Two killed and one injured in a shooting at a Burlington store in North Hollywood Thursday morning. A 14-year old girl died and police believe she was killed by an officer's bullet that passed through the wall of a dressing room. The suspect was shot and killed by the police.

Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties.

On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing. The 10-page plan, which Vanity Fair has obtained, would enable the U.S. to finally do what many other countries had already done: Put rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission. The plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity. It also recommended, right on the first page, a nationwide “Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge.” The antigen tests at the center of the plan can detect the virus when patients are at their most contagious. Though less sensitive than polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratory tests, which can detect the virus’s genetic material at any stage of infection, antigen tests provide a quick snapshot in time for those seeking assurance that they are safe to travel or won’t accidentally infect vulnerable relatives.

You know the Japanese authorities are serious about a project – and perhaps seeking to sweeten a bitter pill – when they commission a yuri-chara (mascot character) to give a new product or service a warm and cuddly feel.

Are your politicians fickle, judges unreliable, generals merely human? Why not replace them all with electronic brains? Turkish state leaders entertained that possibility in the early 1970s.

According to Gallup, more than 4 in 5 American adults think the economy is at best in fair shape and two-thirds think it’s getting worse. “Although the latest [Economic Confidence Index] reading is identical to the one from April 2020,” Gallup’s Megan Brenan wrote, “the economic conditions that are likely influencing these assessments are different. At the start of the pandemic, record-high unemployment, uncertainty about the impact of the shutdowns, and the resulting recession likely influenced Americans’ views of the economy at the start of the pandemic. Now that the unemployment rate has improved, inflation and the realization that occasional surges in coronavirus infections may continue to hamper the economic recovery are greater concerns.”

Last year, the New York City Transit Authority lost its boat. It was not precisely a secret that NYC Transit (the subagency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that runs the subways—but, crucially, not the ferries) had this boat, to begin with, but it was certainly not well publicized. The circumstances that led to the destruction of the boat, on the other hand, were withheld from the public, until a report from the Office of the MTA Inspector General revealed the whole sordid tale.

Despite billions in VC investment, many web3 crypto platforms are still pretty hostile places for users new to the crypto world. Case in point, today Justin Kan’s NFT platform Fractal suffered a security breach when a scammer hacked the announcement bot for the startup’s Discord which s…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — “Help me. I am still in here and I still can’t get out.” That was the desperate plea for help — not from a prisoner, but from a Central Ohio woman who was trapped inside her own mind. (Late headline of the year contender? - Ed.)

Australian authorities on Wednesday charged a landowner and two companies with more than 250 counts of animal cruelty over the deaths of dozens of koalas during a clearance operation last year.

Florida authorities say they found cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped around a man’s penis during a traffic stop, but the man denied the drugs were his

A WOMAN has been jailed after she admitted having cocaine-fuelled sex with a dog and possessing images of the 'disgusting' incident.

Christmas is the busy season for scent experts at Cinco Jotas, a 142-year-old company in Jabugo, Spain, who take whiffs of pork to determine whether the meat passes muster. ‘I will find a way to sniff 801.’

Low energy prices in Russia's east are empowering a new generation of entrepreneurs to mine for cryptocurrency in Irkutsk

"It is a little tough to be overly critical now because he just thanked us for the vaccine and thanked me for what I did," Trump told Fox News.

Conspiracy influencers who recently attended a QAnon-friendly event in Texas believe they have suffered an anthrax attack after many of them became ill. Supposedly dozens of people who attended the ReAwaken America tour in Dallas earlier this month claimed they became ill with anthrax poisoning after they gathered in the green room during the event. Podcast host Joe Oltmann, who has promoted claims of widespread fraud during the 2020 Presidential Election, said in a December 19 Telegram post that he had recently been sick.

Neanderthals and Denisovans are some of the nearest ancestors to modern humans. These hominins were so similar to us that they even interbred with humans for thousands of years when the three overlapped in time and space in certain areas. Many people today still carry important genetic material from these cousins of ours — meaning that, in a sense, they never completely went extinct.

And it’s not just basic anatomy that disputes our claim of superior intelligence, says anthropologist Oren Kolodny. Human achievements were so similar to that of Neanderthals that it seems unlikely we were somehow smarter than our counterparts. All of the characteristics that have been used to demonstrate human superiority — for example, symbolic art, tool and weapon making, the use of fire, and burial ceremonies — have also been exhibited in Neanderthals.

Before the shooting, according to testimony, Watson had walked up to Ignacio and the girls, yelling, “Do you have a problem with J? You don’t mess with Jake!” and “This is Fairview!” — claiming the neighborhood as his own. But, unlike Ignacio, Watson was not from South Berkeley. He grew up in San Francisco, in Nob Hill and Polk Gulch on Post Street, and in wealthy coastal beach towns like Monterey, said Deputy District Attorney Adam McConney during closing arguments last week. It was a long way from the streets. “He’s not from that world,” McConney told the jury. Watson bought a gun and started hanging out with the local drug dealer in an effort to “be tough” and look cool, “to prove he belongs,” McConney said. “That’s what this is over and it’s tragic. The defendant was being a poser and he was trying to prove something to Jacob Felipe.”

Alex Berenson was banned from Twitter for COVID-19 misinformation. Somehow, his new lawsuit is even dumber