The recently suspended sheriff of Columbus County faces new allegations of corruption. Jody Greene “has demonstrated on numerous occasions that he is willing to misuse the power and authority inherent to the office of sheriff for improper personal and political gain,” Jon David, the district attorney for Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus counties, wrote in a new court filing Friday. Greene is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a hearing about whether he should be removed, not just suspended, from office. He was elected in 2018, becoming the county’s first Republican sheriff.

Romanian Defence Minister Vasile Dincu resigned on Monday, saying he could not collaborate with the country's president, amid pressure weeks after he said Ukraine's only chance to end the war was to negotiate with Russia.

ATLANTA (AP) — Herschel Walker campaigns for the U.S. Senate as a champion of free enterprise and advocate for the mentally ill, felons and others at the margins of society. And the Georgia Republican has called for policies that blend those priorities. “If someone comes out of prison, they should have incentives set up that the person has learned a trade, and you give an incentive for a company to hire him so he can make a living for himself,” Walker said Aug. 17 in Kennesaw, Georgia. Walker, who founded Renaissance Man Food Services in 1999 as part of America’s sprawling food processing industry, then nodded to his business experience. “It’s my responsibility now to help,” Walker declared. The argument blends several threads of Walker’s bid to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, in a marquee midterm election matchup that could determine control of the Senate. A former college and professional football star, Walker styles himself as a businessman, unapologetic Christian and someone who has overcome mental health challenges with others’ help. “We have to become a society that want to help, not hurt anyone,” he said in Kennesaw. Yet an Associated Press review of federal court cases, alongside other public records and statements, offers a more complicated reality. One instance at the heart of Walker’s business portfolio suggests he has benefited, through a firm he touts as a principal partner and supplier, from the unpaid labor of drug offenders routed from state courts to residential rehabilitation programs in lieu of prison.

This weekend, the New York Times published yet another article that models many of the dangerous media practices I’ve analyzed here. The stakes of this unethical reporting in this moment are enormous: not only is New York embarking on a project to dramatically militarize and surveil the subway and to expand the police bureaucracy, but the country as a whole is on the precipice of a far-right authoritarian takeover. It’s useful to discuss a few of the examples of exactly what the New York Times did because they are so prevalent and sometimes subtle. What is the article about? This weekend’s article is about a chilling plan by New York officials to dramatically militarize the subway, “flooding” it with armed government agents and surveillance cameras. Here are the Orwellian words of the New York City Mayor describing what they want to do: “omnipresence” of armed cops and a sort of cleansing of the subway system of human beings “dealing with mental health issues.”

What do you do when you're a perverted little boy, who also has access to a pit in the woods full of monsters? Throw people in, of course.

“You had no choice but to adore Leslie Jordan.”

A man has been throwing bags of human poop on the lawn of an elected official’s house, and Seattle police say the suspect is still at large. Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant said a man has thrown bags of poop on her lawn several times over the last month, according to the statement from the Seattle Police Department and media outlets. McClatchy News reached out to Sawant’s office and is waiting for a response. In a letter to Seattle police Sawant wrote that bags of “human feces” had been thrown on her lawn six times, according to Fox13. Following one incident, she received an email telling her that she could “sit on her throne of human excrement.”

Norm Eisen, who served as a White House ethics adviser under then President Barack Obama, who was asked by Fair Fight Action to contact POLITICO to comment on this story, said he did not see anything untoward about Abrams’ organization hiring her friend and campaign chair. “It happens all the time. It is the way our system is built, that the political leaders and the policy leaders are one in the same. So this is not unique to Allegra. You can say the same thing about Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi or, or Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy,” Eisen said. “We not only countenance it, we embrace it; that is the American political, legal and ethical system.”

