The spill of highly radioactive waste beneath a building on the Hanford nuclear reservation north of Richland and near the Columbia River is both deeper and broader than anticipated. In a statement Thursday, the Department of Energy said the contamination in the soil at the Hanford 324 Building 1,000 feet from the Columbia River and a mile north of Richland is “much larger” than previously identified. Now the Department of Energy is rethinking the cleanup plan for the spill discovered 13 years ago, with work crews making preparations for the excavation of the radioactive material over the past six years. The spill of cesium and strontium in the soil beneath the 324 Building is so radioactively hot that it would be lethal to a worker on direct contact within two minutes, DOE has said previously.

The rare attack happened on Selden Neck Island in Connecticut's Selden Neck State Park, state officials said. Three adults killed the bobcat.

Fifa has confirmed that players in Australia and New Zealand will not be able to wear the rainbow armband, with eight alternative options instead

An all-female team tracked it down amid deadly snakes and 50C heat in a forest known as 'hell on Earth'.

If you’re not logged into your Twitter account and try to view a tweet, you’ll be presented with a sign-in screen. And if you don’t want to have an account on the bird app, too bad! Twitter hasn’t commented on this change, and given how sloppy the platform has been since Elon Musk’s takeover, it might just be a glitch. However, in a time when Twitter is struggling to grow its user base, it’s possible that this is a tactic to force silent lurkers into creating an account. Like many of Twitter’s recent changes, this could easily backfire. If tweets aren’t publicly accessible, search engine algorithms could rank the site’s content lower, meaning that fewer people would be directed to the site from Google. Also, it’s just kind of annoying.

In the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchforks and torches” unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis. At an investment conference organised by Spear’s wealth management magazine, members of the global elite and their financial teams were told by progressive advisers that there was a “real risk of actual insurrection” and “civil disruption” if the yawning inequality gap between rich and poor was allowed to widen as a result of energy and food price hikes hitting squeezed households. Julia Davies, a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a group of super-rich people calling for the introduction of a wealth tax, warned that global poverty and the climate emergency were going to get “so much worse” unless the wealthy did more to help poorer citizens.

“Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people,” Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged parents to keep kid rioters off the streets, adding that some young people looked to be emulating violent video games that had "intoxicated" them, news agency AFP reported. Speaking after chairing a crisis security meeting, the 45-year-old head of state stated that around one-third of those detained over three nights of riots were "young, or very young." "It's the responsibility of parents to keep them at home. It's not the state's job to act in their place," President Emmanuel Macron stated.

A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans.

Federal officials have told peach growers in Georgia they will issue a disaster designation for this year’s peach crop. The state lost over 85% of its peaches this spring. At the state Farmer's Market in Forest Park, Georgia peaches are almost as scarce as Halloween pumpkins and Christmas trees, at a time when they are typically plentiful. When you do find them, prices are high. One vendor offered Georgia peaches at one dollar per peach.

“He was crying. I was getting the response I expected from him,” Lt. Michael Schoenbrod said of putting his 3-year-old in jail for having an accident in his pants.

In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red. Meteorologists and climate scientists all around the world are in awe by the simultaneous literal “off the charts” records being broken. Yes, it’s climate change. The steady trend of rising temperatures over the last few decades has placed Earth’s baseline climate so high that achieving these extremes – which used to be rare if not unheard of – is now expected when conditions are ripe. And right now they are, with El Niño’s added heat and several other concurrent, varying natural climate patterns. So, to be more specific, it’s climate change – with other natural patterns piled on top. With El Niño now in place, we are getting a glimpse of just how far we can force the climate system, with never before observed heights achieved. Many more are on the way for 2023-2024 as El Niño gets stronger and more heat is released from the oceans into the Atmosphere.

In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy is flooded with “AI-generated junk.” Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. LinkedIn is using AI to stimulate tired users. Snapchat and Instagram hope bots will talk to you when your friends don’t. Redditors are staging blackouts. Stack Overflow mods are on strike. The Internet Archive is fighting off data scrapers, and “AI is tearing Wikipedia apart.” The old web is dying, and the new web struggles to be born. The web is always dying, of course; it’s been dying for years, killed by apps that divert traffic from websites or algorithms that reward supposedly shortening attention spans. But in 2023, it’s dying again — and, as the litany above suggests, there’s a new catalyst at play: AI.

The Bucks County District Attorney's office announced charges Tuesday against 11 people and a Philadelphia towing company in a multi-million dollar catalytic converter theft ring.

Earlier this week, Fran Drescher, the president of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), announced that the union’s negotiations with the studios for a new contract were going swimmingly. The union’s members had overwhelmingly voted to authorize their leaders to call a strike when their current contract expired on June 30th unless their concerns were met, but Drescher’s missive indicated that a deal was close at hand and no strike would be necessary. Yesterday, 300 of the union’s most well-known members—including Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Quinta Brunson, Rami Malek, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brendan Fraser, Neil Patrick Harris, Amy Schumer, Amy Poehler, Glenn Close, John Leguizamo, and Ben Stiller—released a statement urging the union to hold out for far more than its leaders appeared to be willing to accept. Noting the massive growth of streaming (a medium that generally undercompensates those involved in the creative and production processes), the threat of AI, and the new requirement that non-star actors record their own auditions, Streep and Co. declared the current moment to be “an unprecedented inflection point in our industry, and what might be considered a good deal in any other years is simply not enough.”

Data released by SiegedSec from six states includes South Carolina police files and contact details for Nebraska court officials

The shuttered Catholic church had become a haven for St. Louis' skateboard community

NYC Mayor Eric Adams compared an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor and tenant activist to a plantation owner in an exchange over rising rents.

After the collapse of a nearly 30-year partnership with the maker of the world-famous Sriracha sauce and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit with the company, Craig Underwood is still betting on his farm’s peppers.

Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, is believed to have been detained days after mercenaries staged a revolt inside Russia, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday, citing U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence assessments. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. It’s not clear whether Surovikin faces any charges or where he is being held, reflecting the opaque world of the Kremlin’s politics and uncertainty after the revolt.