Kings County Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her allies rewrote the rules at the last minute to keep themselves in power. Will it stick?

Lawmakers and the governor on Monday failed to extend a state grant program that helped schools upgrade their air conditioner systems, a decision that will allow utilities that funded the program to claw back funds for their ratepayers. The California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing, and Efficiency program — CalSHAPE for short — set aside nearly $1 billion in utility funds to help schools assess and upgrade aging HVAC and plumbing systems. But the California Energy Commission abruptly closed applications in 2024, leaving $191 million unused — money that must now be returned to utilities by law. After last-minute negotiations, lawmakers passed a budget trailer bill giving schools that had already received funding an additional three years to finish projects before the state claws back the money. But they dropped a separate measure that would have re-opened applications for schools to make upgrades because it did not have support from Gov. Gavin Newsom, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. “I don’t understand why (Newsom) doesn’t have the backs of everyday people in California, and why he doesn’t think that children deserve a safe place to learn with air conditioning,” said Leah Stokes, a political science associate professor at UC Santa Barbara who has advocated for the program. “This is all on him.”

B.C. Hydro says a mini forest bigger than a Canadian football field landed ashore after drifting some 30 kilometres northwest of its last known location.

If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.

The congressman who got drubbed by Ed Markey on Tuesday tried to distance himself from the base. That just doesn’t work anymore.

Much to consider.

A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.

The controversial tycoon will lead the joint oil venture as the Trump administration seeks to reshape energy markets.

A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.

The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality.

To hear him tell it, Victor Marx has done many, many incredible things. Over his years as a Christian nationalist leader, author, and self-described “high risk missionary” the Republican Party nominee for governor in Colorado has boasted of having personally rescued thousands of people from conflict zones and attaining multiple black belts in various martial arts. After Marx launched his political career last year, these claims have been extensively questioned. Yet, even with all of these dubious heroics, there is probably no wilder part of Marx’s mythos than his stories about performing what most people might call exorcisms and engaging in “demonic warfare.” Now, Talking Points Memo has unearthed audio of Marx detailing one of these encounters with arguably the most powerful demon of them all. “Hey, I’ve met the devil,” Marx said. “l’ve met Satan in person, through a person.”

Canada’s last captive whales are set to leave the country today as the six belugas from Marineland are headed to two aquariums in the United States.

Money intended for treatment of the opioid crisis and insurance fees to stop auto part theft have instead gone to installing AI-fueled license plate readers.

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Trump administration, former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested on Saturday.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

According to official figures only 1,811 cuttlefish turned up to mate this year, down 97% on last year.

A truck carrying an estimated 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was stolen in California in what may be the biggest beer heist ever.

Zachary Anthony Klein, a Lufkin police officer, faces charges after an affidavit alleged he used a Flock license plate reader to track people.

The Homeland Security Department has said Yiannopoulos, British conservative commentator and website editor, was issued a final removal order last month and will be deported from the U.S.