The data includes source code for FIFA 21 and the Frostbite engine.

Its films have always celebrated a pluralistic India, making the industry—and its Muslim elite—a prime target for Narendra Modi.

A civil rights lawsuit tells the story of workplace discrimination, verbal abuse, assault and rampant misogyny at a major Asheville company

Ilhan Omar was attacked by 12 fellow House Democrats for making factual assertions about America and Israel. It's shameful.

A state judge is warning that he may force lawmakers to act if they don’t begin funding a multi-billion dollar plan to provide every North Carolina student with a sound basic education. This week, state Superior Court Judge David Lee signed a court order approving a plan from the State Board of Education and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration that calls for at least $5.6 billion in new education funding through 2028. Lee said in the order that “time is of the essence” because so many children aren’t getting what they need educationally. “If the State fails to implement the actions described in the Comprehensive Remedial Plan … ’it will then be the duty of this Court to enter a judgment granting declaratory relief and such other relief as needed to correct the wrong,’” Lee wrote in the order. Lee cited how Cooper’s proposed budget and House Bill 946 filed by Democratic lawmakers would fund the first two years of the action plan. The legislation funds items such as teacher and principal pay raises and additional state funding to expand NC Pre-K program and hire more teacher assistants, school nurses, school social workers and school counselors. The bill has not been acted on by the Republican-led General Assembly, which has repeatedly said that more money won’t necessarily solve the education problems.

The solidarity movement for Sheikh Jarrah against Israel's eviction plans has given Silwan residents hope that all is not yet lost

Chuck Schumer’s anti-China legislation won enough Republican support to pass, but at the expense of the planet. The Senate voted 68–32 Tuesday to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a wide-ranging package promoted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Todd Young, aimed at countering unspecified threats from China. Young summed up the package’s rationale thus: “When future generations of Americans cast their gaze toward new frontiers, will they see a red flag planted on those new frontiers that is not our own? Today, we answer unequivocally, ‘No.’” Aping a talking point from President Biden, Young added, “Today we declare our intention to win this century, and those that follow it as well.” It’s an ironic turn of phrase considering that Democrats have yet to pass legislation tackling the single greatest threat humanity faces in this century and those to follow: the climate crisis. Shortly after the American Rescue Plan passed in March, Schumer decided not to focus on climate legislation and instead to eke out a bipartisan victory via an anti-China bill. The idea was to wrap independently popular industrial policy in the language of great power rivalry—or, in other words, to offer Republicans some jingoism in exchange for their support for greenish manufacturing. More overtly hawkish measures from Senator Robert Menendez’s Strategic Competition Act were folded into the 2,400-page final bill, too. It tracks with recent moves from the Biden administration, which backed the package early on. As Kurt Campbell, the National Security Council’s coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said recently of the U.S.-China relationship, “The period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end.… The dominant paradigm is going to be competition.” So what have Democrats gotten in exchange for embracing this manifest destiny nationalism?

Lucas Wall was denied entry even though he wasn't wearing a mask due to a medical condition – saying he had requested an exemption from the airline.

The oil sands pipeline faced fierce opposition since it was first proposed in 2008.

Manchin has long been a “heat shield” for fellow moderates on the thorniest topics, including the filibuster. He still is, but cracks are beginning to show.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, a third of unvaccinated Hispanic adults want a vaccine as soon as possible—twice the proportion of unvaccinated whites. But 52 percent of this eager group were worried that they might need to miss work because of the reputed side effects, and 43 percent feared that getting vaccinated could jeopardize their immigration status or their families’. Unsurprisingly then, among the states that track racial data for vaccinations, just 32 percent of Hispanic Americans had received at least one dose by May 24, compared with 43 percent of white people. The proportion of at least partly vaccinated Black people was lower still, at 29 percent. And as Lola Fadulu and Dan Keating reported in The Washington Post, Black people now account for 82 percent of COVID-19 cases in Washington, D.C., up from 46 percent at the end of last year. The vaccines have begun to quench the pandemic inferno, but the remaining flames are still burning through the same communities that have already been disproportionately scorched by COVID-19—and by a much older legacy of poor health care.

Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt. Twice. The brains behind this pop-culture phenomenon explain how it happened.

Liberals hate leftists more than they hate fascists.

The state of Florida reversed itself Wednesday and said it would allow a downtown Jacksonville bridge to be decorated in rainbow-colored lights to mark Pride Month — just a day after it hit the dimmer switch on that celebration. A spokeswoman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that the rainbow lights will be back on the Acosta Bridge in Jacksonville on Wednesday night, but insisted the governor played no role in the Florida Department of Transportation’s decision to turn them off.

