The Socialist Rifle Association is steadily coming to prominence and has a fascinating take on gun culture in the US. They view owning firearms as on a par with providing disaster relief and feeding the homeless.

News had broken about a huge container ship, the Ever Given, that had become wedged across the Suez Canal, bringing one of world's major shipping routes to a halt. But as she checked her phone, online rumours were saying she was to blame. "I was shocked," says Marwa, Egypt's first female ship's captain. At the time of the Suez blockage, Ms Elselehdar was working as a first mate, in command of the Aida IV, hundreds of miles away in Alexandria.

Early reports indicate the prognosis is not good.

Explorers identify hero ship, sunk in World War II with its Native American skipper and half its crew.

Hollywood has a peculiar neurosis on the subject of Orson Welles. Once or twice a decade, the industry attempts to conjure his flamboyant, chaotic personality onscreen, with results that have ranged from the marginally plausible to the ludicrous.

How much, do you think, would Isaac Newton understand of your book? I think he would appreciate it. In 1666 we had the great plague. Cambridge University was shut down and a 23-year-old boy was sent home, and he saw an apple fall on his estate. And then he realised that the laws that control an apple are the same laws that control the moon. So the epidemic gave Isaac Newton an opportunity to sit down and follow the mathematics of falling apples and falling moons. But of course there was no mathematics at that time. He couldn’t solve the problem so he created his own mathematics. That’s what we are doing now. We, too, are being hit by the plague. We, too, are confined to our desks. And we, too, are creating new mathematics.

Rep. Matt Gaetz and fellow Florida lawmakers played a creepy, competitive, “sex challenge” game while working at the statehouse ten years ago — in which participants won varying p…

The Cairo spectacle sees the remains of 18 kings and four queens taken to a new resting place.

The legislation will either improve the NYPD or hamper it, depending on who you ask.

About two decades after first devising a new kind of vaccine, Oregon Health & Science University researchers are unlocking why it stops and ultimately clears the monkey form of HIV, called SIV, in about half of nonhuman primates – and why it’s a promising candidate to stop HIV in people. In scientific papers that were simultaneously published today in the journals Science and Science Immunology, creators of the cytomegalovirus, or CMV, vaccine platform describe the unusual biological mechanisms through which it works.

A leader of the Proud Boys who's been indicted for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol had a mutually beneficial relationship with law enforcement groups in the Portland region, according to recent court filings. Joe Biggs is one of several individuals facing charges for the Capitol attack who is associated with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group. Biggs was first arrested in late January for obstructing an official proceeding before Congress, knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, and illegally entering Congress to disrupt official business. Biggs was hit with heftier charges in mid-March, after a federal investigation found he allegedly helped plot and plan the January 6 attack. Biggs, 37, is currently under house arrest at his Florida home. On Monday, Biggs' attorney John Hull filed a document with the federal court, arguing that Biggs didn't need to be held in jail prior to his trial date. Hull points to Biggs' years-long supportive relationship with officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), including those in Portland's FBI Field Office, as evidence that Biggs shouldn't face pre-trial detention. "The FBI has known about his political commentary and role in planning events and counter-protests in Portland and other cities since at least July 2020 and arguably benefitted from that knowledge in efforts to gather intelligence about Antifa in Florida and Antifa networks operating across the United States," the document reads. "Nothing acquired by the government... nor any of Biggs’ actions since his release supports detaining him now."

Republican lawmakers blocked Medicaid expansion funding from reaching the Missouri House floor on Thursday, posing a setback for the voter-approved plan to increase eligibility for the state health care program. The House Budget Committee voted along party lines not to pass a bill allowing Missouri to spend $130 million in state funds and $1.6 billion in federal money to pay for the program’s expansion. Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government picks up 90% of the tab on expanding Medicaid. The increased eligibility would allow an estimated 230,000 additional low-income Missourians to be covered. It is set to go into effect in July, after voters approved a ballot question last August with a 53% majority. Democrats slammed the vote as an attempt to subvert Missourians’ wishes to implement the expansion, which several Republicans said was unpopular in their own districts. Democrats plan to re-introduce the funds into the rest of the state budget on the House floor. Budget Chair Cody Smith, a Carthage Republican, said he will introduce another bill to spend the money elsewhere. Ranking member Rep. Peter Merideth, a St. Louis Democrat, has warned that the move to reject expansion would leave the entire Missouri Medicaid program, known as MO HealthNet, underfunded when thousands more become eligible. Not going forward with the expansion, which is now part of the state constitution, could land the state in court.

