The revised cut of his 9/11 docuseries no longer exposes viewers to the toxicity of trutherism.

There’s a mother and former teacher in south central Pennsylvania, a woman I’ll call Joan, who has what she calls a “weird hobby.” She’s a Facebook detective. “Some people crochet. Some people paint. I look up people,” Joan told me. “I’m the go-to person for all my friends if they meet a new man. They’re like ‘Hey, look him up, give me all the details.’” When an enraged mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Joan was at home watching it unfold. She was deeply upset, finding herself in tears about the violent scene transpiring over 100 miles away in the nation’s capital, which she’d visited as a kid and later on field trips with her own children. “This is not who we are as a country,” she said, before pausing and adding, “Or it’s not who we’re supposed to be.”

“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official.

Former Officer Paul Paris claims he was the first person to blow the whistle in 2013 on sexual abuse of minors by officers in the department but has suffered "tremendous consequences" as a result, according to the lawsuit filed last week.

Students claiming religious exemptions on a California university campus have been doxxed, intensifying the debate over COVID-19 shots.

US private equity giant took the German media company private last year in a €6.8bn deal.

In Virginia, paramilitarism gets a rebrand.

Unity CEO John Riccitiello opened a recent town hall meeting with employees by telling them he understood if they wanted to leave the company.  “The majority of you are going to agree with what I have to say today,” Riccitiello said. “Some won’t. And while I know this will be difficult to hear for some, I understand that a few of you may determine that Unity is not the best fit for you.” The meeting, which took place yesterday, was always part of Unity's schedule. What changed recently was the initial topic of the meeting, a response to growing employee concerns after a Waypoint story detailed the company's government and military contracts and why some workers felt increasingly uneasy about the increasing number of contracts, the types of contracts, and a lack of transparency about what contracts could cross a line for Unity.

No matter how you cut it, Robbie Tripp will forever be synonymous with the phrase “I love this woman and her curvy body.” In July 2017, he went viral for sharing a saccharine photo on Instagram about how much he loved his wife, Sarah, and her curvaceous figure. The photo shows them on the beach, looking into each other’s eyes, wrapped in each other’s arms. Tripp wears shorts and a cut-off T-shirt, while Sarah wears a one-piece bikini, her thick, tanned legs and polished, red-tinted hair the visual focus of the photo, whether intended to be or not. She is obviously gorgeous, while Tripp himself is almost nondescript. It was the caption, though, that got everyone’s attention. “I love this woman and her curvy body,” it read. “As a teenager, I was often teased by my friends for my attraction to girls on the thicker side, ones who were shorter and curvier, girls that the average (basic) bro might refer to as ‘chubby’ or even ‘fat.’”  At first, the image was distributed as a sweet demonstration of a man’s appreciation for his wife, despite harmful beauty standards, amassing 45,000 likes (well over the usual amount Tripp receives of around 5,000 per photo). Then, it got to Twitter, where the narrative quickly changed to accusing him of profiting off his wife’s body and white-knighting himself for loving a woman who isn’t thin. Riding on both the praise and the hate, Tripp released a poppy rap song called “Chubby Sexy,” a little ditty about his love of larger women. 

New York City's underground tunnels have been the subject of debate for decades, and, as it turns out, some of them really do exist.

Proposals obtained by The Texas Tribune indicate the institute would be “dedicated to the study and teaching of individual liberty, limited government, private enterprise and free markets.” Over the past eight months, leaders at the University of Texas at Austin have been working with private donors and Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to launch a new think tank on campus that would be “dedicated to the study and teaching of individual liberty, limited government, private enterprise and free markets.” Legislators already approved initial funding for the Liberty Institute, slipping $6 million into the 2022-23 state budget without giving details of the project’s aim. University officials have also committed $6 million. All involved have been vague or silent about their plans so far when asked by faculty and student groups. And they have repeatedly denied interview requests from The Texas Tribune about the project’s intent, its budget and who is involved. But emails and documents obtained by the Tribune via open records request show that UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell and others at the university have been working in earnest with Patrick, UT-Austin donors and UT System Board Chair Kevin Eltife, a former Republican state senator, to launch the Liberty Institute as a way to bring “intellectual diversity” to campus. At least two well-known UT-Austin alumni and conservative donors, oil tycoon Bud Brigham and billionaire businessman Bob Rowling, also have been involved in the project.

