A judge has rejected Bill Cosby’s bid for a retrial after the disgraced comedian was found guilty in June of sexually assaulting a minor in 1975. Cosby was ordered to pay the victim — Judy Huth, who was 16 at the time of the sexual assault that took place at …
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Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida’s southwestern coast at nearly Category 5 strength on Wednesday afternoon, with sustained winds of up to 150 miles per hour and catastrophic storm surges, after knocking out power and killing at least two people in Cuba. Over a million in Florida have lost electricity …
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The Try Guys, a YouTube group famous for their stunt videos and series spanning comedy, food, and entertainment, are officially a trio. The group, which consisted of Ned Fulmer, Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfield, and Keith Habersberger, announced Tuesday that Fulmer was out of the group. “Ned Fulmer is no …
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One notable effect of the internet is that the question “Whatever happened to so-and-so?” is all too easy to answer. And, more often than not, you’ll realize you shouldn’t have asked. In the case of Rachel Dolezal, the 44-year-old white woman who rose to infamy in 2015 when it emerged …
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A gunman killed at least 13 people and injured 20 in a mass shooting at a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk (about 600 miles east of Moscow) on Monday, Sept. 26. School No. 88 teaches grades one through 11, though there have been conflicting reports so far on …
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Major media conglomerate Netflix has once again dipped its toes into the profit well that is true crime content. Its newest Ryan Murphy offering, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, aims to give famed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer a dramatized origin story, but family members of Dahmer’s victims say the series …
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Of all the states in this great nation, Idaho is not exactly well-known for being a bastion of progressive sexual politics. And yet, last week the Gem State somehow, improbably, became the center of a right-wing moral panic, all focused on a claim that the government was funding sex-ed programs …
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Back in April, actor Dylan O’Brien tweeted two words: “slut era.” It was a season, apparently, of great potential — like “Hot Girl Summer” and “Hot Vax Summer” before it. But while the announcement of a slut era filled us with hope for a long, sunny, sweaty debauch, life once …
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The pop-punk revival is alive and well, but it’s more than just the veteran acts making comebacks. Young artists like Huddy are taking a stab at becoming stars in the genre, and thanks to his new single “All the Things I Hate About You,” the 20-year-old might just succeed. Huddy, …
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Thomas Lane, the former Minneapolis cop who held down George Floyd‘s legs while he was murdered by Derek Chauvin, received a three year sentence in a plea deal on a state charge Wednesday, Associated Pressreports. Lane is already serving a federal sentence of two-and-a-half years in prison after previously pleading …
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