Simone Biles is set to return to competitive gymnastics for the first time in nearly two years after she withdrew from some events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. USA Gymnastics announced that Biles would compete at the U.S. Classic, which will take place Aug. 4 and 5 outside of …
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Hans Niemann, the American 20-year-old chess grandmaster at the center of a scandal involving Magnus Carlsen, the game’s reigning superstar and former world champion, will not have the chance to seek damages over allegations of cheating that have hurt his professional standing. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig …
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YouTube star Colleen Ballinger, the creator of sketch character Miranda Sings, is speaking out for the first time after fans accused the creator of spending years using her power and fame to engage in toxic parasocial relationships with underage fans. But not in a statement. Instead, in true millennial cringe …
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Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Bryan Kohberger. Kohberger, 28, a former Washington State University graduate student in criminology, is accused of stabbing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in their off-campus apartment on Nov. 13, 2022. He was arrested on December …
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An extensive and detailed 128-page report from the U.S. Department of Justice details “numerous and serious failures” that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to die by suicide while in the care of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in 2019. A timeline chronicling Epstein’s arrest on July 6, when federal prosecutors charged …
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The mass shooter who killed five people at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ bar Club Q in November 2022 will spend the rest of their life behind bars after accepting a plea deal. Anderson Lee Aldrich was charged with 305 counts— including first-degree murder, attempted murder, assault, and bias-motivated crimes — …
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Everyone has a cousin or a boyfriend’s sister or a friend of a friend who claims to have almost been in, say, the Twin Towers during 9/11, or having narrowly escaped the jaws of death through a twist of providence that saved them from certain doom. On Sunday, a few …
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Director James Cameron appeared on ABC News after officials announced themissing Titan submersibleimploded underwater, killing the four passengers and a pilot onboard, just 200 meters off the bow of theTitanic wreckage. On Thursday, the Oscar-winning Titanic filmmaker told the outlet during an on-air interview that “many people in the community …
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What happens when the world’s biggest keyboard warriors vow to take it to the streets? Well, we might be closer to finding out than ever thanks to a recent online exchange between tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. The saga began on Tuesday when a tweet about Facebook potentially …
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The Titan submersible implosion was heard by a top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system, officials told the Wall Street Journal. The system, designed to detect enemy submarines, first heard the sub implosion hours after the craft began its journey, per the report. “The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of …
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