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Deepfake porn is a potent new weapon for harassment - and it's not a coincidence Swift has become its most prominent victimTaylor Swift is having quite a month. The singer-songwriter saw her image in disgusting deepfake porn images that were circulated online, prompting a necessary and overdue conversation on how AI and deepfake porn is used to harass, humiliate, degrade, threaten, extort and punish (mostly) women. And then her boyfriend, the football player Travis Kelce, saw his team make it to the Super Bowl, which set off a wave of rightwing anti-Swift hysteria and conspiracy theorizing. The most powerful pop star in the world has everything going for her - and has also become an avatar for widespread anxieties about female power, sexuality and gender politics.Deepfake porn brings up a whole host of moral, ethical, philosophical and legal questions. Those questions grow even more complicated when applied to celebrities. A famous 1988 first amendment free speech case in the US pitted the pornographic magazine Hustler against the homophobic and misogynist evangelical activist Jerry Falwell. Continue reading...

No one else on board single-engine plane that crashed at busy junction along golf course by Buchanan Field airport in ConcordThe pilot of a single-engine plane was killed on Tuesday when the aircraft crashed on a city street near a small San Francisco Bay Area airport, authorities said.The crash was reported at about 11am at a busy intersection along a golf course adjacent to Buchanan Field airport in Concord, officials said. Continue reading...

Exclusive: union's president, Sean O'Brien, accused of having publicly humiliated' Black and Hispanic workersThirteen former Black and Hispanic employees for the Teamsters International Union filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the union and its president, Sean O'Brien, alleging racial discrimination over their firings after O'Brien assumed the helm in March 2022.The lawsuit was filed in Washington DC last February, alleging violation of the DC Human Rights Act. The Teamsters paid $2.9m to settle the lawsuit, according to three union officials. Continue reading...

Aircraft maker suspends financial guidance as it grapples with serious challenge' of winning back trust amid 737 Max 9 crisisBoeing faces a serious challenge" to win back the confidence of regulators and airlines, its CEO has said, as the aircraft maker faces intense scrutiny after a cabin panel blowout.Dave Calhoun acknowledged the business has much to prove" since a brand-new 737 Max 9 jet was forced into an emergency landing earlier this month. Continue reading...

Kevin Konther, 58, convicted of rape of girl in 1995 and woman in 1998, confessed to crimes in secret recordingsA California man who attempted to blame his identical twin brother for rapes he committed in the 1990s has been sentenced to 140 years in prison.Kevin Konther, 58, of Highland, California, was sentenced after being convicted of the rapes of a girl in 1995 and a woman in 1998, the Orange county district attorney's office said in a statement.Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html Continue reading...

Errant payments and instruction to return them has drawn bipartisan ire in state in which average teacher pay is $54,800With four young children and a fifth on the way, Kristina Stadelman was ecstatic after qualifying for a $50,000 bonus for taking a hard-to-fill job as a special education teacher in Oklahoma. She used the money to finish home improvements and buy a new car for her growing family.Then a letter arrived from the Oklahoma state department of education: it told her she received the money in error and must repay it, quickly. Continue reading...

Rory McIlroy has 'changed his tune' and now believes that there should be no penalty for LIV rebels who want to return to play on traditional golf tours. After taking an initial hardline stance against the LIV Golf Series, McIlroy said: 'I've come to the realisation I'm not here to change people's minds, I'm here to just try, especially when I was at the board level, trying to give them the full picture of where things are at and hopefully where things are going to go. They can do with that information what they want. But at the end of the day I think I'm done with trying to change people's minds and trying to get them to see things a certain way.' A deal is currently in the works, of which McIlroy was very supportive. 'The sooner that we can all get back together and start to play and start to have the strongest fields possible I think is great for golf,' he said.

