President Biden announced Friday that Neera Tanden will be his new domestic policy adviser, replacing outgoing adviser Susan Rice. Tanden, who has served as assistant to the president and staff secretary, will be replaced by Stefanie Feldman. Feldman, a longtime Biden adviser, is deputy assistant to the president and senior adviser to the White House domestic policy adviser. “I am pleased to announce that Neera Tanden will continue to drive the formulation and implementation of my domestic policy, from economic mobility and racial equity to health care, immigration and education,” Biden said in a statement.

Little is certain in Afghanistan -- armies invade and retreat, governments rise and fall -- but when the key of a Toyota Corolla turns in the ignition, the engine can be relied upon to roar to life.But all their roads have led to Afghanistan, where "people have a special craze for Toyota", Nazar insists.

Sgt. Timothy Colomey recently gave a deposition in which he further detailed his allegation that a 'SWAT Mafia' controls the LAPD's elite tactical unit.

The struggle for Sudan. On 15 April, clashes began in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, pitting the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), loyal to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the general who runs the country’s governing council, against the paramilitary forces of his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, otherwise known as ‘Hemedti’ (little Mohamed), the Bonapartian pretender to Sudan’s throne. Initially, Hemedti’s militias, known as the RSF, or Rapid Support Forces, seemed to have the advantage. They took control of several airbases and installed themselves in Khartoum’s residential areas, auguring a difficult campaign of urban warfare for Burhan. By the end of 16 April, however, the SAF’s superior weaponry was telling, with fighter jets strafing RSF barracks and dislodging the paramilitary force from positions around the city. Much about the situation remains uncertain, even for those on the ground. All I can tell you, one friend wrote to me, is where the smoke is coming from. Unlike during the coup d’état of October 2021, the internet is still working, yet it has brought little clarity. The facts are concealed by claims and counterclaims, all delivered via Facebook posts.

A Georgia DA speaks against a new state board with authority to oust prosecutors who don’t charge abortion and other cases, part of an escalating GOP crackdown since Dobbs.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed on Friday to launch a large-scale disarmament plan to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the country, following back-to-back mass shootings in the Balkan…

Facing the possibility of an unsafe district, South Carolina’s most powerful Democrat sent his aide to consult with the GOP on a redistricting plan that diluted Black voting strength and harmed his party’s chances of gaining seats in Congress.

After corporate media lied America into a war and a financial crisis, data show they lied about a main source of price hikes — and brutal policies followed.

Archaeologists in Hungary have unearthed a 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, including forceps and scalpels. They think the tools belonged to a physician from the Roman Empire who had traveled beyond its frontiers to treat patients.

A man frustrated with cars racing by his Oakland home opened fire with an assault rifle at passing cars, killing a woman who was just passing by in her car, according to authorities.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Crowds packed the streets of Waikiki for the annual Spam Jam festival, with dozens of eateries showcasing their creative Spam-inspired dishes. Spam maker Hormel Foods debuted its new maple flavor, which tastes like the classic canned meat covered in maple syrup.

A Canadian prankster with a history of crank-calling conservative talk show hosts finally made his way to Alex Jones, using an AI-generated voice to pretend to be Tucker Carlson, paving the way for an extraordinary on-air monologue-cum-meltdown on Infowars Thursday. In his response to the call, Jones, who claims to be a bold truth-teller, lectured his audience about how it is not, in fact, funny to call him, pretend to be Tucker Carlson, and beseech him to “suck my titties.” [...] As is his wont, Jones managed to connect a guy asking if his refrigerator was running, more or less, to the end of days. “World War Three has begun,” he claimed, inaccurately. “The borders are wide open and all these trendy liberals” – by this he presumably meant James – “are running around having fun, all thinking about themselves. All playing games, and the whole system's over. It's over. Game over. Listen, girls.” Jones concluded that pranksters like James think “judges and lawyers” will protect them. But, he said, “None of you are protected. It's all about to be washed away by your own evil. And I guess in a way that's kind of a good thing. All of the Holy Spirit can carry us through this.” Jones, who is bankrupt and owes a huge amount of money to Sandy Hook parents after a landmark series of defamation cases didn’t go his way, went on to read a fairly defeated-sounding set of ads. Before he did, however, he suggested that a crime had been committed and vowed revenge on the prank caller unless he came on the air to “explain your intent was not to be mean,” something James promptly tweeted that he would not do. “You sowed the wind,” Jones said, with his trademark understatement “And you now reap the whirlwind.”

