Maricopa County's number of heat-related deaths has jumped 454% since 2014. Phoenix has had the county's highest per capita rate for heat deaths.

The win came in the Zappers' first game without Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens, who was traded to the Knights of Degen this week.

A significant minority of individuals with a SARS-CoV-2 infection experience persistent cognitive symptoms following the initial 4 weeks after the onset of COVID-19 symptoms. Some of the common cognitive symptoms include problems with concentration, “brain fog,” memory, and executive function.

Warnings that a new statue of Margaret Thatcher would attract egg-throwing protests came true within two hours of it being installed in her home town of Grantham on Sunday. The bronze statue was, without ceremony, placed on a 3-metre (10ft) high plinth to make it more difficult for protesters to inflict any damage. Shortly afterwards a man was seen throwing eggs from behind a temporary fence and, when one connected, a cry of “oi” could be heard.

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Ten people were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday by a suspect in tactical gear who was livestreaming the attack, law enforcement officials said during a news conference.

“Autonomous vehicles are recording their surroundings continuously and have the potential to help with investigative leads,” an internal training document states.

Texas residents can now sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content after a federal appeals court sided Wednesday with the state’s law restricting how social media sites can moderate their platforms. The 15-word ruling allowing the law, which had been blocked last year, to take effect has significant potential consequences. Most immediately, it creates new legal risks for the tech giants, and opens them up to a possible wave of litigation that legal experts say would be costly and difficult to defend.

Ward: What are liberals signaling about their worldview when they call this sort of established conservative humor “not funny?” Sienkiewicz: When you don’t like something, and maybe you don’t find it personally funny — or maybe you do, but you feel bad about that — there are different ways to respond. One is to simply say, “That’s not funny” as a way to dismiss it or a way to castigate yourself for laughing at something that you think is immoral. But more often, [liberals] are saying, “You shouldn’t find it funny” — that there is a moral problem or maybe a political problem with finding it funny.

Giant U.S. banks have come to expect activists at their annual shareholder meetings, usually decrying the lenders as capitalist powerhouses behind fossil fuels, gunmakers and societal inequities. But this year, they’re being pummeled for “woke,” Marxist agendas and pledges to diversify their ranks. As three of the nation’s largest banks kicked off the U.S. financial industry’s annual gatherings this week, conservative speakers showed up with questions, proposals and ultimatums. They’re not matching the size of the liberal-leaning crowd -- their proposals garnered the least amount of supporting votes from shareholders -- but they’re trying to steer the agenda nonetheless. At Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp., the activists argued that vows to improve diversity or pay more equitably may hurt groups of people who aren’t underrepresented. At Wells Fargo & Co., the top arranger of loans to fossil-fuel companies last year, an activist chided the bank for donating to groups fighting climate change, “which is just Marxism dressed up as environmentalism.” He also warned it not to follow Walt Disney Co. in the sort of “woke” LGBTQ advocacy that drew a backlash from “Make America Great Again” activists and Republican politicians in Florida.

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s public health minister, who has spearheaded the country’s drive to decriminalize cannabis, says the government will distribute 1 million of the plants free when most legal restrictions on production and possession of the drug are lifted next month.

Improving indoor air quality in schools can boost health and academic performance.

Tributes flow in from world leaders such Joe Biden and the Queen following the death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who oversaw much of the UAE's blistering economic growth.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is once again asking Texans to conserve power this weekend after several facilities went offline Friday afternoon. ERCOT reported six power generation facilities tripped offline, resulting in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity. "We’re asking Texans to conserve power when they can by setting their thermostats to 78 degrees or above and avoiding the usage of large appliances (such as dishwashers, washers and dryers) during peak hours between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. through the weekend," ERCOT wrote in a press release. Temperatures in the Houston area are above normal for the month of May, according to Chief Meteorologist David Paul.

