Britain to begin quantifying post-Brexit goods shortages in terms I can understand, unless they also go back to pre-decimal currency.

As Apple and Google enact privacy changes, businesses are grappling with the fallout, Madison Avenue is fighting back and Facebook has cried foul.

Mark Lee Dickson arrived at College Heights Baptist Church in his signature uniform: backward baseball cap, button-down shirt and Vans shoes. As he began preaching, he held a thumb-sized rubber fetus, complete with a fully-formed face. “An abortion clinic in Waskom, Texas, is not an Austin problem or a Washington, D.C., problem. It’s a town problem,” he said, urging the audience not to wait for state or national leaders and instead to pass their own local ban. Over the last two years, Dickson, 36, has given a similar speech in more than a hundred towns across Texas, lobbying them to become “sanctuary cities for the unborn” by prohibiting abortions within their limits. Even his allies were once skeptical of his efforts. But in May, the West Texas city of Lubbock adopted one of Dickson’s bans, effectively forcing the city’s Planned Parenthood to stop performing abortions.

In January, a former cop turned Facebook Inc. investigator posted an all-staff memo on the company’s internal message board. It began “Happy 2021 to everyone!!” and then proceeded to detail a new set of what he called “learnings.” The biggest one: A Mexican drug cartel was using Facebook to recruit, train and pay hit men. The behavior was shocking and in clear violation of Facebook’s rules. But the company didn’t stop the cartel from posting on Facebook or Instagram, the company’s photo-sharing site. Scores of internal Facebook documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show employees raising alarms about how its platforms are used in some developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. They also show the company’s response, which in many instances is inadequate or nothing at all.

The Murdaugh family crime saga in South Carolina continues to get weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder. Really, it's wild.

Experts warn that 4,000 miles of fiber optic cable may soon be underwater. ‘We’ll be sunk long before sea levels get us.’

For at least three years, Lori Ann Talens worked at her home computer mixing, matching and perfecting an art that prosecutors say became one of the largest fraud schemes of its kind ever, worth more than $31 million to its victims. When federal agents raided her home in Virginia Beach, Va., they found evidence everywhere, prosecutors said: nearly $1 million in counterfeit coupons scattered around the house and more than 13,000 coupon designs on her computer, the material for “Frankenstein” coupons that scammed people around the country. Ms. Talens, 41, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for operating what prosecutors called “one of the largest coupon fraud schemes” in U.S. history, saying it cost retailers and manufacturers more than $31 million in losses.

Maurizio Cattaneo is exasperated. A chemical engineer, Cattaneo patented a filter for virus harvesting that helps scale up the production of viral vector vaccines, like those used to prevent COVID-19. Right now, business is booming. But instead of inking new deals for his virus filter supply company, Cattaneo has just had to tell a dozen clients to wait six months. Cattaneo usually orders $10,000 worth of membranes for his startup, Artemis Biosystems, but his ordinary supplier now won’t fill an order under $300,000. Finding a contractor who can fit a special casing around the membrane is even trickier, though he thinks he could find a work-around, given enough cash. But he can’t find a line of credit, he told the Prospect. His bank has been unhelpful, and venture capital firms expect sale potential in the billions of dollars, they have told him. He estimates his total market—the drug developers buying his lab equipment—at around $100 million. “Even though it’s amazing equipment, and you can increase manufacturing and yield, it’s not as attractive, from the point of view of market size,” Cattaneo said he has been told. VC firms have eyes only for his clients. Drug developers boast exponentially bigger potential market shares if they seize on a breakthrough formula, even though, Cattaneo said, “a lot of it is hype.”

Fans gasped as the cat fell, then cheered when it survived. "If the cat can help our red-zone offense, I'll see if we can get it a scholarship," Miami's coach said afterward.

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters.

A breach of Epik exposed a massive trove of data, including the names of individuals behind some of the far-right's most notorious websites.

Twenty years ago, you could get a vaccine for Lyme disease. Now you can’t. What happened?

Australia will acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as the first act under a new security partnership with the US and Britain squarely aimed at combating China’s growing power in our region. The deal will include submarines built in Adelaide, but seal the scrapping of a controversial $90 billion subs deal with French naval builders that has been marred by years of delays and cost blowouts. A former French ambassador to the US described it as Paris having been “stabbed… in the back”. The alliance, named AUKUS, was announced during a historic joint address by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, British PM Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on Thursday morning (Australian time)... The announcement had a lighter moment when President Biden referred to Mr Morrison as “that fella Down Under”, after referring to Mr Johnson as “Boris”. Some media outlets speculated the President had momentarily forgotten Mr Morrison’s name.

The first mystery is the obesity epidemic itself. It’s hard for a modern person to appreciate just how thin we all were for most of human history. A century ago, the average man in the US weighed around 155 lbs. Today, he weighs about 195 lbs. About 1% of the population was obese back then. Now it’s about 36%. Back in the 1890s, the federal government had a board of surgeons examine several thousand Union Army veterans who fought in the Civil War. This was several decades after the end of the war, so by this point the veterans were all in their 40’s or older. This gives us a snapshot of what middle-aged white men looked like in the 1890s. When we look at their data, we find that they had an average BMI of about 23 (overweight is a BMI of 25 and obese is a BMI of 30 or more). Only about 3% of them were obese. In comparison, middle-aged white men in the year 2000 had an average BMI of around 28. About 24% were obese in early middle age, increasing to 41% by the time the men were in their 60s.

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.

Trinidad and Tobago Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh on Wednesday criticized as "false" the claim by American rapper Nicki Minaj that a person on the Caribbean island suffered swollen testicles after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Incidences of mold in Texas homes exploded after the mid-February storm, which burst pipes and allowed moisture to seep into buildings’ foundations at a rapid rate.

Up to 250 personnel have been made available in the state to help with the staffing shortage.

Many of the school districts facing backlash over equity initiatives are diversifying faster than the national average.

Meow Wolf hopes to incorporate more Colorado artists into future expansions, and has already pumped about $615,000 into the local arts community through nonprofit support and sponsorships. However, employee turnover, investor revolts, lawsuits and apparent union-busting have become realities at Meow Wolf as it has rapidly scaled-up from a scrappy DIY arts collective to multimillion-dollar entertainment giant.