Recent reporting suggests that lawmakers across the country are ending a long-standing legal protection for police officers, but that isn’t quite true.

Sheriff Earle Brown’s membership wasn’t enough to stop Brooklyn Center from dedicating buildings and festivals to him—and his name is still all over the town.

Measuring more than four feet, the furry giant should be easy to spot. But he vanished from an English garden last weekend, and the police are treating his disappearance as an abduction.

Welcome to the non-fungible, memeified, cryptodenominated, degenerate future of finance.

What they found is an indictor for the wildfire season ahead. This year the fuel-moisture content across the Santa Cruz Mountains is terrifyingly low as the state moves out of a second, consecutive rainy season marked by dry conditions. The 2020-2021 winter was the third driest on record, according to the California Department of Water Resources. The region's reservoirs are beginning to see the impact and are at half their total capacity.

Monday night, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Sunday.

About a thousand years ago, a city grew in the floodplain known as the American Bottom, just east of what is now St. Louis in Illinois. In a matter of decades, it became the continent’s largest population center north of Mexico, with perhaps 15,000 people in the city proper and twice as many people in surrounding areas. A couple centuries after its birth it went into decline, and by 1400 it was deserted.

Will people even show up to rallies if he tries to hold them? Who wants to listen to an angry old man rant and rave about how he was robbed and outsmarted in 2020 by people he labels as dumb? (it should be illegal to write these anymore)

With the cameras installed, "we have zero privacy and no margin for error," a California-based delivery driver told Insider.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden called for funding to investigate complaints of white supremacist beliefs at immigration agencies.

Brick walls, pottery, jewelry, and even a bakery. The ancient Egyptian city "Rise of Aten" dates back more than 3,000 years, but archaeologists say it looks like it was left "as if it were yesterday."

"We were the majority. For the first time in all our lives. A trans majority."

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine. In April, Bill Gates launched a bold bid to manage the world’s scientific response to the pandemic. Gates’s Covid-19 ACT-Accelerator expressed a status quo vision for organizing the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of treatments and vaccines. Like other Gates-funded institutions in the public health arena, the Accelerator was a public-private partnership based on charity and industry enticements. Crucially, and in contrast to the C-TAP, the Accelerator enshrined Gates’s long-standing commitment to respecting exclusive intellectual property claims. Its implicit arguments—that intellectual property rights won’t present problems for meeting global demand or ensuring equitable access, and that they must be protected, even during a pandemic—carried the enormous weight of Gates’s reputation as a wise, beneficent, and prophetic leader. How he’s developed and wielded this influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and underappreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Entering year two, this response has been defined by a zero-sum vaccination battle that has left much of the world on the losing side.

Confessions of an overnight tech millionaire.

From Wall Street avengers to little Hitlers, Wonder Showzen’s “Beat Kids” segment played off the discomfort of little kids in tiny trench coats asking adults some very tough questions.

Jeff Jansen said modern pastors were "neutered" and "effeminate," boasting that his church's ushers all toted guns and were instructed to "kill."

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." The world's principal supplier of semiconductors - the spice of OUR global empire - is now Taiwan. Thanks a lot, Intel. Thanks a lot, Bob Swan. Thanks a lot, Jack Welch. Thanks a lot, all you Wall Street wizards of financialization. Taiwan is now Arrakis. And we WILL fight over it.

He deserves to have a rat free home Instead he got a message about rent being due.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal apprehension is investigating after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a driver during a traffic stopSunday afternoon ...

Anew feature-length documentary set to debut next week on French TV alleges that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman pressured the Louvre to lie about the authenticity of a painting he had purchased in order to spare him the public humiliation of having spent $450 million on a fake. “The Savior for Sale,” by French filmmaker Antoine Vitkine, delves into the murky controversy surrounding the Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World,” a portrait of Jesus Christ that has been dubbed the “male Mona Lisa.” The painting made art world history in 2017 when nearly 1,000 art collectors, dealers and onlookers packed into a room at Rockefeller Center in New York as the venerable Christie’s auction house sold the painting for a record $450 million, making it the world’s most expensive painting. The vast public interest — 120,000 art fans watched the auction via a Facebok live stream — and extravagant winning bid reflected the extreme rarity of authenticated works by Leonardo da Vinci. Despite the Italian master’s enormous fame and influence, there are fewer than 20 paintings in existence judged to be from his own hand — and all of them part of museum collections. Christie’s called the painting “the greatest artistic rediscovery of the last 100 years.” Questions over the Salvator Mundi’s authenticity began to percolate when the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum unexpectedly canceled the painting’s planned unveiling in September 2018. The painting has not been seen in public since. The whereabouts of the work remained a mystery until, in 2019, the art industry news service Artnet reported that the 500-year-old painting was being kept on Mohammed bin Salman’s 440-foot superyacht, Serene. A new documentary alleges that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refused to lend the "Salvatore Mundi" to the Louvre unless the museum said it was a true work by Leonardo da Vinci. (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Then came an enlightening bombshell: A scientific analysis by three experts at the Louvre in Paris concluded that the painting was produced in Leonardo’s workshop but not by the Renaissance master himself. The Louvre historians had intended to publish their findings but were prevented from doing so when the painting’s owner declined to loan it for the blockbuster Leonardo exhibition in 2019. (The museum is restricted from publicly commenting on privately owned paintings that it has not exhibited.) A string of art historians also weighed in. In his book The Last Leonardo, art critic Ben Lewis also concluded that the painting more than likely came out of Leonardo’s studio and then touched up by the master. The Guardian quoted Dr. Carmen Bambach, an art historian and curator of Italian and Spanish works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saying that Christie’s had wrongly included her among scholars who had attributed the painting to Leonardo da Vinci. In her view, the Salvator Mundi was primarily the work of an assistant, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, with only “small retouchings” by Leonardo himself. And Matthew Landrus, an Oxford art historian, speculated publicly that the painting was largely produced by another of Leonardo’s assistants, Bernardino Luini. Holy Wow: How did 'Salvator Mundi' go from a $1,175 find to a $127.5 million treasure in two years? TOLGA AKMEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Vitkine’s documentary traces the history of the painting, beginning with its purchase in poor condition for $1,175 by a New York art dealer in 2005. The painting was restored in the United States, authenticated as a genuine Leonardo by several art experts at the British National Gallery, then sold to a Russian oligarch for $127.5 million two years later. The film also reveals what was going on behind the scenes at the Louvre after the Christie’s auction. The film reportedly features several senior officials from President Emmanuel Macron's government, appearing under pseudonyms, who allege that the crown prince’s offer to lend the painting to the Louvre for the 2019 exhibition had strings attached. The prince’s conditions were that the Louvre must exhibit the Salvator Mundi alongside the Mona Lisa and present it as “a 100%” Leonardo da Vinci.  Ultimately, President Emmanuel Macron rejected Saudi demands and the French museum never exhibited the painting. The incident has reportedly caused a minor diplomatic riff between France and Saudi Arabia. Antoine Vitkine’s film “Savior For Sale” will be broadcast in France on channel France 5 on April 13.