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The far-right political influencer Charlie Kirk, shot dead in an assassination at a university campus event Sept. 10, has proven as polarizing in death as he was in life. On the one hand are the MAGA faithful, mourning their preeminent youth-movement leader as a martyr. On the other are detractors …

Erik and Lyle Menendez have lost their bid for a new trial. A month after the brothers were denied parole at back-to-back suitability hearings where they recounted their 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled they do not qualify for a new …

The bad omens came early at this year’s Burning Man — the infamously wild, weeklong celebration of art, music, and unrestrained self-expression held at the end of every summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — portending a particularly extra-ordinary burn. During the first weekend of the 10-day event, when thousands …

Martin Suarez is the only deep-undercover FBI agent in history to have infiltrated a Colombian drug cartel. In 1988, he transformed into “Manny” and became a high-level smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Over the next four years, he smuggled $1 billion worth of cocaine into the United States — …

As if the next few months weren’t packed enough for gamers with new entries of Ninja Gaiden, Call of Duty, and Battlefield, Nintendo decided to stoke their own hype with a wave of big announcements this morning. During an hourlong Nintendo Direct livestream, the company dumped tons of details, including …

O n the morning of March 19, 2000, Florian Reither learned what it felt like to scrape the sky. He’d just stepped out of the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center through a hollowed-out window. Now, as Sunday’s dawn cracked, Reither — dressed in a …

At least seven HBCUs are currently in lockdown on Thursday morning after receiving threats to their campuses. Alabama State, Hampton, Clark Atlanta, Southern, Bethune-Cookman, and Virginia State Universities all shared statements confirming that they are under lockdown until further notice while law enforcement investigates the nature of the threats. Spellman …

Although it’s never truly gone away, it’s been a minute since the Borderlands series really mattered to most gamers. Following a pair of excellent releases with the 2009 original and 2012’s Borderlands 2 the franchise shifted into prequels, spin-offs, and eventually a trilogy capper in 2019, but by then some …

For years, politicians and the American public have clamored for more disclosures about the activities and connections of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who surrounded himself with powerful, famous friends while trafficking hundreds of young women and girls for sex with the help of his now-imprisoned accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. As …

High school can be difficult. But for Beal City, Michigan, teenager Lauryn Licari, an already fraught period got even worse when she and her then-boyfriend Owen McKenny became the victims of a 20-month harassment campaign. Their story is told in the new Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. …