“I didn’t want to tell anybody at Disney because I didn’t want anyone to freak out," the "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" star said.

Ukrainian politics were full of conflict. Fist-fights in the Rada were common and protests were a fact of ordinary life. There were massive protests against Kuchma, for example, in 2000, when a recording surfaced of him apparently ordering the murder of the journalist Georgiy Gongadze, whose headless body had been found in the woods outside Kyiv.

The Oregon secretary of state’s office is calling for swift changes to a 99-year-old tax policy that auditors found benefits primarily white, wealthy homeowners in urban counties while leaving thousands of low-income, rural and Oregonians of color to fight for housing assistance. The state mortgage interest deduction, mirroring the version for federal income taxes, allows homeowners to deduct from their taxable income interest payments on mortgages up to $750,000, including mortgages on vacation homes. It’s Oregon’s largest housing subsidy, with an estimated cost of $1.1 billion to the state’s coffers this biennium. Auditors from Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s office this month finished their first audit of the tax policy in its nearly century-long history in Oregon. They said they found the policy to disproportionately benefit seven counties, all considered urban by state definitions: Clackamas, Columbia, Deschutes, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill. The audit also found that Black, Latino and Native American residents received disproportionately less benefit from the program than white Oregonians, and the top 1% of beneficiaries of the policy received more money back than the more than 700,000 Oregonians in the bottom 40% of people eligible for the tax benefit.

In the more than two weeks since Russia’s war began, two AP journalists have been the only international media present in Mariupol, chronicling its fall into chaos and despair.

A research team in the LSU Department of Biological Sciences led by Assistant Professor Adam Bohnert has published a landmark study linking greater metabolic health—achieved through a natural plant extract—with longer lifespans in C. elegans, commonly known as roundworms. Although worms and humans don’t appear to have much in common, the researchers say there is good reason to assume the results could be replicated in people, as the study builds on previous work on metabolic health in mice, conducted at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center under Professor Jacqueline Stephens.

Close the blinds, draw the curtains and turn off all the lights before bed. Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study

Meta has repeatedly allowed -- and profited from -- ads pushing a false conspiracy theory about biolabs in Ukraine which has been linked to both Russian propaganda and supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory. The ads, which have run on Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, violate the platforms’ misinformation rules.

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The Belfry operation will provide between 5 and 10 full-time jobs, Rogers said, paying $23 an hour - nearly three times the minimum wage.

Documents show the trainer brought his personal high-powered weapons to the training, then nailed a student in the shin with a blank while he was trying to flee.

The Portland Police Association filed a grievance against the city following the March 1 termination of Portland Police Bureau Officer Brian Hunzeker, the former PPA president who resigned from the union nearly a year ago after he leaked information from a confidential incident report that incorrectly named Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as a suspect in a hit-and-run crash. Through a public records request, WW obtained a copy Tuesday afternoon of the March 4 letter that PPA president Aaron Schmautz addressed to PPB Chief Chuck Lovell. “The discipline was not for just cause, is not supported by proven policy violations, is disproportionate to any offense committed by Grievant, is out of keeping with the standards of discipline in the Bureau, fails to take mitigating circumstances into account, violates the principles of progressive discipline, is untimely, and amounts to disparate treatment,” Schmautz said. “The City also failed to discipline Grievant in a manner least likely to embarrass Grievant before other officers or the public.” As for the requested remedy, Schmautz wrote the following: “That the discipline be rescinded; that all reference of this matter be removed from Grievant’s personnel files; that the Grievant be made whole for all lost wages and benefits, together with interest; and that such other relief be awarded as may be appropriate under the circumstances.”

The Tennessee Comptroller issued an unusual appeal last week to residents of this small, majority Black town, which occupies fewer than two square miles in rural west Tennessee. “In my opinion, it’s time for Mason to relinquish its charter,” Comptroller Jason Mumpower wrote in a letter mailed to each one of Mason’s 1,337 property owners. Mumpower urged local residents to “encourage your local officials to do what’s necessary to allow Mason to thrive. There is no time to waste.” State comptrollers, responsible for financial oversight of local government, typically communicate directly with elected local leaders and not their constituents. “We have not issued a letter to citizens like this before,” Comptroller spokesman John Dunn said, noting it is “unprecedented for us to publicly call for a town charter to be relinquished.” But the Comptroller’s unprecedented public callout comes at an unprecedented time not only for Mason, but for the state. Mason, located in the southeastern corner of Tipton County, now finds itself with some of the most coveted real estate in Tennessee. It’s one of the nearest towns to the massive new site to be built for Blue Oval City, a key component in Ford Motor Co’s multibillion-dollar pivot to electric vehicle manufacturing. Newly-elected Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower. Mumpower’s letter has infuriated Mason’s part-time elected officials, who insist they have no intention of ceding their town’s 153-year-old charter – which would subsume the largely African-American, majority Democratic community under the governance of Tipton County, which is predominantly white and Republican.

Evdokia Nikolova filed a federal lawsuit in September 2019 alleging that UT denied her tenure because she was pregnant.

Popular Patreon creators are being hit with unexpected Vimeo price hikes as Vimeo shifts corporate strategy.

Who was Thomas Buchler, the late creator of beloved Torah program 'TropeTrainer'? And can anything be done to revive his life’s work?

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted by supporters advocating brighter afternoons and more economic activity.

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Stewart himself has become an old rock we're over-relying on

Wowie! What you’re looking at is (mostly) what it would look like to orbit around a supermassive black hole, rendered (almost) entirely through physical principles. Get a good look at it now, because I’m really proud of this one and I’m going to deep dive into all the steps, and it’ll be a bit before we get back to anything that looks nice. Since this write-up got away from me a bit, I’ve split it into three mostly-independent parts

About the only positive thing you can say about famed play/movie writer David Mamet deciding to file an amicus brief in support of Texas in that state’s appeal of a district court correctly tossing the state’s social media content moderation bill as unconstitutional is… that it has fewer swear words than your typical Mamet production. As you’ll recall, Texas followed Florida down this dubious, censorial road, pretending that it can magically force private companies to perpetually host speech it disagrees with. We expected some silly amicus briefs in support of Texas, and there have been a few (some of which we’ll cover elsewhere), but by far the most bizarre is David Mamet’s decision to, um, weigh in, I guess? Mamet, if you don’t know, took a Trumpian turn, and like pretty much anyone supporting this law, seems to think that their support of one dude now, um, trumps any actual principles. Or rather, they demonstrate impressively demented levels of cognitive dissonance by twisting themselves into knots pretending that commandeering private property, compelling speech, and removing the 1st Amendment rights of association from private companies is somehow… all about freedom? The filing starts out with Mamet’s statement of interest in which he — in a brief supporting the government compelling private parties to host speech — claims he’s really concerned about government interference in our freedoms.