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Charles Reich, the lawyer, professor and author who provided the intellectual framework for the counterculture with his 1970 book The Greening of America, died Saturday, The New York Times reports. He was 91. A cause of death was not revealed. Reich’s nephew and only survivor, Daniel Reich, confirmed his death. …

Cuba Gooding Jr., the Oscar-winning actor who starred in the acclaimed films Boyz N the Hood,Jerry Maguire,andSnow Dogs,turned himself in to the NYPD on Thursday after being accused of groping a woman. He was booked on charges of misdemeanor forcible touching and sexual abuse in the third degree. According to …

A majority of the United States has legalized cannabis in some way, and it’s very exciting, I get it. Fewer people are being arrested, more people are getting off opioids, and accurately dosed pot chocolates might be the best thing to happen to weekends since the invention of television. But …

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and top lawmakers in the state legislature have finalized a deal to legalize recreational marijuana, setting up a potential vote by the end of the month, NJ.com reports. Murphy, who was elected governor in 2017, campaigned on legalization and promised to enact it within his …

Given his infamously belligerent personality and predilection for public meltdowns (including one tantrum where he allegedly put out a cigarette in a plate of lox on a craft services table), it’s perhaps unsurprising that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been on less than great behavior in the months leading …

When Ashley Graham walked onstage in December to interview Serena Williams for the season finale of her podcast, Pretty Big Deal, she felt intimidated. As the crowd erupted into deafening cheers for the tennis icon, Graham gave herself a pep talk: “Own this shit, girl. You got it.” It’s a …

UPDATE: Robert Kraft has pleaded not guilty to charges of solicitation. His attorneys have asked for a bench trial, forgoing a jury. **** Robert Kraft, the 77-year-old owner of the New England Patriots, has officially been charged with soliciting a woman in connection with prostitution, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to …

Last Wednesday, I was on assignment at a high school basketball game in Chicago’s north suburbs, conducting interviews for a magazine profile about one of the nation’s top young recruits, when I received a startling text message from a fellow journalist: “Jill Abramson bit from one of your stories.” In …

Leslie Van Houten, who was 19 when she joined other followers of Charles Manson on a 1969 murder spree, is asking the state of California to release her on parole. Over the past five decades, the convict, now 69, has made nearly two dozen attempts to be freed from the …

Not since the The Full Monty has there been this much anticipation building around singing strippers on a theater stage. On Thursday, the producers of Magic Mike the Musical — Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan — announced the stage show will premiere …