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A federal judge has sentenced former journalist James Gordon Meek to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. Federal investigators first became aware of Meek’s possession of child sexual abuse imagery following a tip from the cloud storage provider, Dropbox, …

Another woman has filed a sexual assaultlawsuit against Bill Cosby, this time alleging he drugged and raped her in the Seventies. Donna Motsinger, who worked as a server at The Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California, claims in the lawsuit that the actor drugged her and sent her home with no …

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …

New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim was taking his kids to their annual checkup on Friday when his phone went haywire. “I was in the doctor’s office with them, they were running around and being absolutely crazy, but I could feel in my pocket my phone blowing up, just people calling …

The United Auto Workers went on strike against the Big Three car manufacturers earlier this month. The historic labor stoppage could have broad ramifications for the economy, the labor movement, and beyond — but it’s already having an impact on the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump, who has long been …

Paul “Pablo” Wilson left Snow Patrol after nearly two decades in the band last year — but he waited to announce it. Now, as he wants to move on with a metal-leaning project he’s calling Above as Below, he’s making sense of how the world has perceived the way he …

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be streamed live on Disney+ from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on November 3, and an edited version will broadcast on January 1, 2024, on ABC. This follows several years where HBO was the home of the ceremony. The Hall of Fame …

Jeff Tweedy writes so well about his own music-making, there sometimes seems little worth adding: see his bestselling books (the annotated playlist World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music is due November) and his Starship Casual Substack (NB: the July 4 riff …

A group of women who allegedly experienced abuse while working for Operation Underground Railroad (OUR)— a nonprofit that claims to fight sex trafficking, and was behind the summer blockbuster Sound of Freedom —are speaking out via a lawyer, Suzette Rasmussen. On Thursday, the attorney released a statement from the women, …

Lizzo has asked a judge to dismiss the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by three former dancers. In a response filed Wednesday by Lizzo’s legal team and obtained by Rolling Stone, the singer and her Big Grrrl touring entity denied “each and every allegation” in the lawsuit and asked that it …