San Diego’s Comic-Con has canceled its July convention for the first time in its 50-year history, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event will instead return to the San Diego Convention Center from July 22nd to the 25th, 2021. “Recognizing that countless attendees save and plan for its conventions each …
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Max Brooksconducted a Reddit AMA to answer questions about the coronavirus last week, plus shared a very cute PSA with his father, comedic legend Mel Brooks, promoting social distancing. The younger Brooks is the author of the 2006 zombie apocalyptic novel World War Z, which was adapted into a film …
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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in a New York state prison Wednesday, weeks after the disgraced producer was found guilty of two charges in his sexual assault trial. Weinstein faced between five to 29 years following his conviction on charges of felony sex crime and third-degree rape; the …
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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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Americans have a hard time sleeping — according to the National Sleep Foundation, nearly a third of U.S. adults have experienced insomnia. But sleeping pills can cause plenty of unsavory side effects, which is why so many people are turning to natural remedies. And over the past two decades, one …
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On a frigid Saturday afternoon, the best-smelling place in America was Ellipse Park in Washington, D.C., where it was impossible to go one step in either direction without walking into a fragrant cloud of sweet-smelling vapor — though marketed to mimic everything from strawberries to cotton candy, it all came …
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