Oprah Winfrey has recruited Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Lopez and more to serve as special guests during stops on her Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus tour. Amy Schumer, Tina Fey, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kate Hudson and Gayle King will also sit down with Winfrey during …
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A Chinese man was convicted and sentenced to death for trafficking fentanyl to the United States, The New York Times reports. Liu Yong was accused of running an illegal operation that produced fentanyl and shipped it to the United States, where people were able to order it online via a …
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When we talk about deepfakes, the term used to describe a type of digitally manipulated videos, most of the discussion is focused on the implications of deepfake technology for spreading fake news and potentially even destabilizing elections, particularly the upcoming U.S. 2020 election. A new study from Deeptrace Labs, however, …
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Purdue Pharma, the behemoth pharmaceutical company owned by the Sackler family, is offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits related to the opioid crisis for somewhere between $10 and $12 billion, NBC News reports. That figure comes on the heels of mediations between Purdue’s legal team and that of the …
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Two members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys were convicted of attempted gang assault, attempted assault, and riot for their part in a fight with anti-fascist protestors in New York City last October, The New York Times reports. Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were accused of beating four …
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Comedians Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould suffered minor injuries after a car crash that forced them to cancel a show in Atlanta Thursday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The incident took place outside the Relapse Comedy Theatre where the pair were set to perform. According to reports, Gould and Goldthwait’s driver …
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Cloudflare, the online security provider and web infrastructure company that provides security protections for the anonymous message board 8chan, on which the accused El Paso shooter posted his manifesto minutes before the attack, has pulled its support from 8chan, thus causing the site to, at least temporarily, go dark. In …
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Financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein confided to prominent scientists and businessmen a vision of seeding the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his sprawling New Mexico ranch. The disgraced hedge fund manager, who was charged in July with sex trafficking dozens of underage girls as …
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NASA‘s only surviving original recording of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon will go to auction next month, a sale that coincides with 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11‘s lunar landing on July 20th, 1969. Sotheby’s said of the historic videotapes, “Viewed only three times since June 1976, the …
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A former member of the Church of Scientology filed suit against the organization in Los Angeles County Superior Court earlier this week, citing alleged abuse, human trafficking, and forced labor within the organization. The suit is seeking general and compensatory damages, as well as recovery of unpaid wages, from the …
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