Mary Lou Retton’s daughter revealed Wednesday that the Olympic-winning gymnast suffered a “scary setback” in her battle with a rare form of pneumonia that has left Retton hospitalized in intensive care this month. On October 11, one of Retton’s daughters announced that her mother was “fighting for her life” and …
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After Elon Musk recently floated the idea that X, formerly Twitter, could begin charging all users for its service, the company announced that it has started testing a subscription tier for new users in the Philippines and New Zealand. The program, called “Not a Bot,” will cost new users in …
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Joran van der Sloot changed his plea to guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud tied to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway on Wednesday, according to CNN. John Q. Kelly, the lawyer for Holloway’s family, told NBC’s Today that a condition of the plea deal …
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Beth Holloway, Natalee Holloway‘s mother, expressed relief on Wednesday that she could finally achieve closure about how Natalee died. After 18 years as the prime suspect in the teen’s murder, Joran van der Sloot finally confessed that he beat Natalie to death on a beach in Aruba after she rejected …
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A man who was exonerated after being wrongfully convicted and serving more than more than 16 years for a crime he did not commit was fatally shot by a Georgia deputy during a traffic stop on Monday, according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). The GBI …
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Bill Cosby is being sued by a new Jane Doe accuser who claims the disgraced 86-year-old actor drugged and raped her in his dressing room in 1992 while an NBC employee stood outside the door, according to court records obtained by Rolling Stone. The woman is coming forward for the …
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Carlethia ‘Carlee’ Russell, a woman who admitted that she lied about being kidnapped when she went missing for two daysin July, was foundguilty of two misdemeanor charges during her court appearance in Hoover, Alabama. The nursing student was charged with one count of false reporting to law enforcement authorities and …
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On a Wednesday afternoon in SDNY’s courtroom 26A, Caroline Ellison cried on the witness stand after reading a text message she had sent to Sam Bankman-Fried last November. It was Ellison’s second day of testimony against Bankman-Fried, her former boss and boyfriend, who faces seven counts related to fraud. “That …
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Community Notes, Elon Musk‘s solution to combating misinformation on X (formerly Twitter), is barely able to keep up with a wave of graphic media, false claims, and hateful content relating to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The fact-checking feature depends on approved volunteers to suggest and then vote on notes that can …
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Gigi Hadid, who is half-Palestinian, has spoken up about Israel–Hamas war, saying, “The terrorizing of innocent people is not in alignment with and does not do any good for the ‘Free Palestine’ movement.” Hadid, whose father MohamedHadid is aPalestinianimmigrant and practicing Muslim, took to Instagram to share her thoughts on …
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