W ES PERRY WAS in his Las Vegas hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino when a gunman, a few rooms away, smashed his own room’s window and opened fire. Fans were gathered across the Las Vegas Strip at a country-music festival. It was …
Read More »Minnesota Nonprofit Accused of Buying Luxury Cars, Vacation Homes With Millions Meant to Feed Hungry Kids
Federal prosecutors have indicted 47 people in connection with an alleged fraud scheme that saw $250 million, meant to help feed hungry kids in Minnesota, instead go to luxury cars, commercial real estate, and vacation homes. The numerous charges were announced Tuesday, Sept. 20, with the Department of Justice unsealing …
Read More »'How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?'
C orporate culture comes from the top in America. At least that’s the platonic ideal. How a company sets its global image, how it treats its employees, what it values — that all starts in the so-called C-suite. In some companies, that ethos can be found in a single man …
Read More »What the Hell Is Going on at Kanye West's Mysterious New Private School?
Kanye West’s latest ambitious venture may be his most surprising – and most mysterious. Over the past decade, West has cemented himself not only as a musical force but also as a cultural and creative visionary, with the launch of his Yeezy line, major collaborations with Adidas and Gap, and …
Read More »How 'Channel 5' Is Changing Journalism, One YouTube Post at a Time
I t’s 11 o’clock in the morning on a sweltering Sunday in New York’s East Village, and Andrew Callaghan, sporting a smirk and shock of curly blond hair, is, uncharacteristically, moving a little slow. A few blocks down from his aunt’s apartment, where he crashed the night before, Callaghan, 25, …
Read More »Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation
I t was the headline that made federal prosecutor Deborah Sines sit up straight in her chair. For nearly a year, she’d been investigating the murder of 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. During that time, she had watched as viral conspiracy theories and fantastical speculation about Rich had …
Read More »'These Kids Are Dying' — Inside the Overdose Crisis Sweeping Fort Bragg
R ACHEAL BOWMAN, A single mother from Aberdeen, Maryland, was finishing up her shift as a postal worker the afternoon of June 11, 2021, when she got a worrisome call from her son’s girlfriend. Her son, Matthew Disney, a 20-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, wasn’t answering his …
Read More »The Battle for 'Cop City'
W hatever the excavator driver had in mind for his morning, it’s pretty clear it wasn’t this. It’s not yet 8 a.m. on a Saturday in late July, and he’s dodging rocks and full cans of rosemary-grapefruit seltzer being flung from 20 yards away, and screaming at the impassive DeKalb …
Read More »The Candy Maker, The Cop, and The Fireman Fighting America's Shadow War
A t dawn, the first rays of the sun peek over the horizon, making the Sahel a Mars red. Skinny Nigérien soldiers in surplus American Marine desert uniforms buzz around in Land Cruisers with spray-painted camouflage. The trucks are packed with shovels, sleeping pads, and ammunition. The soldiers are part …
Read More »Screaming Fights and Breaking Glass: Former Neighbors of Accused Murderer Courtney Clenney Recall Red Flags
OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney stands accused of murdering her boyfriend Christian Obumseli earlier this year in their Miami apartment. According to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the killing was the culmination of a “violent and toxic two-year relationship” in which Obumseli was a victim of domestic violence. Earlier this …
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