The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage. The stakes of this decision are high for California, which receives the largest share of water from the Colorado River. An across-the-board cut could hit California harder, particularly agricultural regions. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation presented its alternatives as an initial step in a review aimed at revising the rules for dealing with shortages through 2026. The reductions, if adopted, could affect cities and farming areas in California, Arizona and Nevada. The river’s largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have declined dramatically during 23 years of drought intensified by climate change. Even after storms that have blanketed the Rocky Mountains with the largest snowpack since 1997, federal officials say the likelihood of a return to dry conditions means the region still needs a plan for apportioning additional water cuts if necessary over the next three years.

An early upload of the leaked Pentagon documents contained a character sheet, but what game was it from? And what can the stats tell us about the person who made it? Motherboard investigates.

Half of the 1,700 names listed have no criminal history. A quarter of them have no justification and the database doesn’t include a single white supremacist group.

While the world was watching the former president surrender to authorities in a New York City courthouse last week, I was watching Nashville and Raleigh. I live in North Carolina, and these two seats of government and capital cities in bordering southern states have been roiled with political unrest in the shadow of the Donald Trump Show. We like to look to the horizon instead of to the soil because we bury the people we do not care about in the South. It is where we have put migrants and poor people and sick people. It is where we put the social problems we are willing to accept in exchange for the promise of individual opportunity in places that sound more sophisticated. But the South is still a laboratory for the political disenfranchisement that works just as well in Wisconsin as it does in Florida. Americans are never as far from the graves we dig for other people as we hope.

Governor Greg Abbott wants to overrule a jury’s conviction of Daniel Perry, who murdered a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.

More than 80 people, including police officers, allege they were shot by their SIG Sauer P320 pistols. Some have lost work, live in pain after serious injuries.

The Sixers have not responded to repeated requests for comment on whether it donated to For A Better Philadelphia PAC, the PAC backing Brown. But it already has a connection with the group.

Al Jaffee, Mad Magazine’s innovative and influential cartoonist, has died. As confirmed by his granddaughter, Fani Thomson, Jaffee died of multi-system organ failure on Monday. He was 102. Jaffee’s contributions to cartooning, comics, and American comedy, cannot be overstated, but they can be summed up in one compound word: Fold-In. The cartoonist redefined how magazines could be read with the 1964 invention of the Fold-in, a parody of Playboy and Life’s centerfolds. Of course, magazines already encouraged readers to unfurl their images, allowing viewers a longer gaze at the subject. But Jaffee’s innovation encapsulated the spirit of Mad, asking the reader to participate in this visual gag, recontextualize the original meaning, and invert the world around them into something as truthful as it was funny.

The fight in Franklin, Tennessee, echoes earlier battles over LGBTQ acceptance and comes amid a nationwide backlash among conservatives against transgender rights.

The Tacoma Fire Department has issued a temporary shelter-in-place for residents in Tacoma, Washington, as authorities continue to respond to a fishing vessel fire.

The federal judge who sided mid-January with Springfield Public Schools in a lawsuit filed by two employees over mandatory equity training has now awarded the district $312,869 in attorney fees. U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool ruled March 31 that the district should be compensated for the 1,538 hours that its attorneys spent defending the suit. In the order, Harpool said there were "political undertones" to the allegations lodged by employees Jennifer Lumley and Brooke Henderson and they "showed no injury-in-fact whatsoever." "Plaintiffs attempted to drag defendants into a political dispute rather than seek remedy for genuine harm," Harpool wrote in the order last week. "This court is a forum for litigation of genuine disputes of fact and law alone, rather than frivolous political disagreement.".

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In Buckingham County, four people quit their jobs after a feud between local Republicans and the general registrar consumed the small community.

The Dalai Lama has apologized after a video emerged showing the spiritual leader kissing a child on the lips and then asking him to "suck my tongue" at an event in northern India.

Eyewitnesses said the shooter appeared to have been armed with a long gun.

The Tennessee nurse stayed quiet in hopes that her silence would quiet false claims of her death. Now, she says it only hurt.

The Mexican government agreed to purchase 13 power plants from the Spanish energy company Iberdrola for $6 billion on Tuesday (April 4), giving its state-owned power company, Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE), majority control over the country’s electricity market. … “Mexico is an independent and free country, not a colony or a protectorate of the United States,” AMLO said in a forceful rebuke of American influence in the country’s economy. “Cooperation? Yes. Submission? No. Long live the oil expropriation.”

Much like The Real Housewives or the smell of your own farts, it might not be that cool to like Billy Joel, but we all do. Somewhere deep in the recesses of our biology, he serves up an indulgence that we simply can’t deny. In this regard, it is scientific fact: everyone likes Billy Joel, it’s just that some of us are better at lying to ourselves than others like fitness freaks claiming burgers are not their cup of tea.

Faculty on Rutgers' three campuses will strike Monday, shutting down classes for the first time in the university's 250-year history.

A recent leak of sensitive US intelligence documents leads to stranger corners of the internet than initially thought.