U.S.Associated PressNo kidding: California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires
Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. Targeted grazing is part of California's strategy to reduce wildfire risk because goats can eat a wide variety of vegetation and graze in steep, rocky terrain that's hard to access. The changes could raise the monthly salary of herders from about $3,730 to $14,000, according to the California Farm Bureau.
BusinessTheStreet.comBeyond 'Quiet Quitting': Another Workplace Trend Is Making Employers Even Angrier
DON'T MISS: While the practice does not come with a catchy term, working a side hustle that you keep quiet from your primary boss is definitely on the rise. In This Economy, The Side Hustle Life Is Very Real According to a wide-scale study conducted by consulting firm Deloitte, 46% of polled Generation Z workers and 37% of millennials said that they worked a second part-time or even full-time job in tandem to their main work. As first reported by Fortune Magazine, some of the most popular side hustles include selling online products, delivering food orders or working for a ride-share company and writing marketing materials on the side.
U.S.Deseret NewsWoman calls friend screaming for help; officers respond and find man assaulting her, police say
Mugisha Marie, 26, was arrested for investigation of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault causing serious injury and rape. Officers "forced entry" into the home through the back door and went downstairs to Marie's bedroom, where they found Marie on top of the woman pinning her down by her wrists with her hands above her head, according to the affidavit. The woman told officers she had gone to Marie's house to dance for him, and it was the first time they had met.
WorldAssociated PressReport: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons
At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country's powerful street gangs have died in state custody, according to a report released Monday by the human rights group Cristosal. None of those who died had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest. There were four women among the victims and the rest were men.
U.S.HuffPostRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Memorial Day Message Has A Massive Mistake
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sent out a Memorial Day message on Twitter ― but it was undermined by a very visible mistake. Greene's message contained a version of the U.S. flag with just 18 stars.
WorldINSIDERAn Iranian model wore a black dress with a neckline that looks like a noose on the Cannes red carpet in protest against executions in her home country
Iranian model Mahlagha Jaberi wore a black dress with a neckline that looks like a noose at the Cannes Film Festival last Friday. The 33-year-old was making a statement about the recent spate of executions carried out by Iranian authorities. Model Mahlagha Jaberi made a bold political statement with her outfit at the Cannes Film Festival last Friday, to protest against the recent spate of executions carried out by the Iranian government.
WorldAssociated PressNun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was exhumed in April, according to a statement from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri. The nuns had been preparing for the addition of a St. Joseph shrine, and that involved “the reinterment of the remains of our beloved foundress, Sister Wilhelmina,” the statement said. When they exhumed Lancaster, they were told to expect only bones, since she had been buried in a simple wooden coffin without any embalming four years ago.
U.S.Tacoma News TribuneThey can be the size of great white sharks and they swim in Puget Sound. Don’t catch them
A reclusive deep-water species that's generally found on the coast, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) biologists think that sixgill sharks come into Puget Sound to pup. While it's unknown how long they stay for (and what their population sizes and exact diets are), the shallower waters of the Puget Sound have enabled us to learn more about them. The Seattle Aquarium has been studying them since 2003 after they noticed the occasional sixgill underneath their pier.
PoliticsHuffPostTrump Campaign Gets Brutal Reminder After Memorial Day Video
But the 54-second clip shared by the @TrumpWarRoom account ― posted after Trump's unhinged, all-caps rant all about himself to mark the day on his Truth Social platform ― prompted a deluge of critical comments. Twitter users highlighted the many insulting and offensive things the former president has said about veterans and military families. They also brought up Trump's multiple deferments to avoid combat in the Vietnam War, and his description of American war dead as “losers” and “suckers.
WorldReutersPutin says Ukraine drone strikes on Moscow aim to scare and provoke Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine's biggest ever drone strike on Moscow was an attempt to scare and provoke Russia, and air defences around the capital would be strengthened. Russia said eight drones targeted civilian areas of Moscow and the Moscow region - with a population of over 21 million - in the early hours of Tuesday but were either shot down or diverted with special electronic jammers. Putin cast the assault, which brought the 15-month war in Ukraine to the heart of Russia, as a terrorist response that came after Russia struck at Ukraine's military intelligence headquarters several days ago.
WorldINSIDERBenedict Cumberbatch and his family were threatened by an angry chef wielding a fish knife, who tried to attack their home and rampaged around their garden: report
A knife-wielding chef tried to attack Benedict Cumberbatch's London home, The Times reported. The chef also spat on their intercom and gouged it out with a fish knife, a court heard, per The Times. The actor and his family have seen "sleepless nights" since, a source told the Daily Mail.
U.S.Miami HeraldAlligator snapping turtles found in an unexpected part of Florida, baffling experts
Alligator snapping turtles can weigh more than 200 pounds, so it's tough to imagine a new population has just been discovered in Florida's Homosassa River. Where they came from and how they went missed are among the many questions state biologists are trying to answer, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Nine have been trapped, including one that weighed 99 pounds, the institute told McClatchy News.
U.S.Associated PressThe day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move to her new home — a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. The federal judge who sentenced Holmes, 39, in November recommended that she be incarcerated in a women's prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, located about 100 miles from Houston, where she grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Once she enters prison, Holmes will be leaving behind two young children — a son born in July 2021 a few weeks before the start of her trial and a 3-month old daughter who was conceived after a jury convicted her on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022.
