Fortune continues in its feverish quest to coin the next pop economics buzzword.

New Port Richey’s troubled police department works with code officers and city management to threaten and harass tenants and business owners for a profit.

"If Mr. Staley is a rogue employee, why isn't Jamie Dimon?" the government's counsel Mimi Liu thundered, referring to the current and ex-CEOs of two big banks.

Neo-Nazis marched in the heart of Melbourne chanting “white power” and performed the Nazi salute on the steps of Victorian Parliament on Saturday morning as British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen’s held her ‘Let Women Speak’ event in the city. LGBTQI community, allies and student activists who were part of the counter-protest clashed with far-right and anti-trans activists. ‘Posie Parker you can’t hide, you’ve got Nazis on your side’, shouted the activists, referring to Keen’s online handle. Victoria Police tried to keep the two groups apart. In a statement provided to Star Observer, a Victoria Police spokesperson said that three persons were arrested. “A 22-year-old Point Cook man was arrested for allegedly putting a female officer in a headlock and taking her to the ground. A 23-year-old Thornbury woman was also arrested for allegedly slapping a police officer on the neck. Both are expected to be charged with numerous offences including assaulting police. The two police officers were not injured,” the police said. “A third person, a 22-year-old from Preston, was also arrested for unlawful assault. Police will review CCTV, body-worn cameras and social media footage to determine whether any further offences occurred,” the police added. Videos uploaded to social media showed police tackling anti-fascist protesters who had turned up to support transgender rights activists. Star Observer has reached out to Victoria Police for comment on if any action was taken against neo-Nazis performing the salute.

Decades of war, poverty, and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country's environment and its people.

Recently, Leng and colleagues showed that Menin, a hypothalamic protein, is a key inhibitor of hypothalamic neuroinflammation, leading them to ask what role Menin may play in aging. Here, they observed that the level of Menin in the hypothalamus, but not astrocytes or microglia, declines with age. To explore this decline, they created conditional knockout mice, in which Menin activity could be inhibited. They found that reduction of Menin in younger mice led to an increase in hypothalamic neuroinflammation, aging-related phenotypes including reductions in bone mass and skin thickness, cognitive decline, and modestly reduced lifespan.

“Midlothian has always been kind of a company town, and the city council has always steadfastly said: ‘There’s nothing we can do, we’re going to back away, we’re not going to have any involvement, and it’s TCEQ’s responsibility alone,’” Voisard said. “The first turn of events was when we presented them with the PurpleAir sensor, and they actually accepted it.”

Idaho’s Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, announced Friday afternoon that it will no longer provide obstetrical services to the city of more than 9,000 people, meaning patients will have to drive 46 miles for labor and delivery care moving forward. “We have made every effort to avoid eliminating these services,” said Ford Elsaesser, the hospital’s board president, in a news release. “We hoped to be the exception, but our challenges are impossible to overcome now.” The hospital said it will continue to provide women’s health services at Sandpoint Women’s Health and collaborate with Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene, which is about an hour from Sandpoint, to provide obstetrical care.

Over the Stormy Daniels bullshit.

San Francisco’s overdose deaths have sharply increased since the start of December, an alarming jump that comes amid the closure of the city’s Tenderloin Center — an informal place where people were able to use drugs under medical supervision. An average of 58 people died each month in the three months before the center’s closing on Dec. 4, compared with an average of at least 68 in the three months following, The Chronicle’s analysis of new preliminary data from the medical examiner’s office shows. New numbers released for January show it was the highest monthly total in three years.

"We sincerely hope that resolving this matter early in the legal process will offer the Brace family a measure of peace and healing," university chancellor Jerry Jackson said in a statement. The lawsuit had said that Brace, a native of Louisville, became "profoundly disoriented" after the difficult first day of practiceat an area of the campus known as "Punishment Hill". The university junior had been diagnosed with ADHD and narcolepsy, forcing him to take medications that require proper hydration, especially during exercise. Despite his medical needs, the lawsuit said that two coaches would mock him when he asked for a water break, saying: "Do you think you are special and are allowed more water?" On the day of his death, Brace completed numerous sprints and then "sat down out of exhaustion", the lawsuit said. After being told that he would be kicked off the team, he is said to have performed an additional run to the top of the hill before stopping and saying: "I'm done. I can't do this anymore." "Suffering from heat stroke, Grant begged 'I need water, somebody help me,'" the lawsuit said, adding that he told people that he felt like he was dying and was speaking in gibberish phrases.

