Amazon yanked lockers from Brands Park and the Forest Glen Playlot, and promised to review others around the city.

After the vote, Dade Phelan, the speaker of the Texas House, signed 52 civil arrest warrants, his spokesman said.

The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat.

A day after a magnitude-7.2 earthquake killed an estimated 1,300 people in western Haiti, the country, already suffering from a dire lack of doctors, struggled to help the many wounded.

The record was set by Eric “Badlands” Booker, a rapper, YouTuber, and competitive eater.

Interestingly, many of these ‘servant economy’ apps are not unit-economics positive even after years of operations (and far from profitable, as in the case of Uber or Deliveroo). But profitability — ie. building a business that is able to sustain itself long-term — is not necessary for the VC model to work out (in the current climate); unlike the origins of venture capital, focused on seeding sustainable businesses, today’s VCs are about blitzscaling unicorns.

After taking a Delta-8 gummy, one writer discovers the insidious, sometimes scary world of falsified cannabis certificates of analysis.

I am Team Get The Fuck Out Of Afghanistan which, as a friend pointed out to me today, has always been Team Taliban. It’s Team Taliban or Team Stay Forever. There is no third team. And so I sit here, reading these sad fucking articles and these horrified social media posts about the suffering in Afghanistan and the horror of the encroaching Taliban and how awful it is that this is happening but I can’t stop feeling this grim happiness, like, finally, you fuckers, finally you have to face the thing Afghanistan has always been. You can’t keep lying to yourself about what you sent us into.

The U.S. military raced to evacuate diplomats and civilians as the insurgents stood poised to retake complete control of the country 20 years after being toppled by American forces.

When people from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala travel to other parts of the country, they are sometimes insulted as traitors by their compatriots. Tlaxcala is Mexico’s smallest state in size, but it played an outsized role in Mexico’s early history, not least when indigenous Tlaxcalans allied with Hernán Cortés’ tiny band of invaders to bring down the Aztec empire.

The insurgents said in a statement that they intended to enter the capital city.

Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. It may, in fact, be worse for the climate than previously thought.

Caught between an unquenchable thirst for palm oil and a multi-generational war on Thailand’s poor are the farmers of the Southern Peasants’ Federation of Thailand, who simply want a piece of land to call their own.

A total of 74 people on Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for Covid-19 since former President Barack Obama's 60th birthday on Saturday.

In June, U.S. lawmakers flew covertly to Taiwan from a military base in South Korea. The politically sensitive visit boosted morale on the island during a COVID-19 outbreak and a vaccine shortage.

L.A.'s push to legalize sidewalk vending has run into a persistently stubborn obstacle: the quest for legal carts: 'They’re requiring a cart that does not yet exist.'

SNL alum Horatio Sanz has been accused of sexual assault in a new lawsuit, TMZ reports. According to the complaint obtained by Vulture — which was filed on August 12 and also names NBCUniversal and SNL Studios as defendants — Sanz is accused of assaulting a 17-year-old girl in May 2002, groping and digitally penetrating her after allegedly supplying her with alcohol at an SNL after-party. The lawsuit was filed by the accuser as Jane Doe, a woman from Pennsylvania who says she first came into contact with Sanz when she was 15 and running an SNL fan site.

State Rep. David Byrd needed a liver transplant after 55 days on a ventilator. Now he’s thanking the medical professionals who saved his life by battling mask and vaccine mandates.

The Crimson Polaris ran aground in a Japanese port and split in two. (With video!)

A Las Vegas man accused of killing two people and critically injuring a third in a dispute over unpaid rent was laughing and smiling as he shot the victims, police said.