U.S.LA TimesDeputy accused of being in 'Executioners' gang reveals tattoo in court, names names
When he stepped up to the witness stand last week, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jaime Juarez told the court about his first inking party — the day he got his Compton station tattoo. On Thursday afternoon, while testifying in a civil trial, Juarez pushed up a pant leg to reveal that tattoo: a helmet-wearing skeleton gripping a rifle. The rare and candid disclosure came in a case centered on the secretive world of deputy gangs, reports of which have plagued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for half a century and led to an array of investigations, studies and legal settlements.
BusinessBusiness InsiderA 24-year-old stock trader who made over $8 million in 2 years shares the 4 indicators he uses as his guides to buy and sell
His top 4 indicators The first indicator he uses as a sentiment guide is the volume-weighted average price (VWAP), which shows the average price paid for shares through all trading adjusted for volume. He uses it on the daily chart as a guide to determine a good buy-in price for the stock he's trading. This keeps him from being a chaser, the term popularly used for those who enter a position too late or after a stock begins to rally.
U.S.Reuters VideosMount Everest record-breaker sees 'no future' in Nepal
STORY: "This is Everest summit, May 23rd, my 28th summit of Everest." This record-breaking Sherpa says he's done climbing Mount Everest Location: Kathmandu, Nepal (Kami Rita, Mountaineer) “There is no future in Nepal, so why are we sitting here? Now, us climbers, we don't want to stay in Nepal.
BusinessINSIDERElon Musk warns house prices are set to plunge – and says commercial real estate is in meltdown
Brace for the intense pressure on commercial real estate to spread to house prices, Elon Musk says. Investors are worried about real estate in a period of higher interest rates and tighter lending. Elon Musk is once again ringing the alarm on the US real-estate sector.
PoliticsHuffPostBiden Has Priceless Response To Fox News Question On Possible Trump Pardon
President Joe Biden was asked on Monday if he or any other future president should consider a pardon for Donald Trump, who is facing potential federal charges in the classified documents probe. The question came from Peter Doocy of Fox News. “Did you see that Ron DeSantis said that if he became president he would pardon Trump?” Doocy asked.
WorldAssociated PressEx-El Salvador President Mauricio Funes sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs
A judge sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison Monday for negotiating with gangs during his administration. El Salvador changed its laws last year to allow trials in absentia. Prosecutors had accused Funes of illicit association and failure to perform his duties for the gang truce negotiated in 2012.
U.S.Fort Worth Star-TelegramLurking alligator traps swimmers on platform in middle of Texas lake, videos show
Swimmers were trapped on a raised platform in a Texas lake as an alligator lurked nearby, videos show. The videos shared Sunday, May 28, by a TikTok user showed dozens of swimmers along the Huntsville State Park shore while others were trapped on the platform. Alligators are among the creatures that live in the lake, which is in a northern suburb of Houston.
U.S.CNNA Maine state trooper shot at a truck approaching the US-Canada border with a sign indicating there was an explosive on board, police say
A Maine state trooper shot at a man's truck as he drove toward the Canadian border and refused to stop after the trooper observed a sign on the vehicle indicating the driver had an explosive inside, police say. The trooper first tried to stop the vehicle as it was heading north on Interstate 95 at around 10:39 a.m. Monday in Houlton, Maine, according to a statement from Maine State Police. “The vehicle continued northbound without stopping, and the Trooper observed a sign indicating that the operator had an explosive device on-board,” the statement said.
WorldReutersTurkey wants action from NATO hopeful Sweden over flag incident
Turkey called on NATO hopeful Sweden on Tuesday to prosecute those responsible for projecting the flag of an outlawed group onto the parliament building in Stockholm, on the day of Turkish elections that extended President Tayyip Erdogan's rule. A Swedish parliament spokesperson said a number of people projected messages onto the building in Sweden's capital late on Sunday, adding it had no documentation about what was projected. The warning could raise the stakes ahead of a mid-July NATO summit at which some alliance members are urging Turkey to back Sweden's membership bid, after a year of delays over concerns that Stockholm must do more to take on militant groups.
U.S.WTTGFalls Church Shooting/Stabbing Press Conference
people are victims in a shooting and stabbing incident near 2226 Pimmit Run lane in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County. At a press conference just prior to 6pm on Monday, Fairfax County Police deputy chief Eli Cory noted that they are looking into this double homicide and around 3:30pm, received word of a man shot. Upon arrival, police noted 2 males deceased - one died upon their arrival and the other, found in the parking lot, died at the hospital.
WorldBusiness InsiderThe harness-wearing beluga whale believed to be a Russian spy has popped up in Sweden, puzzling scientists who noted he's traveling 'very quickly away from his natural environment'
A beluga whale wearing a harness that read "Equipment St. Petersburg" appeared in Norway in 2019. Officials said they believed the trained whale was a Russian navy asset that may have escaped. On Sunday, the whale appeared in Sweden, moving further away from its natural habitat.
WorldReutersHaiti's deadly vigilante movement sees decline in gang violence - report
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Violence by armed gangs has fallen "drastically" since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday. The situation in the Caribbean country remains extremely volatile as heavily armed gangs continue to drive a humanitarian crisis that has displaced tens of thousands amid frequent kidnappings for ransom, gang rapes, tortures and murders. The vigilante movement, known as "Bwa Kale", began after residents of the capital Port-au-Prince lynched and set fire to over a dozen suspected gang members in the early morning of April 24.