Despite his tough early life, the footballer Patrice Evra went on to captain Manchester United and France. Now, he hopes to use his experience to help in the fight to protect children around the worldI bet that most people reading this have long abandoned their new year resolutions. For me, I'm sticking to mine. I like the discipline. They aren't for everyone, but they help me focus my mind, set my priorities and measure what matters.Childhood matters. But it seems we've forgotten that. Forgotten that happy, healthy adults grow from safe, stable children. Continue reading...

The actor, dancer and singer, who has died aged 91, did not just provide great entertainment on stage. She was an eloquent, mischievous chronicler of musical theatreChita Rivera had been answering questions about West Side Story for some 60 years when yet another journalist called her up to hear the story. You could have forgiven this indomitable triple-threat star - celebrated for her singing, acting and dancing - for going through the motions in a 15-minute phone interview. But seconds into what would be the first of a few conversations we had over the years, it was clear she'd be a hoot.I love that accent!" she mock-purred with a laugh before recalling the thick Manchester fog when she brought the show over in 1958. She was an anglophile and had happy memories of the show's London run, where she resumed the role of Anita. She'd recently given birth to Lisa, lovingly described as her Shark-Jet daughter": Chita's husband was Tony Mordente, who played one of the Jets, while Anita was with the Sharks. The gangs had rehearsed separately for the show in order to heighten tensions on stage - a phenomenal idea" from choreographer Jerome Robbins - so they'd tried to keep their romance secret. She brought a maternal quality to Anita's friendship with Maria but Rivera loved how saucy and passionate the character is too. Continue reading...

Republican-led committee sends two articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas to House of RepresentativesHouse Republicans voted along party lines after midnight on Wednesday to move toward impeaching the homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, for a willful and systematic" refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue.In a charge against a cabinet official unseen in nearly 150 years, the homeland security committee debated all day on Tuesday and well into the night before recommending two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the full House. Continue reading...

Far-right influencers claim singer is Pentagon asset' conspiring to manipulate' voters after rigged' Super Bowl favors Chiefs. Plus, documents show fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954Good morning.Taylor Swift is a Pentagon asset", an election interference psyop" who, with unnamed left-leaning forces, has conspired to rig" the Super Bowl and then endorse Joe Biden in the presidential election.Why else is Swift in the news? A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill yesterday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift posted on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days.Will social media platforms now start taking AI-generated porn seriously? Women who have been victims of the creation and sharing of nonconsensual deepfake pornography hope that this week's spotlight on the issue will force social media companies and legislators into action.What has Netanyahu said? On Tuesday, he repeated his vow not to pull troops out of Gaza until total victory", a reminder of the huge gap in the public stances of the warring sides over what it would take to halt combat even temporarily. Continue reading...

Gaza is on the brink of famine. If the US and UK fail to use every possible lever to stop the catastrophe, they will be complicitGaza is experiencing mass starvation like no other in recent history. Before the outbreak of fighting in October, food security in Gaza was precarious, but very few children - less than 1% - suffered severe acute malnutrition, the most dangerous kind. Today, almost all Gazans, of any age, anywhere in the territory, are at risk.There is no instance since the second world war in which an entire population has been reduced to extreme hunger and destitution with such speed. And there's no case in which the international obligation to stop it has been so clear.Alex de Waal is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University and the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine Continue reading...

Twelve of the agency's 13,000 Gaza employees were allegedly part of the 7 October attack - so the US and its allies are meting a horrific collective punishmentOn Friday, the United States suspended funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main lifeline for millions of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Multiple western countries then followed the US's lead. The given reason? The Israeli government alleges that a dozen people working for UNRWA (which employs around 13,000 people in Gaza alone) were involved in the assaults of 7 October that killed around 1,200 people in Israel.There should be no question that the 7 October attacks were atrocities. But to punish the UNRWA - and, by extension, the Palestinian people as a whole - because of accusations against 12 people is unconscionable. It is an act of political retaliation that puts the lives of millions of people needlessly at risk and an abdication on an international scale of the United States' supposed western liberal values.Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Men's sport can be a hard place. But a rising number of stars are choosing to express themselves even if it annoys those with more old-fashioned viewsUSC quarterback Caleb Williams would appear to have a firm enough grip on football to project as the first pick in this year's NFL draft. But there's something about the Heisman trophy winner that keeps throwing off fans and talent evaluators alike, and it's right at his fingertips.Williams, you see, is one of those guys who decorates his nails, unveiling a new paint scheme every time he takes the field and drawing criticism for spelling out foul messages to opponents across his fingers. His gameday tradition dates back four seasons, to Williams's high school senior year, and takes inspiration from his mother, who is a nail technician. You gotta keep your hands fresh," Williams said. This is where all the gold comes from." Continue reading...

