FW de Klerk was the last white person to lead the nation and was key in the transition to democracy.

Costa Rica and Denmark are leading the world's first concrete effort to stop the climate crisis in its tracks.

Longtime Something Awful forum administrator Fragmaster posted that site founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has reportedly died. “I guess I should preface this by saying this isn’t a joke especially since I’m posting for like the first time in 10 years or something, but I got the bad news today directly from Rich’s family,” wrote Fragmaster. “Lowtax has passed away.” “I didn’t ask for details,” Fragmaster continued. “I don’t know details. I don’t know what the current opinion of Rich here is. Not here to answer questions, I’m sharing the news. I really hate to share this news. But there you go.” Considering all the shit that Something Awful has gotten up to over the years, some have wondered if this were a hoax. Is this for real?” wondered one forum member. Some expressed shock at the news, while others offered their condolences to his children. Kyanka’s second wife, who posts on SA under the name LadyAmbien, has confirmed her husband’s death, writing that her ex-husband died by suicide.

Beaconization—or equipping bicycles and pedestrians with transponder beacons that can be spotted automatically by sensor-equipped cars—has been given the official seal of approval in the U.S. after the House of Representatives passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on November 5.

Where is the anything they say option?

The judge said the governor's order impedes children with disabilities from the benefits of public schools’ programs, services and activities, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Many identify platform as major source of disinformation

Twitter has permanently suspended Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson for repeatedly posting blatant misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. The ban comes about a week after she was briefly suspended for violating the company's policy.

The F.B.I. carried out search warrants in New York as part of a Justice Department investigation into how pages from Ashley Biden’s journal came to be published by a right wing website.

Across the country, parents have threatened board members and vandalized their homes. One board member scans his driveway before walking to his car.

Tope sharks - which can grow to 6ft long, the starry smooth houndshark and the venomous spurdog sharks were all found in the first ever State of the Thames Report by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Seahorses, eels and seals were also found thriving in the Thames after vital conservation work improved the river’s health since it was declared “biologically dead” in 1957.

A Massachusetts family whose loved one’s casket fell open as it was being lowered into a grave, causing the body to fall out, has sued the funeral home and the cemetery.

The Spotsylvania County School Board has directed staff to begin removing books that contain “sexually explicit” material from library shelves and report on the number of books that have been removed at a special called meeting next week. The directive came after a parent raised concerns at the School Board’s meeting Monday about books available through the Riverbend High School’s digital library app. The board also requested a report next week on the process by which books are selected for inclusion in digital and hard copy library collections at the different school levels and indicated that it will consider a division-wide library audit. The criteria for pulling books from circulation this week is “sexually explicit,” but the board plans to refine how material is determined to be “objectionable” for a further review of library holdings. The board voted 6–0 to order the removal. Berkeley District representative Erin Grampp was not in attendance for the vote on that issue. Two board members, Courtland representative Rabih Abuismail and Livingston representative Kirk Twigg, said they would like to see the removed books burned. “I think we should throw those books in a fire,” Abuismail said, and Twigg said he wants to “see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff.”

Three officers heading to enforce a court injunction against old-growth logging blockades near Fairy Creek were injured when their vehicles collided with a logging truck.

The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a "hybrid attack" by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for new sanctions against Minsk in a crisis that threatens to draw in Russia and NATO.

The story of Ewan Forbes shows how trans people were able to enjoy equality - until it was quietly removed to protect male rights of succession

After the deadly tragedy at Astroworld, rapper Travis Scott has announced a partnership with therapy app BetterHelp, sometimes called the Uber of the mental health space. Its business model: ruthless exploitation of both therapists and patients.

I was ultracareful for 18 months. Then I got COVID.

The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson is selling most of his visual effects studio Weta Digital to Unity, which makes development software for video games, for $1.6 billion. The cash-and-stock deal will see the American platform acquire Weta Digital's "tools, pipeline, technology, and engineering talent," the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. "This acquisition is designed to put Weta's incredibly exclusive and sophisticated visual effects tools into the hands of millions of creators and artists around the world," the statement said. Weta Digital, which has six Academy Awards and six BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards to its name, has built characters and worlds for a wide variety of movies, including "Avatar," "Black Widow" and "Lord of the Rings." Meanwhile, Unity is famous in the gaming world for its development software, which studios use to create hits like "Fall Guys," "Pokémon Go" and "Call of Duty: Mobile." "Together, Unity and Weta Digital can create a pathway for any artist, from any industry, to be able to leverage these incredibly creative and powerful tools," Jackson said in the statement. "Offering aspiring creatives access to Weta Digital's technology will be nothing short of game changing and Unity is just the company to bring this vision to life."

Tons of video. Two dead bodies. A witness who survived the shooting. And still the case looks like a mess.