On any night in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood, you might hear the sound of groans and clanging iron coming from behind a garage door. That's Christina Malone squatting 455 pounds.

The Biden administration says it needs to restore trust in the agency by “resetting” membership on two key science advisory panels. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will purge more than 40 outside experts appointed under President Donald Trump from two key advisory panels, a move he says will help restore the role of science at the agency and reduce the heavy influence of industry over environmental regulations. The unusual decision, announced Wednesday, will sweep away outside researchers picked under the previous administration whose expert advice helped the agency craft regulations related to air pollution, the oil-and-gas extraction method known as fracking and other issues. Critics say that, under Trump, membership of the two panels — the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) — tilted too heavily in favor of regulated industries and that their positions sometimes contradicted scientific consensus. The Biden administration said the move is one of several to reestablish scientific integrity across the federal government after what it characterizes as a concerted effort under the previous president to sideline or interfere with research on climate change, the novel coronavirus and other issues.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has inspired many people over the years, from Ralph Bakshi to Peter Jackson to George R.R. Martin. And his influence isn’t felt only in the English world. Behind the iron curtain, Russian fans were also enjoying Tolkien’s work. Working off a Russian translation by Vladimir Muravyov and Andrey Kistyakovsky, some even created a movie adaptation that aired exactly once on Russian TV. The adaptation, titled Khraniteli (which means “keepers” or “guardians”) aired in 1991, the same year that the Soviet Union officially dissolved. It was a busy time, and many figured Khraniteli was lost forever. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for 30 years, the movie passed out of all knowledge. Until last week, when Russia’s Channel 5 uploaded it to YouTube in two parts.

One night in 1980 or so, the legendary songwriter Nile Rodgers went on a bad date. He was out at a club with a group of people, he says, including Eddie Murphy and Rick James. Rodgers was big-time. His band, Chic, had topped the charts with hits such as “I Want Your Love” and “Good Times.” But at heart he was still a humble kid whose parents had struggled with drug addiction and who felt fortunate to have made it as far as he did. So, when his date asked the maitre d’ to remove people from a table so they could sit there instead, Rodgers bristled. “She probably felt like she was rolling with Berry Gordy or something,” Rodgers, sporting his trademark beret and dreadlocks, told The Washington Post in a recent video interview. “I was just this lucky musician who was doing the job that I loved and got a hit record, and I was in my environment with all my good friends.” Her attempt to use his celebrity to push people around was a dealbreaker. “No, no, no, I don't do that,” Rodgers remembered explaining. “I don't play that card.” Sitting at home one night, some time later, he replayed the bad date in his head. Rodgers, who is obsessed with television — he says he keeps it on in every room of his house, 24/7 — came up with some lyrics: Watchin' the late show I made up my mind, oh A love that is free like a love should be Fallin' behind, oh Don't you see you are the one I couldn't have begun No, your love is cancelled The song, “Your Love Is Cancelled,” which appeared on Chic’s 1981 album, “Take It Off,” was not a hit. But the metaphor Rodgers had invented — the idea of “canceling” a person for unacceptable behavior, like a network executive pulling the plug on an unsuccessful TV show — has taken its own journey. Recently it turned up in Central Florida, in the mouth of a 57-year-old White Republican from Ohio.

A biologist studying abnormal stripe patterns in zebras says humans could be partly to blame for their strange look — and that it could be an early sign of problems for the species. In a study published in the journal Molecular Ecology, Brenda Larison and other researchers looked at DNA from 140 plains zebras across Africa, including seven with abnormal stripes. They found increased levels of inbreeding among zebra populations with unusual patterns on their coats. The researchers say it could be a consequence of habitat fragmentation. Habitat fragmentation happens when a large habitat area is broken up into smaller areas by human-made developments like fences or roads.

Republicans seeking to restrict children’s lives claim trans youth are a ‘new phenomenon’. Jules Gill-Peterson explains how medical archives prove them wrong

Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat.

On former President Donald Trump's last day of office, he ordered that sanctions be imposed on a network of Venezuelan oil firms and individuals associated with the state oil company. However, an unfortunate mistake meant that two Italian business owners, who shared the same name as a man involved in the Venezuelan oil trade, had their businesses targeted in the crackdown.