The LA Galaxy players who suddenly became team-mates of world's most recognizable athlete remember a regular dude' who helped a fledgling league to then-unthinkable heightsIn the midst of his prime, still the world's most recognizable athlete and on course to be a free agent in six months' time, David Beckham had the football world at his feet on 11 January 2007. That's why the news that broke that day - that the former Manchester United superstar was to leave Real Madrid at the end of the current La Liga season to join LA Galaxy in MLS - was so stunning.I'm coming there not to be a superstar," the 31-year-old said in a press conference to formally announce the move the following day. I'm coming there to be part of the team, to work hard and to hopefully win things. Continue reading...

Financial aid to UNRWA has dwindled since Israel's allegations over 7 October. Who will step in when its services shrink?Following allegations by Israeli intelligence that 12 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) participated in the violence initiated by Hamas on 7 October, and that UNRWA staff have ties to militants, many countries have halted their financial contributions to the agency.Within Israel, the reaction to criticism of UNRWA has largely been one of vindication. The energy minister, Eli Cohen, said the true face of UNRWA has been exposed!" The foreign minister, Israel Katz, cancelled a meeting with the UNRWA commissioner-general, Philippe Lazzarini, and wrote that supporters of terrorism are not welcome here". Israel Today's senior diplomatic commentator, Ariel Kahana, wrote that UNRWA is perpetuating the conflict", and that Israel has its first opportunity in 75 years to replace the agency, adding: We must not pass up on it."Etan Nechin is a writer based in New York and a contributor to HaaretzDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Nathan Wade enters temporary agreement' with estranged wife and avoids testifying on reported relationship with DA Fani WillisNathan Wade, the lead prosecutor in the case against Donald Trump over his alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election has entered into a temporary agreement" with his estranged wife, according to a filing posted on social media. This agreement means that special prosecutor Wade will avoid having to testify in a court hearing that was scheduled for Wednesday.During the now-canceled hearing, Wade was expected to shed light on his financial dealings and purchase of plane tickets for himself and Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis in 2022 and 2023, according to the Washington Post. The pair have been under increased scrutiny since 8 January when Michael Roman, a veteran Republican operative and one of the former president's co-defendants filed a motion to Fulton county's superior court that sought to disqualify Willis and Wade from the case. Continue reading...

Oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev had accused Sotheby's of conspiring with dealer over pieces including Salvator Mundi, which later became the most expensive art sold at auctionA US federal jury has ruled in favour of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of defrauding him out of tens of millions of dollars in art sales.Rybolovlev had accused Sotheby's of conspiring with Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier to trick him into paying inflated prices for four works including Salvator Mundi, a depiction of Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that would become the most expensive artwork sold at auction. Continue reading...

Current definition was factor in Carroll's sexual abuse case, which was highlighted by Governor Kathy Hochul at bill ceremonyNew York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.The state's current limited definition was a factor in writer E Jean Carroll's sexual abuse and defamation case against Donald Trump. The jury in the federal civil trial rejected the writer's claim last May that the former president had raped her in the 1990s, instead finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. Continue reading...

Aimenn Penny, 20, had firebombed the church in Chesterland in protest of a planned drag brunch and children's story hourAn Ohio man, who had allegedly been a member of a neo-Nazi white lives matter' group, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for firebombing a church that planned to host drag events, the US justice department announced on Tuesday.After making and throwing two Molotov cocktails at the Community Church of Chesterland in Chesterland, Ohio, on 25 March 2023, Aimenn Penny was arrested on federal charges for using fire to commit a federal felony, malicious use of explosive materials, and possessing a destructive device. Continue reading...

