Days after a crypto millionaire escaped from an upscale townhouse in lower Manhattan, two people have been arrested and charged in connection to an alleged kidnapping and torture scheme. The two men, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, are now expected to appear in court for various hearings in the coming …
Read More »Andrew and Tristan Tate Charged With Rape, Human Trafficking in the U.K.
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate have been charged with rape, human trafficking, bodily harm, and more in the U.K. The sibling influencers, who hold dual citizenship in the U.S. and U.K., were previously charged with sex trafficking in Romania and are also under criminal investigation in Florida. Andrew Tate has …
Read More »U.S. Gymnastics Icon Mary Lou Retton Arrested Over Alleged DUI
Gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton was arrested in West Virginia for a misdemeanor DUI charge. Police in Fairmont pulled over Retton on May 17 after a report of a person driving a Porsche erratically. According to a criminal complaint, Retton smelled of alcohol and was slurring her words and failed …
Read More »5 Things We Learned From 'Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie' Docuseries
When Redding, California resident Keith Papini called first responders on Nov. 2, 2016, he feared the absolute worst. He had returned home from his job to find his two children alone in the house, and his wife Sherri Papini nowhere to be seen. After using the Find My app to …
Read More »Man Detained After Car Hits Pedestrians During Soccer Parade in U.K.
This story has been updated with new details following a press conference in Liverpool on the evening of May 26. A car collided with pedestrians during a busy parade in Liverpool, England, on Monday. Shortly after 6 p.m. local time, The Guardian reports that Emergency Services arrived at Liverpool’s Water …
Read More »Trump Pumped and Dumped His Crypto Backers With Dud Dinner Party
As though launching his own meme coin days before the inauguration wasn’t potentially corrupt enough, three months later, President Donald Trump had his crypto team announce a special dinner party for the 220 top holders of $TRUMP, calling it the “most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World.” It temporarily juiced the …
Read More »Tom Cruise Wants You to Know That It's Just Not a Movie Without Popcorn
Audiences around the world are in a state of thrumming anticipation as they await the release of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the eighth and ultimate installment in the long-running spy thriller franchise. The movie promises to once again raise the bar for death-defying stunts by star Tom Cruise …
Read More »Hannah Kobayashi Reflects on 'Loss and Pain and Suffering' Six Months After Disappearance
Hannah Kobayashi still isn’t quite ready to talk about what happened. In November 2024, the 30-year-old was reported missing when she wasn’t on her scheduled connecting flight from LAX to New York City, where she was meeting a family friend. When she was found in December, having traveled down to …
Read More »Salman Rushdie Attacker Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
The man who left Salman Rushdie partially blind after stabbing him at a lecture in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, May 16, The Associated Press reports. Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted of attempted murder back in February, and the 25-year term handed down is the maximum …
Read More »Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust
Elon Musk‘s company xAI has now addressed recent strange behavior from its Grok chatbot, claiming that an “unauthorized modification” caused it to bring up the myth of “white genocide” in South Africa in response to unrelated prompts. Meanwhile, Grok has started to dabble in Holocaust denial, saying that it is …
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