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Later this month, a select number of people will know what it feels like to earn a higher salary working a retail job on Roblox than some people actually make in person. Starting on June 24, Ikea is opening a store on the gaming platform and is looking to employ …

Gender and desire are inextricably linked when it comes to fetish and fantasy, politics and personal attraction. When I began working as a professional dominatrix in the 2000s, I saw many clients who wanted to be “forced feminized” — i.e. transformed into sissies in lacy underwear and bubblegum-flavored lipgloss. In …

Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her family are suing a producer and true-crime content creator they used to work with, but now accuse of fraud, breach of contract, defamation, and more. The defendant in the suit is April Johns, also known as Franchesca or Fancy, Macelli. According to the suit (obtained …

Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to be indicted on a new murder charge later this week, CBS News reports. No details about the charge or victim were given, though the new indictment is expected to be officially brought on Thursday, June 6. The news comes just …

E arly on a cool Los Angeles afternoon, while most of the city is still deciding what’s for lunch, one of the country’s fastest-rising food critics is in a Studio City parking lot, absolutely housing a spicy double cheeseburger. “My eyes are getting [watery],” Keith Lee says, laughing as he …

The day I almost died began with a bang: Our plane dropped out of the sky. It was the kind of shock you hear with your gut, not your ears — the plane fell 10,000 feet. Birds, said the flight attendant, trying to calm us. Birds flew into our engine …

Hypocrisy, greed, deception, and exploitation of labor have a way of catching up with an organization, as I learned while reporting my new book, Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports. The NCAA is no exception to these truisms, despite more than a century …

When Michael Richards’ most well-known character, Kramer, erupted through the door of onscreen neighbor Jerry Seinfeld 35 years ago, he also burst into the homes of audiences everywhere, finding fast acclaim for his madcap antics and refreshing lack of filter. At the time he and his castmates were waging what …

Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday, two days after an Idaho jury found him guilty in the 2019 murdersof hisformer wife Tammy Daybell and two children of his current wife,Lori VallowDaybell. On Thursday, Daybell was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges — including insurance fraud and grand theft …

Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee in a dramatic spell-off — only the second to happen in the competition’s long-running history. According to The New York Times, the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off on Tuesday with a total of 245 …