In Adolescence, Netflix’s new limited series, audiences are introduced to 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper). He’s a young lad growing up in your average English town. His parents are busy. He shares a bathroom with his older sister. And three minutes into the show, an armed team of police officers …
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“Is all this for just us, then?” Five minutes prior, Stephen Graham had entered a Middle Eastern restaurant in midtown Manhattan, shaken hands for an introduction, and quickly excused himself to use the restroom. An hour ago, the stocky British actor best known on these shores for playing tough guys …
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A self-described “former incel” named Michael Pengchung Lee was allegedly planning a mass shooting at the University of Arizona before he was arrested, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. He is charged with “transmit[ing] in interstate commerce a communication of a threat to injure the person of another.” On …
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Skin care tutorials, fashion channels, and exercise influencers — when it comes to enhancing your appearance, TikTok is bursting with advice. Much of it should be taken with a grain of salt, but more often than not, there’s a trend taking off that prompts greater concern. In recent weeks, a …
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The incel (or “involuntarily celibate”) community has never been a particularly supportive or amicable one. Whatever nasty remark you could level at men who spend their days seething that “stuck-up” women won’t sleep with them, they’ve heard far worse in toxic forums where they constantly put one another down, mocking …
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Taylor Klein will remind you of someone you know. A math-whiz engineer from an engineering family, her Facebook feed is littered with photos of her eating ice cream, studying, and enjoying the great outdoors — the most innocent of pastimes. We are introduced to her via video diary, where she …
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