Plants make clicking sounds that animals may hear, travel 16 feet, and have now been tuned down for human ears to hear for the first time.

With public evidence that makes it harder for cops to deny misconduct, forensic re-creations of police abuse are leading to landmark legal settlements.

Hero Lawson told WVLT-TV that she used her phone to record the teacher, who the station did not identify, after he used the N-word in class Monday and tried to justify it.

EMMETT, Idaho — Valor Health in Emmett announced they will no longer provide labor and delivery services as of June 1, 2023, due to staffing and financial challenges. In a press release, Valor Health says they are facing serious problems due to inflation, staff shortages, decreasing reimbursements and impacts of COVID-19. The hospital is projected to deliver less than 50 babies this year. "It has been increasingly difficult and unsustainably expensive to recruit and retain a full team of high quality, broad spectrum nurses to work in a rural setting where nurses need to be proficient in many different fields," the release said.

BOISE, Idaho — Helping a pregnant minor get a legal abortion in another state could soon be punishable by prison time in Idaho. The Idaho Senate passed the "abortion trafficking bill" 27-7 on Thursday, along party lines. The House passed the bill with amendments later that afternoon, sending it to the governor's desk. Gov. Brad Little could sign the bill, veto it or let the bill pass into law without his signature. H 242 makes it illegal for someone to obtain abortion pills for a minor; it also prohibits “recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor" without parental consent. If local prosecutors refuse to try a case like this due to lack of evidence or any other reason, there are provisions within the bill to allow Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador to prosecute it instead. On Thursday, Stanton Healthcare, a clinic known for its anti-abortion stance, released a statement calling those who send abortion pills through mail "drug cartel-type groups" in response to Labrador issuing a legal analysis to a lawmaker.

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He and his team recruited 94 healthy volunteers who spoke one of two unrelated native languages — German or Levantine Arabic — for structural MRI brain scans. The Arabic speakers had arrived recently in Germany as refugees and didn’t yet speak German. They tended to have stronger connections across their left and right hemispheres, the scans revealed, whereas the German speakers had a denser network of connections within the left hemisphere.

As a Virginia County faces a budget gap of over $21 million, school officials have floated radical cuts to key programs, including eliminating libraries and specialty programs. (Fun Fact! This is literally illegal per state laws.)

Spotsylvania Co. school board member Kirk Twigg is facing a felony count of forging a public record and a misdemeanor count of tampering with a county record.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Walt Disney World and a special tax district are once again making headlines, but this time, it's with a new cast member: England's King Charles III. In a quiet move that's enchanting the internet, the former Reedy Creek Development board signed its power back to Disney before leaving office, a binding declaration that doesn't expire until England's monarchy dies out.

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, has issued a number of rulings targeting Obamacare in recent years. A federal judge in Texas has struck down Affordable Care Act provisions that require health insurers to provide some free preventive care services. The ruling could jeopardize coverage nationwide for people relying on the health care law for preventive services, such as screenings for cancer, as well as HIV drugs. In the decision, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor mentioned his previous ruling on the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which was created under Obamacare and helps determine preventive services coverage, saying it violates the appointments clause of the Constitution and therefore its related preventive care mandates are unlawful. O'Connor also said Obamacare's requirement to cover drugs preventing HIV, known as PrEP, violates the religious rights of plaintiffs under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

A new civil suit against Binance filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission accuses the crypto giant of a slew of counts, including failing to register its derivative products and failing to fence off its services from U.S. customers. But it’s also filled with specific details about alleged criminal activity from the top officers of the company, whom the CFTC accuses of knowing about and engaging in criminal transactions. “Internally, Binance officers, employees, and agents have acknowledged that the Binance platform has facilitated potentially illegal activities,” the CFTC’s complaint reads, citing the example of a conversation between former chief compliance officer Samuel Lim and another colleague in February 2019 about a transaction with Hamas, a militant group. Lim reportedly told the colleague that terrorists typically send “small sums,” because “large sums constitute money laundering.” The colleague responded, “can barely buy an AK47 with 600 bucks.”

