Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker and author whose work was groundbreaking in its exploration of gay themes and erotica, has died. He was 96. His death was announced by his gallery, Sprueth Magers.

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The third way.

Celeste Burgess, 18, faces up to two years in prison for taking abortion pills and burying a stillborn fetus in 2022. Her mother faces eight years.

Senior author, prof. Mathias Osvath: “Early in my career, crow birds earned the nickname “feathered apes,” due to numerous research findings that showcased their remarkable cognition. However, I’m beginning to question whether it would be more fitting to consider primates as honorary birds.”

The iconic singer has a long history of taking seemingly "political" positions that say less about her convictions than about our own.

Republicans abolished the state labor department in 2002, and with it, an active mechanism for helping victims of wage theft. For more than 20 years, the state of Florida has lacked a state labor department, which was once tasked with enforcing Florida’s state minimum wage and other wage and hour laws. That’s right: While Florida has the nation's third-largest workforce, it’s also one of just a few states that lacks even a single dedicated investigator on the state payroll tasked with looking into wage violations, which the labor department used to handle. And very few people in elected office — Democrat or Republican — ever really talk about it. Former Florida governor and failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush (“Please clap”) prioritized the abolition of the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Security early on in his first term, in the early 2000s, and the state legislature moved forward with dismantling it in 2002.

Once dismissed as a fringe theory, the idea that corporate thirst for profits drives up inflation, aka "greedflation," is now being taken more seriously by economists, policymakers and the business press.

LONDON (AP) — Rolf Harris, the veteran entertainer whose decades-long career as a family favorite on British and Australian television was shattered when he was convicted of sexual assaults on young girls, has died. He was 93. Harris “died peacefully surrounded by family and friends and has now been laid to rest,” said a family statement released Tuesday. It did not provide details. Harris, who had a hit record with “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport,” was adored by generations of children for his jovial on-screen persona, and was so respected in Britain that he was once granted the rare privilege of painting a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Among the victims was a friend of Harris’ daughter, who claimed he molested her from age 13 to 19. Harris had said their relationship was consensual, and his relatives and friends supported him throughout the trial.

Since taking up his post as U.S. ambassador to Japan last year, Rahm Emanuel has lavished his host country with enthusiastic tweets about riding the world-class bullet trains and subways, hiking Mount Fuji or sampling local delicacies and festivals. He has also regularly hailed business leaders and politicians with a convivial spirit that belies the bull-in-a-china-shop reputation he built as chief of staff to President Barack Obama and as mayor of Chicago. In doing so, he has established himself as a champion of Japan’s accomplishments. But a recent string of messages about gay and transgender rights, culminating in a video Mr. Emanuel released on Twitter earlier this month, has drawn considerable ire among conservatives in Japan. Critics say the ambassador has overstepped the bounds of diplomacy and crossed into unwanted interference in domestic policy.

In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation in Montana. Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, Sunny White, is an alleged white nationalist — leading some members of the community to believe that Westwolf's death was a hate crime.

Talking to two men who say they were recruited to pose as homeless veterans displaced by migrants. It was a sensational story combining the most divisive issues roiling New York State. Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of a veterans-oriented nonprofit in Orange County called the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, told the New York Post on May 12 that nearly two dozen “struggling homeless veterans” were being kicked out of upstate hotels to make way for migrants being bused from New York City by the Adams administration. Toney-Finch shared harrowing specifics, like that one of the men was “a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan,” per the Post. Fifteen of the veterans were kicked out from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, where many of the asylum seekers had been bused on May 11. Republican state assemblyman Brian Maher promoted Toney-Finch’s story, making appearances on conservative TV stations and even introducing legislation that would prohibit the displacement of veterans. The story now appears to be almost entirely made up. On May 18, Maher told the Post that Toney-Finch had admitted to him that she had lied. The Crossroads Hotel and two others that Toney-Finch mentioned denied that any veterans from her organization had ever been staying there. And, the Mid-Hudson News reported on May 19, Toney-Finch had done something more egregious than simply making up a story: She allegedly recruited 15 men from a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to pose as her displaced veterans, coached them on what to say, and promised to pay them for their time.

Anti-government organizations are filling a disaster-response gap — and using it to spread their message. For nearly a decade, the Oath Keepers — which formed in 2009 in the wake of Barack Obama’s election to the presidency — have responded to disasters like hurricanes and floods by administering rescue operations, serving hot meals, and doing construction work. Disasters provide the Oath Keepers with opportunities to fundraise and gain the trust of people who might not otherwise be sympathetic to their anti-government cause. By arriving to crisis zones before federal agencies do, the Oath Keepers take advantage of bureaucratic weaknesses, holding a hand out to people in desperate circumstances. This all serves to reinforce the militia members’ conviction that the government is fallible, negligent, and not to be trusted. And every time a new person sees the Oath Keepers as the helpers who respond when the government does not, it helps build the group’s fledgling brand. The group has been in disarray since some of its leaders and most active members, including Rhodes, were arrested, tried, and convicted for their participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Facing public backlash and social media bans, the Oath Keepers have retreated from the public sphere. For a time, they took down their website and stopped gathering in public. But the retreat has been short-lived. “Militia groups are finding some footing again,” said Hampton Stall, a research specialist at Princeton University who runs a watchdog site called MilitiaWatch. “2023 will be the year they start to reactivate.”

Dizzying shooters, agonizing puzzles, and water stages (ugh) that raise the question: Continue?

Recalling the issues of its predecessor HBO Max, the launch of Warner Bros. Discovery streamer Max experienced some glitches

Ramaswamy’s hedge fund firm invested with the since-infamous Shkreli. Later, he would say he was “pathologically incapable of telling the truth.” Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate who made a fortune in biotech, once was involved in a significant investment in a biotech company run by disgraced investor Martin Shkreli. Shkreli, the oft-described “pharma bro” who went to prison for four years for committing securities fraud and securities fraud conspiracy after he gained notoriety for dramatically raising the cost of a life-saving antiparasitic drug, said in a YouTube video in mid-April that Ramaswamy was at one point his “biggest investor” and called him “a friend.” ... Reached by phone, Shkreli demanded money from POLITICO and its parent company Axel Springer to cooperate. “I will tell you everything I know. And in exchange, I suppose your company would do something for me,” he said, later adding “The really juicy stuff I know is something that I could potentially sell to the National Enquirer or to monetize that myself.” When told that POLITICO does not pay for interviews, he said: “I’m just struggling [to understand] what’s in it for me. … I’m gonna need a sweeter deal than that. I have this new software. If you plug that, maybe we got a deal then.” He then offered money to write a positive story about him, saying, “If I bless your Cash App like five bands [$5,000], will you say some nice shit about me?”

Of late, certain researchers have speculated that they might be able to solve two problems plaguing burgeoning cities—a glut of non-degradable waste and dearth of building materials—by folding the former into the latter. Now, a team in Japan reports that used, sanitized disposable diapers can be incorporated into concrete and mortar, which would still meet Indonesian building standards. Low-cost housing is desperately needed there as the urban population continues to bloom and housing is scarce. Obviously, all of the people moving to the cities bring more waste there, as well.

Most real numbers are unknown—even to mathematicians

No-Till Legend Dave Brandt of Carroll, Ohio, died unexpectedly over the weekend as a result of injuries from a severe car crash.

Twitter’s Global Head of Construction and Design was repeatedly told that compliant locks were too expensive and instructed to immediately install cheaper locks that were not compliant with life safety and egress codes.