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In 2019, I walked away from my dream job, as editor-in-chief of Deadspin, three months after a private equity firm bought our parent company. Our new CEO seemed categorically uninterested in the work we did, what made us successful, or even what we could improve; he just wanted to issue …

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office filed an 82-page document in their case against Luigi Mangione at the New York County Supreme Court on Wednesday. In the document they provided images of what they say are handwritten notes Mangione wrote in the months leading up to the assassination of United Health …

After an eight-year gaming journey encompassing the longest console cycle Nintendo’s ever had, it’s finally time to turn the page with the launch of Switch 2. The new hybrid console, which works both as a handheld and home system just like its predecessor, has a lot to live up to. …

A non-dissemination order has been instituted to temporarily halt the release of records in the case of influencer Emilie Kiser suing to keep the records of her three-year-old son’s drowning death private, according to a filing in the Superior Court of Arizona. On May 18, Trigg Kiser, son of mom …

The male loneliness epidemic has struck once again, with tech oligarch Elon Musk and President Donald J. Trump going their separate ways after a roughly year-long friendship based on unprecedented political spending and mutual corruption. C’est la vie, n’est-ce pas? Supposedly, the cause of this bromance breakdown was the “big, …

It’s been eight years since the last time a Mario Kart game was released for a Nintendo console, but the wait is nearly over. And while 2017’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe may have missed the exact launch of the original Nintendo Switch, fans worldwide can rev their engine’s right at …

Tom Girardi, the estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsstar Erika Jayne, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison for embezzling “tens of millions of dollars” of settlement money that belonged to his clients. Girardi was disbarred in California in July 2022. “This self-proclaimed ‘champion of justice’ …

Eight people were injured and some burned at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, authorities said on Sunday. A man was taken into custody in the attack at 13th and Pearl Street, a popular pedestrian mall downtown, police said. FBI agents are also investigating what the agency has described as …

An oral history of the rise and fall of one of the greatest rock bands. A tell-all memoir about the secret queer life of an old-Hollywood star. A 1983 sibling feud that starts with a rager and ends with a cliffside house fire. A once-in-a-generation sports talent ditching retirement for …

The man suspected of using a “makeshift flamethrower” and throwing Molotov cocktails that burned multiple victims at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday has been charged with a federal hate crime. The suspect, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is accused of throwing “an incendiary device” into …