Police in Rochester, New York pepper-sprayed a nine-year-old girl while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car, as seen on body-camera footage from an incident last Friday, January 29th. As the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports, the footage was released Sunday, January 31st. Following the incident, the child was taken to Rochester
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Author Courtney Summers wants to destroy you. Not literally, of course, but through the devastating young-adult books she’s spent the last decade writing. Her latest, The Project, is no different. A harrowing look at cults and the people who fall prey to them, Summers’ ninth book hits shelves on February 2nd via St. Martin’s Press.
This story was produced by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization. Get their investigations emailed to you directly by signing up at RevealNews.org/newsletter. The January 6th Save America March, where then-President Donald Trump incited a crowd to attack the U.S. Capitol, opened with a prayer. Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser and
Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate who spoke at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original piece ahead of Super Bowl LV, February 7th, The Associated Press reports. Gorman’s poem will be dedicated to the three “honorary captains” the NFL has selected to honor before the big game: educator Trimaine Davis, nurse
On the first Wednesday in January, America saw an insurrection. The second, an impeachment. The third, an inauguration. And on the fourth Wednesday in January, everyone got real fired up about a video game retailer’s stock price. When the market closed on Wednesday, GameStop — a beleaguered chain of video game stores with more than
Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, stopped by The Daily Show to discuss how much her life has changed since appearing on the national stage. “When I was writing the poem, I knew it was a historic moment, I knew it was
Nearly 40 women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault have agreed to a $17 million settlement with the bankruptcy court overseeing the class-action lawsuit against the disgraced and imprisoned producer. For the most part, the new settlement — down significantly from the $44 million agreement first reported in May 2019 — would end
The hunter becomes the hunted in Eliza Jane Brazier’s upcoming thriller, If I Disappear, out today via Berkley Publishing. A skillful dissection of true-crime podcast culture and those obsessed with it, this new novel has more twists and fakeouts than an episode of Serial. If I Disappear follows a woman named Sera who is transfixed
Marjorie Taylor Greene has had a busy few days since being sworn into Congress. Known in the mainstream media as the “Qanon congresswoman” due to her support for the baseless far-right conspiracy theory QAnon, which posits the existence of a deep state cabal of left-wing cannibals and pedophiles angling for a new world order, Greene’s
“Am I masturbating with my mask on?” Cherie Deville asks, reclining on her bed. She is playing Kate, a woman so germophobic that she sanitizes her whiteboard to-do list; the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown her into overdrive, and she barely leaves the house, sleeping in goggles and retrieving her delivered groceries while in a full
Spotify has released a new trailer for its upcoming podcast series, Welcome to Your Fantasy, which will delve into the complex and sordid history of Chippendales. As host Natalia Petrzela says in the trailer, she was drawn to the Chippendales story because it offered a window into a “strange chapter of the history of sex
Bernie Sanders’ campaign has turned the viral photo of him bundled up at Joe Biden’s inauguration into a new sweatshirt, with all proceeds going to charity. The “Chairman Sanders Crewneck” — named to honor Sanders’ assumption of the powerful Senate Budget Committee chair now that Democrats control the chamber — is on sale now for
Now that the Biden administration is officially underway, the QAnon community is in crisis. Adherents to the conspiracy theory, which postulates the existence of a cabal of media and left-wing political figures engaged in a child trafficking ring, believed that Inauguration Day would serve as the Great Awakening, and that President Trump would swoop in
Hank Aaron, baseball’s longtime home run king and one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, has died at the age of 86. Aaron’s former franchise the Atlanta Braves announced his death Friday, adding that Aaron died peacefully in his sleep at his home, ESPN reported. No cause of death was provided.
A picture is worth a thousand Berns. And in this case, more like 100,000 memes. Two weeks before the inauguration, Brendan Smialowski, a former sports photojournalist from Connecticut who documents politics for wire service Agence France-Presse, had been outside the Capitol when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building. On Wednesday, Smialowski was in
Last week, while Donald Trump holed up with his shrinking circle of advisors to plan nearly 150 pardons and commutations, including many for his friends and coconspirators, his Department of Justice concluded a string of 13 federal executions — breaking a 17-year hiatus of the federal death penalty. In just six months, in what Supreme
From the moment she took the stand in what was one of the first highly publicized trials in American history, Lizzie Borden has been an object of fascination. Now, her former home — where her father, Andrew, and step-mother, Abby, were murdered in 1892 — is up for sale, along with Maplecroft, the house she
This story was originally published in Issue 747 on November 14, 1996. A FEW TIMES EACH YEAR, Larry King puts everything aside and sets out for La Costa, a health spa in the hills north of San Diego. Nearly 10 years ago he had a heart attack, followed by quintuple-bypass surgery, and going to La
Over the past few months, as conspiracy theories have circulated regarding the election results and President Joe Biden’s inauguration, social platforms have struggled to keep up with the onslaught of misinformation. Much of these false narratives have been driven by believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, the baseless idea that President Trump is lying in
As I sit on a 16-hour chartered flight home from Abu Dhabi to Las Vegas, it’s still somewhat surreal to think what unfolded on Saturday night. Conor McGregor was knocked out by Dustin Poirier mere feet in front of me in the UFC 257 main event. It’s not that Poirier winning was some sort of