Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on Monday, NBC 4 New York reports. She was 56. Police officials said she was found unconscious and unresponsive by her daughter. Per the station, a medical examiner responded to the …
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Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges. The jury in the high-profile trial found the teenager was acting in self-defense during a pair of deadly encounters last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse, 18, had been charged with five counts including reckless homicide, intentional homicide, and attempted intentional homicide. He …
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After JFK Jr. failed to materialize in Dallas on Tuesday, Nov. 2, per the abstruse predictions of a numerology-obsessed QAnon sect, some of the followers of the theory have surmised that Keith Richards is, in fact, JFK Jr. in disguise. Oh, also Michael Jackson is impersonating Mick Jagger. If this …
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George Takei didn’t let a little thing like interstellar travel dampen his long-fiery feud with his former Star Trek co-star William Shatner. The actor who portrayed Sulu on the series mocked Captain Kirk over the latter’s trip to space Wednesday aboard a Blue Origin craft. Speaking to Page Six after …
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Monica Lewinsky helps guide an investigation into the nuances of cancel culture in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, 15 Minutes of Shame, premiering October 7th on HBO Max. Lewinsky executive-produced the doc alongside Max Joseph, who also directed, and in the trailer’s opening moments, Lewinsky explains her involvement …
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UPDATE: The fake Cormac McCarthy account is no longer verified. *** Cormac McCarthy’s agent confirmed that a verified Twitter account claiming to belong to the novelist is fake. “I can confirm that this is definitely not a genuine Cormac McCarthy account,” McCarthy’s agent said. New Republic journalist Alex Shephard confirmed …
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Robert Aaron Long — a 22-year-old Georgia man accused of killing eight people over the course of a March 16th shooting spree — has pleaded guilty to four murders Tuesday. According to CNBC, Long entered his guilty plea with the Cherokee County District Attorney and faces arecommended sentence of four …
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It only took one instance of public shaming for me to never leave my home maskless again. In April 2020, I went for a jog, bare-faced, along a wide boulevard in my Brooklyn neighborhood. “Wear a mask!” a man shouted, scandalized, as I passed him several feet away. He’d been …
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UPDATE (4/12): A grand jury indicted Harvey Weinstein on 11 counts of sexual assault, the Los Angeles Times reports. The indictment doesn’t feature any new charges and was reportedly part of a procedural move to skip a preliminary hearing and make sure the trial itself can move quickly (Covid-19 has …
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Virginia’s General Assembly voted Friday to legalize marijuana in the state, with a plan in place to open dispensaries beginning in 2024. The Democrat-controlled Virginia Senator and House of Delegates both overwhelmingly voted in favor of the measure that could legalize simple possession of marijuana in the state as soon …
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