An estimated 60% of large employers use workplace monitoring tools, some of which can be used to chill organizing.

I'm not saying this is the reason you can play video games while driving a Tesla, I'm just saying this is one reason a sociopath might allow you to play video games while driving a Tesla

The NCAA is actively looking into a pair of high-profile NIL deals involving football players at Brigham Young University and the University of Miami for potential violations of the association’s interim rules regarding new marketing rights for college athletes, according to multiple people familiar with the probe. NCAA enforcement staffers are trying to determine if these two deals qualify as a pay-for-play set-up, which is prohibited under the NCAA’s temporary NIL guidelines, according to the people, who were granted anonymity because the details are private.

Most chumbox hawkers steer clear of the InfoWars brand today—but back in 2017, at least one ad company bent over backwards for them.

On Thursday, Democrats on the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved a mild-mannered request for information and public comment on bank mergers. Hours later, the agency posted a statement on its website insisting that “no such document has been approved.” The mixed messages came from an internally divided agency where a Trump holdover chair is saddled with a Democratic-majority board of directors. And it may be just an opening gambit in a new battle over the FDIC’s agenda. The approved request was posted not at the FDIC but on the website of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). That agency’s new director, Rohit Chopra, is a critic of anti-competitive bank consolidation and has signaled his interest in beefing up the Bank Merger Act. Chopra said on Twitter that he is especially interested in public feedback on how to “avoid creating too-big-to-fail banks.” The FDIC is chaired by Trump-appointed Jelena McWilliams, whose term lasts until mid-2023. But the five-member board includes Chopra and Michael Hsu, the acting comptroller of the currency, both appointed by Democrats. In addition, Martin Gruenberg, a former FDIC chair under President Obama, is a confirmed director at the agency. The vice chair position is vacant.

With the election still seven months away, the race for Los Angeles County sheriff is already getting ugly – and a little bit weird. Sheriff Alex Villanueva is facing a crowded field of challengers, but his campaign has zeroed in lately on one in particular: LAX Airport Police Chief Cecil Rhambo. Last week, Villanueva’s campaign attacked Rhambo for switching his party registration from Republican to Democrat in a text to some L.A. County Democratic Party members. And on Wednesday, another text message sent by Villanueva’s campaign manager, Javier Gonzalez, to a larger number of Democratic Party members suggested that Rhambo, who retired from the Sheriff’s Department in 2014, had been a member of a deputy “gang” while at the department. The text included a photo of Rhambo from the 1980s that has been circulating among Villanueva supporters and others since Rhambo announced he was running to unseat the sheriff. In it, he is posing with other deputies and making a hand gesture that Gonzalez said was a gang sign. “Our opponent Cecil Rhambo likes to talk a big game about ‘reforming’ the department and getting rid of alleged gangs. He seems to know a lot about these so-called gangs and cliques,” Gonzalez wrote. “Could it be that he was in one himself?” In response to the insinuation, Rhambo’s campaign provided The Times with a video of him shirtless to show that on his torso, back or arms he has none of the tattoos that deputies often get when they are accepted into one of the the gang-like groups.

In one previously unreported memo, Jenna Ellis delivered a technical — and far-fetched — legal argument to another of the former president's outside lawyers.

One current Activision worker who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation said she signed the union card because “it’s the only option.” “Do we want to work for a company that has a history of not only sexual abuse and protecting abusers but also sporadic layoffs that may hit us at any time, especially as a contract QA worker? Or do I risk losing my job to try and make a change?” she said.

One of five different women who had five children with a multimillionaire killed in West Vancouver has failed to convince B.C.'s top court the pair had a spousal relationship that would entitle her to a "preferential share" of an estate estimated at $21 million.

Evergrande has defaulted on its debt. Now Beijing is intervening to prevent a disorderly collapse of the indebted real estate group that could wreak havoc on the world's second biggest economy.

An ambitious project that set out 8 years ago to replicate findings from top cancer labs has drawn to a discouraging close. The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology (RP:CB) reports today that when it attempted to repeat experiments drawn from 23 high-impact papers published about 10 years ago, fewer than half yielded similar results. The findings pose “challenges for the credibility of preclinical cancer biology,” says psychologist Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science (COS), a co-organizer of the effort. The project points to a need for authors to share more details of their experiments so others can try to reproduce them, he and others involved argue. Indeed, vague protocols and uncooperative authors, among other problems, ultimately prevented RP:CB from completing replications for 30 of the 53 papers it had initially flagged, the team reports in two capstone papers in eLife. “It is useful to have this level of objective data about how challenging it can be to measure reproducibility,” says Charles Sawyers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who reviewed the designs and results for some of the project’s early replication studies. But he wonders whether the project will have much impact. “It’s hard to know whether anything will change as a consequence.”

Twitter Spaces has become a tool for extremists and racists. Employees warned that might happen.

Health experts blame the recent uptick in cases on holiday gatherings and the unvaccinated.

In the middle of 2019, Jacksonville City Council member Garrett Dennis was approached by a friend about a mysterious job offer. The offer was to lead an organization Dennis had never heard of before. He’d make close to $250,000, expenses included, and travel the country advocating for the decriminalization of marijuana — an issue Dennis was passionate about. There was just one catch: Dennis would have to resign from the City Council. “I said, ‘Man, I’m not doing that,’” Dennis recalled this week. Dennis said nothing ever came of the cryptic job offer. But records and interviews show it was orchestrated by consultants working with Florida Power & Light — the utility giant whose parent company soon after submitted an $11 billion bid to buy Jacksonville’s city-owned electric company. Any sale of the public utility, known as Jacksonville Electric Authority, was going to need approval from the City Council — and Dennis was firmly opposed to privatization.

The WikiLeaks founder will seek to appeal. But if the extradition goes ahead, he would face espionage charges that could put him in prison for decades. The extradition case in Britain has not turned on whether the charges against Mr. Assange are legitimate — a lower-court judge ruled they were — but on whether prison conditions in the United States are too harsh for his mental health. In ruling that Mr. Assange can be extradited, the High Court in London said it that was satisfied by assurances provided by the Biden administration that it would not hold him under the most austere conditions reserved for high-security prisoners and that, if he were to be convicted, it would let him serve his sentence in his native Australia if he requested it. The U.S. Justice Department media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But an American lawyer for Mr. Assange, Barry J. Pollack, denounced the ruling, calling it “disturbing” that the British court accepted the American government’s “vague assurances” of humane treatment.

The legal nonprofit representing victims of a human trafficking operation says farmworkers' rights are routinely abused in Georgia. According to the indictment, laborers were detained when not working, charged unlawful fees for transportation, food and housing. And though they were putatively hired for agricultural work, some migrants were illegally used for lawn care, construction, and repair tasks.

Migrant laborers were allegedly forced to dig onions with their bare hands for pennies per bucket as supervisors threatened them with a gun.

“Employees are calling for a head,” a company source, who argued that Vishal Garg stepping down is a cosmetic fix, told The Daily Beast.

The only plausible explanation for his descent into racism and absurdity is that he plans to run for president.

Weeks after the 2020 election, a Chicago publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West traveled to the suburban home of Ruby Freeman, a frightened Georgia election worker who was facing death threats after being falsely accused by former President Donald Trump of manipulating votes. The publicist knocked on the door and offered to help.