Building it was an emotional event for the workers of the Pontiac Final Assembly plant. The Buick Grand National was a 1980s legend that struck fear into V8s and fluttered their drivers hearts. It was also a car that convinced so many enthusiasts to shove them into storage, never to be driven. Another example of one of those Grand Nationals has come up for sale on the Barrett-Jackson auction block, but it’s more special than the rest. This 1987 Buick Grand National doesn’t just have a low 34 miles on its odometer, but it’s the last one ever built.

There's a Pentagon-shaped hole in President Biden's plans to cut government emissions.

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he is extending the pause on student loan payments until May 1.

Police can arrest people for “cover charges,” like resisting arrest, to justify their use of excessive force and shield themselves from liability. In Jefferson Parish, 73% of the time someone is arrested on a “cover charge” alone, they’re Black.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — For nearly 10 years, Joseph Moore lived a secret double life. At times the U.S. Army veteran donned a white robe and hood as a hit man for the Ku Klux Klan in North Florida. Moore said he noted connections between the hate group and law enforcement in Florida and Georgia. He said he came across dozens of police officers, prison guards, sheriff deputies and other law enforcement officers who were involved with the klan and outlaw motorcycle clubs. While operating inside this first klan group, Moore alerted the feds to a plot to murder a Hispanic truck driver. Then, he says, he pointed the FBI toward a deputy with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, Wayne Kerschner, who was a member of the same group. During Moore’s years in the United Northern and Southern Knights, the FBI also identified a member of the klan cell working for the Fruitland Park, Florida, police department. Moore said he’d provided identifying information that was useful in that case.

There appears to be no shortage of cash flow these days in the world of big-time college sports. Massive new contracts are seemingly signed daily, including a new $100 million deal for Brian Kelly at Notre Dame, a $95 million extension for Michigan State’s Mel Tucker, an $80 million deal for Miami’s Mario Cristobal, and a stunning, albeit dubiously reported, $110 million deal for Lincoln Riley at USC. For the athletes who perform the work that produces the lucrative spectacle, however, the rules are different. The NCAA’s new draft constitution makes clear that “student-athletes may not be compensated by a member institution for participating in a sport.”

University says membership of LGBTQ+ charity’s programmes may inhibit academic freedom

HITA, Oita -- Forty-five accommodation facilities in the southwest Japan prefecture of Oita are offering special benefits to guests who self-identify as aliens.

“Later this week, we will be announcing whether to extend the pause further,” an Education Department spokesperson said.

It’s a bleak Christmas at Vox Media, the content juggernaut that is expected to rake in $100 million in profit next year. In a company-wide Zoom meeting on Tuesday, CEO Jim Bankoff addressed his employees while dressed in a Vox-branded hoodie (according to our sources, employees noted amongt themselves that it was not an attractive garment). Employees anticipated the announcement of Christmas bonuses; last year they each got $1,000. But Bankoff did not speak of such things. And then, at 5 p.m., all Vox staffers received an email that in honor of their work in 2021 they will receive $75 vouchers to buy Vox swag. The vouchers are only usable between December 21 and January 5. Items in the company store include goods like this $60 vest, which is allegedly “as technical as it is stylish;” a $17 black baseball cap that “your group will love;” and this $22 umbrella, which one can use to “watch the raindrops trickle off while you stay nice and dry.”

While Justice Amy Barrett feigned ignorance of dark money, new documents show that cash bankrolled her Supreme Court nomination.

As medical experts warn of impending health system collapse, an anti-vaxxer doc with a dark past is itching to launch his own treatment facility.

