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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — unless you complain about it on social media. That’s what a disappointed group of MrBeast fans did when they realized a Sin City event advertised under his brand wasn’t going to happen, and they were each out $1,000. Avid followers of the …

Kim Kardashian will take the stand to testify at an upcoming trial of the suspects in the 2016 jewelry robbery in Paris, her lawyers said today. “We can confirm that Ms. Kardashian will be testifying in person at the upcoming French criminal trial involving the 2016 incident in which she …

The famed Sunset Strip bar repeatedly sued over claims it allowed adult film star Ron Jeremy to prey on its female patrons has reached settlements with the alleged victims, lawyers revealed at a court hearing Tuesday. The global deal involving at least nine women suing the Rainbow Bar & Grill …

When TikTok creator Franchesca Ramsey pops onto people’s for-you-pages, ukulele in hand, most people expect to hear a short but gospel tinged song about a fictitious political party themed on vicious and face-eating leopards. But this satirical song has a real-life story behind its rise on TikTok — and it …

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos‘ aerospace company Blue Origin doesn’t seem all that close to its stated objective of a world in which millions of people live and work in space. But when it comes to briefly launching celebrities out of Earth’s atmosphere, they’ve got the playbook down. On Monday morning, …

Erik and Lyle Menendez appeared by video in a California courtroom Friday and scored a legal victory when a judge said their resentencing hearing will move forward as planned next week, despite fierce opposition from Los Angeles County’s recently elected district attorney, Nathan Hochman. At a lengthy court hearing in …

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two fluffy, snow-white wolves that the company claims represent their first successful effort in “de-extincion.” The wolves, with longer, thicker, lighter-colored coats than …

Around this time every year, a wave of indie games begin to appear that will make their mark on players. Balatro in 2024, Dredge in 2023, and Sifu in 2022 are some examples of indie darlings that shaped the landscape for the months to come — drawing attention from AAA …

For more than a week, conservative news outlets and right-wing corners of social media have championed Stephanie Turner, 31, a fencer who took a knee and removed her mask to forfeit a tournament duel against Red Sullivan, 19, a transgender woman. But most discourse around the incident — in which …

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is there? “I — keep — seeing — weird — long — dashes — in …