Four times in the past year, the parents, teachers, and police officers of the small, neighboring Minnesota cities of Cloquet and Esko briefly believed that their children were about to be murdered in their classrooms. The calls began in the spring with two bomb threats. In the first, a man claimed to have seen a suspicious backpack with wires coming out of it at Cloquet and Esko high school. In July, he called again, this time reporting a bomb in a red backpack at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, according to police records. Then, in September, the same man, described by the Midwestern dispatchers as having a thick Middle Eastern accent, reported that a pair of gunmen, armed with AK-47s, had killed 10 people at Cloquet High School. All of these calls turned out to be hoaxes. But according to Derrick Randall, Cloquet’s chief of police, each time they came in, it was “all hands on deck” for his department. Officers sprinted to their squad cars, threw on their extra body armor, and chambered rounds in the squad rifles. They may have blasted through stop signs and traffic signals while racing as fast as they could to face what might have been the worst thing they would ever see in their lives. “It’s dangerous, frustrating. It’s a waste, and we feel helpless,” says Randall. “Our job is to hold people accountable, and when there’s a person or group on the other side of the world able to take advantage of us and exploit our systems like this, they are taking away our power and control.”

Seeking to explore ways to improve diabetes care in resource-poor settings, a joint study by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and University of Geneva, published in the journal PLOS ONE, has demonstrated that a range of insulins can be stored at temperatures ranging between 25-37 degrees Celsius for a four-week period of use. This study confirms the possibility for people living with diabetes in similar temperature conditions to be able to use insulin, for a period of up to four weeks, even in the absence of access to refrigeration. Strict storage recommendations for insulin are difficult to follow in tropical regions and even more challenging in conflict and humanitarian emergency settings, adding an extra burden for people managing their diabetes. “For far too long, we were unable to send people with diabetes back to their homes with insulin due to its cold storage requirements,” says Dr Philippa Boulle, MSF non-communicable diseases adviser. “Some of these people were travelling long distances daily and some even relocated to get their insulin injections at the clinic.” “People with diabetes in resource-limited and humanitarian settings will now be able to inject themselves in their homes, greatly improving the significant disruption to their lives from having to attend hospital for twice-daily injections,” Dr Boulle adds.

On a recent episode of "WTF with Marc Maron," Quinones paints a lurid tale of addiction in America. His brash and hyperbolic writing style misleads his audience.

The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.

Malawi's government has vowed to act after the discovery of a mass grave where the bodies of 25 immigrants thought to be Ethiopians were found. The bodies were exhumed in a Mzimba district forest after young boys reportedly detected a foul smell. The next day four more bodies were found 5 km (3 miles) from the grave. "It is a sorry state," Homeland Security Minister Jean Sendeza told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme."It is a pathetic situation," she said. "As a government we are really condemning this kind of activity. It's not right, it's not good". She stressed that the police was investigating and that those involved would be caught. A post-mortem will be undertaken to establish the causes of death. A group of 72 suspected migrants from Ethiopia were arrested after police were tipped off about their presence in another government forest reserve. Ten Malawians were also arrested on suspicion of being part of a syndicate involved in trafficking the Ethiopians. They have not yet appeared in court.

In early September, Donald Trump welcomed a handful of Republican allies to Manhattan’s Trump Tower with an urgent message: He saw a “scam” happening with midterm election voting in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and he wanted conservatives to do something about it. “During our briefing, he was concerned that 2020 is going to happen again in 2022,” says former senior Trump administration official Michael Caputo, referencing Trump’s debunked assertion that voter fraud in Philadelphia helped win Pennsylvania for Joe Biden. Caputo — who attended the meeting alongside Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko and retired CIA officer Sam Faddis — says they had a message back to the former president: “Our team encouraged him to be concerned … [Furthermore], I’m advising Republicans to recruit and train election observers and a team of attorneys to oversee historically problematic precincts.” But it’s not just one meeting, and it’s not just Philly. In recent months, Trump has convened a series of in-person meetings and conference calls to discuss laying the groundwork to challenge the 2022 midterm election results, four people familiar with the conversations tell Rolling Stone. In these conversations, pro-Trump groups, attorneys, Republican Party activists, and MAGA diehards often discuss the type of scorched-earth legal tactics they could deploy.

