The 1,340-pound spacecraft plowed directly into Dimorphos as intended. Astronomers now need to determine the potential impact of the test.

Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy hilariously unpack the last few days’ worth of political news and a Mississippi Today reporter has a wild update on the Brett Favre welfare scheme.

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was returning from an official appearance in Rapid City in 2019 when she faced a decision: Overnight in the capital of Pierre, where another trip would start the next day, or head home and see her son attend his high school prom? The Republican governor chose the latter, a decision that eventually cost taxpayers some $3,700 when the state airplane dropped her off near her home and then returned the next day to pick her up. It’s one of several trips that year where Noem, a potential 2024 White House contender, blurred the lines between official travel and attending either family or political events. The trips sparked a complaint to the state ethics board, which has referred the matter to the state's Division of Criminal Investigation. A county prosecutor overseeing the investigation will decide whether the governor broke an untested law enacted by voters in 2006 to rein in questionable use of the state airplane. The governor has also faced action by the same ethics board for intervening in a state agency shortly after it moved to deny her daughter a real estate appraiser's license.

Multiple chains that partnered with the company, including McDonald’s, have quietly ended trial launches. In August, the company laid off 4% of its workforce after a slowdown in sales growth. Last week, its chief operating officer was reportedly arrested for biting another man on the nose during a road rage confrontation.

A former labor leader is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from his California union and spending it on luxury travel and retail purchases, prosecutors said. Felix Luciano, 60, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and making false statements in San Diego on Friday, Sept. 23, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said in a news release. An attorney for Luciano did not immediately respond to McClatchy News’ request for comment on Monday, Sept. 26. Luciano was an Enforcement and Removal Operations officer for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was also the president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2805, prosecutors said. He was in charge of the union that represents ICE workers in San Diego and Imperial counties, prosecutors said. From 2013 to 2019, Luciano is accused of stealing money from the union and using it on luxury travel, payments to his credit card, groceries, dining, his wife’s business and on a custom gun safe, prosecutors said in the release. He stole the money by using the union’s debit and credit cards, as well as by writing checks to himself, the release said. He is accused of filing annual financial reports with false information, including how much money the union disbursed to him, prosecutors said

Keith Olbermann wants you to know he dated Kyrsten Sinema and she is not the "progressive" he knew now that she's friends with Republicans like Mitch McConnell.

By claiming that Giorgia Meloni becoming prime minister would represent progress for women, "Hillary is half-endorsing the fascist takeover in Italy the rest of us are desperately working against," said one filmmaker.

Male and female veterinary technicians died by suicide at a rate that was 5.0 and 2.3 times greater, respectively, than the general population.

Wayne Hughes’s concrete home was windowless and filthy. For more than two weeks, he spent almost 24 hours a day in the six-by-eight-foot cell, which contained a built-in bunk, a grimy sink-toilet combo, and a large fluorescent light. The entire unit, composed of around 100 cells, was locked from the outside; even the correctional officers were locked in and had to be let out at the end of their shift. Hughes, who is 66 years old, usually lives in the general population of San Quentin State Prison, a large men’s facility 12 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Typically, those incarcerated there are allowed to walk independently to meals, the yard, programming, and work assignments. But in his new unit, Hughes had to stick his hands through the food slot in the steel door to be handcuffed just to leave his cell for a seven-minute shower. Recreation—on the days it was offered—consisted of four hours alone in a small outdoor recreation cage. Some days, people on the unit are not allowed to leave their cells at all.

Trump has lost a majority of support from GOP voters, though he remains "essentially tied" against Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up.

Google and Facebook are still two of the most profitable companies in the world, whose annual revenue rivals that of the entire GDP of some countries. Unlike smaller tech companies, they can afford to make payroll and weather times of economic downturn. But, some industry insiders said, it could be to these firms’ advantage to cut more than necessary to drive productivity and demonstrate to shareholders that they’re being financially responsible.

An interim report issued early this year by a separate CIA task force examining who might be behind the episodes found that it was unlikely Russia or any other foreign adversary is conducting a widespread global campaign designed to harm US officials. But the agency also did not rule out that a nation state -- including Russia -- might be responsible for roughly two dozen cases that investigators have been unable to explain by any other known cause.

It was as if Eric Adams was going out of his way to pick a fight. In July, as small groups of asylum seekers started arriving in New York City, Mayor Adams began castigating Texas Governor Greg Abbott for sending migrants to New York City. Except Abbott hadn’t actually begun sending busloads of migrants to New York—instead, Customs and Border Protection agents had been listing New York addresses on asylum seekers' paperwork after they crossed the border. When these migrants got to New York, either after they were bused by Abbott to Washington, D.C,. or if found their own way from the border, they learned that the addresses weren’t actually shelters or places they could stay—so they began filing into the City’s already woefully understaffed shelter system. Once Adams began calling Abbott out, the Texas governor answered, and now thousands of asylum seekers have been bused by Abbott to New York City in recent weeks. But the arrival of asylum seekers to New York City isn't a new phenomenon. For years, as migrants have crossed the border in record numbers, many of them have come to New York City to either reunite with family or find work, and the City has been accommodating them in the shelter system while they seek more permanent housing. "These are issues we've been working on for a very long time, and while the volume has increased over the past few weeks, this is not entirely uncharted territory," said Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Homeless Rights Project. In the past four months, driven by the arrival of asylum seekers, New York City's shelter population has gone up by more than 25 percent. The number of arriving migrants, bused from Texas and other border states, continues to increase, leading the Adams administration to consider reviving a Bloomberg-era idea of housing people on cruise ships. But as recently as 2019, the City was sheltering several thousand more people than it does currently. So what changed? Before leaving office, the de Blasio administration closed down thousands of substandard scattered site units, in an effort to improve conditions for shelter residents. That decision was predicated on the idea that those beds would be replaced by new and more centrally located shelter sites that would have dedicated services and adequate space for families. Except a funny thing happened to those new units—many of them never opened. Faced with community resistance, the incoming Adams administration chose to abandon them, leaving the amount of available shelter beds seriously diminished just ahead of the arrival of the most recent wave of asylum seekers. At the same time, the expiration of pandemic-era eviction moratoriums led to formerly housed New York families once again filling the City's shelters, as rent in the city reached record highs.

