The public gallery erupted with cheers and applause as the defendants were cleared following a landmark trial.

He's a threat to national security

“Apparently, he thought that was a great idea,” said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for Maine’s Department of Public Safety. “His friends said they thought they had dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly.”

The new variant — B.1.640.2 — which has been detected in 12 patients near Marseille, contains 46 mutations, making it more resistant to vaccines and infectious.

The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silicon Slopes tech firm, has resigned his position after sending an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by "the Jews" to exterminate people. The remarks triggered condemnation throughout Utah's tech community, and led to David Bateman's resignation from the company's board of directors after FOX 13 first reported on the email.

The New York State prison system utilized a faulty drug test that resulted in 1,652 incarcerated people being wrongfully punished with solitary confinement, longer prison terms and bans on family visits, according to a new report from the state inspector general released Tuesday. One woman at Albion Correctional Facility near Rochester who falsely tested positive for synthetic cannabinoids was confined to her cell for 40 days and punished with an additional 45 days in solitary confinement. She lost her prison job, couldn’t use the phone for 105 days, and wasn’t allowed to accept packages. Her three children were forbidden from visiting. In a press conference, Inspector General Lucy Lang said the problem with the tests was compounded by the fact that employees from the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, along with the drug testing company, Microgenics Corp., failed to follow rules on the procurement of the testing equipment and the administration of the tests. As a result, incarcerated people were wrongfully punished at prisons throughout the state during eight months in 2019.

I realised that to heal my attention, it was not enough simply to strip out distractions. That makes you feel good at first – but then it creates a vacuum where all the noise was. I realised I had to fill the vacuum. To do that, I started to think a lot about an area of psychology I had learned about years before – the science of flow states.

Whether the palace belonged to a high-ranking official or the king of Judah himself is not known, but in any case it also featured a luxury that very few could afford in biblical times: an outhouse with a stone seat and a cesspit dug under it, which was a rare luxury in the late Iron Age.

The news is full of them. Why journalists need to cover people and communities outside their familiar comfort zone.

Adam Neumann is remaking himself as a residential kingpin, purchasing stakes in thousands of apartments across the U.S.

The humble ‘retro’ corded headphone is making an unexpected return, for both aesthetic and practical reasons.

Rachel Wainer Apter appears unlikely to get confirmed in the final week of the state Legislature's lame-duck voting session. Murphy nominated civil rights attorney Rachel Wainer Apter, a fellow Democrat, last March to succeed Justice Jaynee LaVecchia, an independent who left the bench Friday. But it’s up to the state Senate to confirm her, and that hasn’t happened with just eight days to go before the current lame-duck voting session ends at noon Jan. 11 and the next state Legislature is sworn in. “Our Supreme Court has extraordinary power,” she added. “If we’re going to put someone on here who could be there for three decades shaping policy, we need to ensure it’s a balanced judiciary and it’s not an activist court.” [The other 5 out of 6 Justices are former prosecutors]

More than a century ago, the US government tried to silence Marie Equi, a radical queer abortionist.

Two-thirds of eligible DNC staff signed union cards to make the decision official on January 4. The union will now enter into contract negotiations with the committee's management.

Drivers have been stuck on a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in the Stafford County, Virginia, area for nearly 24 hours after multiple trucks crashed amid a major snowstorm that left snow and ice packed onto the road. Sen. Tim Kaine, who represents Virginia in the U.S. Senate, is among the people trapped on the highway.  Many drivers are out of gas. Some don't have food or water, and some say they have children, pets and family members with medical needs in the car. Gov. Ralph Northam told News4 that Virginia State Police, the Virginia Department of Transportation and other state officials and crews are working nonstop to help people stranded in the gridlock.  “This has been a difficult night for a lot of folks. I’m very sorry that people have been stranded. We’re doing everything we can to get to these individuals, whether it be [giving them] water or a place to be warm,” Northam said Tuesday morning.  The governor resisted calls from social media users, including TV personality and author Meghan McCain, to deploy the National Guard.  “They’re available, and they do a wonderful job. We have the resources we need right

Employers are desperate to figure out a way to safely get employees back to their desks. Enter the humble wristband.

The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions. Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated people in the United States could not see it coming. Even when Confederate soldiers began their bombardment of Fort Sumter, nobody believed that conflict was inevitable. The north was so unprepared for the war they had no weapons. In Washington, in the winter of 1861, Henry Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams, declared that “not one man in America wanted the civil war or expected or intended it”. South Carolina senator James Chestnut, who did more than most to bring on the advent of the catastrophe, promised to drink all the blood spilled in the entire conflict. The common wisdom at the time was that he would have to drink “not a thimble”.

Removed for a part where it got a little too homophobic for my liking.

The attorney general will not speak to specific individuals or charges, but Garland will "discuss the department's solemn duty to uphold the Constitution, follow the facts and the law, and pursue equal justice under law without fear or favor," the DOJ official added.

A traffic jam that began during Monday’s winter storm has only grown worse with plummeting overnight temperatures causing melting snow to refreeze.