State senator Anthony Kern, who was a fake pro-Trump elector in 2020, says legislature should choose electorsA proposal from an Arizona lawmaker calls for the state legislature to decide on presidential electors instead of adhering to a popular vote.The state senator Anthony Kern, a Republican, served as a fake elector in 2020, falsely asserting that Donald Trump won the state. Those involved in the fake electors schemes in several states have been charged. In Arizona, the fake electors are under investigation by the Democratic attorney general, her office has confirmed. Kern also attended the 6 January 2021 rally at the US Capitol. Continue reading...

GOP moves forward with efforts to impeach homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they lambast Biden border dealA partisan showdown was on display on Tuesday as House Republicans attempted to escalate immigration and border issues on two fronts.Republicans moved forward with efforts to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, as they lambasted the border deal recently brokered between the Joe Biden White House and a bipartisan group of senators, in a split-screen that Democrats criticized as hypocritical. Continue reading...

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Iran-backed militia Washington blamed for attack announces it has suspended anti-US operationsJoe Biden has said he has decided how to respond to a drone strike in northern Jordan which killed three American soldiers and wounded dozens more, as the Iran-backed militia that Washington blamed for the attack said it had suspended anti-US operations.As Washington pondered its response, Kataib Hezbollah announced the suspension of all its military operations against US troops in the region, claiming the decision was intended to prevent embarrassment" to the Iraqi government. Continue reading...

Bush says allegation she used funds for security services untrue but that she is fully cooperating' with DoJ investigationThe congresswoman Cori Bush has confirmed that the US Department of Justice is investigating whether the Missouri Democrat misused campaign funds for security services, an accusation she denied as simply false".In a statement, Bush said her campaign was fully cooperating" with the investigation and said she had always complied with all applicable laws and House rules". Continue reading...

Board of elections decision decided on narrow procedural grounds and will likely be appealedThe Illinois board of elections has voted unanimously to keep Donald Trump on its primary ballot, rejecting objections brought by voters who challenged Trump's eligibility on grounds that he had aided in insurrection on January 6.The decision was made on narrow procedural grounds, and is almost certain to be appealed. It is just the latest in a mixed series of official rulings on whether Trump can appear on the ballot amid a wave of challenges to his candidacy in multiple states. Continue reading...

Scientist investigating strange noise in Tampa neighborhood says penetrating sound of black drum fish calls may be to blameA strange noise that for years has been bothering residents of Florida could actually be the sound of fish mating - loudly.Residents of a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, have been frustrated by a mysterious bass sound in their surroundings, the Washington Post reported. Continue reading...

Woman was wounded after falling in trash bin, which was then emptied into sanitation truck, and compacted up to four timesA New Hampshire woman was critically wounded after she fell into a large trash bin and then was tossed into a garbage compacting truck.A top emergency response official in the city of Manchester said crews were greeted with a remarkably unusual scene after the woman in question fell into an apartment complex's garbage bin while taking out some trash. She stayed in the bin until a sanitation truck arrived to empty the contents of the bin. Continue reading...

Expensive, crowded and hard to get around - the Nevada resort finished bottom in a poll ranking the best cities to visitName: Las Vegas.Age: 119 years old. Continue reading...

Families who fought for children's healthcare rights say they are considering leaving the stateLast week, the Ohio legislature voted to override the Republican governor Mike DeWine's veto of HB68, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. The veto marks the end of a yearlong effort by LGBTQ+ activists to block HB68's passage. Starting this April, Ohio doctors are prohibited from prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapy to any trans patient under 18.Ohio is now the 23rd state to pass restrictions on trans healthcare for minors (though courts have blocked a handful of those measures). It could also become the second state to restrict care for adults, through draft rules are currently open to comments from the public. Continue reading...

