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Before airing on HBO, the drama The Idol dominated headlines and social media for its controversies: At the Cannes Film Festival, where the first two episodes premiered, the series was widely panned for its graphic sexual content; it was rewritten and reshot after Sam Levinson, the creator of the series Euphoria, replaced Amy Seimetz as its director; and in March, Rolling Stone published an article detailing a troubled production.

Chicago police union President John Catanzara won a second term as the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7′s top official Friday.The union leader weathered a challenge from Detective Robert Bartlett, who argued in his campaign that Catanzara's confrontational style hurt the union's public image and effectiveness.

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You'd better hope Tesla's Full Self-Driving feature is all CEO Elon Musk makes it out to be, because as a Tesla driver, you may suddenly find yourself deprived of a steering wheel while on the road.Following two accounts of Tesla vehicles exhibiting such a shocking lack of quality control, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is now stepping in to launch an investigation into the automaker's 2023 Model Y SUV, The Associated Press reports.

A former MP accused of fraud went to his constituency office once or twice in six months and attended a staff meeting on some sort of substance, an ex-employee has told a court.Jared O'Mara, 41, who represented Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, told staff he wanted to put videos of himself doing comedic routines online and shouted and swore at employees who challenged him, jurors have heard.

The James Beard Awards are one of the biggest culinary awards in America, and the 2023 semifinalists for the prestigious award were announced Wednesday.San Francisco and the Bay Area landed semifinalists all throughout the long list, including longtime Japantown bakery Yasukochi's Sweet Stop appearing in the new Outstanding Bakery category.

Much of the public debate following the recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a pair of challenges to President Biden's student loan debt forgiveness program has focused on the legal merits of the policy.In particular, many critics of the court flagged how some of the Republican-appointed justices couched their hostility to the program in terms of unfairness, a policy concern far more than a legal one.

AUSTIN, Texas Educators are eyeing the happenings of the 88th Texas Legislative session cautiously and optimistically, as bills surrounding public education are filed and have the potential to lift some burden off their career field.Among those is the Texas State Teachers Association, the biggest teachers union in Texas, and the state affiliate of the National Education Association.

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Campbell's Chunky has partnered with popular streamer Nick "Nickmercs" Kolcheff to reach gamers in the lead-up to the Super Bowl.In doing so, the brand has implicitly acknowledged the ascendance of individual gaming influencers in the brand partnership arena - and the decline of organization-level esports sponsorships.

A collection of the latest and hottest design and development resources (Javascript libraries, CSS snippets, DeveloGraphic Design Resources, etc.) on the web from the last week (Week 24, 2023).Web Design & Development News: Collective #505
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The sky over Belmont Park had cleared, gone was the orange haze from Canadian wildfires that forced state officials to suspend racing and training two days before the final leg of the Triple Crown.Horse racing was to resume in a few hours as Bob Baffert hopped out of his black Escalade and pointed up.

Czechs started voting Friday for a new president, choosing between a retired army general and a populist billionaire in a two-day runoff election to succeed controversy-courting Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial post.Gen. Petr Pavel and Andrej Babis, who is a former prime minister, advanced to a second round of voting because none of the eight initial candidates received an absolute majority in the first round two weeks ago.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Viaplay drops its CEO as it reports a disappointing quarter; ITV and Publicis Media collaborate to launch an addressable audience partnership; and Twitter hires a former NBCUniversal exec as its head of brand safety departs.Viaplay ousts CEO after disappointing quarter
Netflix-rival Viaplay has ousted its CEO following a dismal quarter for the company.

Phillip Schofield quit ITV and admitted having an affair with a younger colleague, after earlier stepping down from This Morning.The presenter, 61, faced a number of controversies before leaving the ITV talk show on May 20 after more than 20 years.Headlines reported on a rift with long-time co-host Holly Willoughby, his brother's sex abuse trial and the furore over his visit to the late Queen's lying in state.

Phillip Schofield has been dropped by his talent agency after admitting he lied about a relationship he had with a younger male colleague at This Morning.The agency, YMU, said it had learned important new information about the presenter that contradicted what he had previously told them.On Friday, the former This Morning host announced he had quit ITV entirely, and would no longer be hosting the British Soap Awards.

Phillip Schofield, who on Friday resigned from ITV after admitting he lied about a relationship he had with a younger male colleague at This Morning, has faced several controversies in recent months.The veteran TV presenter, 61, announced he was stepping down from presenting the ITV talk show with immediate effect last weekend.

It's been a busy week for the Yankees!After taking three games out of four North of the Border, the team traveled to Cincinnati and swept the Reds to end their road trip and 17 straight days of games on a high note before finally getting the day off today.A 6-1 record over the past week was good enough to properly move them away from last place and into third in the divisional standings; hopefully they continue to climb higher in the upcoming week.

