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TOKYO >> Japanese rescuers rushed today to save people trapped in collapsed buildings after a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people.

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WASHINGTON >> Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing today, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination and accusing Republican Senator Rand Paul of an “unhinged” campaign to see him imprisoned.

An English professor at South Florida State College was fired for assigning an award-winning short story to her freshman class. Now Vinita Prabhakar is suing her former employer, claiming it breached her First Amendment rights. Prabhakar assigned Ottessa Moshfegh's "Bettering Myself," first published in The Paris Review and winner of the Plimpton Prize, to illustrate unreliable narrators. — Read the rest The post English professor, fired for assigning "political" short story, sues South Florida State College appeared first on Boing Boing.

With Law & Order: SVU Season 28 now filming on the streets of NYC, check out a look at Mariska Hargitay in full-on Capt. Olivia Benson mode.

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Replacing the text in popular comic strips is a common meme format, and few artists are displeased to see their work mutating online. Websites can generate these pics for users lacking image-editing skills. But when sites seek payment, a line is crossed. — Read the rest The post Cartoonist sues AI meme generator monetizing his work appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A 22-year-old man was critically injured this morning after his vehicle crashed through two utility poles in Pupukea on Oahu’s North Shore, trapping him beneath the wreckage, according to authorities.

X's lawsuit against the nonprofit organization incited wider debate about the influence that advertisers may be able to exert on right-leaning media.

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