Finally, in February, after pursuing Kurt for more than two years, I flew from Europe to Detroit, where border guards had a hard time believing I was entering the U.S. to interview a stone skipper. Then I showed them a video of Kurt’s magical record throw, and before long a group was gathered around a computer screen, counting the skips and hollering “No fucking way!” before letting me through. From the moment I met Kurt in Erie a day later, it was clear that his hibernation had ended. By 10 p.m. on our second evening, when he fashioned a can of Monster energy drink into a makeshift bong, we’d spoken for 12 hours straight.

A narrow niche in the digital-payments world, fuel cards like those offered by FleetCor are credit cards that companies with vehicle fleets can issue to employees for on-the-job purchases of gas and and other travel-related expenses. Totenberg said the FTC’s evidence showed that FleetCor engaged in “pervasive and long-lasting” violations aimed at deceiving customers. She noted that FleetCor’s ads made glowing promises that its cards carried no transaction or annual fees, but the actual terms-and-conditions contained a string of nebulous charges like “convenience network surcharge” or “minimum program administration fee” that often kicked in without prior notice. The judge pointed out that FleetCor’s own internal documents stated that the most of its customers were small businesses that held fewer than 10 of its cards. A company study described them as “fairly unsophisticated” and “business owners not business people.” For many of them, “English was not their first language,” the study said. Many of these customers simply didn’t have time to review documents “with a microscope, spend hours on the phone with customer service representatives trying to pay a bill on a system that does not function, or get a refund for an improper charge,” Totenberg wrote.

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program. In late July, Norman Otey was rushed by ambulance to Richmond Community Hospital. The 63-year-old was doubled over in pain and babbling incoherently. Blood tests suggested septic shock, a grave emergency that required the resources and expertise of an intensive care unit. But Richmond Community, a struggling hospital in a predominantly Black neighborhood, had closed its I.C.U. in 2017. It took several hours for Mr. Otey to be transported to another hospital, according to his sister, Linda Jones-Smith. He deteriorated on the way there, and later died of sepsis. Two people who cared for Mr. Otey said the delay had most likely contributed to his death. “He should have been able to go to the hospital and get the treatment he needed,” Ms. Jones-Smith said. “He should have been saved.” Ringed by public housing projects, Richmond Community consists of little more than a strapped emergency room and a psychiatric ward. It does not have kidney or lung specialists, or a maternity ward. Its magnetic resonance imaging machine frequently breaks, and was out of service for seven weeks this summer, said two medical workers at the hospital, who requested anonymity because they still work there. Standard tools like an otoscope, a device used to inspect the ear canal, are often hard to come by. Yet the hollowed-out hospital — owned by Bon Secours Mercy Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care chains in the country — has the highest profit margins of any hospital in Virginia, generating as much as $100 million a year, according to the hospital’s financial data.

Nearly four years after a woman ended an unwanted pregnancy with abortion pills obtained at a Phoenix clinic, she finds herself mired in an ongoing lawsuit over that decision. A judge allowed the woman’s ex-husband to establish an estate for the embryo, which had been aborted in its seventh week of development. The ex-husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the clinic and its doctors in 2020, alleging that physicians failed to obtain proper informed consent from the woman as required by Arizona law. Across the U.S., people have sued for negligence in the death of a fetus or embryo in cases where a pregnant person has been killed in a car crash or a pregnancy was lost because of alleged wrongdoing by a physician. But a court action claiming the wrongful death of an aborted embryo or fetus is a more novel strategy, legal experts said. The experts said this rare tactic could become more common, as anti-abortion groups have signaled their desire to further limit reproductive rights following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The Arizona lawsuit and others that may follow could also be an attempt to discourage and intimidate providers and harass plaintiffs’ former romantic partners, experts said. Lucinda Finley, a law professor at the University at Buffalo who specializes in tort law and reproductive rights, said the Arizona case is a “harbinger of things to come” and called it “troubling for the future.” Finley said she expects state lawmakers and anti-abortion groups to use “unprecedented strategies” to try to prevent people from traveling to obtain abortions or block them from obtaining information on where to seek one.

A song’s journey from a Trump video to online forums and back to Trump rallies shows the melding of the MAGA and QAnon movements

Military-aged men fled Russia in droves Friday, filling planes and causing traffic jams at border crossings to avoid being rounded up to fight in Ukraine following the Kremlin’s partial military mobilization.