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A tale of untimely deaths in the family a South Carolina lawyer has taken its most bizarre turn yet, when police announced Richard Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh, whose wife and son were murdered earlier this year, had confessed to hiring a former client to kill him in an insurance fraud scheme gone awry. South Carolina Law

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top epidemiologist, is not buying Nicki Minaj’s claims that the vaccine caused reproductive issues like “swollen” balls, something the rapper alleged happened to someone her cousin knows. Minaj, who revealed she is unvaccinated when explaining why she was not attending Monday’s Met Gala, shared a dubious story on Twitter about

If you want a vision of our nation’s future, you can find it in the mace-soaked streets of Portland, Oregon. The City of Roses put it all on display on a recent Sunday in August, when the Proud Boys, an extremist group whose purpose, according to their founder, is to do violence to their political

As if attempting to one-up last week’s stupidity with regards to ivermectin, anti-vaxxers on Facebook and Twitter are advocating for a new and unproven Covid-19 treatment: Betadine, an antiseptic used to treat cuts and scrapes. Povidone iodine, often sold under the brand-name Betadine, is an iodine-based treatment largely for topical use that kills bacteria. It’s

After five years, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is returning to the world he built as both the writer and illustrator of a new full-length comic book. Titled Sir Edward Grey: Acheron, the new one-shot is due to be published by Dark Horse Comics on December 1. The story picks up after the end of 2019’s

Stephen King has teamed with the charity website Humble Bundle to sell his new short story Red Screen. Fans are allowed to name their own price, and all of the proceeds are going to the ACLU. The story is only available for the next week. “In this unsettling short story, a cop interrogates a deranged

“HI BOYS! I’m Valarie and I’m a Roblox stripper,” the tweet reads. “I will dance on u and have sex with u for free so DM me <3.” The message is accompanied by a GIF: a barely legible, pixelated, geometric image that seems to be a facsimile of a woman’s body, clad in white thigh-high

I was new in town — I moved to New York in the year 2000, looking for some breathing room after some sad times in Virginia. I found a cheap apartment in downtown Manhattan, right under the World Trade Center, on John Street. A weird place to live — nobody really lived in the financial

When President Biden announced last night that his administration would be instituting vaccine mandates for up to 100 million Americans, no one expected anti-vaxxers and far-right extremists to be particularly happy. Yet one would’ve thought they would’ve organized something a little better than this. In response to Biden’s mandate, which requires that federal employees be

With a win in his semifinals match at New York’s Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday, Novak Djokovic is one step closer to winning a Grand Slam at this year’s U.S. Open. But the stakes were even higher for Djokovic’s competitor, Alexander “Sacha” Zverev: despite a loss to Djokovic Friday night, the 24-year-old tennis star remains

For the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Rolling Stone spoke with artists and entertainers who identify as Muslim or of Middle Eastern descent about how the aftermath of that day shaped their lives and careers in America. Although he’s known for singing in Arabic in the punk band Haram, Nader Haram was not

On Thursday, a bill introduced by California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia made its way to the governor’s desk for approval. The bill, AB 453, would classify nonconsensual condom removal as a form of sexual battery, thus ensuring that “removing a condom without permission isn’t just immoral, but it’s illegal,” Assemblywoman Garcia wrote in a tweet. While

“Today’s sermon is going to be on Unitopian Anarchy and Autonomy,” Unicole Unicron says in the opening of a sermon on YouTube. Clad in an ethereal white veil, against a background of dizzying black-and-white swirls, the leader of the self-described cult Unicult proceeds to spends the next 51 minutes detailing thoughts on the Covid-19 vaccine

Matthew Taylor Coleman, the California surf instructor who allegedly said that his belief in QAnon drove him to murder his two children last month and leave their bodies in a field in Mexico, could face the death penalty in San Diego federal court, according to a new indictment filed Wednesday. A grand jury indicted Coleman,

Season Two of the podcast Badlands will delve into stories at the intersection of sports and true crime, including infamous sagas involving O.J. Simpson, Tonya Harding, and Pete Rose. Badlands Season 2: Sportsland will premiere on September 22nd with two episodes. One will be about the violence and erratic behavior that’s marred the career of

Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand said she was “shocked” and “disappointed” when she learned of Cosby’s recent release from prison in her first interview since the comedian’s assault conviction was overturned in June. “He’s a sexually violent predator who basically was let out of jail,” Constant said in an interview on Today. She added of

Sarah Turney is best known for running a media campaign to pressure police to arrest her father for the murder of her sister, Alissa Turney, who went missing in 2001. The years-long mission, which included a blog, Facebook and Instagram accounts, and a podcast called Voices for Justice, culminated in 2020. She started a TikTok

On September 9th and 10th, 2001, George Carlin was performing a standup set about enjoying mass tragedies. It wouldn’t be released until 2016 as his final, posthumous, comedy album, but it had a prescient title he’d come up with before the show: I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die.  This is just one

Joe Rogan said he tested positive for Covid-19 and imbibed an array of drugs to try to fight it, including the horse dewormer ivermectin. In a video posted on Instagram, Rogan said he started feeling ill after returning from a run of shows on Saturday, August 28th. He said he separated himself from the rest