The parents of a Sandy Hook victim faced Alex Jones from the witness stand and told him firsthand about the torment he has caused them Tuesday during the penalty phase of the Austin, Texas, defamation trial against the conspiracy theorist. The InfoWars host was previously found liable in the first of three defamation lawsuits filed
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Steven W. Thrasher has spent his career reporting on race, policing, and the criminalization of HIV. Along the way, he has come to understand that the vast inequalities in our society help decide who is exposed to viruses, the level of care they receive, and ultimately, who lives and dies. In his deeply reported new
DENVER, COLORADO — Dr. Larry Rudolph was always going to testify for himself. His lawyer wanted him to, but didn’t want Larry to appear rehearsed, like in the hokey TV ads for his dental practice back in Pittsburgh. His girlfriend, Lori Milliron, tells Rolling Stone she agreed that Larry should take control of what she
Larry Rudolph, a prominent Pittsburgh dentist, has been convicted of the 2016 murder of his wife, Bianca. His longtime girlfriend, Lori Milliron, was convicted on charges of being an accessory, obstruction of justice, and two counts of perjury, and was found not guilty on three additional counts of perjury. He faces a maximum of life
On Fourth of July weekend, adult performer Silver Steele made the rounds at a few bars to celebrate the holiday with some friends. He went out dancing, where he and his friends “were all rubbing up on [one] another and hugging and kissing,” he says. The following weekend, he flew from Houston to Austin, where
She was a mom of two who’d gone from cocktail waitress to dancer to pay the bills. A cop’s daughter who’d always harbored dreams of fighting crime. And, for four and a half years, a confidential informant who helped the feds bring down a white supremacist behind a 2004 Scottsdale, Arizona, bombing that maimed a
Bill Russell — Boston Celtics legend, one of the greatest NBA players ever, and a champion of civil rights and social justice — has died at the age of 88. Russell’s family the basketball great’s death Sunday on social media, saying he “passed away peacefully” with his wife Jeannine by his side. No cause of
Don’t Let This Flop is released Wednesdays on all audio streaming platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher and more. If you were a tween in the 1990s, and of a certain disposition — bookish, imaginative, introverted, probably on the Gifted and Talented track, maybe a little on the smug side — you almost certainly read the American Girl doll
Tonia Haddix is nearly in tears. It’s been only a few days since officials showed up to the exotic-animal broker’s Missouri home on June 2, after PETA received a tip that Tonka, a Hollywood movie-star chimp in his thirties that Haddix claimed had died in May 2021, was, in fact, alive. The 52-year-old had blatantly
Following an outcry, Disney announced Wednesday that they will allow political ads to run on their streaming service Hulu in the lead-up to the midterm elections. “After a thorough review of ad policies across its linear networks and streaming platforms over the last few months, Disney is now aligning Hulu’s political advertising policies to be
Elon Musk will face Twitter in a trial starting Oct. 17 over the Tesla CEO’s terminated $44 billion takeover of the social media platform. Lawyers for both Twitter and Musk agreed to a five-day trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, where Twitter filed a lawsuit against Musk earlier this month after he informed the company
Don’t Let This Flop is released Wednesdays on all audio streaming platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher and more. Earlier this month, multiple news outlets reported that model/author/perennial weird-baby-holder Emily Ratajkowski was out on the town sans wedding ring. EmRata had been off the market since 2018, when she married Sebastian Bear McClard, an NYC scene kid/producer perhaps best
Former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao were each sentenced to several years in prison after being found guilty on federal charges tied to the death of George Floyd, ABC News reports. Kueng and Thao, along with Thomas Lane, were all found guilty of depriving Floyd of medical care while Derek Chauvin
Harvey Weinstein sent wide-ranging subpoenas to several of his Jane Doe accusers last month ordering them to either hand over documents ranging from personal emails with family members to financial statements or appear at a “secret” court hearing on July 21, prosecutors allege in a new filing obtained by Rolling Stone. The subpoenas, sent to
On Wednesday, the pornography industry, which was lauded in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic as a model of testing practices, released new health and safety guidelines for Monkeypox. The instructions offer advice for maintaining a safe workspace on sets and advise adult performers to get vaccinated as soon as possible. “We’re an industry
On Tuesday, Meta’s oversight board announced it would take up a case related to gender identity and nudity on Instagram with the aim of offering policy recommendations to the company. The group is an independent oversight body launched in 2020 to address challenging issues like harassment and hate speech, and the announcement marks the first
Brittney Griner was back in a Russian court on Tuesday as her lawyers presented evidence in her Moscow trial on drug charges. She is expected to testify on Wednesday, as CNN reports. “Griner will testify tomorrow, and after that, it’s her decision whether she answers any questions or not,” Alexander Boykov, a lawyer for the
Steven Lopez, a lesser-known co-defendant of the Central Park Five, had his related robbery conviction overturned Monday, July 25, The New York Times reports. Lopez was 15 when he and the rest of the Central Park Five were arrested and charged with raping a white woman jogging through Central Park. While the Central Park Five
Just selection has begun in Austin, Texas, for the defamation lawsuits against InfoWars founder Alex Jones who falsely claimed on his talk show that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting had been a hoax. Last September, a Texas judge ruled against Jones in defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of two six-year-old children killed
“It’s the end of an era,” podcast network Exactly Right tweeted in May 2022. “Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad is going off the air.” The tweet set off dismayed speculation among the true crime community, and rightly so: The podcast, which launched in 2019, was a popular powerhouse of the genre, featuring Paul Holes,