It’s been a month since reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup tournament after a shocking loss to 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Niemann, hinting in the announcement of his exit that he believed his opponent may have cheated. The scandal has only intensified since, leading to a …
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A pattern of sexual misconduct, abuse of power, and “degrading tirades” populate a damning investigative report into the abuse of women’s soccer players, per The New York Times. Monday’s report included information from more than 200 interviews, detailing the alleged abuse and revelations involving those at the highest level at …
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The school shooter who killed 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 specifically chose Valentine’s Day for the massacre because he had “no one to love and love him.” In March, Nikolas Cruz was interviewed by prosecution psychiatrist Dr. Charles Scott and revealed more of what …
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We’re less than four days into October and the internet’s next biggest cheating scandal isn’t wife guys or chess matches — it’s in the world of professional fishing. Here’s how it started: Two fishermen who competed in a Lake Erie fishing competition on Friday were accused of cheating and disqualified …
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Dream — the YouTube and Twitch star who has amassed more than 40 million subscribers on YouTube alone for creating Minecraft content — shared his face publicly online for the first time on Sunday. More than 1.2 million people tuned in for his big reveal. “It’s Dream, I don’t know …
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Kim Kardashian has agreed to settle charges brought against her by the Securities and Exchange Commission for unlawfully promoting a crypto security product on Instagram without disclosing that she had been paid $250,000 for the post. Now, the reality star will have to pay $1.26 million in penalties, disgorgement, and …
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Pedro Aldana began riding motorcycles as a baby. His father would sit him on his lap and they’d cruise through the barrio of Propatria in Caracas together. When he got older, he began careening around on BMX bikes, learning to do wheelies through the chaotic and near-vertical hills of the …
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In 2012, when she was 29 years old, Mia Chard was at a crossroads. As a child, she had been sexually abused, and she spent years suppressing the trauma, until it all seemed to bubble to the surface. She was working for the church, saving up for a master’s degree …
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An appeal hearing for Brittney Griner has been set for October 25, according to theAssociated Press. The detained WNBA star is set to fight her 9-year prison sentence after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country. Griner was convicted in August after Russian authorities found vape pens with cannabis …
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When you think of content that’s most likely to go viral on TikTok — lesbian influencer breakups and/or mukbangs, girls surprising their lackadasical boyfriends at college, women calling out fuckboy employees at high-end furniture stores — Orthodox Jewish kiddie pop groups seem like they’d be pretty low on the list. …
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