In March 2022, Kim Devins received a Facebook message from a British producer named Rory Barker from Plum Pictures, asking if she wanted to take part in a documentary about her daughter, Bianca. Devins has received a lot of messages like this over the years. Since the brutal murder of …
Read More »Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud Charges
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty of fraud charges Thursday, according to The Washington Post. Bankman-Fried was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and violations of campaign finance law in December 2022. The 30-year-old allegedly defrauded millions of investors …
Read More »Rolling Stone Lands 15 L.A. Press Club Award Nominations
The Los AngelesPress Club revealed the list of nominees for their annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, and Rolling Stone has earned 15 nominations across works of reporting and criticism. Among the highest honors of the awards, Rolling Stone‘s Cheyenne Roundtree has been nominated for Journalist of the Year …
Read More »'Hot Ones' Meets 'Chicken Shop Date': Sean Evans and Amelia Dimoldenberg Swap Strategies
Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg joining Sean Evans on Hot Ones might be the most epic Spiderman meme-level crossover since the reunion of all three actual Spidermen. The two chicken-based interview series hosts have provided the internet with an endless stream of off-guard celebrity content for years on their …
Read More »Memphis Cop Charged in Tyre Nichols' Death Pleads Guilty
Desmond Mills Jr., one of five police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols, pleaded guilty to federal charges and agreed to plead guilty to related state charges as part of a plea deal on Thursday. On Jan. 7, five Memphis police officers pulled Nichols over for a traffic …
Read More »Army Warned Maine Suspect Should Not Have Guns, Three Months Before Mass Shooting
In May, family members of Robert Card, 40,contacted the sheriff’s office stating that Card’s mental health had begun to decline in January. “They were concerned for his well being and said that Mr. Card had access to firearms,” Sheriff Joel Merry said in a statement issued Monday evening. Army representatives …
Read More »TikTok Warned You About Panera Charged Lemonade. Then Someone Died
The Food and Drug Administration is “gathering information” on the national fast-casual chain Panera after a 21-year-old died shortly after drinking the restaurant’s Charged Lemonade. Increased public scrutiny has led Panera to update the drink’s warnings, prominently displaying that the beverage is not for people with caffeine sensitivities. But while …
Read More »Man Pleads Not Guilty to Murder, Hate Crime Charges in Stabbing Death of Palestinian-American Boy
A 71-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to charges tied to the killing a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, and seriously wounding his mother, Hanaan Shahin, in Plainfield Township, Illinois. On Monday, Oct. 30, Joseph M. Czuba pleaded not guilty to the eight charges against him, including first-degree murder, attempted …
Read More »FIFA Bans Spain's Luis Rubiales for 3 Years Over Unwanted World Cup Kiss
Luis Rubiales, the embattled former president of Spain’s soccer federation, has been banned from the sport for three years by FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, the Associated Press reports. The news comes after it was determined that he acted in breach of conduct during the World Cup final when he …
Read More »Elon Musk, Who Bought Twitter for $44 Billion, Now Values It at $19 Billion
Surprising absolutely no one, Elon Musk has confirmed that the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and now known as X is now worth less than half of the $44 billion he paid for it last year. On Monday, Oct. 30, as Fortune reports, Musk awarded all the X …
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