The report says that while Alexa's Echo line is among the "best-selling items on Amazon, most of the devices sold at cost." One internal document described the business model by saying, "We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices."

Two men arrested just before midnight on Friday at New York’s Penn Station, in what authorities said was a “developing threat to the Jewish community,” have been charged with multiple felony counts, including criminal possession of a weapon and making a terroristic threat. Authorities seized an 8-inch military style knife and an illegally held gun with a 30-round magazine from Christopher Brown, 21, and Matthew Mahrer, 22. They also found Mr. Brown in possession of a Swastika arm patch and ski mask. Law enforcement officials with knowledge of the situation said that threats of violence to Jewish sites, including “shooting up a synagogue,” were recently made in social media posts and that there was a reference to a violent act occurring on Friday. “A potential tragedy was averted when they were intercepted by police officers at Penn Station,” said Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, “given that online postings indicated an intent to use these weapons at a Manhattan synagogue.”

The law enforcement lobby showed up Tuesday to oppose new rules proposed by the state’s police licensing board‚ including banning law enforcement officers from being involved in hate, extremist or white supremacist groups — because they said the wording is too vague.

“They should've been connected to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force after the first brick."

Thanks to reporting from Colorado Springs Independent, it is now public knowledge that Colorado Springs Police infiltrated the Chinook Center and a number of orgs that organize there such as Colorado Springs DSA and Colorado Springs Tenant Union, using a pink haired cop named April Rogers who went by Chelsie Kurti and pretended to be a sex worker.

Lots of current vaccines target the spike protein. But none of them specifically target the spine helix. And yet, there are good reasons to focus on that part of the pathogen. Whereas many regions of the spike protein tend to change a lot as the virus mutates, the spine helix doesn’t.

Judge Peter J. Savage III issued the order for the mental health evaluation during Jeremy Griffin's court appearance Tuesday morning.

Earlier this year, Justice Samuel Alito at last spoke publicly about the leak of his draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which five conservative justices ultimately voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the right to abortion care. “It was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody,” a solemn Alito told his audience at the Heritage Foundation. He also excoriated the leaker for placing his life and the lives of his colleagues in jeopardy by making them “targets for assassination” in the weeks that followed. On Saturday, The New York Times published a bombshell report suggesting that Alito might be less suited to a black robe than a novelty plush hot dog suit. In it, a prominent former anti-choice activist claims that Dobbs was not the first leak of a Supreme Court case with an Alito-adjacent outcome. In 2014, says the Rev. Rob Schenck, a fellow anti-choice activist named Gayle Wright tipped him off that Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a pending case about exempting “religious” corporations from their legal obligations to pay for employees’ contraceptive care, would come down in Hobby Lobby’s favor, and that Alito would write the opinion. Wright allegedly told Schenck this the day after enjoying a private dinner with none other than Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, and three weeks before the opinion was released.

In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.

Jason David Frank, beloved star of the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" TV and film franchise, has died in Texas at the age of 49, his representative Justine Hunt announced Sunday.

"Monoclonals had their day, like the Model T or the biplane," says Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institutes of Health, and lead of the NIH's Antiviral Program for Pandemics, "Now it's time to move on."

The provocative conclusion rests on a mathematical trick involving switching to a clock that ticks with imaginary numbers. Using the imaginary clock, as Hawking did in the ’70s, Turok and Boyle could calculate a quantity, known as entropy, that appears to correspond to our universe. But the imaginary time trick is a roundabout way of calculating entropy, and without a more rigorous method, the meaning of the quantity remains hotly debated.

Holmes, who plans on appealing, will not have to report for her 135-month prison sentence until April 2023, the judge announced during the hearing.

Those who voted decided, by a ratio of 52% to 48%, that Trump should be reinstated to the platform. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” (the voice of the people is the voice of god), Musk tweeted—an indication that he agreed to letting Trump back on the platform. (Surprisingly, most people seem comfortable with that bit of Latin: Google search trends didn’t see a spike in interest for the phrase.)

A gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs just before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, leaving five people dead and 18 injured, police said Sunday. At least two people at Club Q confronted the gunman, who was using a "long rifle," and prevented him from injuring others, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said. A suspect was taken into custody about five minutes after police first received a 911 call, Vasquez said.

A former Project Veritas employee reveals online-dating stings, hidden-camera tactics.

Carol Leigh, who sought to change the image and treatment of sex workers — a term she is generally credited with coining — through both mainstream advocacy work and her colorful performances and writings under the name Scarlot Harlot, died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 71. Kate Marquez, her executor, said the cause was cancer. Ms. Leigh (pronounced “lee”) began working as a prostitute after moving to San Francisco from the East Coast in 1978. In a 1996 interview with The San Francisco Examiner, she said she was galvanized into activism in 1979 after two men raped her at the sex studio where she worked and she realized that if she reported the crime, the establishment would be shut down, leaving her and other women there unemployed. “I became very, very dedicated to changing conditions so that other women would not have to deal with what I dealt with,” she said. At the time, prostitution was rarely thought of as anything but a crime, and men and women who sold sex were viewed as criminals and, often, as people who had been forced into the work by traffickers or circumstances. Ms. Leigh was among a group of advocates who proposed a different view, one captured in the slogan that the movement adopted: “Sex work is work.” She argued that some people engaged in prostitution by choice, and that many sex-for-money transactions — the escort business, for instance — were not the street-corner deals the general public pictured.

Evangelical Christians who previously backed Donald Trump are now accusing him of using them to further his own goals, after he gave them everything on their agenda. Major figures in the community have said they don’t support Trump’s third bid for president and accused him of acting purely for personal gain in his previous runs. “He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,” Christian Zionist Mike Evans told The Washington Post. Trump both campaigned and governed on a largely evangelical Christian platform. He moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he cracked down on immigration from majority-Muslim countries; and he appointed multiple conservative judges, including to the Supreme Court, which has swung sharply right.

A large official fan village, which is expected to house dozens of England and Wales fans in the coming weeks, still resembles a building site less than 48 hours before the World Cup kicks off. The Rawdat Al Jahhaniya accommodation base, in the shadow of the Ahmad bin Ali stadium where Wales play the US on Monday, had abandoned forklift trucks and a digger next to the hundreds of sea containers that will host supporters when the Guardian visited on Thursday and Friday.

Fans who have travelled to Qatar as part of a controversial paid-for supporters programme have been told by Qatari authorities that their cash has been cut. The Fan Leader Network is a scheme run by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the Qatari agency responsible for the World Cup. It has recruited supporters from around the globe, offering travel and accommodation and a place at the World Cup opening ceremony in return for enthusiasm and positive social media content. But the Guardian can reveal that a per diem payment for food and drink, upon which some supporters were depending, was cancelled just as fans were packing to travel to the Gulf. Members of the Fan Leader Network from two European countries said their payments had been cancelled three days ago and that authorities had blamed the decision on the bad press which followed the revelation that fans were being paid.