President Joe Biden told Senate Democrats on Thursday that he would not veto a GOP-backed bid to repeal changes to the D.C. criminal code, raising the stakes of an upcoming Senate vote, according to two people in the meeting. Biden’s disinterest in a veto threat leaves Republicans on track to roll back the new D.C. law with the support of at least one Senate Democrat when the chamber takes up the House-passed measure as soon as next week. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has already said he will support the disapproval measure, and Senate Democrats can’t afford any more defections.

Starbucks has displayed “egregious and widespread misconduct” in its dealings with employees involved in efforts to unionize Buffalo, New York, stores, a National Labor Relations Board judge said in an order Wednesday. As a result, the company must reinstate and make whole a number of workers who were let go from locations in or around Buffalo, among other remedies, NLRB administrative law judge Michael Rosas said. The case includes 32 unfair labor charges made by Workers United against the company for its actions between August 2021 and July 2022 at 21 stores in the Buffalo area, including the first Starbucks location to unionize. The company, which has been facing a wave of unionization across the country since December 2021, must also post a notice in its stores nationally, the judge ruled. That notice informs workers that they have the right to join a union, and lays out a lengthy list of what the company will refrain from doing, like surveilling workers or making other efforts to dissuade union activity.

Final report documents widespread ‘violence’ by convoy extremists – and abandonment of community by Ottawa Police

A coroner tells the BBC that DNA has been collected from 57 bodies, as rail workers strike over the disaster.

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Musician died following three month stay in hospital, with wife Katie Grand describing him as ‘the most talented man I have ever known’

The Knoxville Police Department (KPD) and city officials are scrambling to contain the fallout in the aftermath of the release of body camera footage showing the arrest of 60-year-old Lisa Edwards, a white woman who died while in police custody on February 5 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The video shows that officers dismissed and mocked her complaints of feeling ill. Edwards was arrested outside of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center an hour after being discharged following a brief hospitalization. Prior to being admitted to Fort Sanders, Edwards was hospitalized at Blount Memorial Hospital in nearby Maryville, Tennessee after complaining of abdominal pain during her flight to Knoxville on February 4. Edwards had previously suffered a stroke in 2019 and subsequently became wheelchair bound. The ruling class’s contempt for life—most nakedly demonstrated by the deaths of over 1 million from COVID-19 in the US alone—found expression in the actions of the officers, who can be heard on the video repeatedly berating Edwards, degrading her and cracking jokes while accusing her of “faking it.” ... The officers involved—Brandon Wardlaw, Adam Barnett, Timothy Distasio, and Danny Dugan—have all been placed on paid administrative leave while the KPD completes its internal investigation. Meanwhile, the office of Knox County District Attorney (DA) Charme Allen has issued a statement absolving the officers of any responsibility, saying that it will not pursue criminal charges.

A rare look inside mitigation specialists’ investigations to help people on death row stay alive.

The Ironton's captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship.

"Every CEO in Silicon Valley has looked at what Elon Musk has done and has asked themselves, 'Do they need to unleash their own Elon within them?'" Benioff told Insider during an interview on Thursday.

While Bois and Rubenstein’s work has been deservedly feted since at least their first major Dorktown series, The History of the Seattle Mariners in 2020, it wasn’t until the second half of 2022 that they began referring to their projects as films, with two features that vividly represent two extremes of their craft. The first was Section 1, a fleet 42-minute piece that covers the events of a single date, December 19, 1976, where significant loss of life during a lopsided Baltimore Colts-Pittsburgh Steelers game due to deranged fan Donald Kroner—whose attempt to buzz the stadium ended with his airplane crashing into the stands—was avoided. The film emphasizes the urgency of the situation and the heroism and sports prowess of both teams. In contrast, The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts, co-written and narrated by Seth Rosenthal and Kofie Yeboah, is a sprawling two-and-a-half-hour saga chronicling the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats, the worst team in NBA history despite being owned by the one and only Michael Jordan, which unfolds in arguably the funniest and most absurd video Bois has ever made. Both amply capture the peculiar and singular skill, joy and pathos of one of the most exciting documentary filmmakers working today. Over the past few months, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Bois about these two films via email.

