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Submitted at Today, 02:02 AM by Mordant | |
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An actor known for roles in the animated series “Bob’s Burgers” and “Arrested Development” was sentenced Monday to a year and one day in prison for his connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 09:19 PM by Mordant | |
A candidate in the Boones Mill mayoral race said he believes the timing of his recent arrest is politically motivated.
Donald “Whitey” Taylor was arrested Tuesday afternoon at the Trump Town USA store on Bethlehem Road, which he owns.
He’s charged with three misdemeanor counts of assault and one count of indecent exposure.
Taylor told WDBJ7 the three women who filed the criminal complaints against him all worked at his store. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 08:22 PM by sleeppoor | |
At a five-star resort in California last week, Wall Street executives, fast-food CEOs, a few dozen other industry titans and two former presidents gathered for off-the-record conversations. One subject that inevitably came up, according to two people familiar with the matter: The possibility that former president Donald Trump could return to the White House.
The gathering of the Business Council — an invitation-only association of chief executives — at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach in Dana Point was not supposed to be about the election, but some attendees wound up discussing how to protect themselves and their companies if Trump wins the presidency next week and tries to use the power of the Oval Office against his perceived enemies, said the people, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
At one event, former president Bill Clinton warned about the dangers Trump poses to democracy and the nation’s rule of law, while former president George W. Bush expressed concern about high tariff rates, which some attendees heard as a rebuke of Trump’s tariff plans, two of the people said.
With the White House appearing increasingly up for grabs, and especially as polls have tightened, numerous billionaires and other leading executives have taken steps in recent months to stay out of the race — even if they had criticized Trump after the Capitol insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, calling his encouragement of the riot a threat to American democracy. Others who previously backed Democrats have stayed silent this election, which some critics and Trump supporters alike have interpreted as a peace offering to the GOP presidential nominee. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:48 PM by sleeppoor | |
The Trump campaign’s rally in New York mirrored one in the 1930s that was openly supportive of Adolf Hitler —with two dangerous differences. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:23 PM by sleeppoor | |
KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver early Monday morning, where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a dropoff ballot box.
Our photographer captured grey smoke steadily billowing out of the Park and Ride ballot box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center near Southeast 162nd Avenue just after 6 a.m.
Multiple police units were in the area, and the ballot box was cordoned off by police tape as it continued to smoke.
Around 6:30 a.m., KATU captured footage of first responders releasing a pile of actively burning ballots onto the ground, which continued to smolder and smoke heavily even after the flames were put out.
The Clark County elections auditor told us that the last ballot pickup at that location was 8 a.m. Sunday. Hundreds of ballots were inside at the time of the burning, and KATU was told there were maybe only a few that could be saved. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:49 PM by sleeppoor | |
The case of Tua Tagovailoa marks the acceptance stage of widespread brain trauma in the sport.
Tagovailoa’s third NFL concussion — or was it his fourth? And should we count the one he suffered in college? — provoked more pointed questions, but pretty much all of them were directed at him: “Isn’t it time to retire? Don’t you need to think of your wife and kids?” No one was asking what the NFL needed to do, or whether football had a future. “Those who said all this awareness would kill football were wrong,” Chris Nowinski, who has been a leading advocate on the issue of brain injuries in sports for nearly two decades, told me recently. “Football continues to be more popular in just about every measurable way.”
It’s not because the problem has disappeared. A third of the way through this NFL season, dozens of players, on almost every team and at pretty much every position, have been concussed: With Tagovailoa at quarterback, you could almost field a playoff contender from the roster of concussed players alone. Lane Johnson, one of the league’s best offensive linemen, was spotted vomiting on the sideline after hitting his head. Malik Nabers, the New York Giants star rookie wide receiver, admitted that he couldn’t even remember the play that knocked him out last month. And these concussions represent just a sliver of the billion or so times this season that football players from elementary school to the pros will bang their heads in collisions big and small, many of which doctors say are just as likely to cause long-term brain damage as they accumulate.
This week, Tagovailoa returned from “injured reserve” — a designation for players too hurt to come back on the field for at least a month — and gave a defiant press conference. He said he had not considered retirement this time, and the Dolphins hope he’ll be available to play against the Arizona Cardinals this Sunday. “I love this game,” Tagovailoa said. “And I love it to the death of me.” It wasn’t clear if Tagovailoa had considered the haunting implication of his comment, but the press conference summed up America’s decade-long transition from crisis to acceptance. We had plenty of questions for Tagovailoa. Why did we stop having questions about football itself? | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 04:12 AM by sleeppoor | |
A work-release program for Alabama prisoners provides labor for corporations and income for the state. Lawsuits are challenging its constitutionality. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 04:09 AM by sleeppoor | |
A Tesla Cybertruck owner says there is a concerted effort to publicly shame people who drive the all-electric truck. He recounts several instances where people pointed and laughed at him while driving his Cybertruck. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:02 AM by Mordant | |
The new law went into effect last fall. It allows prosecutors to charge individuals with murder if they make or deal fentanyl that causes death. | |
Submitted at 10-27-2024, 07:59 PM by Nibbles | |
Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in | |
Submitted at 10-27-2024, 01:52 AM by sleeppoor | |
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. | |
Submitted at 10-27-2024, 01:34 AM by sleeppoor | |
As shared in a Facebook post by his wife, Kirst, a snake bitted Dinkelman, and "unfortunately, due to his allergy to snake venom," it sent him into "anaphylactic shock:" | |
Submitted at 10-26-2024, 11:36 PM by Nibbles | |
Boone initially told detectives with the Orange county sheriff’s office that she and Torres had been playing hide-and-seek on 23 February 2020, in their Winter Park, Florida, residence when they thought it would be funny for Torres to get into the suitcase. | |
Submitted at 10-26-2024, 10:36 PM by Nibbles | |
“It’s virtually indistinguishable from criminal detention” | |
Submitted at 10-26-2024, 09:11 PM by Nibbles | |
The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades. | |
Submitted at 10-26-2024, 05:11 PM by sleeppoor | |
One of the Democratic congressman's far-right funders had ties to a Zionist terror group banned in the United States. | |
Submitted at 10-26-2024, 01:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
While the NCAA and power conferences agreed to expand upon scholarships as part of the settlement, they also imposed roster limits for sports, many of which did not previously exist. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2024, 09:40 PM by sleeppoor | |
In 2020, Donald Trump and his backers tossed out an array of false election interference allegations. Republicans now have a sharper focus. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2024, 06:48 PM by sleeppoor | |
Prosecutors recommended Thursday Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced during a Thursday news conference that his office would recommend the brothers receive a new sentence of 50 years to life. Because they were under 26 years old at the time of the crimes, they would be eligible for parole immediately, he said. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2024, 05:17 AM by sleeppoor | |