Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember …
Read More »Olympian Mary Lou Retton 'Home and in Recovery Mode,' Daughter Says
After “fighting for her life” in the ICU with pneumonia, Mary Lou Retton is now back home and recovering. “Mom is HOME & in recovery mode,” Retton’s daughter, McKenna Lane Kelley, wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. “We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us, but …
Read More »Bob Lee's Murder Shook San Francisco. What Really Happened?
T he 911 call came in around 2:30 a.m on April 4. “Help, someone stabbed me,” said the voice on the phone. Police and paramedics rushed to the address he gave near the downtown waterfront, beneath the hulking steel beams of the Bay Bridge. By the time first responders arrived …
Read More »'I Don't Get to Opt-In to Be Black': A Scholastic Author Speaks Out
When author Tanisia Moore was growing up in California in the 1990s, the Scholastic Book Fair was one of the most exciting times of the year. Moore tells Rolling Stone she has fond memories of bringing a catalog home to her mother and pointing out different books she wanted to …
Read More »Natalee Holloway's Murder Case Is Closed — But It Changed the Way We Talk About True Crime
This week, Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud, related to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway. With the plea, Van der Sloot, who is already serving 28 years in Peru for the death of another young woman, also confessed to …
Read More »President of Detroit Synagogue Found Stabbed to Death Outside Home
The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead outside her home Saturday morning, police confirmed. Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in downtown Detroit, suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called Saturday morning about …
Read More »Verified Accounts on Musk's X Spread 74 Percent of Israel-Hamas War Misinformation
Since Elon Musk‘s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, the company’s dismantlingof content moderation teams, shift to a pay-for-verification model, and the launch of engagement-based revenue sharing have led to a flood of misinformation on the site. This has led to a social media platform struggling to keep up with misinformation …
Read More »I Fell in (And Out of) Love With Riley Reid's AI Porn Bot
Back in the early days of the internet, when I had to plug a phone cord into my parents’ laptop to could get into fights on Buffy the Vampire Slayer AOL forums, my friends and I were obsessed with something called SmarterChild. SmarterChild was neither smart nor a child; he, …
Read More »Mary Lou Retton Suffers 'Scary Setback' in Pneumonia Battle, Daughter Says
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 …
Read More »TikTok's Nonsense 'Bone-Smashing' Trend Began as an Incel Troll Joke
Skin care tutorials, fashion channels, and exercise influencers — when it comes to enhancing your appearance, TikTok is bursting with advice. Much of it should be taken with a grain of salt, but more often than not, there’s a trend taking off that prompts greater concern. In recent weeks, a …
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