The brilliant jurist’s surprisingly (or not) weak case for the Supreme Court’s historic legitimacy. Ten years in the Supreme Court press gallery leaves one with a few surreal memories. In 2012, for example, former Solicitor General Seth Waxman, arguing against an FCC fine for showing brief nudity on network TV, pointed at the marble courtroom frieze above the startled justices’ heads: “There’s a bare buttock there,” he said, “and there’s a bare buttock here.” In 2011, the Kansas corrections official Margie Phelps, defending her father’s homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, argued that the First Amendment covers even direct harassment unless it is “approaching an individual up close and in their grill to berate them”—leaving the aged justices visibly puzzled about why anyone would interfere with an outdoor barbecue. In 2016, Justice Clarence Thomas produced gasps in the courtroom when he broke a decade-long silence to defend the Second Amendment “rights” of domestic abusers. And in 2012, Justice Stephen Breyer, in his unforgettable vocal mash-up of Edward Everett Horton and Mister Rogers’s King Friday XIII, told the lawyer for an American citizen tortured to death by the Palestinian Authority, “I think I have to say that you are on a weak wicket.” Breyer’s legal point was well taken (the victim’s family eventually lost, 9–0). Yet only Stephen Breyer, the Oxford-educated son-in-law of the Viscount Blakenham, would have bowled a cricket metaphor at an unsuspecting American lawyer.

A slew of digital news shops have joined the union in recent years, and screenwriters like David Simon aren't happy about it

The region, which long had the lowest rate of income inequality in the US, is shifting to one of haves and have-nots – and it’s happening fast

Just $1.7 billion in funds intended to prevent eviction were disbursed in July as the White House braces for a Supreme Court decision that could strike down its eviction moratorium. The $46.5 billion rental aid program created to pay rent accrued during the pandemic continues to disburse money at a slow pace, as the White House braces for a Supreme Court order that could strike down a new national moratorium on evictions. The Emergency Rental Assistance Program, funded in the two federal pandemic relief packages passed over the last year, sputtered along in July, with just $1.7 billion being distributed by state and local governments, according to the Treasury Department, which oversees the program. The money meted out was a modest increase from the prior month, bringing the total aid disbursed to about $5.1 billion, figures released early Wednesday showed, or roughly 11 percent of the cash allocated by Congress to avoid an eviction crisis that many housing experts now see as increasingly likely. That cash was slated to be spent over three years, but White House officials — who have spent months pressuring local officials and tweaking the program to make access easier — had hoped states would have spent much more by now. “About a million payments have now gone out to pay back rent for families — it is starting to help a meaningful number of families,” said Gene Sperling, who oversees the operation of federal pandemic relief programs for President Biden. “It’s just not close to enough in an emergency like this to protect all the families who need and deserve to be protected. So there is still way more to do and to do fast,” he added. Data released by the Census Bureau on Wednesday illustrated the magnitude of the eviction risk. An estimated 1.2 million households are very likely to face eviction for nonpayment of rent over the next two months, according to the bureau’s periodic Pulse survey, which extrapolated national totals from a pool of about 70,000 respondents who answered a survey this month. Of the roughly 2.8 million households that have applied for aid, only about 500,000 reported receiving assistance — another 1.5 million are waiting for approvals, while nearly 700,000 have been rejected, according to the estimates. And those are just the tenants who have tried to get access to the program: Over 60 percent of vulnerable renters have not even applied.

A brother of Republican US Rep. Devin Nunes said he has "no idea" who is funding a lawsuit he filed against political journalist Ryan Lizza, according to a deposition excerpt included in a poorly redacted court filing. The comment from Anthony Nunes III, the congressman's brother, was included in a legal brief filed in federal court Monday by lawyers representing Lizza and Hearst Magazines. Hearst published an Esquire magazine article by Lizza in 2018 suggesting the Nunes family dairy farm in Iowa employed undocumented immigrants, even as the congressman advocated for restrictive immigration policies. Insider was able to read redacted testimony from the filing by simply copying and pasting the redactions. "When asked "[W]ho is funding the lawyers for this lawsuit?", Anthony Nunes III answered "I have no idea," according to a redacted segment.

Groups of the rodents have been tearing up a fancy gated community in the wetlands of the Lujan River Delta near Buenos Aires

Civil rights attorneys plan to meet with city officials to discuss concluding the 18-year-old reform program.

A former special operations intelligence officer and witness in the Brereton Inquiry isrelocated by the Defence Force after a blast at her family home.

The favorite new miracle cure of the far right has been tied to a wave of calls to poison-control centers and dubious prescriptions. Now inmates are caught in the fray. The head doctor at an Arkansas jail has been treating inmates suffering from COVID-19 with ivermectin, a drug commonly used to treat parasites in animals. A version of the same drug has been approved by the FDA for topical diseases in humans, but warned against by the agency as completely unproven—and downright dangerous—in treating the coronavirus. Still, the drug has been prematurely and widely hyped by conservatives and far-right types—some of whom oppose vaccines—as a sort of latter-day pandemic miracle drug. As The Daily Beast reported, this recently set off a wave of disturbing prescriptions and even calls to poison-control centers, in some cases over people who apparently took the “horse paste” version of the drug intended for animals.