WATCH: New video shows plane crashing off Florida beach
Authorities have charged Ryan Bassham after the deadly explosion at the marijuana extraction facility he owns
An Oklahoma man has been charged with murder after a large explosion at a marijuana extraction facility that killed two of his employees and damaged surrounding businesses, prosecutors said on Monday.
Ryan Bassham, 35, turned himself in this weekend after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder in Thursday’s blast at Solos Extracts near Tulsa, authorities said. The explosion at about 1am partially tore the roof from a building, crumpled doors and scattered debris around an industrial park.
Continue reading...
© Photograph: KFOR/AP

© Photograph: KFOR/AP

© Photograph: KFOR/AP

© Manami Yamada/Reuters
From wedding ceremonies to sunsets with pumpkins, even in urinals, Kusama’s work brought joy, mischief and inspiration to so many
I have always loved Yayoi Kusama’s work, and when I visited an exhibition of hers on a gap year in Sydney I was spellbound by her infinity mirror rooms. I immediately thought, despite being single at the time, this is a fantastic space to propose in. Fast forward around eight years and I am on one knee holding a ring out to my partner inside an infinity mirror room in Helsinki, with excited and expectant Finns looking on. He said yes. At the wedding, the breakfast was held under polka dotted pink lanterns. Kusama was a fantastic artist, who also protested for my ability to marry – performing her own gay wedding ceremonies before it was legally recognised – and inspired key aspects of my wedding. Liam, 40, Surrey
Continue reading...
© Photograph: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images

© Photograph: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images

© Photograph: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images

A decade after Kaepernick’s quiet protest shook the NFL, his exile looks less like an aberration than a blueprint for the culture war that followed
America likes nice round numbers, perfect for anniversaries and reflections, and it has, suddenly, been 10 years since Colin Kaepernick first protested police killings – more accurately, police killings of Black people that went unpunished either internally or by the courts – by taking a knee during the national anthem for the entirety of the 2016 NFL regular season. He never played in the league again.
Ten years covers a lot of ground, especially in these years of American darkness, and many of the important details surrounding Kaepernick, his banishment and significance have disappeared, time replaced by more time and more darkness – time moving faster than ever, at internet speed, where nothing matters, where nothing sticks. We consume by clip, by click, by meme, and knowledge by meme is not knowledge at all.
Continue reading...
© Composite: Guardian Design

© Composite: Guardian Design

© Composite: Guardian Design

Система работает и разбирает документы. Претензия у меня к ней одна, зато неустранимая изнутри: я не могу доказать ни одно из полученных значений.
Ниже — опись. По каждому полю: как оно читается, чем проверяется и чего эта проверка стоит. Последняя строка описи самая интересная, потому что напротив неё не стоит ничего.
Читать далее
© Nic Antaya for The New York Times