GOP member of the Florida state House of Representatives recently admitted that people in his party hate gay people while defending a piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation. Republican state Rep. Jeff Holcomb made the admission on Monday while arguing that opposition to a GOP bill to bar the U.S. military from implementing more inclusive policies was an attack on the military. “I just can’t let our military be labeled as racist and discrimination [sic] without any, without a response,” Holcomb said. He then claimed that the bill isn’t truly anti-LGBTQ because the Florida Republican Party is less hateful toward LGBTQ people than al-Qaeda or ISIS, describing the extremist groups as “folks that discriminate.” “We bombed a building in 2017 like we never usually do. We bombed it because they threw homosexuals off that building,” Holcomb said. “Our terrorist enemies hate homosexuals more than we do,” he went on, drawing audible gasps in the chamber.

Former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and three other members were found guilty Thursday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

"The patient's urine would be poured into a flask to allow a doctor to observe its color, sedimentation, smell, and sometimes even taste," project directors Rubina Raja (opens in new tab), Jan Kindberg Jacobsen (opens in new tab), Claudio Parisi Presicce (opens in new tab) and colleagues write in the study. Such analyses could shed light on whether patients had conditions such as jaundice, kidney disease or even diabetes, as diabetics' urine often smells and tastes sweet due to extra glucose.

Enzo's strange behavior convinced Manone to take him to the vet. Shockingly, they revealed Enzo was high from ingesting marijuana.

Federal prosecutors have charged a former F.B.I. agent with illegally entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and said he had called police officers Nazis as he encouraged a mob of Trump loyalists to kill them. The former agent, Jared L. Wise, was arrested on Monday and faces four misdemeanor counts, including disrupting the orderly conduct of government and trespassing, after agents received a tip in January last year that he had been inside the Capitol, according to a criminal complaint. Mr. Wise, 50, told the police they were like the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s feared secret police, the complaint said. When violence erupted, he shouted in the direction of rioters attacking the law enforcement officers, “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” Mr. Wise raised his arms in celebration after breaching the Capitol in a face mask, and he escaped through a window, the complaint added. Mr. Wise left the bureau after his supervisors in New York became unhappy with his work, and his career had stalled, a former senior F.B.I. official said. Mr. Wise later joined the conservative group Project Veritas under the supervision of a former British spy, Richard Seddon, who had been recruited by the security contractor Erik Prince to train operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets. At Project Veritas, according to a former employee with direct knowledge of his employment, Mr. Wise used the code name Bendghazi and trained at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming with other recruits. Mr. Wise was among a group of Project Veritas operatives who were assigned to infiltrate teacher unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky, according to the former employee. Mr. Seddon oversaw the operation.

After months of discussion, Republican lawmakers rolled out a bill that would ban abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy in North Carolina, with some exceptions. That sounds bad enough — but it’s even worse than you think. In addition to limiting when and why a person can choose to have an abortion, Senate Bill 20, deceptively titled the “Care for Women, Children and Families Act,” creates additional burdens for those seeking to safely terminate a pregnancy even within the first trimester — as well as for health care providers. North Carolina already has strict informed consent laws that require a 72-hour waiting period between the initial consultation and the actual procedure in a doctor’s office. Currently, the consultation is able to occur by phone, so patients do not have to be physically present. Senate Bill 20 would change that, mandating that the initial consultation occur in person. That creates significant burdens for working people, people traveling from out of state and anyone else who cannot afford or manage a multi-day trip. The bill also includes forced ultrasounds — a requirement that was passed by the General Assembly a decade ago but later blocked by a federal court. Providers would have to perform an ultrasound at least four hours prior to the procedure and describe the image to the patient in real time. Only a handful of states require this to happen prior to an abortion procedure. It would also require multiple in-person visits for medication abortion. Not only would a patient have to schedule an in-person visit for the consultation and for the first dose of medication to be administered, the law would also require a follow-up appointment to happen within seven and 14 days. Appointments are already difficult to get in North Carolina due to increased demand in a post-Roe world.

Typically, when dozens of people witness someone killing another person in a public space, one of two things happens: The killer is arrested or they flee. The tabloids might dub them “subway killer.” None of that happened on Monday after a 24-year-old white former U.S. Marine whose name has not been made public killed 30-year-old Jordan Neely, who was Black, on an F train in the NoHo area of Manhattan. The 24-year-old man did not flee. He was not arrested. And the tabloids — along with more respected news outlets — issued glowing appraisals of him. The unusual treatment may have had something to do with the victim: Neely was unhoused and had a history of mental illness. Neely was shouting in a way that made subway riders uncomfortable and reportedly made threats to some riders. He was asking for food shortly before the 24-year-old strangled him to death. Police took the subway rider into custody briefly for questioning then released him shortly afterward. For advocates working on issues of poverty and police abuses, there was a simple reason why Neely’s killing happened the way it did and why, in the aftermath, nothing seemed out of the ordinary when the killer was set free: fearmongering rhetoric about homelessness and crime from Democratic New York leaders Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams.