Billy McFarland, the brains behind the infamously fraudulent Fyre Festival, has been released from federal prison over a year before the completion of his sentence, prison records show. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ online inmate search, McFarland was released into the custody of New York’s Residential Reentry Management, …
Read More »The Baby-Formula Shortage Drove Desperate Parents to Buy Via Facebook Groups. Now, They're Getting Scammed
In recent weeks, the hunt for baby formula amid a nationwide shortage has taken April Krogmeier to every grocery store in her southeast Iowa town, and on six-hour-long drives to four different states. “We have been communicating with friends, with family, everybody’s searching,” Krogmeier says. Another resource she’s turned to …
Read More »U.S. Women's Soccer Team Victorious in Equal Pay Battle With 'Historic' New Agreement
After decades of pay inequality — and a six-year legal battle that ended with a settlement earlier this year — the U.S. Women’s National Team revealed Wednesday that they’ve entered in a new collective bargaining agreement that ensures they’ll be paid the same as the U.S. men’s soccer team. For …
Read More »Families Remember the People Stolen by the Buffalo Shooting
A lot was taken from the Buffalo, New York, community on Saturday, May 14. Peace. Security. Ten fathers, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, neighbors, and community members. The racist attack at Tops Supermarket and the man who traveled across the state to murder Black people couldn’t wrest one thing from victims’ family …
Read More »Bill Cosby Fails to Derail May 23 Trial, Calls Accuser's Changed Timeline an 'Ambush'
With less than a week to go before jury selection starts in Judy Huth’s sexual battery case against Bill Cosby, the disgraced comedian’s lawyers made a last-ditch attempt Tuesday to kill her long-delayed California civil case on the grounds that she recently shifted the date of his alleged attack at …
Read More »Katherine Massey, Who Was a 'Powerful Voice' for Civil Rights, Killed by Buffalo Shooter
Katherine “Kat” Massey was a strong advocate for civil rights and education for Buffalo‘s Black community. On Saturday,white supremacist teenager Payton Gendron, who has been identified as the alleged shooter, killed her and nine otherswhile they shopped in a supermarket in their predominantly Black neighborhood. It was thedeadliest mass shootingof …
Read More »The Problem With Ricki Lake's 'The Business of Birth Control'
About eight years ago, Ricki Lake and her producing partner Abby Epstein resolved to turn a critical eye on hormonal birth control. Their previous documentary, 2008’s The Business of Being Born, emphasized the risks and expense of giving birth in a hospital. This new project would apply that same medical …
Read More »Buffalo Mourns 10 Killed in 'Racially Motivated Hate Crime' at Market
Updated: May 15, 8 p.m. ET Police released the names of the 10 people killed during a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store on Saturday afternoon. The victims of the attack, which Erie County Sheriff John Garcia described as “pure evil,” include Aaron Salter, 55, …
Read More »Why Is the 'Eel Daddy' Building a Pit of Eels In His Basement?
Nick Tobler has a rather unusual habit, even for a straight man: he raises eels in his basement. Tobler, who goes by @cowturtle, has amassed 205,000 followers who tune into his TIkTok channel to watch his eel daddy adventures. It all started last March, when Tobler moved into a new …
Read More »Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal Is 'On Hold,' Citing Spam Accounts
Elon Musk tweeted on Friday morning that his deal to take control of Twitter is currently “on hold,” but that he is “still committed to acquisition.” The reason for the delay? Musk claims he wants to confirm Twitter’s claim that spam and fake accounts make up less than five percent …
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