An emergency services dispatcher in Buffalo could be fired after being accused by a supermarket employee of hanging up on a 911 call during a racist shooting rampage at the store last week. The dispatcher, who has not been publicly identified, was placed on administrative leave on Monday after an internal investigation and faces a disciplinary hearing on May 30, at which “termination will be sought,” Peter Anderson, a spokesman for the Erie County executive, said on Wednesday. Ms. Rogers told The Buffalo News that she had called 911 while hiding from the gunman, whispering on the phone in hopes of eluding his notice. The dispatcher, she said, had admonished her. “She was yelling at me, saying, ‘Why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper,’” Ms. Rogers told The News, “and I was telling her, ‘Ma’am, he’s still in the store. He’s shooting. I’m scared for my life. I don’t want him to hear me. Can you please send help?’ She got mad at me, hung up in my face.”

Wonder Twins, the way it had been conceived, was “too niche,” said one source.

What were they thinking? That’s what customers, restaurants, and delivery workers want to know after a surprise promotion by food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch. Grubhub’s plan was ambitious: to feed everyone in New York City and the surrounding Tri-State area for free, during lunch hours on Tuesday. The platform cited a survey it had conducted that found that 69% of working New Yorkers said they had skipped lunch. But that’s exactly what the stunt ended up doing, after Grubhub’s platform crashed as New Yorkers rushed to place orders. The fiasco left restaurants overwhelmed, delivery workers frustrated, and many customers with empty stomachs.

The foundation’s tax filing rebuts claims that the BLM foundation ignored the larger movement. Nearly $26 million, or 70% of its expenses, were grants to organizations and families in the last fiscal year.

The conspiracy theory that has gripped the conservative movement is evolving. But into what?

A cop on house arrest was killed by his own dog while he awaited trial for one of Argentina’s most emblematic cases of alleged police abuse in recent memory. In 2019, Argentine police shot at a car during a high speed pursuit—shots that were later described as without “probable cause” by prosecutors. The car under pursuit then crashed into a parked trailer, killing three young teenagers and one adult. After protests and outrage, 24 police were charged for either being involved in the incident or helping to cover it up. One of the highest ranking of those officers was retired local commissioner Claudio Martínez, who was attacked by one of his Rottweiler dogs at his residence while on house arrest. He later died at the hospital on May 10 from blood loss related to a wound on his arm. Martínez is accused of covering up the 2019 incident and neglecting his duties as a public official.

Climate change is causing glaciers around the world to recede at an alarming rate. The loss of Rocky Mountain glaciers will affect the Prairie’s freshwater supply — and that’s a big problem.

“Although we only have a few fossils representing the Denisovans, this new fossil from Laos demonstrates that much like modern humans, Denisovans were widespread and they were highly adaptable,” Shackelford explained in an email. “They lived in the cold arctic temperatures of Siberia, in the cold, [oxygen poor] environment of the Tibetan Plateau, and now we know they were also living in the tropics of southeast Asia.”

Days after announcing he suffered a stroke, progressive Lt. Gov. John Fetterman won the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, besting moderate U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, per the AP. Why it matters: Fetterman's unconventional political style and progressive pitch, which included support for the legalization of recreational marijuana and opposition to the filibuster, won the backing of voters in the deeply purple swing state, even as party leaders did not back him.

Four climate activists have received suspended jail sentences for attempting to stop a train from delivering coal to a power plant in Bow, N.H., in 2019. A Merrimack County Superior Court judge last week ordered the activists to refrain from organizing or participating in any further unlawful climate protests, a requirement Marla Marcum, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, which helped organize the protest, called “an overly broad prohibition on speech and assembly.” The four activists, part of the No Coal No Gas campaign, were convicted of railroad trespass at a jury trial in March for blocking railroad freight tracks in Hooksett, N.H., in an effort to stop a coal train en route to the Merrimack Station power plant. Though the demonstrators delayed its arrival by several hours, the train eventually made it to the plant.

