In November, John Williams, the top beer lobbyist in Louisiana, sent out a mass email to legislators with an alarming subject line: “Recreational THC is now legal in Louisiana.”

From 25 miles away, an inky plume of smoke and its purple tail diffused over the eastern horizon. Closer to the blaze, smoke roiled and towered behind the tree line and a shopping center. It painted the sky over a subdivision. Its reflection floated on the Neuse River. Within a few hundred yards, flames licked ...

Young people in the LGBTQ community long for older role models. We found several, and they all have stories to tell.

In the climate crisis, it’s possible to live in the same place but inhabit different worlds.

When the smoke finally cleared from the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire last winter, Winston-Salem officials turned their attention to helping those who were forced to pack their bags and head to safer ground. More than 6,500 people were under evacuation orders, many of whom lived in low-income neighborhoods. So a relief fund was established to reimburse residents for expenses related to the crisis: food, shelter, lost wages – whatever was needed to get their lives back on track. The city tapped nonprofit Experiment in Self-Reliance (ESR), without a bid process, to manage the fund and hoped that the million dollars earmarked would be enough. But one year later, a WFDD investigation has revealed that only $241,000 was distributed to just 656 residents. And ESR was paid $100,000 to do it.

The former kickboxer has achieved global notoriety by peddling violent misogyny to millions, and claims to have made ‘trillions’ – but is his life of fast cars and luxury a facade?

Sydney Watson was poised to be a new star in the heady world of right-wing media. She was a few months into co-hosting a show on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, an online video network and launching pad for big conservative personalities like Tomi Lahren and Dana Loesch. Watson had signed a multi-year deal with Blaze Media that she claims was worth nearly $1.3 million. But Watson had a problem: her co-host

More than 5,000 pregnant Russian women have entered Argentina in recent months, including 33 on a single flight on Thursday, officials say.

Ever since WeWork founder Adam Neumann announced that he was launching a real estate company called Flow last year, people have wondered what exactly the new venture was meant to do. On Tuesday, Andreessen Horowitz, which is one of Neumann’s backers, released a video from a November conference panel where the WeWork founder shared a few details about Flow, which he said would create “an elevated experience for the resident.” Neumann explained that his new startup would make renters “feel ownership” over their apartments, though he admitted that “the word ‘ownership’ is a very complicated word.”

Workers say isolation, lifestyle and physicality of the job pushes some to drug use. Three out of four people who die of overdoses in Alberta are men, according to provincial statistics. In 2017, the province reviewed all opioid-related deaths and found that of those with occupations listed, 53 per cent had employment in trades, transport or equipment operation. A Health Canada campaign, which drew data from provincial reports in Alberta, B.C. and Ontario also indicates that about 30 to 50 per cent of those employed at the time of their death, were employed in trades.

Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?

Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.

A man accidently shot himself in the hand after threatening two people during a road rage incident in Paulding County on Thursday morning, authorities said. Paulding deputies said the shooting happened around 7:45 a.m. in the 8000 block of Buchanan Highway in Dallas. According to authorities, the suspect was driving a pickup truck when he approached another truck that was delivering lumber and backing up traffic. The man, “who was clearly impatient and annoyed by the delay,” according to the sheriff’s office, got out of his vehicle and pointed his gun at two men who were wearing reflective vests and trying to direct traffic during the delivery. “As the suspect was getting back into his vehicle, deputies believe he accidently shot himself in the hand as he was re-holstering his pistol,” the sheriff’s office said. The suspect told the men that he shot himself and asked them to call 911, deputies said. He also called 911 to say he accidently shot himself, and operators advised deputies that the caller was the “actual aggressor,” authorities said. Deputies later found the man trying to get medical attention at a fire station.

These AI tools, developed by large technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, are meant to protect users by identifying violent or pornographic visuals so that social media companies can block it before anyone sees it. The companies claim that their AI tools can also detect “raciness” or how sexually suggestive an image is. With this classification, platforms – including Instagram and LinkedIn – may suppress contentious imagery.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Elon Musk’s restoration of 10 Twitter accounts that were banned under the platform’s previous management has generated enough engagement since they returned to the platform to likely generate $19 million in advertising revenue annually, a nonprofit dedicated to countering hate speech online has concluded.

The Last of Us isn’t the only recent story to rely on fungal fright. HBO’s smash-hit adaptation The Last of Us is the latest in a string of horror stories featuring fungi as the source of fear. The zombie-like outbreak that takes place in the show, which is based on the dystopian video game series of the same name, stems from a mutated version of a parasitic mushroom which fictionally evolves to attack humans instead of insects.

Advisors to Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen weren't able to spot any issues with FTX's underlying financials before the celebrity couple piled cash into the now-bankrupt crypto exchange, the Financial Times has reported. The then-couple spent over $84 million buying 1.8 million shares in Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire after their team found no issues with its financial documentation, according to the report Tuesday.

From riot gear to PR to Dairy Queen, public records show every expense Enbridge reimbursed after the Line 3 protests.

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room