The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressingclimate change and other pressing planetary constraints.

Guidance Document Public Comment Forum. This is Youngkin's proposal for how the Virginia educational system will handle transgender youth moving forward.

They're trying an alleged cheating scandal this week

Everything we know about a massive leak in the middle of the Baltic Sea.

A hardline Christian activist and an evangelical church in North Texas are arguing that federal employment protections for LGBT workers don’t apply to bisexuals. In a brief filed with the federal appeals court last week, their lawyers argued the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision barring employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity does not apply to bisexuals — as long as bi men are being discriminated against “on equal terms” as bi women. “An employer who discriminates on account of an employee or job applicant’s bisexual orientation (or conduct) cannot engage in ‘sex’ discrimination as defined,” the lawyers wrote, “because that employer would have taken the exact same action against an identically situated individual of the opposite biological sex.” Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell and Gene Hamilton, with the Trump-affiliated American First Legal, are representing the plaintiffs. Their clients are Braidwood Management, a business owned by anti-LGBT activist Steven Hotze, and Bear Creek Bible Church in Keller. If they win, employers with a sincere religious belief would be carved out of the 2020 ruling in Bostock vs. Clayton County that barred sex-based discrimination in the workplace. Mitchell sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2018, arguing that employers with religious objections should be able to hire and fire employees based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. Last year, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled largely in his favor.

A rash of noises described as “explosive diarrhea, vomiting, and a weird, vaguely sexual moan” hit an American Airlines flight last week. It's not the only one.

After learning that a man held at the Rikers Island jail complex had suffered cardiac arrest and was on the brink of death, Louis A. Molina, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, issued a directive to his subordinates. “Make sure we do what we can,” Mr. Molina wrote on Thursday in an email obtained by The New York Times, to ensure the man was “off the Department’s count.” Hours later, after the man, Elmore Robert Pondexter, was granted a so-called compassionate release from detention, he was taken off life support and died at Bellevue Hospital. Because he had been freed, the Correction Department did not count his death as having occurred in its custody, issuing no news release and providing no notice to the city Board of Correction, a jails oversight panel. Mr. Molina does not have the authority to free people from custody on his own, and how much weight his directive carried in the ultimate decision to release Mr. Pondexter was not clear. But the direct involvement of the city’s top jail official appeared to show the lengths to which Mr. Molina was willing to go to keep the death figures down. And although other jail officials have not counted deaths that occurred after ailing detainees were freed, Mr. Molina issued his instruction while under intense pressure to show improvements on Rikers Island — or risk a federal takeover of the city’s troubled jail system. In a statement late Monday night, Danielle De Souza, a Correction Department spokeswoman, denied that Mr. Molina emailed his subordinates out of concern for the department’s death numbers, calling that interpretation “incorrect and offensive.”

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.