The accident happened on the evening of June 16 while a truck was moving the tank from the parade staging area to a Maryland railyard.

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

Officers with LAPD found themselves caught in the crossfire of tear gas and other less lethal munitions between themselves and deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department during the violent dispersal of fleeing demonstrators. LAPD officers were coordinating with LASD to corral demonstrators at the corners of Temple and Main over the radios, trying to separate and push them away from City Hall. An officer shouts over the radio to LASD deputies at Main and Temple to “hold your goddamn crossfire here,” ending the radio call by saying “blue blue,” likely a reference to blue-on-blue friendly fire. The call either wasn’t heard or shared with LASD deputies because nearly 20 minutes later, another LAPD officer radioed to dispatch about an unruly crowd between Temple and First streets, they needed help clearing. He also reported another problem. “We’re still taking gas and less-lethal munitions from the Sheriffs over on Temple and Main.” An officer, unclear which department he represented, responded and relayed that he couldn’t do much to help: “Roger, we can only work on one problem here.” Three minutes later, another officer frantically radios from the same location, saying they were not only taking rocks and bottles, but were again being shot by LASD.

A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway.

In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada.

An antisemitic podcaster famous for hosting Kash Patel tried his hand in crypto. It didn’t end well.

The notorious former county sheriff celebrated his 93rd birthday on Saturday. We went so you didn’t have to.

The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.

City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?

This country deserves a better class of cynical, pandering politician.

The closest living relatives of an 84-year-old B.C. widow who left her $1 million estate to a much-younger “professional companion and male escort” have been given the go-ahead to challenge the will, according to a recently published court ruling.

A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company.

... In my last McMansion Hell post, I deployed the phrase “Regional Car Dealership Rococo” (henceforth RCDR) as a joke, but I think it works well as a broader idea. We can define RCDR as the ad hoc revival of 18th century ornamentation that arose, perhaps inevitably, during a period of skyrocketing income inequality coupled with consolidated global supply chains that brought down the cost of architectural materials. Culturally, it is a weed in Postmodernism’s garden bed.

The imported mini-trucks are cute, but they’re also quite serviceable—if you can use them on public roads.

The grift goes on.

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; Public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas, inventoried roadless areas, critical wildlife habitat and big game migration corridors.

A 59-year-old Los Angeles County deputy probation officer has been arrested and charged in connection with accusations he was smuggling controlled substances into a juvenile detention facility, officials announced this week. In a news release, prosecutors at the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office said Michael Solis conspired with a minor detained at Barry J. Nord Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to sell alprazolam, the generic version of the benzodiazepine known as Xanax, in 2023.

“In 1982, biologist Daniel Janzen and paleontologist Paul Martin proposed a revolutionary idea: many tropical plants developed large, sweet, and colorful fruits to attract large animals — such as mastodons, native horses, or giant ground sloths — that would serve as seed dispersers,” said Dr. Erwin González-Guarda, a paleontologist at the University of O’Higgins and IPHES-CERCA, and his colleagues.

“We don’t want an autocrat. We want democracy.”