The juvenile shooter at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, was a 15-year-old female student, according to Madison police. During an evening news conference on Monday, Police Chief Shon F. Barnes identified the shooter as Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name Samantha. She was pronounced dead while …
Read More »Politicians and Pundits Escalate Dangerous Drone Hysteria
December is a month of twinkling lights and heavy air traffic, which seem to have collided in the most curious phenomenon of this holiday season: a sudden, unfounded panic that remotely controlled drones are patrolling the night skies up and down the eastern coast of the U.S. A month ago, …
Read More »The Real-Life School — And Horrors — Behind 'Nickel Boys'
RaMell Ross’ newest film Nickel Boys tells the story of the friendship of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) as the two navigate a harsh Florida reform school in the 1960s. Based on the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the film has been praised by critics …
Read More »What the 'I Slept With 100 Men in One Day' Doc Gets Right About Sex Work
Earlier this week, YouTuber Josh Pieters dropped a 47-minute documentary that followed 23-year-old OnlyFans star Lily Phillips as she planned for and completed her goal of having sex with 100 men in 24 hours as a stunt for her OnlyFans page. While she is certainly not the first woman to …
Read More »Inside Pac-Man's Gritty New Redesign
There are very few gaming gaming characters as instantly recognizable across all of popular culture as Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog, but Bandai Namco’s Pac-Man is one of them. The yellow fruit-eating circle’s iconic “waka-waka” eating soundbite is one of the most recognizable sounds in gaming. Debuting in 1980 in …
Read More »'Split Fiction' Might Just Be the First Big Co-Op Game of 2025
It all started at The Game Awards 2017 when Hazelight Studios director Josef Fares said, “Fuck the Oscars” to an audience of millions of viewers. It was a funny and sobering moment in an otherwise advertisement-heavy show. After his profanity-filled yet otherwise innocuous speech, the show introduced a new gameplay …
Read More »Luigi Mangione Wrote Online About a Spine Disorder. Other Patients Say It's Hell
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4, had a significant online footprint before most web platforms suspended his accounts. These profiles seemed to reveal a healthy, accomplished, well-adjusted young man — though there were red flags, …
Read More »NFL Commissioner: Our Jay-Z Relationship 'Not Changing'
TheNFL’s relationship with Jay-Z and his company Roc Nation is not changing after a woman accused the rapper and entrepreneur of rape in a lawsuit, said the league’s commissioner Roger Goodell. “We know about the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s very strong response to that,” Goodell said at a press conference …
Read More »Judge Blocks The Onion's Bid to Take Over Alex Jones' Infowars
A Texas bankruptcy court ruled on Tuesday that The Onion‘s acquisition of Alex Jones‘ disinformation empire, Infowars, could not move forward, dealing a blow to the satirical newspaper. The most surreal media merger in recent memory is now set to disintegrate — at least for now — after almost a …
Read More »Luigi Mangione's Lawyer on Fighting Extradition in CEO Shooting: 'We've Seen No Evidence'
The lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man arrested and charged with killingUnitedHealthcareCEO Brian Thompson, appeared on Good Morning America Wednesday to explain why the suspect is fighting extradition from Pennsylvania — where Mangione was apprehended — to New York City, where Thompson’s murder occurred. Thomas Dickey, Mangione’s lawyer, told …
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