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Oprah Winfrey has recruited Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Lopez and more to serve as special guests during stops on her Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus tour. Amy Schumer, Tina Fey, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kate Hudson and Gayle King will also sit down with Winfrey during …

A Chinese man was convicted and sentenced to death for trafficking fentanyl to the United States, The New York Times reports. Liu Yong was accused of running an illegal operation that produced fentanyl and shipped it to the United States, where people were able to order it online via a …

Every generation has a Halloween meme that exists somewhere in the Venn diagram of weird, scary, and vaguely horny. For boomers, it’s the Monster Mash; for Gen X, it’s the scene in Ghostbusters where Dan Aykroyd gets a blowie from a ghost; for GenY, it’s the KXVO Pumpkin Dance Guy …

When we talk about deepfakes, the term used to describe a type of digitally manipulated videos, most of the discussion is focused on the implications of deepfake technology for spreading fake news and potentially even destabilizing elections, particularly the upcoming U.S. 2020 election. A new study from Deeptrace Labs, however, …

Twin sister indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara have always specialized in remaking well-worn forms in their own image — from their early days turning coffee shop confessionals into sharp power pop to their recent emergence as Top 40 contenders who can write glossy dance-pop with a uniquely nuanced urgency, Now, …

Six weeks ago, an 18-year-old male patient showed up to NYU Winthrop Hospital in Long Island complaining about chest pain, nausea, fever, and shortness of breath. Initially, doctors thought he had pneumonia, due to his X-rays showing “haziness” in the lungs. Within 48 hours, says Melodi Pirzada, chief of pediatric …

Purdue Pharma, the behemoth pharmaceutical company owned by the Sackler family, is offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits related to the opioid crisis for somewhere between $10 and $12 billion, NBC News reports. That figure comes on the heels of mediations between Purdue’s legal team and that of the …

Two members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys were convicted of attempted gang assault, attempted assault, and riot for their part in a fight with anti-fascist protestors in New York City last October, The New York Times reports. Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were accused of beating four …

Comedians Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould suffered minor injuries after a car crash that forced them to cancel a show in Atlanta Thursday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The incident took place outside the Relapse Comedy Theatre where the pair were set to perform. According to reports, Gould and Goldthwait’s driver …

Cloudflare, the online security provider and web infrastructure company that provides security protections for the anonymous message board 8chan, on which the accused El Paso shooter posted his manifesto minutes before the attack, has pulled its support from 8chan, thus causing the site to, at least temporarily, go dark. In …