In a country with sane politics, the most generous thing an elected official could say about Kyle Rittenhouse is that he made a string of terrible decisions and then tragically killed two people in self defense. The other option would be to accuse him of murder. But the United States …
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Alex Jones was found guilty by default in a defamation case filed by the families of eight people killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, The New York Times reports. The ruling came down Monday, Nov. 15, that Jones was guilty because he …
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It’s no secret that Ed Sheeran has historically been considered, for lack of a better term, uncool. The Brit’s musical output skews on the schmaltzier side, and tracks like “Perfect” and “Thinking Out Loud” have traditionally been considered wedding dance songs or the soundtrack for freshman high schoolers’ first experience …
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Gabby Petito’s father, Joe Petito, has asked for the same attention given to Gabby’s case to be paid to other missing persons. “I wanna ask everyone to help all the people who are missing and need help,” he said Tuesday, as Petito’s family announced a foundation in her honor to …
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Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. has been granted unconditional release in June 2022 by a federal judge. Hinckley — who injured then-President Ronald Reagan and three other people in 1981 outside a hotel in Washington, D.C. — also apologized Monday to the people he shot, the American people, and …
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Audible, Inc. has announced a new true-crime podcast series, Chasing Ghislaine, which will investigate the decades-long saga of Jeffrey Epstein‘s alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. Hosted by journalist andNew York Times bestselling author Vicky Ward,Chasing Ghislaine will premiere July 15th and conclude just before Maxwell’s trial for her alleged involvement with …
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Track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson could miss the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana, The New York Times reports. The 21-year-old sprinter, who won the women’s 100-meter race at the U.S. track and field trials in Oregon last month, accepted a one-month suspension after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency …
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On Friday, a Minnesota judge sentenced white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, the black, unarmed father of five whose neck Chauvin pressed his knee into for nine-and-a-half minutes on May 25, 2020. The killing sparked weeks of worldwide …
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Before there was Be More Chill,before there wasSpring Awakening,before teens were swiping on purple eyeliner and lipsynching to Beetlejuice’s “Dead Mom” on TikTok, there was Rent. The iconic rock musical was a multicultural paean to the lives of impoverished musicians, filmmakers, philosopher-poets, kinksters, runaways, and junkies struggling to survive in …
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has a new memoir coming out on April 6th. The book, titledBeautiful Things, will center on Biden’s ongoing struggles with substance abuse, according to its publisher Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Although acquired in late 2019, the memoir was reportedly …
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