Giuliani is under federal investigation over potential violations of foreign lobbying laws with his work in Ukraine and is being sued over defamation.

The long-delayed release of Kanye West’s latest reveals an album—and artist—in desperate need of editing

This kind of nightmare was inevitable

Most mainstream news conversation has focused on what went wrong with the withdrawal itself — issues like intelligence failures, bottlenecking in airlifts, visa processing debacles, and insufficient attention to support for the Afghan air force. In these narratives, often authored by legacy media outlets and national security experts steeped in hawkish assumptions about American power, 20 years of effort seemed to fall apart due to President Joe Biden’s poor planning. But the reality is that the very speed of the collapse of the Afghan security forces requires a much deeper, and more cosmopolitan, understanding of decades of U.S. policy failures in the country. So I called up Anand Gopal, an award-winning journalist who reports for The New Yorker and wrote the acclaimed book, “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes.” He’s a trained sociologist and renowned foreign affairs reporter who lived in Afghanistan for years, embedded with the Taliban, speaks the local languages and is well versed in the history of the war-torn nation.

One abortion provider said it was “engulfed” in treating more than 100 patients at one clinic before the law took effect Wednesday.

A 24-year-old woman was arrested and charged on suspicion of falsified vaccination documents. The Department of the Attorney General said she submitted a fake COVID vaccination card in order to avo…

Entergy's infrastructure failed spectacularly on Sunday, frying New Orleans' electricity grid. It has a history of making the climate crisis worse.

A lawsuit against the Greenville County Sheriff's Office accuses deputies of unlawfully arresting a man while using excessive force against him.

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes COVID-19 the newest kind of "disenfranchising death."

I ask Frank Oz if he feels like the Paul McCartney to Jim Henson’s John Lennon, the one left behind to carry the flame after his revered creative partner suddenly and shockingly died. Oz takes a deep breath and turns his head to the side, thinking. If you grew up in the 1970s and 80s, your childhood was shaped by Henson and Oz and their work with the Muppets, just as the kids who grew up in the 50s and 60s did so in the shadow of Lennon and McCartney. Even if you weren’t a devoted fan of the Muppets themselves, you couldn’t help but take in their influence osmotically, what with The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, the Muppets movies and Labyrinth swirling in the atmosphere. I was pretty much raised on the Muppets, just as I now raise my own kids on them, and I cannot remember a time when Henson and Oz’s creations were not stamped in my mind’s eye. Eventually, Oz comes up with an answer to my question that he deems satisfactory. “I don’t, in part because I [originally] worked for Jim, but then we became brothers, and things changed, of course. But I’ve never thought about it that way before,” he says a little sadly. Oz, 77, is talking to me by video from his apartment. It is impossible to talk to him without frequent reference to Henson. When I ask if he lives in New York he says yes, and adds that he’s lived there since he was 19, “ever since Jim [Henson] asked me to come here to work with him on the Muppets”. He talks about himself as Henson’s No2 – the Fozzie Bear to Henson’s Kermit.

When U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson started feeling sick last week, he went to the hospital in Bellville, Texas, outside Houston. His health problem wasn't related to COVID-19, but Wilkinson needed advanced care, and with the coronavirus filling up intensive care beds, he couldn't get it in time to save his life. "He loved his country," his mother, Michelle Puget, told "CBS This Morning" lead national correspondent David Begnaud. "He served two deployments in Afghanistan, came home with a Purple Heart, and it was a gallstone that took him out."

The urge to graft meaning onto every part of waking consciousness isn’t surprising, but does this habit actually make anyone feel better?

House prices are currently at an all-time high, but we are not in a real estate bubble — we’re in a pricing paradigm shift. The old paradigm: A house’s price is the maximum amount that an area’s average local buyer can afford to mortgage over 25–40 years. But because wages have flatlined and purchasing parity is the same as in 1978, the only rational explanation for this current price explosion is a giant debt bubble… right? Wrong. The new paradigm: A house’s value is now the maximum amount of annual rental income that can be extracted from it by a global investor, multiplied by maximal institutional leverage. It’s the biggest paradigm shift in the history of human shelter, and it’s the reason why the vast majority will never own a house in the future. Because our family homes are just future hedge fund investments.

Thirteen frontline and public-facing employees are facing charges for purchasing forged vaccination cards, as part of an Instagram scheme allegedly orchestrated by a New Jersey woman who goes by "AntiVaxMomma." Jasmine Clifford, a 31-year-old entrepreneur, was arrested on Tuesday for selling the falsified COVID-19 vaccinations cards to hundreds of people, including employees at hospitals, medical schools, and nursing homes, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. State police first became aware of the fakes in June, after discovering an Instagram account purportedly maintained by Clifford offering the cards for $200 each. She allegedly worked with Nadayza Barkley, 27, an employee of a Long Island health clinic. Prosecutors stated that for an extra $250, Barkley would enter the buyers' names into New York's vaccine database — allowing purchasers to use the state's Excelsior Pass to bypass vaccine restrictions.

Unless the Supreme Court steps in, the country’s most dangerous anti-abortion law will go into effect, banning abortions after six weeks and placing a cash bounty on providers.

The company’s rules are not being evenly enforced.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury , passing their toughest test since the federal government spent billions of dollars to upgrade a system that catastrophically failed when Hurricane Katrina struck 16 years ago.

Can you blame them?

The new laws will affect abortion access, social studies curriculum and cities that trim the budgets of law enforcement.

Dozens of subreddits go private to protest what they view as Reddit's complacency about COVID disinformation on the platform.