Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church and other large Houston congregations were among those who received multi-million dollar loans as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 stimulus package known as PPP.

A little pygmy possum is found on South Australia's Kangaroo Island for the first time since its habitat was mostly destroyed in bushfires that burnt almost half the island.

For the first time, police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered her home with guns drawn and handcuffed her naked as she watched in horror. Last year, Anjanette Young filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the video to show the public what happened to her that day. CBS 2 also filed a request for the video. But the Chicago Police Department denied the requests. Young recently obtained the footage after a court forced CPD to turn it over as part of her lawsuit against police. “I feel like they didn’t want us to have this video because they knew how bad it was,” Young said. “They knew they had done something wrong. They knew that the way they treated me was not right.” Hours before the TV version of this report broadcast, the city’s lawyers attempted to stop CBS 2 from airing the video by filing an emergency motion in federal court.

ID Canada has been a fixture in the country’s alt-right movement since its founding. Its mass postering and propaganda campaigns have made them seem omnipresent in Canadian cities and led to our 18-month long undercover investigation. Mired by infighting and paranoia, the group has been unable to obtain the relevance it desperately seeks. 

The judge’s decision comes after the city filed a lawsuit earlier this year charging three landlords with ignoring numerous city notices to fix the properties, where tenants were living witho…

It did remind me what I found out about him from Wikipedia- he has famous parents, so his career was assured. What I still find amazing is that his excuse that he was jacking it to someone not on the zoom call is accepted without question or fact-checking. I don't know of any programs that will allow you to share the camera- or does Zoom allow you to appear in multiple video conferences at the same time? My assumption is that he was jacking it while looking at an intern that was on the same Zoom call. Also, the pearl-clutching by other media elites adds an additional sauce. "How can someone get fired for something so petty?" Welcome to work life experienced by the vast majority of people.

U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s campaign strongly condemned a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist at an event in Dawsonville on Friday, as the photo sparked fierce criticism from her Democratic opponent and his allies ahead of Jan. 5 runoffs for control of the Senate. The photo shows the Republican smiling from beneath an American flag ball cap next to Chester Doles, a longtime white supremacist who spent decades in the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance. He was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a Black man in Maryland and again on weapons violations in Georgia. He also associated with the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang with whom he marched in 2017′s violent United the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for,” Stephen Lawson, Loeffler’s campaign spokesman, said in a statement Sunday to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Other videos have circulated social media showing the same men mooning the crowd, with the words "F*** Antifa" written on their butts in sharpie markers. "We just felt powerless and frustrated and angry that we saw our products on this group that we see as a hate group," Greenbrier said. "We just didn’t know what to do." Greenbrier's business is LGBTQ-owned and operated and has long-supported GLAAD, so since its inception in 2014, he said Verillas has been a bastion of love and acceptance.

President Donald Trump couldn’t make it any clearer: He needs his supporters to fork over cash for the all-important Georgia Senate runoff elections. “We MUST defend Georgia from the Dems!” he wrote in one recent text message. “I need YOU to secure a WIN in Georgia,” he said in another. “Help us WIN both Senate races in Georgia & STOP Socialist Dems,” he pleaded a few days later. There’s just one hitch: Trump’s new political machine is pocketing most of the dough — and the campaigns of the Georgia senators competing in the Jan. 5 races aren’t getting a cent.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recognized Joe Biden as the president-elect of the United States for the first time on Tuesday, after declining to do so while President Donald Trump contested the election results. "Our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect," the Kentucky Republican said. "The Electoral College has spoken. So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden."

Pornhub is removing all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program, a fundamental shift in the way one of the largest porn sites in the world operates. This means a significant portion of its videos will disappear. "As part of our policy to ban unverified uploaders, we have now also suspended all previously uploaded content that was not created by content partners or members of the Model Program," according to Pornhub's announcement. "This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute." Pornhub said the videos will be removed pending verification and review, and the verification process will begin in the new year. Prior to this change, anyone could create an account on Pornhub and upload any video they wanted to, since the platform's launch in 2007.

Going to a hair salon in the middle of a pandemic is not remotely narcissistic.

Money earned through enslavement played a key role in the eviction of Highlanders in the 18th and 19th centuries, study finds

Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used.Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering what it described as false notifications that Instagram was accessing iPhone cameras.

Nu metal stalwarts Trapt have confirmed that they've given polarising vocalist Chris Taylor Brown the flick over his far-right views.

A man who crossed the Irish Sea from Scotland to the Isle of Man "on a Jet Ski" to visit his girlfriend has been jailed for breaching Covid-19 laws. According to the BBC, Douglas Courthouse heard 28-year-old Dale McLaughlan took four-and-a-half hours to travel from the Isle of Whithorn to Ramsey on Friday (11 December).

A Baltimore city police car was improved over the weekend.

In a 4-3 decision, the conservative-leaning court rejected the Trump campaign’s attempt to throw out votes in Milwaukee County and Dane County, which includes Madison.

The move appears to be a wide-reaching inquiry into everything major tech companies know about their users and what they do with that data.

Attorney General William Barr resigned on Monday, ending a tenure in which the President Donald Trump loyalist carried the administration's "law and order" message but ultimately dealt the most credible blow to Trump's unfounded claims that the 2020 election was littered with fraud.