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MOSCOW — In that moment, it hit me just how quickly things had gone wrong. Karen Shainyan, my most optimistic friend, whose eyes always reflected confidence and courage, had stayed optimistic on the darkest days—when members of the Chechen LGBT community were rounded up and tortured, when the authorities designated …

A New York man already facing charges for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 returned to federal court today for a completely different — albeit arguably unsurprising — indictment: An alleged scheme to distribute and sell fake Covid-19 vaccine cards. Jia Liu, a Marine Corps reservist, and Steven Rodriguez, …

Federal authorities in Sweden have arrested a former security contractor for the U.S. embassy in Stockholm. According to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, U.S. authorities have charged him with covering up the alleged crimes of his younger brother, the prime suspect in an investigation into anti-Semitic arson in the Boston …

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s policies regarding no-knock/no-announce warrants have faced scrutiny in the wake of the killing of Amir Locke, including at a city council meeting he attended Monday afternoon. Following the shooting death of Amir Locke during a no-knock warrant in Minneapolis, the local city council held a meeting …

On his first full day representing himself in his federal trial against charges that he stole money from his former client Stormy Daniels, attorney Michael Avenatti got spectacularly upstaged by his own former lawyer and helluva showman Sean Macias, a witness for the prosecution. Wednesday’s proceedings began deep in money …

André Leon Talley, who served as an editor-at-large at Vogue in the U.S. and became a pop-culture and fashion icon, died Tuesday at the age of 73. Talley’s death was confirmed to Rolling Stone by his literary agent, David Vigliano. The cause of death has not been disclosed. “It is …

On Friday, a judge sentenced father and son Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 20 years more. Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced the McMichaels’ neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan to life with the possibility of parole, saying that Bryan had expressed genuine remorse …

A New York federal judge expressed skepticism during a heated hearing in court on Tuesday, as a lawyer for Prince Andrew argued for the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by public Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who claims the British royal sexually assaulted her when she was 17. Andrew’s motion …

I n the middle of California’s Central Valley, in a modest milky-blue home on one acre of farmland, lives a small group of nuns. They wear habits and abide by a set of vows, but as the door opens, it’s clear that the Sisters of the Valley, as they’re known, …

Last week, Twitch slapped super-streamer Hasan Piker, known on the platform as HasanAbi, with a seven-day ban for apparently using the word “cracker” as a racial slur. Wearing a tropical button-down, red “Trump/Pence 2020” hat, plastic choker necklace, and chipped black nail polish, the leftist commentator celebrated his return yesterday …