“We can carry out death by firing squad if the law is passed,” said SC’s prisons director.

...I didn’t hear from him for a few months and I figured he’d either died or was in jail. Turns out it was the latter; afterwards, Korea deported him. I didn’t hear from him for a while after that, too. But earlier this month I got an email, subject line “Hello I’m alive.” The rest went: “Got kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico City . That sucked.... Below, in full besides the parts where he actively incriminates himself, is my two-hour interview with Tony about what he’s been up to these past few years.

The hospital worker in southern Italy earned €538,000 while not going into work, media say.

Op-ed: Writer Jennifer Rosner predicts COVID-19 lockdowns will force easy-breezy millennials to finally grow up.

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

The NCAA has no moral compass. That's the truth. The only compass they have points right to the money.

In an interview with Vice, a woman named Dorren Brown remembers what it was like to participate in a 1972 Canadian government study that required her to smoke increasingly potent weed for 98 days in a row.

Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

Absent another run by former President Trump, the field would be wide open.

The United States Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it would extend universal free lunch through the 2021-2022 school year, in an effort to reach more of the estimated 12 million youths experiencing food insecurity. In March, the USDA said these waivers, which made school meals more flexible to administer, would be extended only to Sept. 30, leaving schools and families uncertain about what next school year might look like.

The jury convicted Mr. Chauvin of second- and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter. He faces up to 40 years in prison but is likely to be sentenced to far less time, based on state guidelines.

In response to the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict, Pelosi bizarrely thanked George Floyd "for sacrificing your life for justice."

The jury reached a verdict Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. The verdict, arrived at after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days, was to be read late in the afternoon in a city on edge against the possibility of more unrest like that that erupted last spring. The courthouse was ringed with concrete barriers and razor wire, and thousands of National Guard troops and law enforcement officers were brought in ahead of the verdict. Some businesses boarded up with plywood.

A new study shows the role of the super rich in politics since the Supreme Court loosened restrictions on political spending more than a decade ago.

RIP, king.

How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.

The world is facing a stark reality. More than a year after the pandemic began, it is getting worse. In India this surge is not a wave, but a wall. Coronavirus cases are rising so rapidly that the increase looks almost vertical – infecting entire families and overwhelming hospitals.

Instead of having racist imagery or neo-Nazi screeds, the website for a budding neo-Nazi collective now just relentlessly ridicules the racists.

The research, tracking thousands of people from age 50 on, suggests those who sleep six hours or less a night are more likely to develop dementia in their late 70s.

Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don’t worry if it is true.