The barrister acting for media companies being sued for defamation by Ben Roberts-Smith has described as “inherently implausible” the former soldier’s claim that 21 current or former comrades who will give evidence against him are motivated by jealousy or have memories tainted by trauma. Barrister Nicholas Owens, SC, who is representing The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in the landmark case, alleged Mr Roberts-Smith had committed or been involved in six murders as a Special Air Service soldier in Afghanistan. The killings were unlawful under the Geneva Conventions, Mr Owens told the Federal Court in Sydney, and could not be explained as being in the “heat of battle” or “fog of war”. But Mr Roberts-Smith, who began what is expected to be several days of evidence on Thursday, said the allegations were “devastating” and based on “rumour and innuendo”. One made him “really angry”. At the end of the day’s proceedings, the two-metre-tall former soldier appeared to wipe tears from his eyes as he spoke about the events for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. The defamation trial, which started on Monday and is expected to run for up to 10 weeks, centres on articles published in 2018 that Mr Roberts-Smith alleges portrayed him as a war criminal and a perpetrator of domestic violence. The media outlets outlined their truth defence on Thursday, before Mr Roberts-Smith entered the witness box. Mr Owens said none of the six alleged murders involved “the difficulty of distinguishing between a civilian and a non-uniformed insurgent, or making a split-second assessment of whether the way that a person was moving indicated hostile intent”. Instead, all of the alleged victims were so-called PUCs – persons safely and securely under the control of Australian forces, he said. Mr Owens said the rules of engagement under which Australian troops operated in Afghanistan were consistent with the Geneva Conventions. Once a person had been brought under the control of Australian troops, no matter whether they were “the most brutal, vile member of the Taliban imaginable”, they could not be killed. To kill in these circumstances “is murder”. The media outlets’ case did not “shy away” from the fact that most, but not all, of the six people killed were almost certainly insurgents, Mr Owens said. He alleged Mr Roberts-Smith had constructed a “false narrative” that five of the six killings occurred during combat. Mr Roberts-Smith said the sixth killing did not occur and the person, an Afghan teenager, was released. Justice Anthony Besanko was “presented with a stark choice”, Mr Owens said, and ultimately must decide “who is lying”. Mr Owens said the suggestion by Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Bruce McClintock, SC, that 21 current and former SAS soldiers giving evidence for the media outlets were motivated by jealousy or were misremembering incidents owing to trauma was “inherently implausible”. He alleged Mr Roberts-Smith had “engaged in a pattern of behaviour over many years calculated to undermine the integrity of the evidence relevant to allegations made against him”, including by arranging for threatening letters to be sent to one person. Mr Owens said four Afghan villagers would also give evidence for the media outlets, and there could be no explanation for their recollections aligning with the soldiers’ accounts “other than that they are all telling the truth”. Mr Roberts-Smith launched defamation proceedings in 2018 over reports in The Age and the Herald, now owned by Nine. He says the articles accused him of murder during his 2009 to 2012 tours of Afghanistan and committing an act of domestic violence against a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair. He is also suing three journalists and The Canberra Times, now under separate ownership. Mr Owens said the domestic violence allegation was “powerfully supported by significant documentary evidence”, including text messages the day after he allegedly punched the woman in the face in Canberra in 2018. After speaking to her husband, the woman texted to Mr Roberts-Smith: “He didn’t believe that I had fallen down stairs”. She said other bruises would “hopefully make the falling story more believable”. “Well, hopefully, he believes you,” Mr Roberts-Smith replied. Mr Roberts-Smith rejected Mr Owens’ opening address emphatically and described domestic violence as “deplorable”. “I spent my life fighting for my country and I did everything I possibly could to ensure I did it with honour,” he said. “I really cannot comprehend how people, on the basis of rumour and innuendo, can maintain that in a public forum. It breaks my heart, actually.” He dismissed as “ridiculous” an allegation that he carried an Afghan man with a prosthetic leg outside a compound in 2009, threw him to the ground and shot him 10 to 15 times. It would not be possible to carry his gun and a person who was resisting, he said. “It makes me really angry,” Mr Roberts-Smith said. He said he fired two rounds as an insurgent moved towards him. The allegation the man was under his control and posed no imminent threat was “so far from the truth it’s not funny”. He said another soldier took the man’s prosthetic leg and he had seen it used as a drinking vessel by other soldiers. He did not drink from it himself, he said, but he didn’t object to the “gallows humour” of others doing so. “We were out there doing a job you cannot explain to people,” Mr Roberts-Smith said. The hearing continues.

Police say he confessed to stabbing the victim, stating that if he had better aim, he would have 'gut him.’

She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

In the late 1980s, a Dallas-based skinhead group known as the Confederate Hammerskins attacked people of color, rival skinheads and places of worship around town. In the late 1980s, skinhead gangs fanned out around the country. Inspired by the legions of white nationalists who came before them, the neo-Nazi groups beefed up their ranks by recruiting the young and the angry. They plucked teens from the punk scene and turned them into street soldiers. The skinheads handed out pamphlets warning of supposedly powerful Jewish cabals and nefarious racial minorities. They vandalized synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses. Many groups rented post office boxes and mailed each other propaganda and letters across the nation, not unlike the way neo-Nazis and white nationalists communicate online or in messaging apps today. That night in Dallas, the skinheads tailed Newton to Cedar Springs Road. He kept running even when they stopped. He sprinted down McKinney Avenue and ducked into Joe Miller’s, a popular local bar. He phoned the police. An officer took his report over the phone, but no one was dispatched to take an in-person statement.

Dallas Goldtooth wrote on Twitter: “We took on a multi-billion dollar corporation and we won!!”

A recent WSJ piece entitled, If You Sell Your House, The Buyer Might Be A Pension Fund, caused some commotion. The article highlighted how competition is heating up for single family homes due to demand from institutional real estate investors. When I read the article, I was surprised to see Fundrise, my favorite real estate investing platform, mentioned in the second paragraph. Usually, you hear institutional real estate investors like BlackRock in the news. The article is behind a paywall, but here's the snippet the WSJ allows non-subscribers to read. A bidding war broke out this winter at a new