If you haven’t been following daily developments of the Alexander Murdaugh saga, you could be behind by dozens of charges. The disgraced South Carolina attorney made national headlines in September, when authorities accused him of arranging his own death by hitman in an insurance scheme. The allegedly staged drive-by shooting happened just three months after
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Novak Djokovic will not compete at the Australian Open this month after his visa was rejected at the Tellumarine Airport in Melbourne, The Guardian reports. The Number One-ranked male tennis champion claimed he had initially received a controversial “medical exemption” from tournament organizers. Late Wednesday night, Djokovic was questioned for several hours at passport control
The Marxist political scientist Michael Parenti once wrote, “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital.” Perhaps no one knows this more intimately than 90-Day Fiance star Stephanie Matto, a YouTuber turned adult content creator who claims to have made upwards of $200,000 selling her farts in jars. Perhaps best known
As the ruins of the Knoxville Planned Parenthood smoldered in the background, vocal Pastor Ken Peters, a prominent anti-abortion figure, spoke to a reporter from the local ABC affiliate. “This is not gonna stop abortion,” he told them. “It’s the changing of hearts and minds, it’s the changing of laws. This might temporarily halt abortion,
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 at the killing of Ahmaud
The Tucson police department has officially terminated a cop who killed a disabled man, shooting the wheel-chair bound 61-year-old nine times in the back and side. The killing took place at the end of November in a big-box shopping complex south of downtown in the Arizona city. Officer Ryan Remington — a four-year veteran of
Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over the graphic souvenir photos that Los Angeles County first responders allegedly snapped at the scene where her husband, daughter, and seven others perished in a helicopter crash two years ago can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday night. The widow of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant filed her lawsuit eight
A day after the U.S. reported a record-breaking 1 million-plus new Covid cases across the country, Kyrie Irving —the NBA’s most prominent unvaccinated player and most vocal anti-vaxxer — officially returned to the Brooklyn Nets Wednesday for the team’s road game against the Indiana Pacers. Irving had missed the first 35 games of the Nets’
Like many Americans his age, 23-year-old Chandler Halderson spent the past year or so living at home with his parents. His father, Bart Halderson, and his mother, Krista Halderson, believed he was working remotely for a Wisconsin insurance company while finishing up his community college coursework from his room, according to authorities. His life appeared
One day after Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account was suspended over Covid-19 misinformation, Rand Paul announced that he’s fed up with Big Tech. To emphasize his fist-shaking, he declared he’d be joining a Donald Trump-backed video-streaming platform called Rumble. Why Rumble? Adored by the far-right, Rumble is a Canadian video-sharing platform that launched
As truckers, it’s second nature for Emily Slaughter and Michele Rusher to keep tabs on bad weather and road closures. But as the drivers, who work for the shipping company New Prime, Inc., headed southbound on Interstate 95 early Tuesday morning, Jan. 4, no radio updates or electronic road signs suggested they were about to
Jeffrey Epstein’s secret settlement with accuser Virginia Giuffre was unsealed Monday in New York amid Prince Andrew’s claims the 2009 deal puts him off limits for Giuffre’s lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 years old. The private pact reveals Epstein paid Giuffre $500,000 to resolve her claims that the disgraced financier
On its seventh day of deliberation, a jury in San Jose, California, has told the judge that they are not able to reach a verdict on three of the 11 counts against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who is on trial for misleading investors about the capabilities of the technology of the blood-testing start-up. Holmes is still
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown made a wild and abrupt exit during his team’s game Sunday versus the New York Jets when — in a moment that has since gone viral — he shed his pads and jersey, danced in the end zone, and left the field. Following Sunday’s game — which the
Unless you’re a celebrity who dies or the author of an incendiary New York Times op-ed, it’s fairly difficult to go viral during the tepid holiday news cycle. Yet one news story managed to break through the tedium of the waning days of 2022, about an AI assistant that reportedly encouraged a 10-year-old to electrocute herself.
Prince Andrew tried to discredit Virginia Giuffre’s allegations he sexually abused her as a minor by claiming her recollection he sweated on her in a London nightclub was a medical impossibility. Now she’s demanding proof. In a new filing in Manhattan federal court, Giuffre and her lawyers reveal they’ve demanded the Duke of York hand
A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, classic novels by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie and hundreds of thousands of pre-1923 sound recordings are among the works that entered that public domain on New Year’s Day 2022. Dorothy Parker’s first poetry collection Enough Rope, William Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay, and books by Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, T.E. Lawrence
Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of helping procure underage girls for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, the question remains as to what will happen for the rest of Epstein’s victims as well as his powerful associates and others who may have helped facilitate the abuse. Here are five civil cases that are still in
Like many others around the globe, Titus Low, a bisexual Singaporean influencer, sells sexually explicit photos and videos of himself on OnlyFans — the popular subscription-based website, which boasts well over 100 million users. The Singapore Police Force arrested the 22-year-old for doing so, on Wednesday, Dec. 29. The police apparently first warned Low that
Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty. Is Prince Andrew next? On Wednesday, a jury convicted Maxwell — the British socialite and longtime associate of disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein — of five of six charges related to sex trafficking. She is facing up to 65 years in prison. Lisa Bloom, an attorney who has represented several Epstein accusers, thinks