A new parliamentary report damns the music business for its sexism - and the situation is even worse for Black women

A high court ruling marks the climax of Fox's comic unravelling. Now let's focus on the figures who pull his stringsDid some randos calling him a racist" on the platform formerly known as Twitter cost Laurence Fox his acting career? No, suggests a judgment from the high court, where a judge also found the actor turned thought leader to have defamed said randos by calling them paedophiles". You can't just call any old person a paedophile, apparently - unless you're the owner of Twitter/X, of course, and you get sued in the US as opposed to the UK, like Elon Musk did by that Thai cave rescue diver a few years back. Appearing on the steps outside a Los Angeles courtroom following his favourable verdict, Musk declared: My faith in humanity is restored". These were not the words of Laurence Fox yesterday.Instead, the Reclaim party leader and Hunter Biden biopic star offered a nine-minute monologue outside the high court that had a distinctly after lunch" feel to it. What we've got, after several million quid, is a nothing burger," elucidated Fox. Laurence was wearing glasses with transition lenses, which - and like him, I'm just making a rhetorical point here - always look like a come-and-get-me plea to the beast wing at HMP Full Sutton. He was accompanied by his girlfriend, Liz Barker. Liz believes the moon landings were faked, and has previously stated she doesn't buy the whole theory of human evolution from apes. (No. I think we come from another race.")Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Human Rights Campaign recorded the introduction of 550 bills last year, with more than half targeting LGBTQ+ youthCiting what it calls the most damaging and destructive legislative session on record", the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Tuesday published its annual state-by-state scorecard of policies, laws and services.The 2023 state equality index documents a broadening push towards state-sanctioned discrimination" - the elimination or restriction of rights and protections for trans and non-binary communities in Republican-controlled states, which the HRC had already declared a national emergency. Continue reading...

Police believe priceless' artwork The Schoolmistress was stolen by three men working for a then local city council memberA priceless 18th-century painting has been reunited with the original owner's son more than a half century after New Jersey mobsters stole it.Dr Francis Wood inherited the painter John Opie's The Schoolmistress but had to wait 54 years to receive it after it was stolen. Continue reading...

Blow to Joe Biden, who had hoped to benefit from lower pump prices in an election yearSaudi Arabia has cast doubt on the future of the global oil market after abandoning plans to grow its crude production capacity by 1m barrels a day.The world's biggest exporter signalled a big change in policy by ordering the state oil company, Saudi Aramco, to drop plans to expand its maximum production capacity to 13m barrels a day by 2027. Continue reading...

Former Elle writer says $83.3m defamation ruling shows Trump - who she compared to a walrus snorting - can be knocked down'

Countries such as Australia should be alert to the worst-case scenario: a war with existential risksThe environment in the Asia-Pacific is less alarming than it was a year ago. Washington and Beijing are talking again. So are Canberra and Beijing.The United States is focused, externally, on the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war and, internally, on this year's presidential election. China is preoccupied with stabilising and energising its domestic economy. Continue reading...

When contractors hide in laybys to catch offenders, it's about more than just public decency and hygiene. It's about moneyWild weeing - outdoors, wherever the mood takes you, rather than in some tiled facility designed for the purpose - is not like wild swimming. It doesn't have disciples, people don't yammer on about it, and you won't find articles about where's best to do it and how freeing it is. It seems to be an entirely personal preference, unfreighted by cultural association. I know someone who split up with a woman because she took an adventure wee while hiking. I know someone else who wees in his garden when his toilet is closer. I personally look down on it as a sign that you drink too much water.As an inalienable right of the free, however, people do seem to be quite attached to it - as Dacorum borough council in Hertfordshire discovered when they fined two men, one of whom has a weakened prostate, for weeing in a layby near some woods. Lawyers weighing in for and against the council subsequently have been careful to distinguish between rural and urban wild weeing, the latter being more likely to class as litter, because it would leave more trace. I don't even agree with that; the trace is part of the charm. If you couldn't catch the scent of urine on the air, would you even know you were in the West End? But don't listen to me, I disapprove of water.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Advisory covers older models of Corolla, Matrix and Rav 4 whose airbag inflator could explode and potentially kill motoristsToyota said on Monday it is urging the owners of 50,000 older US vehicles to get immediate recall repairs because an airbag inflator could explode and potentially kill motorists.The Japanese automaker said the do not drive" advisory covers some 2003-04 model year Corolla, 2003-04 Corolla Matrix, and 2004-05 Rav 4s with Takata air bag inflators. Continue reading...