“A hyperactive immune system may have been great in the past but in the environment today it might not be as helpful,” said Hendrik Poinar, an anthropology professor at McMaster and another senior author.

The apartment is a time capsule. In the fridge, still plugged in and running, sits a mostly empty package of Oscar Mayer deli meat dated May 2019. The freezer holds a 16-pound turkey — best if used by June 29, 2019. On the living room floor lies a composition book filled by a girl who lived in Unit #32. Her name means princess, the girl wrote, and her favorite person is her baby sister. In the three years since, D.C. Housing Authority officials moved no one else in, as more than 20,000 people languished on a frozen waiting list for public housing. It’s among the more than one in four of D.C.’s roughly 8,000 public housing units that sit vacant, at an average length of about two years, agency records reveal. Nationwide, public housing occupancy rates average 95 percent. DCHA’s is the lowest it has ever experienced, even as the District’s long-running affordable housing crisis intensifies and more people find themselves priced out of decent homes.

For several weeks a year, the work of nurse-midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah is really detective work. She and a team of other medical investigators with the North Carolina public health department scour the hospital records and coroner reports of new moms who died after giving birth. These maternal mortality review committees look for clues to what contributed to the deaths — unfilled prescriptions, missed postnatal appointments, signs of trouble that doctors overlooked — to figure out how many of them could have been prevented and how. The committees are at work in almost 40 states in the U.S. and in the latest and largest compilation of such data, released in September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a staggering 84% of pregnancy-related deaths were deemed preventable. Even more striking to nurse-detectives like Sheffield-Abdullah, is that 53% of the deaths occurred well after women left the hospital, between seven days and a year after delivery. "We are so baby focused," she says. "Once the baby is here, it's almost like the mother is discarded. Like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The mom is the wrapper, and the baby is the candy. Once you remove the wrapper, you just discard the wrapper. And what we really need to be thinking about is that fourth trimester, that time after the baby is born."

The Oakland Police Department this week reversed course on armed robots and said it would not seek approval to use the remote killing machines after initially exploring the idea over a series of meetings. Lethal armed robots — roving machines that can select and shoot targets without an operator present on scene — have drawn condemnation from human rights organizations opposed to militarized police departments. Oakland police discussed the use of armed robots with the Oakland Police Commission and community members “to explore all possible uses,” the department said in a statement Tuesday. “However, after further discussions with the chief and the executive team, the department decided it no longer wanted to explore that particular option.”

Peanut butter and mayonnaise may not sound like an appetizing food combination to most people, but in some regions of the United States PB and mayo sandwiches have long been quite popular. In the late 1960s, however, fears arose that these two ingredients were being used for a purpose much more nefarious than making sandwiches. Drug experts warned that young people were injecting themselves with peanut butter and mayonnaise as a way to get high.

Despite the general splintering of the QAnon movement, 8kun’s /qresearch/ board is still going strong. While traffic on the imageboard has waned over time, it still regularly draws over 300 posts an hour and over 1000 unique active posters every three days, according to the site’s self-reported activity statistics. This is notably active for any imageboard, making /qresearch/ still the most active hub of Q discussion outside of Telegram (and perhaps Truth Social). This piece will focus on /qresearch/’s perception of Xi Jinping, President of China and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. To date, the QAnon community’s affinity for Xi Jinping has received almost no attention. But it’s one of the most surprising things about QAnon culture. In most right-wing spaces, we would expect a near-zero level of positive sentiment about Xi, who leads the largest Communist Party on the face of the Earth. But our sentiment analysis of over 2,000 Xi-related posts on /qresearch/ show that Xi is far from universally despised; indeed, at both the start and end of our research period, /qresearch/ posters were more likely to be pro-Xi than anti-Xi.