Gaming YouTuber MatPat announced on Tuesday afternoon that he would be officially retiring from his YouTube channel,marking an official end to over 12 years of being an online gaming and fandom authority. In a tearful video titled “Goodbye Internet,” MatPat — legal name Matthew Patrick — announced that March 9, …
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Monday brought another round of unsealed documents in the ongoing disclosure of files related to the sex-trafficking operation run by Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. And once again, right-wingers pounced on damning accusations against former president Bill Clinton. But the alleged Epstein victim who made those claims …
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Mary Lou Retton, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, has yet to reach the finish line in her recovery from a rare form of pneumonia that left her hospitalized last October. In a recent interview with Today, the 55-year-old detailed the severity of her illness, revealing that doctors considered putting her …
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More than 300 pro-Palestine protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza were arrested after blocking several major bridges and tunnels during morning rush hour in Manhattan on Monday, Jan. 8. John Chell, the chief of patrol for the New York Police Department, said on Twitter that 325 arrests were …
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Solitary Confinement. Forced Labor. Abuse. Trauma. While these might sound like descriptions of a long federal prison stay, they’re only the beginning of what children as young as 13 have faced in reform facilities across the United States. Their families think they’re troubled teens, and these camps promise solutions. But …
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The day after some 900 pages of court documents describing the alleged criminal activities of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell were released in a largely unredacted form, another round of the files became public on Thursday afternoon. The new documents revealed a request …
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Natalia Grace’s former adoptive mother, Kristine Barnett, denied the abuse allegations leveled against her by her ex-daughter in the new ID docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks. “She was not abused by anyone in my family,” Barnett wrote in a lengthy Facebook post yesterday, Jan. 4. “Let’s …
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Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympics sprinter who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day 2013, has been released from prison just halfway through his 13-year sentence. Pistorius was initially convicted of “culpable homicide” (manslaughter) in September 2014 in the killing of model Reeva Steenkamp and sentenced to …
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The Miami police showed up in force to respond to a disturbance at a downtown open-air mall on New Year’s Day after reports of teens brawling and setting off fireworks, ultimately arresting four individuals between the ages of 14 and 16. But with footage of the chaos and dozens of …
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Good jokes — and good union support — helped a public radio reporter get his job back after he was fired over clips from his stand-up set posted on social media. As Vice reports, Jad Sleiman emerged largely victorious from an arbitration dispute with the Philadelphia NPR member, WHYY. The …
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