On May 18, Trigg Kiser, the three-year-old son of mega popular mom influencer Emilie Kiser died following a drowning incident at the family’s Chandler, Arizona home. Nearly two months after the toddler’s death, the Chandler Police are recommending a class 4 felony charge of child abuse against the boy’s father, …
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Lauren Southern, the Canadian YouTuber who was once a rising star on the far right thanks to her hardline anti-immigrant and anti-feminist views but later retreated from the scene, has alleged in her new self-published memoir, This Is Not Real Life , that she was sexually assaulted by embattled misogynist …
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There’s never a dull moment with Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk‘s xAI, which he has consistently called the “smartest” AI in existence despite its forays into racial conspiracy theories, tendency to speak in the first person as Musk himself, and recent output of what it termed “Hitler fanfic.” Last …
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The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy(Little, Brown) by James Patterson and Vicky Ward, out July 14, tells the story of the college murders that took place in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022. As the title suggests, the book takes the reader into the lives of the four victims: Kaylee Goncalves, …
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Attorney General Pam Bondi — who has been purging the Justice Department of anyone tied to the Jan. 6 prosecutions as well as the prosecutions of President Donald Trump — fired the lawyer personally advising her and the department’s thousands of employees on ethics, Bloomberg reported Sunday. Joseph Tirrell, who …
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On Feb. 18, two weeks after having her son via C-section, Monique Rodriguez was battling postpartum depression. The Black mother of two, who was born and raised in St. Catherine Parish in Jamaica, had come to the U.S. in 2022 on a six-month visa and settled in Florida with her …
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T ucked away in a hillside garden a short walk from the restive heart of Port-au-Prince, the Hotel Oloffson was a strange kind of refuge. Through good years and a lot of bad ones, it stayed open to all comers, welcoming despite its dark undertones and somehow immune to Haiti’s …
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Adam McIntyre, a 22-year-old YouTuber and influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers, is no stranger to being the subject of snark. McIntyre has cemented his place in the influencer world as a commentator who makes videos about pop culture, celebrity controversies, and internet feuds. Some of his …
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Remember that old fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Princess and the Pea”? Whether you’re watching an animated retelling, reading the backstory of a limited edition Barbie doll, or streaming a bootleg version of the musical that once starred Sarah Jessica Parker, the story remains pretty consistent. To test …
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Undeterred by the previous iteration of his “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok running amok on X on Tuesday, adopting Nazi talking points, declaring itself “MechaHitler,” and authoring graphic scenes of violent sexual assault, Elon Musk oversaw a muted demo of the latest version of the model, Grok 4, on Wednesday evening. …
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