Tom Girardi, the now disbarred lawyer who rose to fame winning the real-life Erin Brockovich case and marrying Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne, must undergo cognitive testing to determine whether he should be sent to prison or a specialized medical facility after his recent fraud conviction, a …
Read More »How 'Snark' Subreddits Took Over Family Vlogging
Lola used to love watching the LaBrant family’s vlogs on YouTube. Clicking through the channel, which has 12.9 million subscribers, she especially liked seeing the mother-daughter relationship between Savannah LaBrant and her eldest daughter, Everleigh. But a few years in, her feelings began to change. She started to worry the …
Read More »Inside the Mind of Suda51, One of Gaming's Most Gonzo Auteurs
For over 30 years Goichi Suda, otherwise known as Suda51, has been one of the gaming industry’s few true auteurs. His calling card is imbuing familiar genres with unconventional twists, whether it’s making the hero’s journey a tragedy in Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special (1994), a cel-shaded adventure game take …
Read More »Hawk Tuah Girl Breaks Silence After Meme Coin Crash and Class Action Suit
First comes fame, then the cryptocurrency — then the lawsuit. Haliey Welch, a Tennessee native who was launched to internet stardom this summer thanks to a street interview in which she pantomimed spitting during oral sex (thus earning the onomatopoeiec nickname “Hawk Tuah Girl“), managed the rare feat of remaining …
Read More »The Newest 'Fortnite' Mode Is Just Diet 'Counter-Strike'
Back in 2017, just over two months after Fortnite came out, it had already morphed into a different experience than what was originally intended. Initially envisioned and released as a wave-based survival shooter called Save The World, Epic Games quickly took the toolset they built and reconfigured it into a …
Read More »Some Want High Birth Rates. Others Would Rather See Humans Go Extinct
In 2019, an offbeat viral news story caught the attention of Jack Boswell, a radio presenter for the BBC and podcast producer from London. A man in Mumbai, India, was poised to sue his parents for birthing him without his consent, arguing that life is suffering and the planet would …
Read More »Luigi Mangione Waives Extradition to Face Murder Charges in New York
After nearly two weeks of challenging the legal process, Luigi Mangione, the man charged with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, will finally be extradited from Pennsylvania — where Mangione was arrested and remained behind bars — to New York City, where Thompson’s Dec. 4 murder occurred. At …
Read More »A Citizen App for UFO Sightings Is Taking Off, Thanks to the Drone Frenzy
Dee and Joe Indiviglio like to go out on their front porch at night, and look up. That’s where they were on Dec. 4, when they saw something they hadn’t seen before above their Middletown, New Jersey, home: a group of lights, moving quickly, strangely all over the sky, for …
Read More »New Leads Emerge in Oldest Missing-Teens Case in America
A renewed push by New York police investigators to solve the nation’s oldest missing-teens case has yielded significant new leads — including the possibility of previously unknown witnesses to their disappearance, Rolling Stone has learned. For the first time in the history of the 51-year-old cold case, special investigators from …
Read More »Dennis Rodman Apologizes to Daughter Trinity: 'Sorry I Wasn't the Dad You Wanted'
Dennis Rodman took to Instagram to apologize to his daughter Trinity Rodman, the Washington Spirit’s star forward. The apology comes a day after Trinity gave a rare interview to Call Her Daddy and revealed how absent the NBA Hall of Famer was as a father. Rodman posted a video of …
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