The family of murdered high school student Hae Min Lee has requested an evidentiary hearing regarding the decision to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed in her death, claiming prosecutors treated the family in a “callous and unconstitutional manner” by not giving them enough notice or an opportunity to comment …
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As Elon Musk’s Twitter deal comes to a close, the self-anointed “Chief Twit” posted an open letter to advertisers promising that the social media platform won’t become a “free-for-all hellscape” once he officially takes the reins. “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of …
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Either the nation’s most prolific serial killer was burying dozens of bodies on his property for decades undetected, or police are on a wild goose chase. Either way, the case has captured the minds of true crime TikTok — and the people want answers. In the southwestern corner of Iowa, …
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Over a year after Prince Harry first revealed he was writing a memoir, his publisher announced Thursday that the much-anticipated book, Spare, will arrive in Jan. 2023. “It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as …
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Is there a monthly book club for toxic masculinity that we don’t know about? That’s the only way this next sentence makes any sense: Viral misogynist, podcast host, and streamer Andrew Tate (and his less famous brother Tristan Tate) say they’re covering all legal fees for currently incarcerated Joe Exotic, …
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A former girlfriend of Danny Masterson, known as Christina B and Jane Doe 3, was in tears during her second day of testimony in Week Two of Danny Masterson’s rape trial. She recounted the severe consequences of being declared a “suppressive person” by the Church of Scientology, Variety reports. She …
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A rumor began circulating over the weekend that there’d been an outbreak of crabs at Brigham Young University, but not quite the way you might think. Though completely unverified, the claim — some version of which circulates every few years — was that undergrads were catching the STI not in …
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After a trial filled with interruptions, disruption, and frustration, Milwaukee resident Darrell Brooks was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide after crashing his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb outside of Milwaukee, on Nov. 21, 2021. A sixth victim, a child, died later …
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On Oct. 19, the athletics department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison confirmed what plenty of people already knew: private, explicit photos and videos of the women’s volleyball team had leaked online. The images appeared on a variety of platforms, including 4chan, Reddit, Twitter, Imgur, Telegram, Discord and TikTok — and …
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Elon Musk, following his failed effort to back out of, or ostensibly get a better price on, his deal to buy Twitter unofficially commenced his reign by… entering Twitter headquarters with a sink? The bit was, we guess, tied to the accompanying caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink …
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