By the fall of 1970, after the enormous success of After the Gold Rush and CSNY’s Déjà Vu, Neil Young finally had enough money to buy his dream home: a 140-acre ranch in La Honda, California that he paid for with $340,000 cash. “I just poured all my money into …
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The president of the United States is now directly attacking a woman who has come forward with allegations of sexual assault. He is quite experienced at this. On Friday morning, after a week of media elites damning his “restraint” on the issue with faint praise, President Trump predictably used his …
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Rajuma Begum heard the first gunshots at eight in the morning. She was hauling furniture out of her family home in Tula Toli village, a small community of mostly Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, on the western coast of Myanmar. She knew Rohingya had been burned out of three nearby …
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Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. Thanks to the notoriety around “Fuck tha Police,” which the FBI condemned, and their single “Straight Outta Compton,” whose …
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Fresh off Tuesday night’sconspiracy-charged rally in Tampa, President Trump logged onto Twitter Wednesday morning with a vengeance.Over the course of three hours of Executive Time, the president fired off seven liberally capitalized tweets admonishing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He delivereda bizarre defense of his former campaign chairman Paul …
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Of all the black athletes President Trump has slandered and scapegoated, he has never come after LeBron James. Not that I want him to, but I have to wonder why. The man who has insulted Colin Kaepernick for his civil rights protests and Stephen Curry for refusing to celebrate a …
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A representative for Demi Lovato said the singer “is awake and with her family” afterbeing hospitalized Tuesday for an alleged overdose. “Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support,” a rep said in a statement to Rolling Stone. …
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Years before Billy McFarland defrauded investors and abandoned $1,000-ticket holders by canceling his “luxury” music festival at the last minute, the Fyre Festival founder was apparently taken for a ride by another recent addition to the Scammer Hall of Fame. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, back in …
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Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is once again taking heat for selling politically-charged clothes. This week, supporters of President Donald Trump unleashed their anger on Twitter, creating a #BoycottWalmart hashtag against the company for marketing “Impeach 45” T-shirts and baby onesies on its website. The apparel was made by a …
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Fourth of July means big crowds in concentrated spaces, which unfortunately also means the conditions are ripe for a terrorist attack. This is allegedly what 48-year-old Ohio residentDemetrius N. Pitts was thinking before the FBI arrested him on Sunday for plotting to attack a holiday parade celebrating America’s independence in …
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