Newly released genetic data gathered from a live food market in Wuhan has linked Covid-19 with raccoon dogs, adding weight to the theory that infected animals sold at the site started the coronavirus pandemic, researchers involved in the work say. Swabs collected from stalls at the Huanan seafood market in the two months after it was shut down on 1 January 2020 were previously found to contain both Covid and human DNA. When the findings were published last year, Chinese researchers stated that the samples contained no animal DNA. That conclusion has now been overturned by an international team of scientists. Their analysis of gene sequences posted by the Chinese team to the scientific database Gisaid found that some of the Covid-positive samples were rich in DNA from raccoon dogs. Traces of DNA belonging to other mammals, including civets, were also present in Covid-positive samples.

Before last year, the public monthly meetings of the board of Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, were sleepy affairs, typically drawing just a handful of attendees. The hospital, a 98-year-old public healthcare system that serves more than a million patients a year, was considered a crown jewel of the community: A highly rated public safety net institution composed of two hospital buildings and several clinics, its core mission is to serve people who are uninsured or underinsured. At a typical board meeting, members would discuss the hospital’s priorities, from finding healthcare providers who practiced in specialties that the community lacked to building a new cancer center. So it came as a surprise late last year when attendance at the board meetings began to grow: More than a hundred people showed up in December’s monthly board meeting, then 200 in January, and 300 in February. The attendees, some traveling from hours away, lambasted the hospital for adhering to the CDC’s recommended Covid protocols, accusing emergency care physicians of murdering patients. “We were getting people complaining, and they’ve never even had a family member in the hospital, and they’re talking about the horrible treatment they’ve received,” Dr. James Fiorica, the hospital’s chief medical officer, told me. “You wonder if there is a different agenda than how we treated the particular patient.” Indeed, the campaign against Sarasota Memorial appears to be part of a coordinated effort of a varied constellation of right-wing groups and individuals. Some have deep ties to the anti-vaccine movement; others are part of the “parents’ rights” movement that has sought to stack school boards with conservative members; a few are ardent Big Lie promoters with ties to the January 6 insurrection. The result is an increasingly unhinged and threatening campaign against the very healthcare workers who saw the community through the worst of the pandemic, says a hospital spokesperson, Kim Savage. “Our board meetings are open to the public, and for the first time, we feel like we have to wand people,” she says. “We worry that the language these groups use might incite someone who is not stable.”

In the early 2000s, Katie O’Bryant was a homeless teenager living on the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco. Like many people who use drugs, she found that different substances played very specific roles in her life.  As someone who was opiate dependent, O’Bryant needed to use heroin to function on a day-to-day basis. But she also took other drugs recreationally to get high and relied on stimulants to balance out heroin’s sedative effects—something that dealers took into account by selling heroin and cocaine as a packaged deal.  “When I first started doing dope, they used to sell one-on-ones in the mission. All the dope came with coke,” she said, recalling that small balls of black tar heroin would be sold alongside little baggies of powdered cocaine. Today, O’Bryant works in harm reduction as the Outreach Coordinator for West Oakland Punks with Lunch, a group that provides food, clean needles, and social services to Oakland’s unhoused population, which includes many people who use drugs. She explained that in her work on the streets of Oakland, she sees a lot of poly-substance use—the term that health workers use to describe someone who routinely uses multiple substances. 

Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks.

2018 HAS BROKEN CONTAINMENT AND IS BLEEDING THROUGH TO THE PRESENT! SUMMON THE LANGOLIERS!

What happened at Silicon Valley Bank will likely enter the broader return-to-office debate.

The actor passed away on Friday morning.

If you see your name in a Sunday Sport headline, you can be sure something funny’s going on. It could be funny ha ha, or funny peculiar or, as in this case, both. I’d been sent the article on my phone. The headline read as follows: “I make a GRAND A DAY cos they think I’m ADRIAN CHILES.” The pictures featured an all but naked man with his bits obscured. He looked a little like me. Gingerly, I expanded the image so I could read the text. As soon as I’d got the gist of the story, recoiling in horror, I pinched the page smaller again so I could read no more. I’d seen as much as I could stand for a moment. The bare bones of it are as follows: a bloke in Leeds who looks a bit like me is earning money on the internet as my naked lookalike. I wouldn’t blame you if at this point you, as I did, stopped reading. Trust me, it gets worse. After a few deep breaths – long exhale, short inhale, as the mindfulness manuals advise – I flicked the screen bigger again. I could only bear to read it one paragraph at a time. Quick look, shrink it again, deep breaths, re-expand, read, shrink and so on.

Friends remember 23-year-old Eden Knight as an inspiring force — and claim that a U.S. security firm convinced her to leave a safe home