Condemned Oklahoma prisoner John Grant convulsed and vomited before dying from a cocktail of drugs on Thursday as the state conducted its first execution in years despite questions about its lethal injection protocol, a witness to the death reported. Grant, 60, died at 4:21 p.m. (2121 GMT), the state said. It was Oklahoma's first execution since three botched attempts - including one that was called off because the wrong drug had been supplied - led to a halt in 2015. The three-drug cocktail is meant to first render the recipient unconscious and unable to feel pain, followed by others that lead to death. But a media witness said Grant convulsed two dozen times and vomited before dying.

He criticizes Munger Hall as a social and psychological experiment with unknown consequences.

Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing gold. Then he began using his wheels for a much different purpose: stickups.

Texas Republican lawmaker State Rep. Matt Krause has list of 850 books on subjects ranging from racism to sexuality that could “make students feel discomfort”

Even if Rittenhouse somehow draws an impartial jury, he already appears to have landed a very partial judge.

Since its publication in 1965, 'Dune' has been claimed by both right and left – but its political and ecological critiques make its return to the big screen apt for an era of capitalist crisis.

Behind a geeky code name lies a sinister plot. As a torrent of bad press consumes Facebook — or whatever the company may soon be renamed — it’s worth remembering that to become an industry-dominating social-media Goliath, sometimes you need a little help from your friends. Perhaps they’re better described as co-conspirators. Over the past year, a series of court filings by 15 state attorneys general have exposed what amounts to secret collusion between Google and Facebook to rig the online ad market in their favor and to keep out competitors. Details keep percolating up — last week, a New York judge unsealed yet more documents shining light on the arrangement — but we’ve already learned a great deal, revealing just how far two tech giants will go to preserve their lucrative hold over online advertising.

Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.

Hazard Independent Schools Superintendent Sondra Combs said the high school's homecoming festivities, including lap dances, are under investigation.

People driving in the city’s two police strongholds are least likely to be pulled over, according to an analysis of 2020 Chicago police data. The 16th District on the city’s Northwest Side and the 22nd District on the Southwest Side had the fewest traffic stops of any of the city’s 22 police districts during 2020. Those districts are historically known to be home to many city workers, particularly Police and Fire department employees. Illinois Traffic and Pedestrian Stop Study data shows police are pulling over Chicago drivers more in recent years than ever before. But the few-and-far-between stops in areas where many police officers live highlights massive disparities in where Chicago police are stopping drivers — and which drivers they are pulling over. Block Club Chicago mapped all 327,224 traffic stops conducted by Chicago police in 2020. The precise location of the traffic stops was redacted from the data, but the stops were grouped into small geographic areas known as police beats. Each police district is divided into as many as 17 beats.

President Biden released a smaller plan for a domestic policy bill that sweeps up some of his top priorities. After months of infighting, there is a new sense of urgency and optimismthat a deal iswithin reach —one that could pass the House and Senate later this fall. President Biden on Thursday announced a $1.75 trillion framework — a scaled-back version of his initial $3.5 trillion "Build Back Better" plan. Democrats are using a budget process known as reconciliation to get around a GOP filibuster in the Senate, so they need all 50 senators who caucus with the Democrats on board with the framework. Opposition from two key Senate moderates — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. — forced leaders and the president to trim programs, and lower expectations for those on the left.

An attempt by Austin, Texas, officials to serve a search warrant and provide lawn care resulted in shots fired, an hourslong standoff, a house fire and a death, police said Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg revealed the new name

Sometime during the Cretaceous Era, roughly 100 million years ago, a tiny crab marched out of its home in the sea, climbed a tree, and got itself trapped in a dollop of tree trunk goop. But little did this young crustacean know that the amber would immortalise it, and it would weather harsh conditions for 100 million years to serve as a "missing link" in crab evolution. This crab dates all the way back to the age of dinosaurs and is believed to be the oldest modern-looking crab and a distant cousin of the present-day red crabs. The group this crab belongs to would migrate to the ocean for breeding. As per researchers who studied the ancient specimen, the crab's body, including its claws, shell, bulging eyes, and gills, are perfectly preserved in amber—making this an incredibly rare find. Researchers think this might be the oldest evidence of crab intrusions into non-marine habitats!

Dr. Tony Tannoury, head of spine surgery, was reprimanded for leaving an operating room before the start of an emergency ankle surgery to go eat in his parked car, where he fell asleep and missed the procedure.

“A bunch of us decided one Saturday, what would happen if we all did show up?” Perry said. “Because they don’t have the [package] volume for us. They’re doing it to show, ‘When I say jump, you say how high.’” So on Saturday, September 18, suddenly 25 regular drivers showed up as ordered, instead of the usual half-dozen. Beforehand they met up with the hybrids for donuts in the parking lot. “They were all super pumped to see us,” Perry said. “They realized, ‘Oh wow, these guys have our back.’” The serious fun started when they all went inside and caught the eye of the hapless Saturday supervisor. Perry and his co-workers laughed it up watching the panic their action provoked: “This supervisor was freaking out, not knowing what to do. He’s on the phone with our boss—he’s like, ‘Yeah, there’s a lot of them.’” The upshot was that the regular drivers got their guaranteed eight hours—and an uncharacteristically relaxed workday, since there weren’t that many packages to deliver. The hybrids got to slip out early on a Saturday for once. And the union got data to bolster its case that there wasn’t enough work to justify the forced overtime.

William Topel died shortly after demonstrating against an indoor mask mandate at the Anchorage Assembly. To some, his death shows the dangers of not taking precautions against COVID-19, but to friends, his death is an illustration of the medical establishment's refusal to treat patients with unproven drugs like ivermectin.

Bald guy stroking a fluffy white cat doing big things.

American Bird Conservancy raises alarms about the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project and launch site in South Texas.

After mom confessed to binging on Creature Feature/Chiller Theater flicks when she was pregnant with me, I realized that my passion for horror was in the blood. By the time I was seven I’d already seen Night of the Living Dead, which gave me nightmares for a week, and was a regular viewer of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, One Step Beyond and horror/monster movies on Saturday nights. As a comic book fan since I was a six year old New York City kid, my tastes eventually swayed from Marvel’s Manhattan-based superheroes to spooky four-color supernatural strips. While comic book shopping in 1972, I spotted The House of Mystery #204. The cover featured a disgusting multi-eyed green blob creeping across the floor in pursuit of a screaming femme. In the lower right hand corner the illustrator’s signature was a simple “bw” that I later learned belonged Bernie Wrightson, the artist who’d soon become my comic book hero as well as a later inspiration for my writing. Wrightson’s cover became my gateway into the world of 1970s horror comics. Five years later I had the pleasure of seeing the original pen and ink drawing in its entire poetic, grotesque splendor hanging on the wall of the New York Comic Art Gallery. I stared at that image with the same intensity I’d give the the Mona Lisa three decades later. It was scary, yet moving and damn near alive. Wrightson imagined things and made the horror real. However, the rules of the then-active Comics Code stated, “No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title,” so the books were referred to as mysteries or suspense.