Microsoft will reportedly launch a new service called Marketplaces that will compete with Fiverr and Upwork. The service will let people hire freelancers and look for gig work.

“In 1943 in Cavan, 35 orphans perished in a blaze, locked in their dormitories as a fire raged. An RTÉ documentary attributed their deaths to the nuns not wanting them to be seen in their nightgowns.

North Cornwall Township patrolman Joseph Fisher was charged after posting a video of himself rushing a line of police officers during the Jan. 6 siege.

The mother doesn't plan to stop selling her photos and now seeks to enroll her kids in another Catholic school, one that’s less “judgmental.”

The one thing that the Senate cannot stomach is telling the truth about the Republican Party. I am not a fan of Neera Tanden—the head of the Center for American Progress (CAP), and President Joe Biden’s nominee for direction of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)—and to the best of my knowledge, the feeling is mutual. This doesn’t make me special. Ask any number of leftist writers who spend a lot of time on Twitter about Tanden, and they’ll tell you the same stories: how she announced plans to fire the unionized employees of CAP’s affiliated website, ThinkProgress, and to replace them with scabs (ultimately she just shuttered the site following public backlash); how she allegedly hit a colleague, future Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, for daring to ask Hillary Clinton about her support for the Iraq War; how she named a victim of workplace sexual harassment in a staff meeting; how she pressured critics of Israel at ThinkProgress, bowing to the demands of pro-Israel lobbyists; how she accepted tens of millions in donations to her ostensibly progressive think tank from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, insurance companies, and the autocratic regime of the United Arab Emirates; how she once suggested compelling Libya to use its oil wealth to pay the United States for its 2011 regime change operation. And that’s to say nothing of the many times Tanden has tried to bully or intimidate journalists (such as The Week’s Ryan Cooper, or me) for writing accurate sentences about her, or complained to managers or editors about comments that she didn’t appreciate—not to mention her open contempt for Sanders and his millions of supporters.

Coolidge police arrested a man who claimed he had been kidnapped near 1st Street and Northern Avenue in Coolidge to get out of work.

Guardian analysis indicates shocking figure likely to be an underestimate, as preparations for 2022 tournament continue

A farmer in northern B.C. captured a wild cat he found in his chicken coop Sunday, picking it up by the scruff of the neck and gently scolding it before relocating it to the bush.

Dozens of migrant teens arrived Monday at a federal government facility that stayed open for only a month in 2019.

The QAnon adherents, hardcore Trumpists, militia members, neo-Nazis, and neo-Confederates who gathered at the Capitol are regrouping for the next fight across a swath of lower-profile social media platforms.

Mayor Svante Myrick’s new proposal would replace the city’s existing police department with a “Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety” intended to reduce the involvement of armed officers in disputes.

A new study of urban raptors reveals their close attention to human behavior, even during a pandemic.

Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch also signaled their desire to reverse state court decisions expanding vote by mail.

Sheneen McClain cried reading an independent investigative report Monday that said Colorado police officers involved her son's death did not have the legal basis to stop, frisk or restrain Elijah McClain.

Update (2/22/21): CPAC has cancelled Young Pharaoh’s scheduled appearance following the publication of this article. Young Pharaoh’s information has also been removed from CPAC’s website. The theme of this year’s gathering is “American Uncanceled.”

His plaster version depicts the Iron Lady's head stuck on a pike made from office chairs

Japan has appointed a "Minister of Loneliness" to take try and reduce loneliness and social isolation among its residents as the country deals with rising suicide rates, Tomohiro Osaki reported for the Japan Times. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga appointed Tetsushi Sakamoto, who is already a minister in charge of dealing with Japan's declining birthrate and promoting regional revitalization, to oversee government policies to deal with loneliness and isolation, earlier this month. Prime Minister Suga chose Sakamoto as his Minister for economic revitalization when he was elected in September 2020. "Women are suffering from isolation more (than men are), and the number of suicides is on a rising trend," Suga told Sakamoto on a February 12 news conference announcing the new role, according to the Japan Times. "I hope you will identify problems and promote policy measures comprehensively."

When a delivery driver's car began sliding down on an icy Texas driveway, the driver closed her eyes, praying she wouldn't hit the client's home. She didn't hit the house but Chelsea Timmons' car crushed a flowerbed outside an Austin, Texas, home as a snowstorm paralyzed the state last Sunday. She didn't know it yet, but she would soon be grateful to end up in this particular driveway. Homeowners Doug Condon and Nina Richardson checked on Timmons to try to help get her Toyota Rav4 up the driveway, but it was stuck. They invited her to wait for a tow truck inside their home.

The explosion was reported at 11:55 a.m. on Sunday.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit Monday against MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell for defamation after the Trump ally spread baseless claims about the company’s voting machines, the latest in a string of high-dollar lawsuits Dominion has waged against right-wing figures who spread conspiracy theories about election fraud. The $1.3 billion lawsuit alleges Lindell “sells the lie” involving the company’s voting machines “because the lie sells pillows,” despite the “unprecedented reputational and financial harm” Dominion has suffered as a result. MyPillow sponsored rallies that pushed election fraud claims, offered discount codes related to the conspiracy theory and advertised on right-wing news networks where the claims were being pushed, the lawsuit notes, alleging Lindell “knowingly lied about Dominion to sell more pillows to people who continued tuning in to hear what they wanted to hear about the election.” Dominion also accuses Lindell of deceptive trade practices in addition to defamation because he lied so MyPillow could derive “financial benefits from making those false statements,” and notes Lindell’s election fraud campaign sold copies of his book and raised the likelihood that former President Donald Trump would endorse his potential run for governor of Minnesota. Dominion had previously sent Lindell three letters warning of potential litigation after he started spreading the conspiracy theory, saying his “smear campaign against Dominion has been relentless” and harmed the company, and suggested he would likely be sued for defamation. Lindell doubled down on his attacks against Dominion in response to their threats, releasing a documentary pushing his election fraud claims that included allegations about their voting machines, despite the company sending Lindell a letter that detailed “red flags” about a report Lindell relied upon to demonstrate the purported election fraud. Lindell and his documentary have “failed to make any real evidence available for public scrutiny,” the lawsuit alleges, and the CEO has instead “put forward fake evidence and sought to enrich himself even more by claiming that he is the victim of ‘cancel culture’ and that Dominion wants to hide the truth.”