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F or Andrew Douglas, bottom was seven cops banging on the door of his apartment. He’d sharpened the knife “good,” filled the bathtub with water, and downed a vial of Coumadin to bleed out faster. Had his dad not sensed something and dialed 911, Andrew, a star baseball player turned …

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht, who was federally charged for setting the blaze that eventually became the massive and deadly Palisades Fire, which ravaged coastal communities of Los Angeles County throughout the month of January. Authorities mentioned various pieces of evidence that they …

For almost 30 years, the city of Wichita, Kansas was terrorized by a serial killer. He called himself BTK, a nickname patterned after the phrase “bind, torture, kill” —the signature way he would leave bodies for police to find. His victims varied, first a young family, then women of varying …

In the following excerpt from Misunderstood: A Memoir, NBA Hall of Famer Allen Iverson recounts how he wrestled with success, fame, and lofty expectations during his rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers — while also enjoying the hell out of his rising celebrity. I was back in Cleveland for our …

Brooklyn’s on fire. The intermittent pops of muzzle fire are drowned out as tank treads grind the asphalt down Washington Street toward the East River waterfront, where a 100-year-old carousel lays in ruin. As U.S. forces lay waste to the tourist spots and halal trucks in a deadly skirmish with …

If Silicon Valley is a cutthroat place, the AI industry is currently its most vicious arena. Tech giants developing large language models and text-to-video generators are spending billions on data centers in order to stay one step ahead — and, they hope, to meet exploding demand from users. It seems …

It all started with calf tightness. When Brooke Eby started walking funny in 2018, she thought it was a muscle issue. A business development manager then in her early twenties, Brooke was healthy, exercised, and had a pretty average work-life balance. But when her limp became pronounced enough that friends …

A 29-year-old has been arrested and charged with intentionally starting what became the deadly Pacific Palisades wildfire that killed 12 people and destroyed large swaths of Los Angeles earlier this year. Jonathan Rinderknecht of Florida was arrested Tuesday, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the …

More than eight months after the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles County was finally contained, the Department of Justice today announced that it had made an arrest in connection with the massive January blaze, which killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of structures in coastal communities, becoming one of …

If you scroll the internet for more than a few minutes, there’s a good chance you’ll see a particular phrase parried about in almost every cultural pathway: It girl. Popularized by British writer and director Elinor Glyn in the 1920s, the term it girl describes a woman whose charm is …