When Beyoncé stepped on stage in a bodysuit back in 2014, her entire was encrusted in jewels, complete with 3D nipples. Here, before tens of thousands of fans and internet of onlookers was an artist who had never been so bold as to bare her body in such a way. …
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A mid the bustle of Tijuana, the average onlooker might miss the bulge in Claudia’s belly. That’s partially by design: Claudia, a petite 32-year-old who has been in limbo in Tijuana for over a year while waiting her turn to seek asylum, has become adept at keeping a low profile …
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“It’s the end of an era,” podcast network Exactly Right tweeted in May 2022. “Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad is going off the air.” The tweet set off dismayed speculation among the true crime community, and rightly so: The podcast, which launched in 2019, was a popular powerhouse of …
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As she sits cross legged on a blush throw rug in her Brooklyn apartment, Victoria ‘Vic’ Styles recounts the first time she ever felt connected to true creativity. The then-24-year-old had just moved to Los Angeles from Alabama after dropping out of university, mere months before graduation, with dreams of …
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In 1971, the YA book Go Ask Alice hit shelves and almost immediately set off a firestorm. Purportedly the real-life diary of a straitlaced teen girl who lost her life to drugs, it was an instant hit, touted by critics across the country as a must-read for parents and teenagers …
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“If you have teenage kids in Washington state, watch this video,” Eli Holt’s video begins. In it, Holt, who goes by the handle @mr.notnew, alleges that he received a call from a counselor at a high school in Snohomish, Washington, who said that his 15-year-old child (actually his nephew for …
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At first glance, Bebop and Bebe, a TikTok page with more than two million followers, looks like a typical, albeit somewhat idiosyncratic, family account. The page features videos of Bebop, a girl with stick-straight hair who looks to be about eight or nine years old, mugging for the camera with …
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A few weeks ago, toward the end of a hectic workday, a writer — let’s call her Sarah — took what she thought was her usual dose of CBD. She had recently been gifted a new bottle from the same brand she always takes, and though the label was different, …
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T he break-in happened around 4 a.m., on a leafy street in the otherwise sleepy and sleeping village of Irvington, New York. Four men wearing ski masks and gloves, armed with knives, rope, brass knuckles, and a fake 9 mm, crept around the back of the large suburban home, their …
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On May 15, 1999, Regina McKnight gave birth to a stillborn five-pound baby girl at Conway Medical Center in South Carolina. She named her Mercedes. Five months later, McKnight — an unhoused Black woman — was arrested on charges of homicide by child abuse after her daughter’s autopsy indicated that …
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