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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Nearly three weeks after Major League Baseball opened an investigation intoillegal gamblingand theft allegations againstDodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara is reportedly negotiating a guilty plea to the purported theft, according to the New York Times. The NYT, which cites three people briefed on the matter, described the …
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Last month, a judge tossed a lawsuit from Elon Musk‘s X (formerly Twitter) against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an anti-extremism watchdog, that alleged the group had financially harmed the company by reporting on violent and hateful speech proliferating across its platform. The ruling stated in no uncertain terms …
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Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson, the football star turned actor who became the center of one of the highest-profile trials in U.S. history when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife and another man, died Wednesday at the age of 76. Simpson’s children announced his death Thursday, saying that their father …
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A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I saw a video of Shrek on a giant screen at a rave, happily gamboling through his swamp to a remixed version of “Boom Boom Boom Boom.” Then the beat drops, and he starts stomping and projectile vomiting all over …
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Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street …
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On the eve of a trial over the death of 38-year-old Apple engineer Walter Huang, who died in 2018 when his Model Xhit a highway barrier, Tesla settled the lawsuit on Monday, Bloomberg reported. The electric car company avoided what could have been a lengthy jury trial over its controversial …
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A lexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in a car talking with her staffers about legislation and casually scrolling through her X mentions when she saw the photo. It was the end of February, and after spending most of the week in D.C., she was looking forward to flying down to Orlando to …
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