A misconduct complaint against San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who ordered a U.S. marshal to handcuff a defendant’s 13-year-old daughter during a hearing, will be reviewed by a higher court, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday. The handcuffing exercise, which brought the girl to tears in the courtroom, was intended to scare her away from doing drugs and ending up in court like her father, Benitez explained to her, according to a transcript of the Feb. 13 hearing. Instead, the father’s defense attorney described the incident in a motion as “psychologically damaging and harmful.” The complaint against Benitez is not his first brush with controversy. In 2003, the American Bar Association gave Benitez a rare “not qualified” rating when President George W. Bush nominated him for the lifetime district court position. At the time he was a federal magistrate, and before that a state judge in Imperial County.

The giant lacewing, or Polystoechotes punctata, is a large insect from the Jurassic Era. It was once widespread, but mysteriously disappeared from eastern North America sometime in the 1950s. Scientists suspect the disappearance may have been due to pollution, artificial light, non-native predators or a number of other factors.

The Jackson clinic was the state's only abortion provider since 2004 and was at the center of the lawsuit that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade.

The 320 demonstrators were trapped by police officers on both sides, pummeled with batons and doused with pepper spray.

Talk of a “cycle of violence” between Israelis and Palestinians obscures how the provocative agenda of Israel’s far right may be fanning the flames. When confronted by scenes of bloodshed and destruction in Israel and the occupied territories, there’s a tendency to talk of “the cycle of violence.” In this view, the entrenched enmities and existential imperatives that drive conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are so powerful that they create their own lethal logic, a tortuous chain of atrocity that winds its way back a whole century. That chain lengthened by a few more links this weekend when an organized force of vigilante Israeli settlers descended upon the West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday and carried out a deadly, destructive rampage, torching dozens of homes and scores of cars. The raid was described in some Israeli and Palestinian circles as a “pogrom.” It left at least one Palestinian civilian — Sameh al-Aqtash, 37, who had just returned from a stint in Turkey as a volunteer earthquake relief worker — dead, an estimated hundred more injured and a whole community traumatized. The attack by the settlers was billed as an act of revenge after a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a traffic junction near Huwara, killing two brothers who lived in a nearby Jewish settlement. That assault itself was likely retaliation for an Israeli military raid on the city of Nablus last week that saw 11 Palestinians — including militants and civilians — killed. On Monday, there were reports of new Palestinian attacks on Israeli-owned vehicles in the West Bank. The bloody wheel turns, the cycle of violence continues. But such logic obscures more immediate forces at play. The installation of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history at the beginning of the year has been accompanied by the marked rise in violence. Since the start of the year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 61 Palestinians — civilians and militants. A new wave of militancy is stirring in the West Bank, which analysts say is fueled by anger at the Israeli military occupation and mounting settler violence as well as disillusionment with the prevailing political status quo represented by the deeply unpopular Palestinian Authority.

Seventy years ago, New York and New Jersey teamed up to fight corruption at the docks serving New York Harbor. Using an interstate compact, they created a waterfront commission with police power. That commission sharply reduced the influence of organized crime on both sides of the Hudson River, but New Jersey now wants to pull out of the compact because it thinks the commission is stifling economic growth through over-regulation. New York objects, saying that continued interstate cooperation is necessary to keep crime at bay. Wednesday’s argument in New York v. New Jersey will bring a debate about whether the terms of the compact leave New Jersey a unilateral right to withdraw.

After a years-long assessment, five U.S. intelligence agencies conclude it is “very unlikely” an enemy wielding a secret weapon was behind the mysterious ailment.

Rotten wasn't the only aggregate shock site at this time. Stile Project, started in 1999, shared similar notoriety as Rotten, both being written about by mainstream media, outside of just reporting on legal issues that often surround this type of website. Ogrish was another popular one, mainly publishing gore—some of the founders of which would later go on to found the much more popular and controversial LiveLeak. There was also Portal of Evil, a one-stop-shop directory of all the bizarre, nauseating, and repulsive the internet had to offer.

Micron Technology’s planned semiconductor fabrication plant in Clay would consume more electricity than the entire state of Vermont. When fully built, the complex of four chip fabs would use 640 million kilowatt-hours a month, more than enough for 1 million average New York homes. Micron has promised to buy all that electricity from renewable sources, a promise that reflects New York state’s commitment to have an emission-free electric grid by 2040. But Micron could find it tough to keep that promise unless the floodgates open to new wind and solar farms. It’s one of the least-discussed challenges of the Micron project, as New York’s signature economic development success story collides with a major environmental aspiration.