Bill Cosby is facing a new sexual abuse lawsuit, with five women accusing him of groping, raping, and drugging them in separate instances as far back as 1969, as well as during the Eighties and Nineties. The suit, obtained by Rolling Stone, was filed by Lili Bernard, Eden Tirl, Jewel …
Read More »Colorado Springs Gay Club Shooting Suspect Charged With 305 Counts, Including Bias-Motivated Crimes
Suspected shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich was charged on 305 counts after allegedly killing five people at a LGBTQ+ bar, Club Q, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, CNN reports. Among the charges are first-degree murder, attempted murder, assault, and bias-motivated crimes. Aldrich appeared in court on Tuesday, where Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District …
Read More »Meet Red-Beret Girl: TikTok's Favorite Revolting Child
Meesha Garbett doesn’t think she’s a rebel. In all honesty, the 14-year-old isn’t even sure she’d call herself a professional dancer. That is at least, not yet. From the small town of Telford in Shropshire, England, Garbett tells Rolling Stone she’s been dancing since she was three, which has allowed …
Read More »We Couldn't Have Made It Through This Year Without the Saluting Emoji
Many emojis approved last fall came into widespread usage this year, with the new faces proving especially popular. The smiling, holding-back-tears face conveyed our most sentimental selves, while the melting face spoke to a feeling of disintegration in the face of overwhelming reality. The hand-over-mouth and peeking-through-fingers faces were perfect …
Read More »A Spooky Dance, a Collective Memory, and a Weird Little Puppet: Inside TikTok's Newest Obsession
The human brain is thought to start forming memories around the age of two and a half. Anything that happened before? We’ll have to take someone else’s word for it. Such is the premise for what surely ranks among the strangest TikTok trends of 2022: people trying to convince each …
Read More »New Jersey's Torso Killer Pleads Guilty to Brutal 1968 Rape and Murder
Ailing serial killer Richard Cottingham — a.k.a. the Torso Killer — pleaded guilty to the 1968 murder of Long Island mother Diane Cusick Monday in front of a Nassau County, New York judge, as well as four other Nassau County murders (per Newsday). He was charged with 25 years to …
Read More »Nike Fully Cuts Ties With Kyrie Irving
Nike has officially cut ties with Kyrie Irving one month after suspending its relationship with the NBA star, The Athletic reports.It comes in the wake of him promoting a film filled with antisemitic tropes on Twitter, which Rolling Stone first reported. A Nike spokesperson reportedly confirmed the end of the …
Read More »Accused Cult Leader Offered Daughter Doritos and $50 if She'd Marry Him: Feds
Federal authorities appear to be closing in on an alleged polygamist cult leader accused of abusing underage girls, court documents show. In a new affidavit, an FBI agent claims Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, has more than 20 wives, many of them below the age of 15, that he sex-trafficked children, …
Read More »Michael Avenatti's Spectacular Implosion Tour Adds New 14-Year Prison Sentence
Michael Avenatti’s staggering fall from grace reached a dramatic new low on Monday. The once high-flying Stormy Daniels lawyer – who tried to parlay his Trump-trashing, network news Zaddy fame into his own White House run before being exposed as a grandstanding grifter – was sentenced to 14 years in …
Read More »U.S. Team Eliminated From FIFA World Cup Following Loss to Netherlands
The United States Men’s National Team’s time in Qatar has come to an end as they were downed by the Netherlands squad 3-1 Saturday at the FIFA World Cup. The USMNT’s fate seemed sealed at halftime as — despite out-chancing and arguably overplaying the Dutch side in the first half …
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