Yes, critics help us make sense of the millions of songs released every month - but the best writing transcends the musicLast week, it was announced that the influential and widely read music website Pitchfork was being folded into men's magazine GQ, with the loss of many jobs.The title, which started as a blog in 1996, rapidly rose to become the dominant voice in music criticism for millennials. To many of the site's millions of monthly readers this news means a great deal more than simply the decline of a large website: they see this, with some justification, as an existential threat to worthwhile music criticism itself. Continue reading...

Representative has become his most powerful ally in Congress - and her name is frequently mentioned as a potential running mateAs Donald Trump aggressively fights multiple legal and political threats, New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik has become his most powerful ally in Congress in key ways by echoing Trump's dangerous falsehoods and pushing outlandish conspiracy theories around the January 6 attack on the Capitol.To bolster Trump, Stefanik has mimicked Trump's calling convicted January 6 prisoners hostages", declined in a TV interview to say she would certify the 2024 election in advance, and filed ethics complaints against two judges overseeing cases against Trump or his allies. Continue reading...

Hamas and Islamic Jihad confirm three members killed during raid by undercover Israeli forces, some dressed as women or medical staff. Plus, shipwreck mysteriously appears on Newfoundland coastGood morning.Israeli security forces raided Ibn Sina hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and killed three Palestinians. Hamas has confirmed that one of the dead was a member, while Islamic Jihad claimed the other two.What is happening in Gaza? Hamas militants have returned to northern Gaza, where they are mobilising against Israeli forces and rebuilding a system of governance, aid officials, Gaza residents, analysts and Israeli officials say.What has the reaction been to the law? It immediately drew fire from district attorneys across the state - including Willis - who argued that it would be used to politically target progressive prosecutors. Willis flatly described the law as racist". Continue reading...

A Texas school is punishing a teenager for wearing his hair in neat locs. How is this still happening in 2024?A Texas court is set to decide next month if one of its school districts can continue to punish a Black teenager for refusing to cut his locs.Since last August, 18-year-old Darryl George has been kept out of his regular classroom at Barbers Hill high school in Mont Belvieu while he served in-school suspension and faced other disciplinary action because of his hair.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

I've flipped between denial, acceptance and moaning about the loss of this lovely and useful thing. I just hope it will be appreciated in its next homeMy bike got nicked last week, which initially presented itself as an experiment in consciousness, a magic realist problem: it had to be there, because that's where I'd left it. And yet it wasn't there. I spent a shamefully long time just staring at the place it had been. Later, I tried valiantly to insert some false memories, where I'd moved it somewhere else; then I went to look over there, where it still wasn't. I gazed around for security cameras, as if I would have a clue what I would do next if there were any. I've seen Slow Horses. All you need to do is find a camera, make a call and punch someone. But there weren't any cameras.The next morning, I returned to the area, just to do some more walking around. Maybe the thief had experienced a fit of conscience and abandoned the bike. Or had become somehow vexed by it. Maybe if I stood in the vicinity for long enough, the bike would scent me on the air and return of its own accord. Continue reading...

Rogue messes in the Venice neighborhood have been labeled with accusatory messages. No one knows who's behind themA street artist in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice is turning mounds of abandoned dog poop into tiny works of social commentary.For weeks, local residents say, pieces of poop on the side of the road have been marked with small white flags, each with a unique, aggrieved message for those who fail to clean up after their pets. Continue reading...