Canadian MMA fighter Khetag Pliev began his fight against Devin Goodale on Thursday night with 10 fingers, as almost every fighter begins almost every fight, but he ended it with nine. Fans in attendance for Cage Fury FC 94 in Philadelphia got to witness the first win by TKO – (Detached Finger) in promotion history, […]

“It took a commitment to eat an Oki dog.” Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, Los Angeles punks found refuge and community at a place serving food that people with more refined palates considered outrageous. This is the history of Oki-Dog.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with Facebook in a lawsuit over unsolicited text messages the social-media giant sent to a cellphone number in the company’s database. In an opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Facebook v. Duguid, the court adopted a narrow reading of a key definition in the federal ban on robocalls and robotexts to cellphones. It held that to qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a device must have the capacity either to store, or to produce, a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator — a type of obsolescent marketing technology. The decision is likely to have major implications for the future of telemarketing. Of most import, it means that the act does not ban the use of now-dominant predictive dialing technology that can call or text targeted customers, including technology that relies on the massive amounts of data now collected on American consumers, so long as an artificial or pre-recorded voice is not used. In so holding, the justices made clear that it’s the job of Congress, not the court, to update statutes in the face of technological change. Enacted in 1991, the TCPA responded to widespread consumer outrage over abusive telemarketing calls. The part of the statute at issue in Duguid bans “using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice” to call or text cellphones, as well as emergency telephone lines, hospital patient rooms, pagers, and phones that charge for incoming calls, among others. The Federal Communications Commission, state attorneys general and private parties are authorized to sue those who don’t comply with the law; the penalty is up to $1,500 per call. Since the passage of the TCPA, despite dramatic changes in telemarketing technology, the definition of automatic telephone dialing system has remained the same: “equipment which has the capacity — (A) to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random or sequential number generator; and (B) to dial such numbers.” Noah Duguid sued Facebook under the act because he received several text messages from the company, alerting him that someone had attempted to access his Facebook account from an unknown browser — even though Duguid never had a Facebook account or gave the company his number. Those messages were sent to him using a form of automated technology, but one that did not use a random or sequential number generator. Sotomayor’s opinion for the court followed a strikingly textualist approach, which focused on whether the act bans equipment that does not use a random or sequential number generator. The court’s answer: “It does not.” Facebook had argued that to qualify as a proscribed autodialer, the equipment must use a random or sequential number generator — something its technology does not do. As a matter of syntax, it contended, the clause “using a random or sequential number generator” modifies both verbs, “store” and “produce.” Duguid had argued that a number generator was not necessary on the basis that “using a … number generator” applies only to “produce.” His key argument: It makes no sense to talk about storing numbers using a number generator. Read as Duguid would, the statute would more broadly ban the use of equipment with the capacity “to store … numbers to be called” and to dial them. The court concluded that the most natural reading of the text confirmed Facebook’s view.

Rep. Matt Gaetz's communications director Luke Ball resigned amid a federal investigation into allegations regarding Rep. Gaetz's sexual relationships.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed and another injured after a man drove a car into a security barricade at the Capitol complex on Friday, Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman said. The driver, who was not immediately identified, was shot after jumping out of the car with a knife and failing to respond to verbal commands and "lunging" at the officers, Pittman said. The suspect was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead a short time later. Pittman did not identify the slain officer because the officer's next of kin has not yet been notified.

The company signed a contract with an ICE division that plays a key role in deportations.

We spoke with the owners of a boxing club, a yoga studio, and a dance center to see how they're adapting to the loosening restrictions.

A North Carolina judge has dismissed a misdemeanor rioting charge against a 35-year-old Black man whose forcible arrest during a protest against COVID conditions at a local jail last September led to additional arrests as activists reacted in anger and astonishment. The warrant alleged that by trespassing outside the Alamance County Detention Center and refusing the commands of officers, Nicholas Cassette incited "further unruly activity from a crowd of protestors who increasingly became disorderly." Judge Lunsford Long, a visiting judge from neighboring Orange County, said during the trial on Wednesday that he found it difficult to believe that Cassette sought his own arrest. Long also dismissed a charge of second-degree trespassing after hearing testimony that the time elapsed between the initial order to leave the area and when sheriff's deputies took Cassette to the ground was less than 30 seconds, but found him guilty of resisting an officer because he sought to take a different path than the one intended by the officers. The judge called it "another de minimis case of resistance."

