Americans are increasingly frustrated by the obligation to ride out a global disaster on their own. They have every reason to be.

Folks who insisted they’d post to the social media site aren’t doing it. Those who are posting are posting conspiracy nonsense.

Oath Keepers militia leader Stewart Rhodes said members of his militia will be at polling locations on Election Day to “protect” Trump voters during an appearance on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ program.

President Trump will open up all 16.7 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday, stripping protections that had safeguarded one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests for nearly two decades. As of Thursday, it will be legal for logging companies to build roads and cut and remove timber throughout more than 9.3 million acres of forest — featuring old-growth stands of red and yellow cedar, Sitka spruce and Western hemlock. The relatively-pristine expanse is also home to plentiful salmon runs and imposing fjords. The decision, which will be published in the Federal Register, reverses protections President Bill Clinton put in place in 2001 and is one of the most sweeping public lands rollbacks Trump has enacted.

Recording left by a deceased marijuana candidate says he was recruited to be a spoiler in Second District race.

Horror struck during a raid at an illegal cockfight in the Philippines on Monday when a police chief was killed by a metal blade attached to a rooster. San Jose Police Chief Lt. Christian Bolok died after the blade cut the femoral artery in his left leg, according to authorities. “He was trying to confiscate the roosters but the problem was the rooster’s blade may have been laced with poison,” Governor Edwin Ongchuan of the Northern Samar province told The Associated Press.

New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases. Some survivors of Covid-19 carry worrying signs that their immune system has turned on the body, reminiscent of potentially debilitating diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, a new study has found. At some point, the body’s defense system in these patients shifted into attacking itself, rather than the virus, the study suggests. The patients are producing molecules called “autoantibodies” that target genetic material from human cells, instead of from the virus. This misguided immune response may exacerbate severe Covid-19. It may also explain why so-called “long haulers” have lingering problems months after their initial illness has resolved and the virus is gone from their bodies. The findings carry important implications for treatment: Using existing tests that can detect autoantibodies, doctors could identify patients who might benefit from treatments used for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. There is no cure for these diseases, but some treatments decrease the frequency and severity of flare-ups. “It’s possible that you could hit the appropriate patients harder with some of these more aggressive drugs and expect better outcomes,” said Matthew Woodruff, an immunologist at Emory University in Atlanta and lead author of the work. The results were reported Friday on the preprint server MedRxiv, and have not yet been published in a scientific journal. But other experts said the researchers who carried out the study are known for their careful, meticulous work, and that the findings are not unexpected because other viral illnesses also trigger autoantibodies.

Engineers and advocates of the lowest-ranked caste say that tech companies don't understand caste bias and haven't explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination. Whenever Benjamin Kaila, a database administrator who immigrated from India to the United States in 1999, applies for a job at a U.S. tech company, he prays that there are no other Indians during the in-person interview. That’s because Kaila is a Dalit, or member of the lowest-ranked castes within India’s system of social hierarchy, formerly referred to as “untouchables.” Silicon Valley’s diversity issues are well documented: It’s still dominated by White and Asian men, and Black and Latino workers remain underrepresented. But for years, as debates about meritocracy raged on, the tech industry’s reliance on Indian engineers allowed another type of discrimination to fester. And Dalit engineers like Kaila say U.S. employers aren’t equipped to address it. In more than 100 job interviews for contract work over the past 20 years, Kaila said he got only one job offer when another Indian interviewed him in person. When members of the interview panel have been Indian, Kaila says, he has faced personal questions that seem to be used to suss out whether he’s a member of an upper caste, like most of the Indians working in the tech industry. “They don’t bring up caste, but they can easily identify us,” Kaila says, rattling off all of the ways he can be outed as potentially being Dalit, including the fact that he has darker skin. The legacy of discrimination from the Indian caste system is rarely discussed as a factor in Silicon Valley’s persistent diversity problems. Decades of tech industry labor practices, such as recruiting candidates from a small cohort of top schools or relying on the H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers, have shaped the racial demographics of its technical workforce. Despite that fact, Dalit engineers and advocates say that tech companies don’t understand caste bias and have not explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.

Denying people the vote is presumed—wrongly—to be part of the deprivation of being locked up.

Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was pulled before the eighth inning during Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night. No explanation was given from the broadcast team of Joe Buck and John Smoltz and, to even the most casual baseball fan, the move was odd. The answer came moments after Los Angeles won, 3-1, clinching its first World Series victory in 32 years. Fox Sports studio host Kevin Burkhardt started the postgame broadcast with the following news: “After the completion of the game tonight, we were informed by Major League Baseball that Justin Turner received a positive COVID test. That’s why he was removed from the game.”

GPT-3, an advanced language-processing artificial intelligence algorithm developed by OpenAI, is really good at what it does — churning out humanlike text. But Yann LeCun, the Chief AI Scientist at Facebook who’s been called a “godfather of AI,” trashed the algorithm in a Tuesday Facebook post, writing that “people have completely unrealistic expectations about what large-scale language models such as GPT-3 can do...” In one case, the algorithm was unable to add up the cost of items in a medical bill, and in a vastly more dangerous situation, actually recommended that a mock patient kill themself.

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to represent the president in E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump. Carroll, a former Elle columnist, claimed in a book Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s, allegations he has denied. She sued him for defamation last year after he called her a liar and said she made up the accusation to sell books. “While the president possesses all of the executive power of the United States, he is not an 'employee' within the meaning of the FTCA,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said, referring to the Federal Tort Claims Act, which shields federal employees from individual damages claims. “The FTCA’s definition of that term does not include presidents.”

As people began protesting another Black man’s death at the hands of police, Council was discussing a ballot measure meant to create more police oversight.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren say that their images were improperly used on a flier that they view as an attack on the Working Families Party.

I talked to the owner of 8800 Blue Lick Road about his unusual house, RICO charges, baptismal pools, and Girls Gone Wild DVDs.

A Cook County judge on Tuesday denied bail for two Lawndale sisters accused of attacking a store security guard and stabbing him 27 times with a small knife after he asked them to wear face masks and use hand sanitizer. Neither Jessica Hill, 21 nor her sister Jayla, 18 — a recent Simeon Academy graduate

A Bush v. Gore 2.0 crisis just became much more likely.

"I can still hear his voice in my head," the woman in her early 30s told the Brooklyn courtroom Tuesday, her voice shaking. "He robbed me of my youth,'' the woman, Camila, told the court, according to the New York Post. "He used my innocence to do whatever he wanted with me." At the end of Tuesday's sentencing hearing, in which victims of NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere recounted their stories in sometimes painful detail, the 60-year-old Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison.

73 U.S.-based hate groups have had access to at least 54 online funding mechanisms, research shows.

In its secret chat, the group that sprang from Charlottesville is creating a new generation of white supremacists.