We previously covered the absolute disaster of an investigation that led to a 23-year-old Florida woman spending 13 days in a maximum-security jail over a fatal hit-and-run she had absolutely nothing to do with. It was a terrifying example of what happens when lazy police work meets automated surveillance tech. Now, that same innocent driver is taking her fight straight to Washington, D.C.
Global oil stockpiles are "scarily thin" owing to the U.S.-Iran war, Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser said Monday, days after G7 nations agreed to release more of their inventories to ease supply concerns.
President Donald Trump offered an ominous prediction/threat on Monday, saying The New York Times is nearing the end of its existence. The president went on a tear against the Gray Lady after it reported that the venue where he hosted a rally in Alabama on Friday "was not full." Trump took to Truth Social, where he mistakenly claimed the Times was referring to his rally in Ohio on Saturday. "There are no empty seats, there haven't been for years, and there never will be," Trump wrote in part. "The Rallies are HOTTER' than ever. They are all happenings,' and they never happened before, and will never be duplicated again." Read more
City police say they were not aware that a white supremacist group was demonstrating outside their department Saturday night until after they were gone.
An AI "mind-reading" tool can reconstruct what you're looking at from a brain scan
Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person's inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.
In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what the user actually saw"and its right-hand counterpart is what the model reconstructed from the brain scan.
Michal Irani, who developed the tool with her colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, hopes her "mind-reading" tool will ultimately reveal more about how the brain works, and could perhaps be used to help locked-in people communicate, or allow scientists to re-create the content of dreams.
Imagine starting a fire and then standing by and filming with your mobile phone while a firefighter is engulfed in flames. That is one of the scenes emerging from France's latest wave of unrest. Elsewhere, rioters have doused a teacher in petrol, looted businesses, and set vehicles and schools on fire. The fact that many of the rioters are looting while waving Algerian and Palestinian flags is just a symptom of a much larger, unspoken failure. The ostensible grievance is the condition of French education. The proposed remedy, apparently, is fewer teachers and more ashes.
An escalating civil war is tearing apart Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement as it struggles to make an impact in the midterms.
"I don't control message or what we're doing," Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton said during a small fundraising event in September.
Ken Paxton is less than a month out from the conclusion of a D.C.-outsider campaign for a Texas U.S. Senate seat that he privately admitted is being run by Washington.
"I've never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and, like, what issues are going to matter because it's all coming " you know " from D.C.," Paxton said during a small fundraising event last month, according to an audio recording obtained by POLITICO from a person in the room who does not support Paxton, and verified by another attendee.
"I don't control message or what we're doing."
Former U.S. House Speaker John Dennis Hastert has died at the age of 84. According to the Kendall County coroner, Hastert passed away at his home over the weekend due to natural causes. In 2016, Hastert admitted in court that he sexually abused boys while coaching at Yorkville High School. A federal judge sentenced Hastert to 15 months in prison and issued a $250,000 fine. The judge referred to him as a "serial child molester."
Okinawa police arrested a U.S. Marine early Sunday on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman and stealing her belongings at a hotel in the prefectural capital. Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, of Naha, early Saturday at a hotel in the city's Wakasa district, an Okinawa Prefectural Police spokesman said by phone Sunday. Police did not identify the hotel but provided a block number. Based on that and photos published by Okinawa Television, it is Naminoue Crystal Hotel. Police allege Ballard stole the woman's wallet and another item and killed her sometime between 2:10 a.m. and 4:17 a.m., the spokesman said.
Colorado State's 56-26 loss against Oregon State wasn't without controversy. It just happened to take place on the sidelines as opposed to the field. The Rams announced that they were sacking second-year defensive coordinator Tyson Summers. The transaction appears to have been at least partially influenced by Summer's exit partway through the team's defeat. Summers stepped away from his program halfway through Colorado State's loss. He disappeared into the locker room at halftime, never to return.
An editorial in the Chicago Tribune laments what might have been had "Kenneth C. Griffin not become so frustrated with the state of Illinois as to move himself and much of the financial company he founded, Citadel, to Miami." The Tribune is responding to the news that Mr. Griffin is moving a whole lot more to Florida after departing the expensive dysfunction of Illinois governance.
When the Empire State conducted barbaric prisoner executions by electric chair until 1963, the terminator was euphemistically titled New York State Electrician. Famous victims of Thomas Edison's rocking chair included railroaded immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti (1927) and atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953). The first woman electrocuted in New York was Ruth Snyder (1928), whose insurance murder scheme was the genesis of the classic 1944 film Double Indemnity. Besides the inhumanity of executing convicts, when spies or serial murderers are liquidated, their secrets go to the grave with them. Such villains may wish an improvement in their hellish conditions, such as a newer cell, more time in the prison yard under the sun, or an increase in cigarette rations. In exchange, these malefactors would provide information to investigators on a cold case or other national security secrets they purloined. The lives of three of the five NYS "electricians" did not unfold well.
The latest sales tax increase in Los Angeles County took effect Thursday after voters approved a half-cent hike in June to support health care and other essential services. The Essential Services Restoration Act, known as Measure ER, increased the county's baseline sales tax rate from 9.75% to 10.25%. The increase is temporary. Measure ER allows the tax to remain in effect through Oct. 1, 2031, and is projected to generate about $1 billion annually. Sales tax exemptions include groceries, prescription medications, and medical equipment. Read more
In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolas Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). During this meeting, Trump "spent hours" talking to Musk's Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, a source told Time.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday called on Americans to vote against President Trump ahead of the midterm elections to change U.S. policy toward Tehran and accept the offer of a "peaceful coexistence." IRGC spokesperson Gen. Hossein Mohebbi made the request in a 25-page letter, marking seven months since Iran's conflict with the U.S. and Israel began in late February.
