neuter the animal please

Running for president, Kennedy told me, “is a lot easier” than he’d assumed it would be. Having worked for his uncle’s 1980 race, in which the candidate had given 12 speeches a day and was “always on,” Kennedy had imagined presidential campaigns as “this terrible marathon where you’re exhausted and it never stops.” The modern campaign, he told me, is a breeze: “You can actually do retail politics without leaving your house because of the podcast.”

Vietnam has banned Warner Bros' highly-anticipated film "Barbie" from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China's unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday.

Charges against Officer Kenneth Cha for the 2017 killing of Sean Moore to be dismissed, the third police shooting case dropped this year. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will dismiss San Francisco’s last police shooting case, filed by her predecessor and one-time campaign rival Chesa Boudin, for the killing of Sean Moore by Officer Kenneth Cha. It is the third and final police shooting case brought by Boudin only to be dropped by Jenkins. Kenneth Blackmon, Moore’s brother, said Sunday evening that he was informed by the lead prosecutor on the case, Assistant District Attorney Darby Williams, that the DA’s office would drop the charges against Cha. “I was sitting at home on Friday, and I get a phone call,” said Blackmon, saying Williams was on the phone asking to speak to him and his mother. The prosecutor then told him, “‘I just want to inform you that I filed a motion to dismiss the case today.’” “I was like, ‘What?’” Blackmon said, adding that he felt “angry” about the decision, and quickly ended the call. “I just said, ‘I want to end this conversation right now, because this is totally wack.’” “I’m very angry, I’m beyond angry,” he added. “I’m in disbelief, to be honest with you.” Williams did not give Blackmon a reason for the dismissal, except to say that it was related to actions by a “former prosecutor.”

ast September, while working at his desk in Philadelphia, Samuel R. Delany experienced a mysterious episode that he calls “the big drop.” His vision faded for about three minutes, and he felt his body plunge, as if the floor had fallen away. When he came to, everything looked different, though he couldn’t say exactly how. Delany, who is eighty-one, began to suspect that he’d suffered a mini-stroke. His daughter, Iva, an emergency-room physician, persuaded him to go to the hospital, but the MRI scans were inconclusive. The only evidence of a neurological event was a test result indicating that he had lost fifteen per cent of his capacity to form new memories—and a realization, in the following weeks, that he was unable to finish his novel in progress, “This Short Day of Frost and Sun.” After publishing more than forty books in half a century, the interruption was, he told me, both “a loss and a relief.”

Monday morning, and now money is starting to talk.

One mayor of one small Mexican town wed one crocodile bride inside one long-time-old ritual for prosperity.

A white California woman who styled herself on social media as a “mom influencer” has been ordered to spend three months in prison for falsely accusing a Latino couple of attempting to kidnap her children. State jurors in Sonoma county found 30-year-old Kathleen “Katie” Sorensen guilty in April of knowingly making a false report of a crime in a case that involved her publishing a December 2020 social media post that asserted a man and a woman had tried to steal her two children from her in the parking lot of a Michaels craft store about 40 miles (65km) outside San Francisco. Authorities said both the accused couple and store surveillance video “resoundingly contradicted” the account given to them by Sorensen. And on Thursday, Judge Laura Passaglia gave a 90-day prison sentence to Sorensen, two months of which could be served through a work release program, according to a statement from the local district attorney’s office.

In a country beset by regular bouts of unrest, it can be hard to criticize a force under strain, but experts say authorities must heed accusations of rampant racism and other fundamental problems within the ranks.

Yeah, they hate this guy now.

Recently, Twitter was changed to only be accessible to logged-in users. Before, users that browsed while not logged in would eventually be prompted to create an account or sign in. Now people can’t even access the site unless they have an account currently logged in. This has resulted in Twitter requesting data that never comes, creating what’s essentially a feedback loop that could be overloading their servers.

Satellite imagery, sealed court documents and interviews with survivors suggest that hundreds of deaths were preventable. From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast of Greece in a slowly unfolding humanitarian disaster. As terrified passengers telephoned for help, humanitarian workers assured them that a rescue team was coming. European border officials, watching aerial footage, prepared to witness what was certain to be a heroic operation. Yet the Adriana capsized and sank in the presence of a single Greek Coast Guard ship last month, killing more than 600 migrants in a maritime tragedy that was shocking even for the world’s deadliest migrant route. Satellite imagery, sealed court documents, more than 20 interviews with survivors and officials, and a flurry of radio signals transmitted in the final hours suggest that the scale of death was preventable. Dozens of officials and coast guard crews monitored the ship, yet the Greek government treated the situation like a law enforcement operation, not a rescue. Rather than send a navy hospital ship or rescue specialists, the authorities sent a team that included four masked, armed men from a coast guard special operations unit. The Greek authorities have repeatedly said that the Adriana was sailing to Italy, and that the migrants did not want to be rescued. But satellite imagery and tracking data obtained by The New York Times show definitively that the Adriana was drifting in a loop for its last six and a half hours. And in sworn testimony, survivors described passengers on the ship’s upper decks calling for help and even trying to jump aboard a commercial tanker that had stopped to provide drinking water.

No, there isn’t a pile of tires on fire nearby; what you smell is smoke from the wildfires You may have noticed by now that the smoke from this year’s fire season has been more dense and potent than previous years. Some people may have also noticed recently that the smoke has transitioned from a campfire-like smell to more of a burning plastic or rubbery smell. Well, unfortunately, neither observations are just your imaginations. In fact, some locations in Ontario will be making the list of the worst air quality in the world in the coming days. The wildfires in Canada this year, especially the fires in Quebec, have produced so much smoke that our overseas neighbours in Europe and neighbours to the south have also been experiencing our hazy skies. Recently, many Ontarians have noted that the smoky skies are now coming with a burnt plastic smell rather than the classic smell of burning wood that we have become accustomed to over the last few weeks. With that, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there is in fact not a plastic fire burning anywhere, but the bad news is that there isn’t a plastic fire burning anywhere – meaning the wildfire smoke has been in the atmosphere for so long that chemistry is happening.