UC Berkeley must cut enrollment by about 3,000 students for next fall after the California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s order that the prestigious university freeze enrollment at 2020 levels. In a case that has drawn national attention, the ruling deals a blow to thousands of applicants to the prestigious public university and will cost millions in lost tuition, the university says. The decision favors neighbors who are trying to get the campus to stop adding new students without providing enough housing for them. The ruling also means UC Berkeley will withhold acceptance letters from more than 5,000 qualified freshman and transfer applicants, not all of whom would have enrolled. “This is devastating news for the thousands of students who have worked so hard for and have earned a seat in our fall 2022 class. Our fight on behalf of every one of these students continues,” the campus wrote in a statement following the Supreme Court decision. On a 4-2 vote, in a one-sentence order, the court refused to lift the enrollment freeze ordered by an Alameda County judge and denied review of an appellate ruling requiring the university to conduct further environmental review of an off-campus construction project while it limits incoming enrollment. Justice Goodwin Liu dissented, voting to remove the freeze, and urged a neighborhood group and UC Berkeley to negotiate a settlement. “California and our broader society stand to lose the contributions of leadership, innovation, and service that would otherwise accrue if several thousand students did not have to defer or forgo the benefit of a UC Berkeley education this fall,” said Liu, joined by Justice Joshua Groban. If the suit cannot be settled and thousands of students miss “the opportunity to attend one of our premier public universities,” Liu said, state lawmakers may respond by exempting on-campus housing at state public colleges from California environmental laws, as Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, proposed last month in a bill, SB886.

Jon Stewart says it’s impossible not to consider running for office himself when he sees “the shitheads”whoare currently in Congress.

A weekend in Florida, a major conservative conference, a white nationalist "groyper" conference, and a doomed quest to determine the difference between the two.

"The Labour Party is of the British state; ultimately it aims to win elections in order to administer that state; this necessarily means one’s membership is a moral compromise – and this applied under Corbyn too. I don’t think the Labour Party can be totally reduced to being of the British state—the striking thing is that there has always been something more—but it is its being-of-the-state that ultimately determines it. The question of my membership has always been about the capacity to be part of a left project within Labour that contributes to socialist struggle." "The restriction on what positions can be taken up within Labour, including the left’s acceptance of these limits, is a very serious curtailment of democracy. The capitulation of left MPs, moreover, has emboldened the leadership’s limits on the democratic life of the Party—most notably in closing down the twitter account of Young Labour, the only part of the Party where a capacity and willingness to challenge remained."

Multiple people have been hurt in an explosion, fire and building collapse in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thursday morning.

An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring protesters.

For decades, car companies have advertised 0-60 times, as if it is some kind of meaningful metric that matters to ordinary drivers. They matter, but not to the people inside cars. But things are getting out of hand. Over the decades, cars have gotten bigger, taller, heavier, and quicker, a feat of impressive engineering that has also made them more dangerous, both for people inside and outside the vehicle. This race to faster 0-60 times, combined with automakers pushing heavier and more expensive SUVs, has resulted in a bizarre landscape where luxury car companies like Mercedes and BMW are marketing SUVs that cost more than $75,000 in part because they can accelerate from 0-60 in 5.3 and 4.5 seconds, respectively, benchmarks that only a few decades ago were hit only by extravagant supercars. And electric cars, with their instant torque from battery-powered motors, enable even faster acceleration, pushing the boundary yet further. Tesla’s Plaid performance models have famously broken the 3-second 0-60 barrier. Even the new electric Hummer, a 9,000 pound behemoth whose battery weighs more than many sedans, has a terrifying 3 second 0-60 time. These are all impressive feats of engineering, worthy of lots of high-fiving on test tracks and production centers. But it’s also completely ridiculous to make cars sold to ordinary people capable of these speeds. In three seconds, a pedestrian would not have time to react or get out of the way of a car going from a standstill to striking them at 60 mph. Much like advertising a car’s top speed which is not legal to drive anywhere on U.S. roads, the 0-60 times advertised by most car companies these days are, by definition, unsafe driving that puts others in danger.

Several Oakland property owners have joined a broader effort to end eviction bans by filing a lawsuit.

It has to do with Sen. Cynthia Lummis and special Wyoming-chartered depository institutions that take cryptocurrencies.

Media report, dismissed as ‘fake news’ by Palmer’s team, claimed Palmer intended to include Mercedes in planned car museum

The band have also shared a video for the album's lead single, "Unnecessary Drama."

