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Documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were released on Wednesday night after a judge ruled in December that the redacted information should be unsealed, according to a court order issued by Judge Loretta Preska. Many of Epstein’s long-rumored powerful friends — including Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew — …

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the abuse victim who spent seven years incarcerated for her role in the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, became a free woman on Thursday, leaving prison on parole. Her release comes three years early after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for …

While Kang is the most prominent time-traveling villain in Marvel Comics, it’s notable that he never seems interested in using time travel to change the past, preferring instead to visit different eras so he can conquer them, and build up his vast army along the way. If you gave the …

New details have emerged in the plea deal of YouTuber and family vlogger Ruby Franke. The infamous mommy vlogger behind the popular “8 Passengers” family channel pleaded guilty on Monday to four counts of second-degree felony child abuse, according to KUTV. (Representatives for Franke did not immediately respond to Rolling …

A monster can be a green, scaly lizard that towers over buildings. Or a bloodsucking fiend in a black cape. Or an equivocating, self-pitying old man who refuses to own up to the lives he has destroyed and hides behind the blinkered assurance that God will forgive him for his …

The tale begins with a crime that left everyone baffled. In July 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children (and one driver) was hijacked in the sleepy Central California town of Chowchilla. The kidnap victims were taken to two vans, driven to an abandoned rock quarry, led off the bus, …

It’s hard to keep track of all the ethical violations depicted in Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, the new three-part Netflix docuseries whose title suggests a straight-to-cable Nineties TV movie. Some of the sins here on display are, literally, mortal: Paolo Macchiarini, an apparent sociopath, a definite conman, and, …

A federal judge has tossed several claims in a copyright infringement case brought by authors — including Sarah Silverman — against Meta over the way it trains its artificial intelligence language models. Silverman and her co-plaintiffs had accused the tech giant of improperly using their copyrighted books to train its …

The BBC said it received five complaints about Russell Brand’s behavior from when the comedian hosted radio shows on the British public broadcaster between 2006 and 2008. Two of the complaints were submitted over the last two months, after the BBC launched a review of Brand’s time at the network …

Grainy video allegedly showing rapper A$AP Rocky firing a gun at his former friend A$AP Relli on a Hollywood street corner two years ago was made public for the first time Wednesday inside a Los Angeles courtroom. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, sat at a defense table and watched the clip …