Authorities have arrested a man suspected of shooting five unhoused men — two fatally — in Washington, D.C., and New York City, NBC 4 in D.C. reports. The Metropolitan Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives made the arrest early Tuesday morning, March 15. The suspect …
Read More »Bill Cosby Accusers 'Hurt' and 'Nauseated' Supreme Court Won't Review His Release
Lili Bernard says she couldn’t help but feel “nauseated” Monday when she woke up to the news the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the stunning decision last year that overturned Bill Cosby’s criminal conviction. “It’s depressing and maddening – but not surprising. This is where our country is leaning,” …
Read More »California Woman Arrested for Allegedly Faking Her 2016 Kidnapping
Sherri Papini, the California woman whose ostensible kidnapping and three-week disappearance in 2016 became national news, was arrested Thursday, March 3, on charges that she allegedly faked her own abduction. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California confirmed Papini’s arrest and said she was charged with making …
Read More »Julia Fox Has the Internet in a Chokehold By Declaring Herself Josh Safdie's Muse in 'Uncuh Jamzzz'
It’s hard to scroll through TikTok these days without being confronted by the sound of Julia Fox‘s yassified pronunciation of her breakthrough filmUncut Gems. Her appearance on the podcastCall Her Daddy has prompted a new level of virality for the actress, New York City personality and solid candidate for most …
Read More »'It's Just a Whole Broken System': Olympic Gold Medalist Meagan Duhamel on Kamila Valieva Controversy
Meagan Duhamel, a 2018 Olympic gold medalist, describes the controversy over figure skater Kamila Valieva’s failed drug test and subsequent backlash as “heartbreaking.” On Thursday, tears rolled down the cheeks of 15-year-old Valieva after she failed to medal — and fell and stumbled a handful of times — at the …
Read More »Team USA Is Leading a Secret Protest Movement Inside the Winter Olympics
The athletes wouldn’t dare take a knee —not in China. There would be no fists raised toward Xi Jingping or Vladimir Putin in the skybox, what with endorsements on the line. But young activists had briefed more than two-dozen members of Team USA in the run-up to the Winter Olympics, …
Read More »Supervising Sergeant on Lauren Smith-Fields Case Retires, Two Detectives Suspended Amid Internal Affairs Investigation
The Bridgeport, Conn. police officer who was a supervisor on the case of Lauren Smith-Fields has retired and two other detectives have been suspended amid a national controversy over the department’s investigation into the 23-year-old Black woman’s death. Sergeant Joseph Morales of Bridgeport Police Department retired on Friday,a representative for …
Read More »Man Allegedly Fabricated SpaceX Job Offer Then Dismembered Parents When They Discovered His 'Web of Lies'
Like many Americans his age, 23-year-old Chandler Halderson spent the past year or so living at home with his parents. His father, Bart Halderson, and his mother, Krista Halderson, believed he was working remotely for a Wisconsin insurance company while finishing up his community college coursework from his room, according …
Read More »'Winnie the Pooh,' Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' and 400,000 Sound Recordings Enter the Public Domain
A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, classic novels by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie and hundreds of thousands of pre-1923 sound recordings are among the works that entered that public domain on New Year’s Day 2022. Dorothy Parker’s first poetry collection Enough Rope, William Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay, and books by Langston …
Read More »Anne Rice, 'Interview With the Vampire' Author, Dead at 80
Anne Rice, the author of gothic fiction whose novel Interview With the Vampire reinvented and revived the vampire genre, has died at the age of 80. Rice died Saturday following complications from a stroke, her son, author Christopher Rice, first confirmed to Anne’s Facebook page. “She left us almost nineteen …
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