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Can a drug cartel do good? It’s an especially subversive question in North America, where the word “cartel” evokes boundless cruelty. But the Americas hold no monopoly on narco-trafficking supergroups. In fact, the world’s mightiest cartel is entrenched in Southeast Asia’s highlands. This secretive organization, known as the United Wa …

“One size fits most” It’s the guiding ethos behind the cult classic Gen-Z clothing brand Brandy Melville, known for its Americana aesthetics and stylized social media presence beloved by pre-teen girls across the country. But in the new Max documentary Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion, Oscar winning …

The executor named in O.J. Simpson’s will has pledged to make sure that the family of Ron Goldman — who were still owed over $100 million from Simpson following a wrongful death judgment — receives “zero, nothing” from Simpson’s estate. Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s lawyer, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that …

O.J. Simpson paid the family of Ron Goldman just a small fraction of the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment he owed them at the time of his death, an attorney for the Goldman family revealed Friday. In 1997, after Simpson was acquitted in the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson …

This week, the year’s biggest video game adaptation arrives with Prime Video’s Fallout. From executive producer and director Jonathan Nolan (Westworld, The Dark Knight trilogy), and showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, the series is among the most ambitious translations of a game to television. It’s pretty good, too. With …

Morgan Geyser, the Wisconsin woman who nearly stabbed her friend to death to please the online fictional character Slender Man when she was 12, was denied release from a psychiatric hospital Thursday, April 11, The New York Times reports. A Wisconsin judge ruled that Geyser, now 21, will have to …

When the O.J. Simpson murder trial aired on televisions across the United States in 1995, no one could foresee the lasting impact it would have on the entertainment industry. For nearly a year, the world watched as the former NFL star, who died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer, …

There was nothing inherently funny about the late O.J. Simpson‘s nearly yearlong trial on two murder charges. His ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman had been brutally stabbed to death, and the prosecution was arguing that Simpson’s history of domestic abuse in his marriage had culminated in …

The slow-speed car chase never really ended. It began on June 17, 1994, and it happened, appropriately, in prime time for many viewers. A warrant was out for O.J. Simpson‘s arrest for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. And when police caught up …

Eight months after his second wife, Lori Vallow, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of her seven-year-old son “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to kill his first wife, Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell is standing trial in …