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Actor Danny Masterson lost a major bid to capsize his criminal rape case Tuesday when a judge rejected claims his probable cause hearing last May waded too far into Church of Scientology doctrine in violation of the First Amendment. Los Angeles County Judge Ronald S. Coen shot down the dismissal …

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has found himself in even more scalding water after holding firm on his decision to continue platforming Joe Rogan — even after more than 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast were quietly removed from the streaming platform, many featuring slurs or other derogatory language. …

The best Covid-19 vaccines are really, really effective. Better than many flu vaccines. Better than some hepatitis-B vaccines. Better than the measles vaccines, in many cases. But even the messenger-RNA vaccines aren’t perfect. They started out being around 95-percent effective at preventing serious illness from older forms of Covid. But …

Late on Sunday night, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that the service wiped several archival episodes of its flagship podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, at the request of its host, Joe Rogan, who had been recorded on said show saying the N-word multiple times in many different contexts. It’s unclear …

Rumble, the Canadian video sharing website favored by the right, is eager to be the new home of the Joe Rogan Experience and all of its episodes, including those featuring racial slurs and other derogatory language. The public plea from Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski was shared on the platform’s Twitter …

Over 70 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experiencewere quietly removed from Spotify on Friday, adding yet another development in the ongoing debate over whether the streaming giant is responsible for monitoring misinformation and harmful content posted to its platform. Among the episodes removed include interviews with Amy Schumer, Marc Maron, …

UPDATE (2/3):Travis McMichael, one of Ahmaud Arbery‘s killers, reaffirmed his plea of not guilty on hate-crime charges Thursday, The New York Times reports. His decision to plead not guilty comes after a federal judge rejected a plea deal on Monday, where McMichael would have pleaded guilty to one hate crime …

As a young-adult literature author born in Argentina and raised in Miami, Romina Garber aims to write the experiences she didn’t see in books growing up. “I didn’t have any reference points for my immigrant identity in the books I read or the shows I watched,” she says. That’s why …

UPDATE (2/11/2022): A Los Angeles judge has granted Bill Cosby the right to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and refuse to answer probing deposition questions posed by Judy Huth, the woman suing the comedian with claims he sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974 when she was 15 …

In relationships, timing is everything. And the timeline on Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust’s coupledom is not only off by more than two decades, say sources who have worked with the pair — the CNN power couple also repeatedly lied about their relationship to their corporate bosses. According to CNN …