The state Senate passed three Republican-backed bills Tuesday aimed at preventing Chinese spies from infiltrating University of Wisconsin campuses, moves that opponents called racist and targeting a nonexistent problem. Republican lawmakers countered the measures were needed to provide another layer of protection from spies from China infiltrating universities in the state. “We’re not doing this because we hate Chinese people,” said bill sponsor Republican Sen. Alberta Darling. “We’re doing this to take on the Chinese Liberation Army.” Bill sponsor Republican Sen. Roger Roth said that universities are a “soft target” for China as it seeks to exploit openness on campuses to steal intellectual property and research and advance their own objectives.

Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the U.S. market.

As agricultural laborers continue to bear the brunt of climate change, activists in Washington chart a new path for climate justice.

"It's a systemic virus that can actually result in long-term manifestations on multiple organ systems," including the heart and kidneys, Al-Aly said. "It's important for people to start thinking about COVID-19 being a risk factor for a serious cardiovascular event."

Virginia Giuffre had accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. The agreement includes financial terms that were not disclosed.

Palin had claimed the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.

Nine families whose loved ones were slain in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre accepted a $73 million settlement from the defunct gunmaker Remington, ending a seven-year wrongful death lawsuit that began as a long shot and became a landmark case. “These families would give that (settlement) up to get their loved ones back,” said their attorney Josh Koskoff, breaking into tears during an emotional two-hour press conference with families at the Trumbull Marriott Shelton. “That would be true justice.” Nicole Hockley, whose son was among the 20 first-graders and six educators slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School, said the families’ victory sent a message to gun manufacturers, insurers and the banking industry that “this is a high-risk market, it is not profitable, and you will be held accountable.” “We heard that we had an impossible and unwinnable case - that firearm manufacturers were immune and untouchable,” Hockley said through tears. “For eight long years we continued our fight to hold Remington accountable for its role in prioritizing profit above safety and using reckless marketing techniques to appeal to at-risk and violent-prone young men.” The settlement, filed with state Superior Court on Tuesday, included plans by the families to make public marketing records they recovered from Remington as the two sides prepared for trial, Koskoff said.

The liberal-turned-conservative P.J. O'Rourke wrote for myriad left-leaning outlets. His books included “Parliament of Whores” and “Give War a Chance.”

After losing its most recent appeal and being rebuffed by the US Supreme Court, Facebook's parent company finally intends to pay out.

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

Privatising the Moon would help wipe out poverty on Earth, economists say. According to a report by neoliberal think tank the Adam Smith Institute, the satellite should be divided into parcels of land and assigned to different countries to rent out to businesses, boosting the economy. The economists also reckon this would boost space tourism, exploration and discovery. Economic researcher Rebecca Lowe, who compiled the report said: "A clear, morally justified and efficient system for assigning and governing property rights in space would present vast benefits that go beyond financial rewards for people who would become owners.

A new lawsuit challenges an interest-rate scheme that critics say helped Wall Street loot communities across America. With its subtropical climate and proximity to Disney World, Orlando, Florida has become one of America’s fastest growing cities — but it has a big problem: It is one of the largest mass transit deserts in the United States, gridlocking vast swaths of its population in some of the country’s worst traffic. Worse, when the region’s highway authority had the opportunity to invest in its mass transit infrastructure, money that could have gone to buses and trains was instead siphoned to a handful of the world’s most powerful banks, thanks to a complex municipal loan deal signed in the leadup to the financial crisis more than a decade ago. As that so-called interest-rate swap scheme continues to blow a hole in the highway authority’s budget, Orlando is now at the center of a landmark legal battle to unwind the transactions with UBS, JPMorgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and the Royal Bank of Canada. The suit is being brought by a retired county official and a former Democratic member of Congress. They say local officials were duped into an agreement by predatory Wall Street bankers who misled and entrapped them into signing away their communities’ economic future.

Biden appointed Native Americans to top jobs at the Cabinet agency, but so far the Interior Department’s policies have been business as usual. The nomination of Deb Haaland as the Biden administration’s secretary of the interior, the product of tireless campaigning by progressive groups in Washington, was historic and widely celebrated. As the first Native person to ever head up the department, Haaland represented one of the biggest triumphs for progressives in the Biden Cabinet. Her track record on environmental issues, too, looked like a paradigm shift for a department that, even under Democratic administrations, has habitually acted as a clearinghouse for oil and gas leasing, with little attention paid to conservation or indigenous rights. As Data for Progress put it, Haaland “will prove a critical demonstration of the incoming Administration’s commitment to Indian Country, environmentalists, progressives and, indeed, Democratic values of diversity and representation.” But nearly a year since Haaland’s confirmation, the few occasions the Interior Department has made news have come from its outstanding commitment to the status quo. Its highest-profile action so far has been November’s auction of oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest in the Gulf’s history, justified by spurious logic. The department claimed it was compelled, hands tied, to hold the sale due to an earlier court ruling that reversed the pause on new drilling permits on public lands in the Gulf. In August, a memo filed by the Department of Justice contradicted that assertion, finding that the government was not, in fact, forced to issue new permits.

One reason I love the Wikipedia article for “high five” is that it’s one of those entries about an utterly basic aspect of everyday life that reads like it was written by a group of aliens observing human beings: “Its meaning varies with the context of use but can include as a greeting, congratulations, or celebration.” But the high-five Wikipedia page is among my very favorites not because of its writing, but because of its iconic photos — specifically the ones in the section on the “too slow” variation:

The San Francisco police crime lab has been entering sexual assault victims’ DNA profiles in a database used to identify suspects in crimes, District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Monday, an allegation that raises legal and ethical questions regarding the privacy rights of victims. Boudin said his office was made aware of the purported practice last week, after a woman’s DNA collected years ago as part of a rape exam was used to link her to a recent property crime.

After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.

The pandemic dramatically disrupted cancer screenings, and thousands of lives are now at stake.

The self-righteous anger over the identification of the founders of a popular NFT club says a lot about the web3 battles to come in the years ahead.

Workers in the Nairobi office are among the lowest-paid workers for the platform anywhere in the world

America’s Frontline Doctors and Project Veritas launched a video series devoted to Covid-19 disinformation.