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In dozens of tributes, Dan Jenkins — who died at 90 on March 7th in his birthplace of Fort Worth, Texas — was cited as the most influential and/or the greatest sportswriter, period, of all time. The author of 23 books and untold hundreds of articles and columns was at …

Ashley Graham was discovered in a Nebraska mall at age 12 and started modeling soon after. She later became the first size-16 woman to cover Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue in 2016. The next year, she was the first curvy model to walk the Michael Kors runway at New York Fashion …

Pamela Adlon opensed up for the first time in a new interview about her life in the aftermath of sexual misconduct claims against her friend and collaborator, Louis C.K. The Better Things co-creator previously issued a statement saying she was “devastated by and in shock after the admission of abhorrent …

This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his plan to legalize recreational marijuana in the state. The proposed Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act would restrict sales to those over the age of 21 and seal convictions on criminal records for possession offenses that would no longer be illegal under …

The Menendez brothers may not be part of official collectible sets of killer trading cards — which sparked outrage when they were first introduced in 1992 and have continued to be controversial as new editions pop up every few years — but their surprise cameo on an NBA trading card …

At Purdue Pharma’s launch party for OxyContin in 1996, one of the company’s owners, Dr. Richard Sackler, told the audience to imagine a series of natural disasters — an earthquake, volcanic eruption, hurricane — before gleefully predicting that the opioid painkiller would generate “a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury …

From where we sit,Dr. Deathresoundingly wins the award for most disturbing podcast of 2018. Produced by Wondery, the network behindDirty John,this gripping series manages to make an extreme case of medical malpractice addictively compelling. Hosted and reported byscience journalist Laura Beil,Dr. Deathtells the story ofDr. Christopher Duntsch, a now-47-year-old neurosurgeon …

In 2018, pot reached a tipping point. A clear majority of Americans now wants to see the drug made fully legal. California and Canada began selling marijuana to anyone over 21. Corporate behemoths like Altria (parent company of Marlboro cigarettes) and Constellation Brands (parent of Corona beer and Svedka vodka) …

It would be an understatement to say that 2018 was a good year for true-crime podcasting —in fact, there’s a bit of a glut in the crime market these days. The soaring popularity of shows like My Favorite Murder, Casefile and Up and Vanished has fired up the imaginations of …

Once producer Harvey Weinstein exited a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, after learning that he would stand trial on sexual assault charges, the group of women —sitting all in a row, breaths held under their identical black T-shirts — finally could exhale. Standing up, the sweaters and blazers they were required …