An Italian baron employed a bit of trickery to get Sting to buy his run-down villa

Under his nomme de Bandcamp, Infinite Third, the son of the late, great television pitchman is shredding his way to his own legacy

The new adult animated series has nothing to offer but lazy cultural references and dated observations about queer people

Turns out the Red Delicious apple used to be...well...delicious. Here's what went wrong.

After years of jokes and complaints, McDonald’s finicky ice cream machines are the subject of an FTC inquiry

"He opened his door. He was naked and covered in blood. He then shut his door and kept driving."

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Having a medical exemption form signed is the only way students can opt out of wearing a mask under the current mandate in the Sarasota County School District.

Before the white, unmarked cargo van of the Minneapolis Police Department drove down Lake Street, an officer gave Sgt. Andrew Bittell his orders: “Drive down Lake Street. You see a group, call it out. OK great! F*** ’em up, gas ’em, f*** ’em up.” Bittell turned to his SWAT unit in the van and said, “Alright, we’re rolling down Lake Street. The first f***ers we see, we’re just hammering ’em with 40s,” according to body camera footage described in court documents. He was referring to “less lethal” plastic projectiles sometimes called rubber bullets or 40mm launchers or rounds. It was nighttime, just five days after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Protests and riots had raged for days and laid waste to businesses along Lake Street and the Third Precinct police station. By May 30, protests had ebbed but a curfew was in effect. At 17th Avenue and Lake Street, around 10 p.m., the SWAT team saw a group of people outside the Stop-N-Shop gas station. Bittell told the driver to head toward the station and said, “Let ’em have it boys!” “Right there, get ’em, get ’em, get ’em, hit ’em, hit ’em!” he ordered as the officers fired their plastic bullet launchers without warning. They later learned they were shooting at the gas station owner, neighbors and relatives guarding the station from more looting, as well as bystanders, including a Vice News reporter who had his hands up and was yelling, “Press!”

An attorney who says his client was drugged and sexually assaulted at a University of Iowa fraternity last year said they are disappointed by the lack of criminal charges and plan to file a civil lawsuit within the next two weeks against those involved and any organization "whose inaction failed to prevent or properly address this assault." Eashaan Vajpeyi, of Ball, Kirk & Holm law firm in Waterloo, told the Press-Citizen on Wednesday that his client, who will remain anonymous until the lawsuit is filed, is waiting for a response from the Johnson County Attorney's office regarding whether there will be a criminal case. He said once he is able to view the county attorney's investigation file, they will be ready to file the lawsuit. Vajpeyi said that file is not likely to be a public record. "Technically speaking, it is my understanding that the investigation is still open in that my client did request a second prosecutor in the office give an opinion as to whether or not to charge," he said. Vajpeyi spoke to the Press-Citizen the day after about 1,000 people gathered outside of the Phi Gamma Delta property, and later a second location, calling for action against the perpetrators of the alleged assault and to abolish the fraternity. Several protesters smashed windows and broke down the doors at both locations.

While other industries were devastated by the pandemic last year, police departments felt a much smaller impact.

On Wednesday, Rogan told his Instagram audience he had COVID-19 and would have to rearrange his stand-up schedule. “I got back from the road Saturday night feeling very weary. I had a headache. I felt just run down,” he said, adding his symptoms progressed throughout the evening. The next day, he tested positive for COVID-19. “So we threw the kitchen sink at it, all kinds of meds,” Rogan said, specifying he took a Z-Pak (aka the antibiotic azithromycin), prednisolone (a corticosteroid used to treat inflammation) and Ivermectin, which is a drug used to treat parasitic worms in horses.

North Atlantic right whales had been making a slow recovery, but ocean changes linked to global warming are pushing down their numbers again, scientists say.

Thirteen thousand years ago, most of Michigan was covered in a wall of ice up to a mile high. Archaeologists believed this kept some of the continent’s earliest people, a group called Clovis after their distinctive spear points, from settling in the region. But an independent researcher along with University of Michigan researchers have identified a 13,000-year-old Clovis camp site, now thought to be the earliest archaeological site in Michigan. The site predates previously identified human settlements in the Michigan basin and potentially rewrites the history of the peopling—or settling—of the Great Lakes region.

The pricey salad chain CEO took to LinkedIn to espouse his views on the pandemic, such as that Americans who got seriously ill were too fat.

Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents — and go to prison for doing it.

Half of U.S. states ended enhanced unemployment insurance payments early ahead of nationwide termination of benefits for millions of people.

It’s not just a myth — experts say music really does change how psychedelics affect the mind, and they’ve designed some stunning playlists to prove the point

A reminder to Democrats in the wake of the Texas abortion ban: you actually have the power to do something about this.

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