A corpse believed to be of a leader of a controversial Colorado religious group was found mummified in a sleeping bag, wrapped in Christmas lights and with glitter around its missing eyes. The remains are believed to be of Amy Carlson, 45, known to her followers as “Mother God”, who was a self-proclaimed “divine being” from the group Love Has Won. The group had been branded by law enforcement and followers as a “cult,” reported The Daily Beast.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has missed a midnight deadline for putting together a new coalition government...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has disclosed a set of rules secretly issued by President Donald Trump in 2017 for counterterrorism “direct action” operations — like drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional war zones — which the White House has suspended as it weighs whether and how to tighten the guidelines. While the Biden administration censored some passages, the visible portions show that in the Trump era, commanders in the field were given latitude to make decisions about attacks so long as they fit within broad sets of “operating principles,” including that there should be “near certainty” that civilians “will not be injured or killed in the course of operations.” At the same time, however, the Trump-era rules were flexible about permitting exceptions to that and other standards, saying that “variations” could be made “where necessary” so long as certain bureaucratic procedures were followed in approving them.

New DNA testing that was completed four years after the State of Arkansas executed Ledell Lee for the 1993 murder of Debra Reese was released on Friday. In January 2020, the Innocence Project and ACLU requested new DNA testing in Lee's case. Attorneys said that no physical evidence connected Lee to the murder and there were "serious flaws in the evidence to convict Lee." The testing concluded that Lee's DNA was not on the wooden club or a bloody shirt found at the scene.

There’s an iceberg-like quality to media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. What you can see is dramatic - but it’s a small fraction of the whole. Many media manipulators and trolls use the chaos and murky nature of big platforms as cover to spread falsehoods. Erin Gallagher’s work helps me see the big picture. Gallagher is a Research Assistant with the Technology and Social Change Project at the Shorenstein Center. Her work specializes in visually mapping the way that information travels across social media, especially Twitter. When I first came across her research in 2017, she’d been examining hashtags from specific news events and trying to chart how trolls and far right influencers were pushing viral propaganda. Here’s one graphic she made showing conversation around a single hashtag from April 15, 2017, when Proud Boys and anti-fascist activists clashed at protests in Berkeley:

The era of mass vaccinations is ending: Although these big sites were key to speeding up vaccinations after a rocky start in the winter, many are beginning to find themselves idle as the country’s daily vaccination rate falls from its mid-April peak. “We are running out of eager, enthusiastic people who will chase down the vaccine wherever we put it,” says Kelly Moore, the deputy director of the nonprofit Immunization Action Coalition. But with more than half of Americans still unvaccinated, the COVID-19 immunization campaign is far from over. It is now entering a new phase. Instead of in convention centers and arenas, shots will be distributed across a larger number of smaller sites: pharmacies, doctors’ offices, churches, mosques, factory parking lots, barbershops, bars, breweries, even individual homes. This more tailored phase of the vaccination campaign introduces a new set of challenges, but by making vaccination as easy as possible, public-health officials hope to reach those who are hesitant, busy, or simply indifferent. To inch closer to the goal of vaccinating the whole population, the vaccines will have to go to the people, rather than requiring the people to go to the vaccines.

Low immunization levels suggest vaccine hesitancy is pervasive among emergency workers, posing risks to public safety.

The company said its vaccine generated $3.5 billion in revenue in the first three months of this year.

20Mission, a pioneering startup community and co-living space for creatives, technology and entrepreneurship in San Francisco, will launch a first-of-its-kind auction of spaces in this historic building, minted as NFTs on May 5th. Ownership of each NFT gives the opportunity to sign a 75-year lease at only $1 USD a month. Besides the real estate asset, auction winners will also receive an additional NFT that gives them an exclusive right to use their space as a virtual asset. NFTs representing each space will be minted on a peer-to-peer NFT marketplace starting May 5th.

Canada’s continued denial of the basic human rights of Indigenous peoples is written right into budget 2021, a document that clearly falls well short on addressing this country’s ongoing genocide crisis. How many more Indigenous women and girls need to go missing before the federal government addresses this historic crime for what it is—genocide—and takes the nationwide urgent action that is needed to end it?

Two train carriages plunged to the ground when an elevated metro line collapsed.

The long read : It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain

If recent history is any judge, then the U.S. is about to experience a sustained downswing in the pandemic, aided by vaccination, some level of preexisting immunity, and possibly other factors like warm weather—enough for near-normalcy by summertime.

Frog legs rolled in worm flour could be the next culinary delight for European haute cuisine after the European Union gave its blessing for the first time for an insect food.

It was a crucial moment in the history of World War II. The signing of the Non-Aggression Pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany was happening in Moscow in 1939. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed the treaty. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was also present. Interestingly, Adolph Hitler sent a personal delegate with a specific mission to the conference. Incredibly, the Fuhrer's delegate’s mission was to photograph the ears of Joseph Stalin. The delegate was Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s official photographer.

The new cap is the same as the old cap: 62,500. It’s yet another twist in an extremely rocky policy rollout.

The company’s senior leadership wanted to quell employees’ concerns, and only made things much, much worse.

Billie Hayes, whose portrayal of the flamboyantly and comically wicked witch Witchiepoo on the 1969-70 Saturday morning live-action children’s classic H.R. Pufnstuf, died of natural causes Ap…

Timothy Nielsen was arrested Sunday after he "intentionally jumped a curb in his vehicle and drove at a group of pedestrians gathered for a picnic," hitting a 42-year-old woman, police said.

Nowadays, many summer cookouts may feature veggie burgers and vegan hot dogs along with the more traditional meaty offerings. But a new law in Mississippi threatens to destroy the market for these meat alternatives by making it illegal for vegetarian and vegan food manufacturers to use the name of any meat or meat product in their labeling. That’s right: Mississippi wants to stop businesses from calling a meatless patty a veggie burger.