Los Angeles judge found porn star Ron Jeremy incompetent to stand trial for allegedly sexually assaulting 21 women in January, stating that he “suffers from an incurable neurocognitive decline.” Now, the 69-year-old born Ronald Jeremy Hyatt has been committed to a state-run mental health hospital in California. Jeremy was admitted …
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A regional disease in the American West is about to get a lot less regional as the planet heats up, scientists warn. It’s Valley Fever, a lung and throat disease caused by the coccidioides fungus. The fungus — basically, a dirt spore — isn’t new and it isn’t contagious, but …
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The death toll in Turkey and Syria has climbed to over 5,000 while rescue efforts have been hindered by freezing temperatures one day after two massive earthquakes hit near Gaziantep in southern Turkey. As The New York Times reported Tuesday, Feb. 7, at least 3,700 people are dead in Turkey …
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As buildings collapsed under the weight of infrastructural damage following two massive earthquakes in Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, Feb. 6, thousands were left dead, with others trapped beneath the rubble as the death toll continues to rise steadily. At the time of publication, at least 5,000 people are …
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It should come as no surprise that character actor Tim Blake Nelson — who led the western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and played the unforgettable Looking Glass in the HBO series Watchmen — has written a novel. After all, he’s always been the bookish one on set. …
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Once vilified by cops, teachers, and party-poopers, skateboarding will finally get its due, on a federal level, when the United States Postal Service issues stamps this spring that celebrate “The Art of the Skateboard.” Each stamp will feature a deck with a unique design by a different artist. The Alaska-based …
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Ain’t nobody reading all that. On Tuesday, some users on Twitter are getting a first look at Twitter’s newest update: Tweets with more than 25,000 characters. One lengthy viral tweet came from Hong Kong blogger and software developer Jane Manchun Wong, who shared a post with a lot of periods …
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The Dallas Mavericks have a problem. They have a star player in Luka Dončić, a generational talent who can handle, score, pass, boards OK, has an eerie step-back three-point shot, good size, the exact sort of dude you want on your team. Aside from Luka, they are packing a bunch …
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A newHarry Pottervideo game is ostensibly trying to distance itself from J.K. Rowling and herstring oftransphobic commentswith the introduction of the series’ first trans character — and many fans are calling it a cynical way to make up for the creator’s rhetoric. Over the weekend, the first reviews of Hogwarts …
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A San Francisco jury deliberated for less than two hours before finding Tesla billionaire Elon Musk not liable in a class action securities fraud lawsuit bought by investors of the car company, CNBC reported. The trial stemmed from a 2018 tweet in which Musk claimed he had “funding secured” to …
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