Iran on Monday removed its top national security official, one of the most powerful men in the country, after he came under scrutiny over his close ties with a high-ranking British spy.The security official, Ali Shamkhani, had been secretary of the Supreme National Council, which shapes Iranian security and foreign policy, for a decade, and before that worked at the Defense Ministry.

We should not rush to judgment too quickly in the case of Daniel Penny.Too many already have done that.Penny, 24, has been identified by his attorneys as the Marine veteran who was video-recorded choking Jordan Neely, 30, on a New York City subway train last week.He might conceivably have earned praise for helping subdue an erratic man who was homeless and exhibited mental illness in a city where disturbing subway encounters are a way of life.

A former MP tried to fraudulently claim up to 30,000 in taxpayers' money to fund an extensive cocaine habit, prosecutors have said.Jared O'Mara, 41, who represented the constituency of Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, is on trial for submitting dishonest invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, pictured here at a German factory in March 2022, faces a trial this week over his series of 2018 tweets teasing a Tesla buyout that never materialized.Patrick Pleul/AFP via Getty Images In 2018, before Elon Musk was making headlines for his role in running Twitter, he was making headlines for another Twitter-related controversy: allegedly using the platform to commit fraud.

As Christmas approached last year, astronomers and space fans around the globe gathered to watch the much-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.Though a wondrous piece of engineering, the telescope was not without its controversies - from being way over budget and behind schedule to being named after a former NASA administrator who has been accused of homophobia.

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One of the Bay Area-related displays at Las Vegas' Punk Rock Museum.The museum opened its doors on April 1, 2023.(Rae Alexandra)



Las Vegas, Nevada.Late Saturday afternoon inside the newly opened Punk Rock Museum.Eugene Hütz, frontman for Gogol Bordello, is giving a tour of the building to 20 or so fans.

"It don't change my life one bit.Not one bit, if the mainstream media wants to have a go at you, right?My life is still wonderful."Woody Harrelson isn't plumbing the depths of the internet and Googling himself.The "White House Plumbers" star revealed in a new Esquire cover story that not only does the star of the HBO limited series about Richard Nixon's top political operatives avoid reading the internet, but Harrelson also doesn't care about the backlash to any controversies surrounding him.

Keaton's return to the cape and cowl after a 30-year hiatus was an emotional experience for the actor.Despite the multitude of controversies surrounding Ezra Miller, " The Flash" has all the makings of the multiverse event of the summer.Both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton reprised their roles as Batman in the DC blockbuster, which earned a rapturous applause after screening at CinemaCon and is expected to be a massive hit for Warner Bros.
Affleck has been a regular presence in the DC Universe for years (despite repeatedly insisting that he's done playing Batman), but Keaton's return to the character was 30 years in the making.

This article is also a weekly newsletter.Sign up for Race/Related here.As the editors for Special Sections plan our large and popular Museums and Fine Arts & Exhibits sections in the spring and fall each year, we think about themes that will help us assign the most meaningful articles.Art institutions are reacting creatively to the challenges they face in attracting new audiences and remaining relevant to existing ones.

Less than a month after closing in Portage Park, for a myriad of reasons, noteworthy Chicago sausage spot the Hot Dog Box will reopen in a downtown food hall.Owner Bobby Morelli is bringing fan favorites like the Bronzeville Bourbon Dog and new submissions to the Loop, steps away from Daley Plaza.The new Hot Dog Box is scheduled to open on Monday, January 9 inside Urbanspace Washington at 15 W. Washington Street.

Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.Roberts instead referred the request from Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin to the Judicial Conference, which serves as the policy-making body of the federal courts.

If there's one recurring theme at this year's OFFF festival in Barcelona, it's that NFTs are so last year - and this year's hot topic is generative AI.And nobody is pushing the topic on stage more than Adobe, which this week made some pretty huge generative AI announcements of its own."Generative AI is here.

AI image and text generators have caused a lot of controversies, and many are still struggling to see the potential uses.But here we have a campaign that feels just like what the technology was made for, and it throws in everything, combining deepfake image alteration with a script generated by ChatCPT.

AI image generation has been causing huge controversy among illustrators, and now it looks set to do the same in photography.Until now, much of the focus of generative AI's abilities has been on illustration, but a popular French photography magazine has demonstrated just how far the technology has come when it comes to generating photorealistic images.

Character designers often have a hard task on their hands.Everyone has an opinion about the way their favourites should look, and interpretations of famous characters can often be controversial.This has been especially true this year, as we've encountered a whole lot of character designs that have caused a stir.