They can’t arrest us all,’’ a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on earth writes its rules. The worry set in later, when the swarm resolved into 9,000 separate bodies in separate homes in separate beds. At first it was just a feeling, watching the news, as the word rally gave way to the word riot, that the mood of the day had not carried onward into the present. The FBI was at the airport, someone heard. A friend had been arrested. One hundred arrests in the first two weeks. There were photographs on the FBI’s web page and online sleuths trawling for clues. There were tipsters calling in names of old classmates. When a man was arrested in Washington, the FBI had footage from a camera planted on a telephone pole near his front yard. Three hundred by March. Arrests would be made in nearly every state. There would be FBI raids, battering rams, guns-drawn SWAT teams terrifying small children in the night. Five hundred by August. If you were paying attention, you were waiting for them, and the thousands who stormed the Capitol on January 6 were people who took immense pride in paying attention. "I did storm the Capitol," a rioter named Robert Chapman messaged someone on Bumble. "We are not a match," said the recipient, who then sent the message to the authorities. Rioters looked about and wondered who among their acquaintances had the motivated malice to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. They were betrayed by co-workers, and they were betrayed by exes, and they were betrayed, very often, by former classmates. Someone who worked at Circle K pointed out that an assistant manager had requested time off to go to this. It was not unusual for six, seven, eight people to take it upon themselves to identify a single man. "Thanks for your tips!" tweeted the FBI.

“Two monkeys involved in the killing of many puppies have been captured by a Nagpur Forest Department team in Beed,” Sachin Kand, a forest officer in Maharashtra’s Beed District, told local news agency ANI, according to New Delhi TV. But the langur monkeys won’t exactly face criminal charges over the mass murder. Rather, they were shipped off to Nagpur to be released in a nearby forest, NDTV reported.

Lawyer said flatulence was caused by heart medication and argued the request violated his dignity

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of the richest pediatric health care systems in the country, but every health care finance expert who spoke to the AJC concluded the system, as a not-for-profit, provided very little charity care when compared to its vast wealth. The hospital system itself defines charity care to include the shortfall in reimbursements for Medicaid patients, which is a much higher figure. But experts say that hospitals charge higher prices to insured patients to make up for the funding gap.

Curious why the day after a night out drinking you feel more sped up and anxious than usual? You're not alone. The term "hangxiety" is growing in popularity and just may be replacing the physical symptoms of a hangover as the most dreaded post-bender consequence there is.

Florida Power & Light (FPL), whose work with dark money political committees helped secure Republican control of the state Senate, is lobbying to hollow out net metering, a policy that lets Florida homeowners and businesses offset the costs of installing solar panels by selling power back to the company. Internal emails obtained from the Florida Senate show that an FPL lobbyist, John Holley, sent the text of the bill to state senator Jennifer Bradley’s staff on 18 October. FPL’s parent company contributed $10,000 to Bradely’s political committee on 20 October. A month later, Bradley filed a bill that was almost identical to the one FPL gave her. Another lawmaker introduced the same measure in the House.

The way it’s been portrayed by two religion-advocacy groups, the war on Christmas has descended on the idyllic town of Leavenworth in the Cascade foothills. You know Leavenworth, the Bavarian-themed destination that puts up over 500,000 Christmas lights during the holidays, appropriately calling itself “Christmastown.” It’s so popular that lodging for Saturday night is mostly sold out, with one room at $371. Charge No. 1: The Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce took the word “Christmas” out of the name for its famous holiday festival. The “Christmas Lighting Festival” was rebranded “Village of Lights,” the term commonly used on travel sites and news stories about the event, although the chamber had its official name as “Village of Lights: Christmastown.” Charge No. 2: On Dec. 4, on opening weekend of monthlong Christmas festivities, the town welcomed members of Krampus Seattle. They danced and paraded in their hairy, horned costumes inspired by the mythical Bavarian creature that’s half-demon, half-goat and that punishes those who misbehave at Christmas. The local chamber of commerce even promoted a “Krampus Drink Crawl.”

These Neandersovans, the researchers say, spread from Africa around 750,000 years ago and encountered their cousins, the super-archaics, likely descendants from Homo erectus. The groups interbred before dispersing across the continent, with Neanderthals later emerging in the West, and the Denisovans emerging in the East. “Exactly like what happened 50,000 years ago,” Rogers says, “when modern humans expanded, interbred, and separated into eastern and western populations.”