“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me.” That’s how E. Jean Carroll opened her testimony on Wednesday against Donald Trump in Manhattan Federal Court, according to the Associated Press. She continued, “When I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here …
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One of the roommates of the University of Idaho students killed last November is trying to quash a subpoena demanding she attend an upcoming hearing for suspect Bryan Kohberger, NBC News reports. The fight is over whether Bethany Funke should have to attend a preliminary hearing in Kohberger’s case, reportedly …
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Former Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence following her conviction on manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright. Potter was released on Monday, the Minnesota Department of Corrections said, according to CNN. She will be on …
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It’s another day, and there’s another bizarre glitch in the Twitterverse. This time it involves paid Twitter Blue badges suddenly proliferating on accounts that reportedly have at least one million followers, except the account holders have not enrolled in the subscription service. In fact, some of the account holders are …
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Koko Da Doll, the star of the Sundance hit documentary Kokomo City, was found murdered in Atlanta on Tuesday. She was 35. According to the Atlanta Police Department, on Tuesday at 10:42 pm, officers responded to reports of a woman shot in the Westhaven neighborhood of Atlanta and found the …
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Alix Earle is reflecting on her career as a TikTok creator. In a new interview for Rolling Stone‘s Creator Issue, the Internet personality looked back on how she was able to build a following of 5 million followers on TikTok by being honest about her struggles with her skin. “Sharing …
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Ralph Yarl’s classmates gathered for a unity walk Tuesday, April 18, to show their support for the Black 16-year-old, who was just released from the hospital after being shot twice by a white man last week. Per KSHB 41 in Kansas City, about 1,500 students and some staff marched around …
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The estate of Tyre Nichols has filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis, the city’s police department, and the officers in the SCORPION Unit whose encounter with Nichols ultimately resulted in his death days later. The lawsuit, filed in a Tennessee federal court Wednesday on behalf of Nichols’ …
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In the spring of 2022, two men were drugged and robbed after leaving gay bars in New York. Both died from their overdoses, setting the city’s LGBTQ community on edge at a time when they were already facing an increase in legislative attacks from the right. On Wednesday, authorities announced …
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The man charged in the shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl after he rang the wrong doorbell has pleaded not guilty to first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old man accused of shooting Yarl twice, entered the plea in a Liberty, Missouri courtroom Wednesday, six days after …
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