How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.

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Marty Tibbitts was an aviation enthusiast who secretly bankrolled an international cocaine cartel, authorities allege.

Manager says ‘there will likely be impacts in Tampa Bay’ from wastewater releases. A leak continues to threaten disaster at an old phosphate plant in Palmetto, with an engineer telling Manatee County commissioners on Thursday that it’s vital for operators to keep discharging thousands of gallons of wastewater to Tampa Bay every minute. “It is a very critical condition,” said Mike Kelley, an outside engineer who works with the site’s operator, HRK Holdings. “Uncontrolled release is a real possibility at this stage. Getting the water off the stack is imperative.” The site off U.S. 41 contains stacks of phosphogypsum — a material regulated for its radioactivity — and reservoirs of polluted water. The company in charge of the property detected signs of a leak last week. Officials believe the leak could come from a tear in the liner of a roughly 480-million gallon pond filled with a mixture of seawater from an old dredging project, rainwater and a polluted byproduct of the fertilizer industry that can carry phosphorus and nitrogen. State environmental regulators fear the phosphogypsum stacks will collapse, triggering a rush of water and potentially harmful waste. To ease pressure, they are allowing HRK Holdings to discharge wastewater from the pond to nearby Port Manatee. About 25 million gallons had been released as of Thursday morning, according to Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein. Environmentalists worry nutrients in those discharges will spur harmful algal blooms and fish kills in the bay.

42-year-old Ben Kohlman has been charged over one blaze and tied to two more. He’s not the first flat earther implicated in fires at Masonic lodges.

The congressman and a former official in Florida sent money to the women using cash apps, receipts showed.

The Alabama parole board on Thursday voided the parole of Jerry Lett, sending the 52-year-old veteran back to prison despite his full compliance with parole conditions. The Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole in September granted Lett a rare early parole, which Lett has closely adhered to in the months since his release. But the state said they erred in setting Lett's hearing after a 2019 change in parole laws. Lett's early parole consideration date was set for 2020 when he was first sentenced for cocaine trafficking in 2018. Lett is expected to report for arrest on Friday morning.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican being investigated by the Justice Department over sex trafficking allegations, made a name for himself when he arrived on Capitol Hill as a conservative firebrand on TV and staunch defender of then-President Donald Trump. Behind the scenes, Gaetz gained a reputation in Congress over his relationships with women and bragging about his sexual escapades to his colleagues, multiple sources told CNN.

Ryan Coogler has three feature films under his belt — “Fruitvale Station,” “Creed,” and “Black Panther” — and each has generated an abundance of Oscar buzz and/or Oscar nominations. “Creed” landed Sylvester Stallone in the Best Supporting Actor race, while “Black Panther” landed six nominations, including Best Picture, and three wins for Best Production Design, Best Original Score, and Best Costume Design. Despite all the love from the Academy, Coogler has no interest in becoming a member. The filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter he turned down an offer to join AMPAS and remains a nonmember to this day. “I don’t buy into this versus that, or ‘this movie wasn’t good enough to make this list,'” Coogler said. “I love movies. For me, that’s good enough. If I’m going to be a part of organizations, they’re going to be labor unions, where we’re figuring out how to take care of each other’s families and health insurance. But I know that these things bring exposure.”

A court has temporarily blocked all sales of the devil-inspired sneakers, which contain actual human blood.

The new emails reveal more powerful donors and alumni than were previously known who mobilized on the issue in June right after the student athletes went public with their demands to get rid of the song.

'If they knew anything about me, they know I would not have had anything to do with any of the current shenanigans at Number 10'