A House panel alleges that industry players heavily prepared a draft that became the basis for an executive order the Trump White House issued in April 2020. The biggest players in the U.S. meat industry pressed “baseless” claims of beef and pork shortages early in the pandemic to persuade the Trump White House to keep processing plants running, disregarding the coronavirus risks that eventually killed at least 269 workers, according to a special House committee investigating the nation’s pandemic response. In a report released Thursday, the committee alleges that Tyson Foods’s legal team prepared a draft with input from other companies that became the basis for an executive order to keep the plants open that the Trump administration issued in April 2020, making it difficult for workers to stay home. “Meatpacking companies knew the risk posed by the coronavirus to their workers and knew it wasn’t a risk that the country needed them to take,” according to the report by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. “They nonetheless lobbied aggressively — successfully enlisting [the U.S. Agriculture Department] as a close collaborator in their efforts — to keep workers on the job in unsafe conditions, to ensure state and local health authorities were powerless to mandate otherwise, and to be protected against legal liability for the harms that would result.” The report alleges the nation’s largest meatpackers and industry trade groups repeatedly misled the public when they warned that any slowdown in their operations posed an imminent threat to the nation’s meat supplies. But “these fears were baseless,” investigators wrote. Internal industry documents showed that “despite awareness of the high risks of coronavirus spread in their plants, meatpacking companies engaged in a concerted effort with Trump Administration political officials to insulate themselves from coronavirus-related oversight, to force workers to continue working in dangerous conditions, and to shield themselves from legal liability for any resulting worker illness or death,” the report states.

At the urging of the correction officers union, the prison agency is restricting packages to private vendors that charge steep markups and have limited selections. On Monday, more than 6,000 people incarcerated in New York prisons lost their right to regularly receive care packages by mail or in person from family and friends. The state prison agency is piloting the new restrictions at eight prisons, with plans to expand them to the rest. Under the policy, family and friends are no longer allowed to bring their loved ones packages of food when they come to visit or to send them through the mail, and can’t send more than two non-food packages each year. Everything else must be purchased and sent through private companies willing to ship to prisons. Incarcerated people say the new restrictions will cut off a lifeline. “Am I going to be prevented from getting winter clothes if I get a book from my mom in the summer?” asked Jeremy Zielinski, currently incarcerated at Attica, in a phone call with New York Focus and Bolts.

It's exceedingly rare for highly paid technical workers to form unions. An Intel engineer says he wants to unionize hundreds of his colleagues working in Intel’s Hillsboro semiconductor factories, hoping to address long hours, pay disparities and job security. This week’s launch of the union drive coincides with Matt West’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for Oregon’s new 6th Congressional District. West, who has worked for Intel since 2015, said his effort began more than a year ago and will continue no matter how he fares in next week’s primary election. “If you can get a union here, I think the hope is we will see unions on all Intel campuses,” said West, who is on professional leave during his campaign. He’s planning a rally in Hillsboro on Wednesday afternoon with at least two of his Intel co-workers and representatives from other Oregon unions.

In early 2021, Elon Musk bestowed the landmark endorsement that, more than any other high-profile purchase, sent Bitcoin on a moonshot and clinched its status as a mainstream investment. Musk famously purchased $1.5 billion in the king of cryptocurrencies using spare cash on the EV maker’s balance sheet, a highly unorthodox move since most companies abhor putting their war chests at risk. In public statements, Musk and CFO Zach Kirkhorn expressed great pride in pioneering a new practice of wagering to make big money on dollars virtually every other enterprise just wants to keep safe. Kirkhorn declared on last year’s Q1 conference call that the purpose was to “get some return” on cash “not immediately being used for operations.” In a SEC filing weeks earlier, Kirkhorn went so far as adding a second title to his rank as CFO: “Master of Coin.” But so far, the grand experiment’s proved a bust. On the morning of May 11, Bitcoin dropped below $29,400, erasing all of Musk’s once-sumptuous gains, and though it rebounded later in the day, it’s now hovering near the break-even point. Let’s review how Musk’s bet took shareholders on a roller-coaster ride so wild that it left them dizzy not from awe but dread, yet went nowhere.

"I really think I'm allowed to stay here," I explained, in vain.

Artwork’s appearance fuels fears family will use return to power to further stifle efforts to recover ill-gotten wealth