When 24-year-old Zoe Jackson scrolls her for-you-page, there are books all the way down. As a BookTok creator, Jackson spends much of her time on TikTok watching videos and recommendations surrounding the best books out there, from newly published novels to classic tomes. But while the average reader might stop …
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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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The Last Yakuza: Life and Death In The Japanese Underworld is the first book that I was ever asked to write. The yakuza are Japan’s mafia. They’re not a monolithic group — it’s a blanket term for over 20 different criminal organizations that share some similarities, particularly a quasi-family structure …
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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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As a high school junior in Texas, Darryl George should be preparing for his final years of high school and what opportunities lay beyond. Instead, his mother Darresha George tells Rolling Stone, the Texas student is stressed, falling behind in classes, and now stuck in a disciplinary program meant for …
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As the school year kicked off in the Spanish town of Almendralejo, teenage girls began to come home telling their parents of disturbing encounters with classmates, some of whom were claiming to have seen naked photos of them. A group of mothers quickly created a WhatsApp group to discuss the …
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T he police entered the foggy forest not long after sunrise. The group of officers made their way through the thin, bare trees and found two people tucked into a hammock. With guns drawn, they ordered that the couple get out, and placed Sarah Wasilewski, her partner, and their friend …
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“Anyone can be Spider-Man.” That sentiment, often attributed to creator Stan Lee in some form, has always been the core of what makes the character — perhaps the world’s most famous superhero — so accessible. It’s the idea that, by donning the mask, anyone could step up and be Spider-Man, …
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