An Arizona prosecutor who charged protestors as if they were gang members was fired and has now had her license suspended. Former Maricopa County Attorney's Office's April Sponsel worked with… Read the rest of the article: Arizona prosecutor who falsely charged BLM protestors loses license and her job
Delta airlines pilot Lawrence Russell, 63, was found to be over the alcohol limit before flying a jet from Edinburgh to New York on 16 June last year. Worse, he… Read the rest of the article: Jet pilot over the alcohol limit before transatlantic flight
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-Egypt) was charged with corruption after investigators got a load of the stolen gold bars in his house and the cash hidden inside clothes there. Now… Read the rest of the article: Obstruction charge for comically corrupt U.S. Senator Bob Menendez
France is the first country to add am explicit right to abortions to its constitution. Lawmakers there voted 780 to 72 in favor of doing so, "easily clearing the three-fifths… Read the rest of the article: France adds right to abortion to its constitution
There's something wrong with Elon Musk: he keeps attracting lawsuits from people claiming to have been ripped off by him. The latest batch comes courtesy of former Twitter executives who… Read the rest of the article: Fired Twitter executives sue Musk over $128m in unpaid severance
The Classic Adventure Solution Archive has solutions and maps for interactive fiction games, stretching back into the age when they were simply called text adventures. CASA was created in 1999… Read the rest of the article: Solutions and maps to classic text adventure games
After being sold to Elon Musk, Twitter brought back all the banned accounts and got rid of queer-friendly policies such as one against intentionally misgendering people. It was recently observed,… Read the rest of the article: Twitter quietly reinstated its policy against misgendering
HP spits out bad news about itself faster than you might print it—DRM ink more expensive than champagne, scanners that run out of ink, the CEO's contemptuous remarks about customers—but… Read the rest of the article: HP wants you to pay up to $36 a month to rent a printer you never own
Trump supporters are using AI to create fake pictures of him interacting with Black people, the result of a fundamental discrepancy between polls suggesting that he is popular with Black… Read the rest of the article: Trump supporters usung AI to fake photos of him with Black folks
Elon Musk tried to pay himself $51 billion out of Tesla, a Delaware court told him absolutely not, and now the lawyers who won the block on his self-dealing package—representing… Read the rest of the article: Lawyers who blocked Elon Musk's $51bn pay package want $6bn fee
Don Gorske, 70, has eaten 34,128 Big Macs in a life all the more remarkable for reaching its eight decade. Yes, it's one of Guinness's made-up records, complete with ®… Read the rest of the article: Man has eaten 34,128 Big Macs, extending own record
America's largest pharmacy chains announced they will begin selling abortion pills later this month. Both CVS and Walgreens told CBS News they have become certified to dispense the pills following… Read the rest of the article: CVS and Walgreens will begin selling abortion pills this month
Fra Mauro's World Map is a zoomable, explorable online version of his 15th-century mappa mundi. It comes complete with exhaustive resources, videos and texts about the historical context, too. The… Read the rest of the article: Zoomable, explorable online version of Fra Mauro's 15-century world map
The Zuckerberg Files collects everything said and written publicly by the Facebook founder and CEO. Over 1,500 full-text transcripts and 275+ video files are available for researchers to download, analyze,… Read the rest of the article: The Zuckerberg Files archives his public utterances and writings
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican from Mississippi, blocked a Senate bill that would protect in-vitro fertilization nationwide drafted in response to Alabama's Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos were people.… Read the rest of the article: Republican senator blocks bill that would protect IVF
Bangladeshi Robocop includes dance numbers. [via Marshall Julius on Twitter] That's the headline, that's the lede, that's the entire content of this post. You're welcome. Bonus track: Previously: Robocop creator… Read the rest of the article: Bangladeshi Robocop includes dance numbers
Kevin Monahan, 66, shot Kaylin Gillis dead after the car she was in took a wrong turn into his rural New York driveway. He will be in prison until he… Read the rest of the article: The man who killed a woman after a wrong turn into his driveway gets 25 years to life
Billionaire Elon Musk is suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claiming that it has betrayed its nonprofit mission and effectively become a proprietary arm of tech… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk sues OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman
A turkey terrorizing locals in a small Quebec town was finally taken out with a slingshot, report media up north. Yvon Deshaies, mayor of Louiseville, an hour out of Montreal,… Read the rest of the article: Canadian terror turkey taken out with slingshot
As Donald Trump tries to squeeze out from a $450m fine for overestimating the value of U.S. properties to secure loans, he's getting nailed for the same fraud on the… Read the rest of the article: Donald Trump fraudulently overvalued property in Scotland by up to £200m, just as he did in U.S