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Krzysztof Sywula's story has some thematic elements of the Netflix Glass Onion show.As he tells it, Sywula was at the Santorini Island Grill with Alexis DaCosta & Vincent Coletti talking about creating an improved app for ride sharing.During one of the meetings, Sywula apparently sketched-out a diagram on a napkin that he gave to DaCosta and that eventually served as a basis for the patent filings in this case.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has launched a criminal investigation into the behavior of several probation officers seen piling on top of a teenager and bending his legs toward his head in a video first revealed by The Times last week.Tiffiny Blacknell, chief spokesperson for the district attorney's office, said prosecutors "have obtained a copy of the surveillance footage depicting the incident" and will assign a deputy district attorney and investigator to the matter.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A former Labour MP has been found guilty of making fraudulent expenses claims to fund a cocaine habit while in office.Jared O'Mara was convicted of six counts of fraud after trying to claim around 24,000 of taxpayers' money for his extravagant lifestyle.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A former Labour MP has been found guilty of making fraudulent expenses claims to fund a cocaine habit while in office.Jared O'Mara was convicted of six counts of fraud after trying to claim around 24,000 of taxpayers' money for his extravagant lifestyle.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A former MP has been jailed for four years for cynical, deliberate and dishonest expenses fraud to fund a cocaine and alcohol driven lifestyle.Jared O'Mara abused his position by trying to claim about 52,000 of taxpayers' money for work that was never done and jobs that did not exist, a judge said.

A former MP had a dysfunctional office that was haemorrhaging staff at the time he is accused of making fraudulent expense claims, a court has heard.Jared O'Mara, 41, who represented the constituency of Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, is on trial for submitting fake invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).

A former MP accused of making fraudulent expense claims to fund a drug habit was thousands of pounds in debt with a dealer, a court has heard.Jared O'Mara, 41, who represented Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, did cocaine instead of going to Parliament, messages read to a jury said.He is on trial for submitting fake invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) in a bid to fraudulently claim up to 30,000 in taxpayers' money.

Speaking on Friday, Sir Mark reiterated his desire to restore trust between the UK's largest police force and Londoners amid a series of controversies which have eminated from the force.While admitting that no large organisation the size of the Met will ever be perfect, Sir Mark said he remained confident he will root out corrupt officers and restore public confidence in the police.

This is an undated handout photo issued by Hertfordshire Police of serving Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick.A London police officer on Monday, Jan, 16, 2023 admitted multiple counts of rape and sexual assaults on a dozen women over almost two decades.David Carrick, 48, pleaded guilty to 49 offenses, including some 20 counts of rape as well as assault, attempted rape and false imprisonment.

The three liberal justices of the Supreme Court appeared to deploy a fresh strategy Tuesday as they launched a disciplined and sustained effort to attack arguments put forward by challengers to President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.The question is whether the one-two-three punch from the liberals' attracted conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett and at least one more conservative justice.

It's one thing to say that UX practitioners work only with facts and are unwavering on a path to uncovering truths and nothing else.The reality can be much more complicated.In real scenarios, we need to know when to leverage assumptions to our advantage.And to decide on which grey areas to validate to be true/false, as time & resources are finite.

In a slew of recent trade reports, it has become clear that the Washington Wizards are really going to try and pay Kyle Kuzma a ridiculous amount of money rather than believe in Rui Hachimura.This, of course, makes perfect sense for the Wizards because they love to chase mediocrity.In the same wave of recent rumors that spread across the NBA like a wildfire, there were a few interesting names that seem intriguing for possible trades involving Hachimura.

Patriots The good, the bad, and the ugly times that left their mark on this year's Patriots team.The 2022 Patriots season was a roller-coaster ride that kept rolling until the Bills pulled away in the final quarter of the regular-season finale.Yes, there was plenty of pain watching the offense regress into a unit that could only muster 14 points against the worst team in the NFL.

The federal government is striking a task force to review whistleblower protections for federal civil servants, but an advocate for those very protections says he isn't happy with the move.Treasury Board president Mona Fortier announced the review at the end of November, but James Turk, the director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University, says it actually shows a lack of dedication to protect workers who raise concerns.

French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet has been forced to stand down just weeks after France's defeat in the World Cup final following a series of controversies, the body said on Wednesday.Published: 11 January 2023 17:18 CET The decision was taken following an emergency meeting of the FFF in Paris.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Richard Painter, former White House chief ethics lawyer, about ethical and legal implications of finding classified documents in an office that once belonged to Joe Biden.LEILA FADEL, HOST: OK, we just heard about how the media covered the discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center.