A Manhattan grand jury has made Trump the first former president in American history to face criminal charges

City investigators have concluded that members of the NYPD harassed two men who filed 311 complaints about illegal parking and other unsafe road conditions, harassment that Streetsblog revealed in multiple exclusive stories last year. The conclusion by the Department of Investigation — reached in February 2022, but only provided last month to Streetsblog via a freedom of information request — stems from extensive reporting in Streetsblog about four people who came forward to describe a pattern of bizarre and intimidating phone calls they received from blocked numbers that appeared to have been placed by police officers. The DOI report concluded that “the caller who left the [harassing] message called from a phone number registered with the NYPD: [redacted]. The caller used the *67 function before dialing [Sherwood’s] phone number, which had the effect of concealing the caller’s name.” The Civilian Complaint Review Board had previously substantiated Vogel’s account and blamed 15-year NYPD vet Brendan Sullivan for placing the calls, as Streetsblog reported last year. The CCRB recommended discipline against Sullivan, but an internal hearing is pending. NYPD records show Sullivan was reassigned in 2022 to the “Quartermaster Section,” where the department keeps office supplies. An NYPD source told Streetsblog the transfer was likely a punishment, but Sullivan made $131,717 in 2022, according to city records. (Sullivan did not respond to a request for comment.) The second victim, Justin Sherwood, also of Brooklyn, had been anonymous in Streetsblog’s coverage until he sued the city over the NYPD’s behavior, which included harassing phone calls and even a text message reading, “Keep fucking around,” that he received mere hours after Streetsblog’s first story went up. The DOI investigation confirmed Sherwood’s allegation that a Det. Sturman had sent the text by tracing the IP address of a computer that, indeed, was “registered” to the home address of Samantha Sturman, a detective who made $141,055 last year, according to city records. Sherwood also said that Det. Sturman had called him a “dickhead;” the DOI report only says she had Sherwood exchanged “obscenities.”

As tweeted by Magus Wazir, a user who goes by u/chaindrop posted a ModelScope Text To Video creation that sees actor/musician/secret pasta monster Will Smith tearing through plates of spaghetti to the r/StableDiffusion subreddit. In just 20 seconds, we bear witness to various eras of Smith demonstrating a need for noodles so profound that it appears to torment him, his face melting and features transforming as he devours Lovecraftian spaghetti tendrils by fork or hand.

DONALD TRUMP IS asking for a plan to wage war in Mexico, and the Republican Party is eager to give it to him. As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has been asking policy advisers for a range of military options aimed at taking on Mexican drug cartels, including strikes that are not sanctioned by Mexico’s government, according to two sources familiar with the situation. “‘Attacking Mexico,’ or whatever you’d like to call it, is something that President Trump has said he wants ‘battle plans’ drawn for,” says one of the sources. “He’s complained about missed opportunities of his first term, and there are a lot of people around him who want fewer missed opportunities in a second Trump presidency.” Trump lieutenants have briefed him on several options that include unilateral military strikes and troop deployments on a sovereign U.S. partner and neighbor, the sources say. One such proposal that Trump has been briefed on this year is an October white paper from the Center for Renewing America, an increasingly influential think tank staffed largely by Trumpist wonks, MAGA loyalists, and veterans of his administration.

The budget is less than Gov. Mike Parson’s initial proposal, and eliminates funding for a pre-K program and for public libraries. Democrats and Republicans repeatedly clashed over language that bans staffing for any programs or vendors "associated with diversity, equity and inclusion."

The state awarded a $50 million contract to produce less costly treatments, but moves by major suppliers might undercut the initiative before any new product emerges.

After announcing earlier this year a pivot to quizzes co-written by AI, BuzzFeed seems to have widened its purview to include articles. On review, almost everything the bot has published contains at least one line about a "hidden gem." Amelia Island, Florida is a "hidden gem of beaches," Carmel-By-The-Sea, California is a "hidden gem of California's coast," West Virginia is a "hidden gem of a state," Saugerties, New York is a "hidden gem where small town charm meets big city cool," Stanley, Idaho is a "hidden gem nestled right in the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains," Brewster, Massachusetts is "Cape Cod's hidden gem," Calistoga, California is a "hidden gem," June Lake, California is a "hidden gem," Mammoth Mountain, California is a "hidden gem," Providence, Rhode Island is a "hidden gem," Charleston, South Carolina is a "hidden gem," Connecticut is a "hidden gem," Aruba is a "hidden gem" and "truly a gem," Prague is a "hidden gem," the Cook Islands are a "hidden gem," Saint Maarten is a "hidden gem," South Dakota is both a "glorious gem of a state" and a "criminally underrated travel gem," Cape May, New Jersey is a "gem worth visiting," Arizona is a "desert gem," Ecuador is an "absolute gem," Bruges, Belgium is a "secret gem," and a "Belgium gem," Montreal, Canada is a "travel gem," and Alberta, Canada is a "Canadian gem." Sevilla, Spain is just a "gem."