Earlier this week, on a New York subway train, a woman did something that caused me to descend into nothing short of sheer panic: She dropped a melon. It rolled down the car thunderously, careening past the ankles of passengers, until it landed right in front of my feet. My …
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A jury in New York found former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of two felony sex crimes involving two different women: Committing a criminal sex act in the first degree, and rape in the third degree. However, the jury also ruled that Weinstein was not guilty of three other more …
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Last July, 21-year-old Brandon Clark was arrested and charged with the murder of 17-year-old Bianca Devins, a recent high school graduate from Utica, New York. Clark was accused of murdering Devins on the way home from a concert in New York City. He had posted a photo of her body …
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Alabama woman Brittany Smith lost her Stand Your Ground hearing on Monday after shooting and killing a man she said raped her and attacked her brother in January 2018. According to The New Yorker, she now faces life in prison. “I was prepared for a no, but I just feel …
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Tinder is introducing new safety features, including a panic button, to better protect users if a date starts to turn dangerous,The Wall Street Journal reports. The new features are expected to arrive at the end of January and they will be provided by the security app Noonlight, which Tinder’s parent …
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Jennifer Levin, 18, epitomized the term “victim shaming” in the wake of her 1986 murder at the hands of the 21-year-old Robert Chambers. On-and-off lovers, it was towards the end of the summer when the two met up at a bar, then decamped to Central Park. There, Chambers said Levin …
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Comedy duo Tim & Eric announced their 2020 Mandatory Attendance Tour, which will take them through the United States, Canada and Australia with a new live show “filled with brand new spoofs, goofs and insanity.” The duo shared a characteristically surreal trailer for the run that (sort of) explained why …
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Chrissy Teigen appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss to talk about her recent spat with President Donald Trump on Twitter. After Teigen’s husband, musician John Legend, appeared on NBC to talk about criminal justice reform, the president tweeted, “Guys the boring musician @johnlegend, and his filthy mouthed wife, …
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When we talk about the far right, it’s generally agreed upon that its (mostly white, mostly male) members aren’t born, but made, usually following an intense process of radicalization. But the radicalization process is akin to that of a frog being dropped in a pot of lukewarm water: The temperature …
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History and fantasy join forces for Life on the Moon, the debut graphic novel by illustrator Robert Grossman. Grossman, who died last year at the age of 78, was a longtime Rolling Stone cover artist and creator of the iconic poster for 1980’s Airplane! [Find It Here] Published by Yoe …
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