Inventory in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and northwest Queens has been hovering well below 10,000 units — as of April, the number was just 7,669. Which is several thousand less than the number of entire-apartment and entire-home Airbnb rentals available in New York City right now: 10,572

How a floating Bay Area 'nautical slum' fought the man, and won: Remembering the wild houseboat wars of Sausalito

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Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16 years as Americans returned to the roads after the coronavirus pandemic forced many to stay at home. The 10.5% jump over 2020 numbers was the largest percentage increase since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began its fatality data collection system in 1975. Exacerbating the problem was a persistence of risky driving behaviors during the pandemic, such as speeding and less frequent use of seat belts, as people began to venture out more in 2021 for out-of-state and other road trips, analysts said. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said America faces a crisis on its roads. The safety administration urged state and local governments, drivers and safety advocates to join in an effort to reverse the rising death trend.

This month, the world learned that the US Supreme Court intends to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case protecting legal abortion in America. In a draft majority opinion leaked to Politico, Justice Samuel Alito argues that Roe must be overturned in part because the Constitution does not mention abortion (true: The 55 delegates who wrote it did not bring up pregnancy termination, nor any other specific medical procedure, nor, for that matter, birth) and also because, contrary to Roe, Alito claims abortion was not historically considered a right in the United States. “Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law,” Alito writes. This is false. While the opinion is not final, the fact that this fundamentally wrong assertion even made it into a draft is a dispiriting sign that the Supreme Court needs a remedial history lesson. “Abortion was not always a crime. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, abortion of early pregnancy was legal under common law,” historian Leslie J. Reagan writes in her 1996 book When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973. While abortion was indeed outlawed for a long stretch of American history, this criminalization took place nearly 80 years after the Constitution was written. A Reconstruction-era sharecropper’s wife would have likely run into trouble finding a way to receive a legal abortion; a Founding Father’s mistress, meanwhile, could get one in early pregnancy without threat of state punishment.

From the Great Army Swap to white-collar crime, here is the full story of .Paak’s family — from the reporter who used to live next door The story starts in the Tioga section of North Philadelphia. Ronald Anderson and his twin brother, Donald, were born there on Sept. 22, 1951. Their mom, Marie, who cleaned houses for a living, was a twin herself. Their dad, William, drove a truck delivering ice and also worked as a furniture mover. The couple had moved to Philly from North Carolina in search of a better life, but ended up finding poverty, despite a lifetime of hard work. Ronald and Donald Anderson had nine other brothers and sisters, with Marie giving birth to five kids before the twins and four after. With all those kids and a job, Marie ran the household on North 16th Street with an iron fist. Her husband, by contrast, was hands-off and spent his free time indulging in libations and teaching the twins how to fix cars. In 1965, Marie and William were running errands when she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died. The twins were 14. After overcoming their grief, the two boys got jobs shining shoes, bagging groceries and working at Germantown Hardware. It was on these jobs that they began subbing for each other whenever the need arose.

In a summer full of ugly police violence against peaceful protesters, the NYPD's response to a march in Mott Haven on June 4, 2020, stood out as especially brutal. After trapping protesters between walls of helmeted cops brandishing batons, the NYPD held them in place until the recently instituted 8 p.m. curfew. Then, police arrested the marchers en masse for violating the curfew, dousing them with pepper spray and beating them along the way. Notably, in addition to handcuffing around 100 protesters, the NYPD also arrested 12 impartial legal observers. The NYPD lawyer responsible for okaying the arrest of those legal observers was identified by the City agency tasked with addressing police misconduct, and was about to face discipline last fall. But in an abrupt reversal in December, not reported until now, he was exonerated after making an unusual defense: He was just following orders.

Michael Barr has invested in over 80 firms involved in crypto, debt collection, payday loans, and fintech.

Family members of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific accusing the company of “unjust enrichment” for making and selling products that relied on cells taken from her decades earlier without her consent.

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