In the first two years of the pandemic, identity verification company ID.me secured dozens of contracts with the IRS, Social Security Administration, and state unemployment agencies, ostensibly to reduce fraudulent access to government benefits. As it grew rapidly, so did errors, technical hurdles, and strain on its relatively new staff of customer service representatives, nine former ID.me employees told Insider. Helpline queues for the millions of Americans who relied on unemployment benefits in 2020 and 2021 would sometimes number in the thousands because of these strains, they said. ID.me's rush to hire and train nearly 1,500 new workers at this time also led to lax verification practices and poor user privacy protections, these people said. Information like passports and social security numbers were often posted in internal Slack channels, and some employees were hired and given access to confidential data without completed background checks. Some chattered about how easy it would be to steal users' information. Most of the former employees who spoke with Insider did so under condition of anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.

"They do nothing correctly."

Diaper prices are skyrocketing. The dominant brands have engaged in decades of collusion. The result is a shock for American families’ wallets. In July 2021, Bloomberg reported that the cost of Pampers went from about $25 for 200 to $40 for 168 in just six months. On a per-unit basis, that amounts to a 90% increase, and it’s only climbed higher since. “It just doesn’t make sense that I have to spend so much for less,” a father of three told the reporter.

The white supremacist told Jezebel in a text exchange that he no longer identifies as a "white nationalist" and asked that we respect his privacy.

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

A Wednesday morning fire in Baltimore that put three people in the hospital is being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities told WJZ. Based on a preliminary investigation, authorities believe someone set fire to at least one Pride flag outside a row home in the 300 block of E. 31st Street and the flames spread to the home and neighboring homes, a Baltimore Police spokesperson said.

Astorino was especially bothered by the inclusion of the word "charizarding," which supposedly describes the use of fire during sex, saying that such an act would be criminal.

Literally everything he says makes it clear there will be no prosecutions.

Leaders are weighing the benefits of some forms of remote schedules against company-wide efficiency.

A popular internet stereotype underlies today’s right-wing extremist threats

Authorities in Tennessee are warning residents not to pick up discarded folded dollar bills because they may contain fentanyl. The Perry County Sheriff's Office said there were two incidents where "a white powdery substance" was found inside folded bills left on the floor of a local gas station. The powder was tested and came back positive for methamphetamine and fentanyl, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook statement. "This is very dangerous, folks! Please share and educate your children to not pick up the money," Sheriff Nick Weems said. "I personally plan to push for legislation for a bill that would intensify the punishment, if someone is caught using money as a carrying pouch for such poison. It enrages me as a father and the Sheriff, that people can act so carelessly and have no regard for others well being, especially a child."

As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change, the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce risks of supplies reaching perilously low levels, a top federal water official said Tuesday. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said during a Senate hearing in Washington that federal officials now believe protecting “critical levels” at the country’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — will require much larger reductions in water deliveries. “A warmer, drier West is what we are seeing today,” Touton told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “And the challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history.” The needed cuts, she said, amount to between 2 million acre-feet and 4 million acre-feet next year. For comparison, California is entitled to 4.4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water per year, while Arizona’s allotment is 2.8 million acre-feet. He pointed out that Lake Mead’s water level, now at 1,045 feet above sea level, has continued to decline toward critically low levels. Hoover Dam could still release water down to a level of 895 feet, but below that, water would no longer pass through the dam to supply California, Arizona and Mexico — a level known as “dead pool.” “We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River, and the rate of decline is accelerating,” Entsminger told the senators.

Everything Everywhere producer Jonathan Wang, whose father had a habit of mixing up the titles of popular movies. Sherlock Holmes became Shooky Shylock; Good Will Hunting became Outside Good People Shooting. The Daniels quickly realized the potential of giving Evelyn the same trait.

He added: “I’ve never been more optimistic about America than I am today. I really mean that.” Where the hell is my money you owe me old man?

With a single sweeping deal, Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark have resolved a 51-year-old territorial dispute over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland’s far north. The deal also finalizes the maritime border between Canada and Greenland — the longest maritime border in the world.

Ginni Thomas became an anti-cult activist after being pulled out of a self-help program in the 1980s, she said in a video obtained by NBC News. Several people who knew her then are surprised by her apparent embrace of election conspiracies that originated with QAnon.

Axie Infinity’s vision of a “play-to-earn” video game has crumbled, and the company behind it now tells the players who bought into the hype it was never about the money, anyway.

A young Muslim activist whose house was bulldozed by the authorities in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh says it was an “act of vendetta” by the government for the protests over comments made against Prophet Muhammad by officials of the country’s right-wing governing party. Surrounded by a large posse of police in riot gear, authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj city on Sunday brought in earthmovers to demolish Afreen Fatima’s house as dozens of media people recorded the demolition. Within hours, the two-storey building was reduced to rubble and its belongings – furniture, books and photographs – thrown on an empty plot next to the house. Among them was a poster that said: “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

L.A. City Council members will vote Tuesday on a proposed ordinance that would prohibit the assembly, disassembly, sale, distribution, or storage of bicycles and bicycle parts on public property. The Los Feliz Neighborhood Council, however, is worried the ordinance would increase harassment of the unhoused, as well as Black and Latino cyclists. It submitted a community impact statement in April saying they oppose the ordinance, in part, because the language in the draft of the ordinance is too broad. “This ordinance criminalizes mundane behavior such as bicycle repair that is performed in lower-income neighborhoods without a license or permit, which are expensive to obtain,” the statement reads. “In combination with the vague language in the ordinance, simply possessing bicycle parts on a sidewalk would be criminalized…The City of Los Angeles should be aware that black and brown cyclists already experience unnecessary police stops at a much higher rate than the rest of the population. This ordinance does nothing to improve the well-being of Angelenos during a time when studies continue to show that increasing criminalization of activities does not reduce crime.”

A controversial moment captured last fall on the U.S. southern border of an officer on horseback in Del Rio, Texas, has been memorialized on “a challenge coin” that is circulating among border patrol officers. Images of the incident led to a public outcry and national scandal, with President Joe Biden demanding accountability for the officers and the Department of Homeland Security launching an independent investigation into the treatment of migrants there. Nearly a year later, the results of the investigation still have not been made public. The unofficial coin, a token of memorabilia, embraces some of the most controversial elements of the scandal, where video footage appeared to show white border agents using their reins as whips against Black migrants. For some, the images invoked grim reminders of slave patrols, and for others, the historical mistreatment of Haitian refugees in the United States. “Reining it in since May 28, 1924,” the coin reads on one side. “Yesterday’s border is not today’s border.”