On June 11, 2020, Audrey Cooper, the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, was made editor in chief of WNYC, New York’s public radio station. Among the sparse decorations she installed in her office, on the eighth floor of WNYC’s SoHo headquarters, was a signed photograph of Colin Powell. She moved in to a multimillion-dollar brownstone in Park Slope, which prompted speculation among her staff about her salary. (Laura Walker, the former chief executive, made almost $2 million in 2019.) Cooper says the aim is to turn WNYC into New York City’s “newsroom of record.” But her staff are not all sure what that means. In the eighteen months or so since she started, at least five newsroom members have been fired or laid off, and at least eighteen more have left of their own volition. (A PR representative disputes the number and pointed out that they have hired eighteen people in the same period.) Some of those who left had been at the station for decades. And a few departed without other jobs lined up, a daring proposition in the narrowing world of public radio, where WNYC is at the top of the field. Former employees have cited burnout, a lost sense of purpose, or a difficult work environment. In April, WNYC laid off fourteen people, four of whom worked in the newsroom. Their number included Christopher Robbins, who was the union shop steward; John Del Signore, the former editor in chief of Gothamist; Matthew Schuerman, a widely respected editor; and Richard Yeh, who, among other things, ran a renowned internship program that many credit for diversifying the newsroom’s staff—one of Cooper’s stated goals. Yeh was also the only person to go on the record in Bellafante’s 2020 column. After staffers criticized the decision in an all-staff meeting—a place where, when Walker was leading the company, staffers could lob difficult questions to management and expect answers—two reporters were contacted by human resources. Though they were not officially disciplined, staffers felt punished for airing their views. sag-aftra, the staffers’ union, filed an unfair labor practice charge in May, alleging retaliatory firing, surveilling union members, issuing unwarranted discipline, and “enforcing unlawful work rules.” They also sued on behalf of Mogul. The station retained Jones Day, a notoriously anti-labor law firm, to fight the allegations. Some staffers argue it was an inappropriate use of listener-supported WNYC funds.

U.S. Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, has decided to end his reelection campaign after he was forced into a primary runoff amid 11th-hour allegations of infidelity. Taylor made the stunning announcement Wednesday, hours after he finished his five-way primary with 49% of the vote, just missing the cutoff for winning the primary outright. The runner-up was former Collin County Judge Keith Self, who is now likely to become the next congressman for the 3rd District. The day before the primary, the conservative outlet Breitbart News posted a story that Taylor had had a monthslong affair with a Plano woman, Tania Joya, who he had paid $5,000 to keep quiet. The publication reported that she provided it a phone screen shot purporting to be communications with Taylor and a bank record showing that she deposited $5,000 into her account. The Texas Tribune has not been able to independently verify the report. Taylor is married with three children. Joya is known as a former jihadist who was once married to a commander for the Islamic State. Tabloids have referred to her as “ISIS bride.”

The proposed settlement, which requires a judge’s approval, would resolve a legal battle that began after the company, in 2016, raised the price for two EpiPens to $608 from $100.

Philadelphia police say an officer in plainclothes fatally shot a fleeing 12-year-old boy in the back, moments after a bullet was fired into an unmarked car

Meta has rejected a demand from United Australia party leader Craig Kelly to suspend its community standards enforcement and factchecking on politicians’ posts on Facebook during the upcoming federal election campaign. Kelly, who had his Facebook and Instagram accounts banned last year for allegedly breaching the company’s misinformation policy over posts promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, described the practice as “foreign interference”. Kelly has previously denied his social media posts contained “misinformation”, claiming they were backed up and their removal amounted to censorship.

Flood evacuation orders were issued for a swathe of suburbs across Sydney's west, south-west, and north-west on Wednesday night, as heavy rain pelts NSW. The Nepean, Georges and Hawkesbury rivers are rising rapidly and the State Emergency Service (SES) told people in specific parts of more than 20 suburbs to leave. There was particular concern for areas around Richmond and Windsor, in the city's north-west, where the Hawkesbury River was expected to get as high as 14 metres. The east-coast low hitting NSW also meant major flooding on the Nepean River overnight.

Hustle culture is over — and in much of corporate America, it's being replaced by coasting culture.

Having faced ‘the impossible to imagine,’ I see how the Western left is doing what it has been doing the best: analysing the American neo-imperialism, the expansion of NATO. It is not enough anymore as it does not explain the world that is emerging from the ruins of Donbas and Kharkiv’s main square. The world is not exhaustively described as shaped by or reacting upon the actions of the US. It has gained dynamics of its own, and the US and Europe is in reactive mode in many areas. You explain the distant causes instead of noticing the emergent trends. Thus, it strikes me how, talking about the dramatic processes in our corner of the world, you reduce them to reaction to the activity of your own government and business elites. We have learnt all about the US and NATO from you, but this knowledge is not so helpful anymore. Maybe the US has drawn the outline of this board game, but now other players move the chips and add their own contours with a red marker. US-centric explanations are outdated. I have been reading everything written and said on the left about last year’s escalating conflict between the US, Russia, and Ukraine. Most of it was terribly off, much worse than many mainstream explanations. Its predictive power was nil.

Video-game developer Epic Games announced that it has bought Bandcamp, the online music store and community geared around independent musicians. Under Epic Games’ ownership, Bandcamp will operate as a standalone marketplace and music community, and it will continue to be led by CEO and co-founder Ethan Diamond.