AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An arson investigation was underway after a man wearing an American flag bandanna threw a Molotov cocktail into the headquarters of the county Democratic Party in Austin. The incendiary device did not ignite when it was thrown at the Travis County Democratic Party headquarters at about 2 a.m.

State officials have complained about not being taken seriously, as a bill waits on Biden’s desk to secure funding for health-care for victims.

The missing King Country family that were found safe and well today had been living in a tent in dense bush, police have revealed this afternoon. Watch this afternoon's update from police here.

Police have been been severely criticised by judges who ruled that they grossly violated the human rights of a woman who was deceived into a long-term intimate relationship by an undercover officer. The judges ruled overwhelmingly in favour of Kate Wilson, an environmental and social justice activist, who has pursued a decade-long campaign to uncover the truth. In their landmark judgment on Thursday, the three judges in the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) ruled that the Metropolitan police had violated Wilson’s human rights in five ways, including inflicting degrading treatment on her. Mark Kennedy, an undercover officer who infiltrated leftwing groups for seven years, had a sexual relationship with Wilson lasting more than a year, without telling her that he was a police officer who had been sent to spy on her and the political groups she supported. The judges ruled that senior officers in charge of Kennedy “either knew of the relationship, chose not to know of its existence, or were incompetent and negligent in not following up” clear and obvious signs. In their 158-page ruling, they said the senior officers appeared to have a policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” towards their spies who were deceiving women into sexual relationships. They said the managers probably had “a lack of interest” in protecting women’s human rights.

Phil Tippett, the SFX legend behind Star Wars and Jurassic Park, debuts a long-term labor of love

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Two Columbus Police officers with the Police Drug Cartel unit were arrested and charged with crimes related to distributing nearly eight kilograms of fentanyl, the U. S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Officers Marco R. Merino, 44, of Columbus, and John J. Kotchkoski, 33, of Marengo, Ohio, allegedly were involved in distributing seven-and-a-half kilograms of fentanyl, federal prosecutors said.

The eagle escaped its enclosure at the National Aviary under mysterious circumstances.

19 of Facebook's top 20 pages for American Christians are run by Eastern European troll farms overseas, internal documents leaked to MIT Technology Review reveal.

Police around the country have claimed to overdose on fentanyl merely from handling the drug. What’s really going on?

The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.

Joshua A. Miele won a prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his pragmatic inventions that help blind people navigate the world.

The animals and one plant had been listed as endangered species. Their stories hold lessons about a growing global biodiversity crisis.

My esteemed coworkers often have conversations that range beyond the purview of my many demented pastimes, and so I usually take that time to do quite literally anything else. That method has never really failed me, as the most interesting conversations end up making it onto the site as blogs anyway, saving me a whole […]

The mobile “self-discovery” game Proxi by the creator of The Sims will include NFT-based memories and interactions with other players.

Government scientists warn climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common.

The judges failed to recuse themselves from 685 lawsuits from 2010 to 2018 involving companies in which they or their family held shares, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. “I am mortified,” said one. “I just blew it.”

The man's questions get more bizarre and offensive. "What's your favorite charity homie? What's your favorite charity?" Then the man can be heard saying, "I'm sure your marriage is going so well...you're a weirdo, a creep. A pedophile creep." The man even curses in front of Ly's children asking "can't you answer my simple f**king question?" Ly stays calm through it all despite the man threatening to come back to the home later to talk to his wife. What happened was much worse. San Jose police said the man returned several hours later to commit vandalism. "He came back and he smashed both of my cars with weights," said Ly, who then held up the 2.5-pound circular weight he found in between his children's car seats in the back row of one vandalized car.

New state filings by Dominion Energy show the utility company paid a newspaper columnist more than $260,000 over the last four years. As VPM previously reported, the columnist -- Gordon Morse -- sometimes wrote unsigned editorials praising Dominion in Hampton Roads newspapers.

Fat Bear Week: Fluffy Butt Cub Edition

I can't do this anymore