A former U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering Garrett Foster, a Black Lives Matter protester, in Austin in 2020 will be set free after Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned him. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended the release of Daniel Perry on Thursday, according to USA …
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Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian. The story contains allegations from 16 women, spanning four …
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DJ Akademiks is facing a new lawsuit accusing him of rape, sexual assault, and defamation. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey and obtained by Rolling Stone, was filed by Fauziya “Ziya” Abashe, who dated the internet personality (real name Livingston Allen) after meeting him online in …
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The mothers of former Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA 2023 UmaSofia Srivastava slammed the prominent pageants and claimed that their daughters — who resigned earlier this month — were “ill-treated, abused, bullied and cornered,” in a new interview with Good Morning America. Voigt and Srivastava abruptly …
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Why wait for history to repeat itself if you can force it to yourself? Former financial analyst Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube and X and u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit, helped to usher in the “meme stock” craze in early 2021, sending the value of shares in GameStop and …
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“You’ve seen nothing yet,” tweeted Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on Sunday. She was responding to another X user who had told her, “Your downfall is so sad,” a reaction to her continued attacks on transgender people. Rowling promised that worse was in store. “Wait til I hit rock bottom. …
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“Hey, excuse me, how much do you pay for rent?” While some might take that question either a faux pas or a conversation killer, for Caleb Simpson, asking it to strangers gave him the career of his dreams. The formula for his videos is simple:he runs up to people on …
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After airing an astonishingly unnerving advertisement for the new iPad Pro earlier this week, Apple issued an apology on Thursday. The clip — which shows an array of creative tools such as a guitar, piano, trumpet, and bottles of paint being crushed by a hydraulic press — was widely criticized. …
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In August 2023, popular online streamer Kai Cenat was charged with two counts of inciting a riot after a giveaway that he hosted in New York City’s Union Square descended into chaos, resulting in damages and safety concerns. Prosecutors have since decided to drop the charges against the 22-year-old in …
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Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers starShohei Ohtani, has agreed to plead guilty to transferring nearly $17 million from the player to cover gambling debts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The 39-year-old interpreter pleadedguilty to two federal charges including one count of bank fraud and …
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