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I’m pretty much your standard Brooklyn millennial lefty mom. I buy my son dolls. I serve him outrageously overpriced plant-based chicken fingers. I don’t allow him to watch Paw Patrol, though that has less to do with how the show glorifies the cop industrial complex and more to do with the fact that it blows (with

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in children ages 5-11, setting the stage for the age group to begin receiving their first doses as early as next week. The Centers for Disease Control is expected to meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss offering a recommendation. If they do, kids

Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan’s arena show in New Orleans, announced in June and later delayed after Rogan contracted COVID-19 in August, finally took place Thursday night. Both comedians made damn sure everybody was aware of the hot water they’ve found themselves in — Rogan for his spurious vaccine alternative claims, and, more recently, Chappelle

Facebook, like a handful of cigarette, agrochemical, and private-mercenary conglomerates before it, has changed its corporate name in the midst of a PR crisis: On Thursday, Oct. 28, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the tech giant’s parent company would now be known as Meta. Zuckerberg announced the name change at the end of his keynote

During These Uncertain Times (TM), celebrities have been trying to one-up each other by competing over who can post their most problematic opinions about the Covid-19 vaccine, thereby ensuring rapid cancellation. The latest to join the fray of freshly canceled anti-vax celebrities like Nicki Minaj, Offset and Victoria’s Secret model Doutzen Kroes is Penny the

The long-awaited drive to inoculate 28 million children against Covid-19 could begin on Nov. 4, medical experts tell Rolling Stone. Pfizer has 15 million children’s shots—which contain one-third of the dose given to adults and kids 12 and over—ready to ship to private practices, hospitals, pharmacies and other providers across the country the moment the

Noodle the Pug has jumped the shark. The 13-year-old dog has become known globally as a bellwether for the national mood, thanks to his owner Jonathan Graziano making TikToks determining whether it will be a “Bones Day” — i.e., if Noodle stands up on his mat — or a No Bones Day (if he falls

One of the more controversial things Donald Trump ever said was that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the violent protests that erupted during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. (Nineteen were injured and one was killed that day when a white nationalist named James Fields plowed his Dodge

A lawyer for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman argued that the drug kingpin deserves a new trial, primarily based on a report of alleged jury misconduct.  Guzman’s lawyer, Marc Fernich, made his argument before a three-panel judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, October 25th. The appeal had been in the works essentially since

A Georgia man is facing a wire fraud charge for using Covid-19 relief money to allegedly purchase over $55,000 worth of Pokémon cards. Prosecutors in the Southern District of Georgia accused Vinath Oudomsine of lying on an application for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), one of a handful of small relief programs overseen by

The director of Rust has spoken out on the moment he witnessed Alec Baldwin fatally shoot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie’s set in New Mexico. Hutchins died during the movie’s production last week after Baldwin fired a prop gun that had been wrongly declared safe for use, while director Joel Souza was hospitalized. In a

Anti-vax protestors descended on Brooklyn’s Barclays Center ahead of Sunday afternoon’s Nets game in support of Kyrie Irving, who is currently unable to play basketball at home games due to the city’s vaccine mandate. Video from outside the arenas shows dozens of protestors waving flags, touting anti-vax signs and chanting “No vaccine mandate, Stand with

The NFT landscape is a wide-open frontier right now, and with any new playing field, there are newbies frantically trying to cash in on a bubbling trend, obvious scammers, and Trojan horses. Enter Aiko, an artificially intelligent “companion” who looks like an anime character and will live on the Internet — or, more specifically, in

A Colorado teen who alleges she was sexually assaulted at a Utah facility for “troubled” youth is suing Phil McGraw and ViacomCBS for negligence, alleging the star of the popular Dr. Phil show and his staff recommended and arranged for her treatment at Turn-About Ranch. Plaintiff Hannah Archuleta, 19, says in her complaint filed this

Millionaire skyscraper scion Robert Durst has been charged with the decades-old murder of his first wife, Kathie Durst, a medical student who went missing in New York in 1982, officials confirmed Friday. “The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office can confirm that a complaint charging Robert Durst with the murder of Kathleen Durst was filed in

A Connecticut man was found guilty of coercing two women and a 17-year-old girl into sex trafficking during the 2020 Super Bowl in Miami, the Department of Justice announced Friday. A federal jury convicted 48-year-old Edward Walker on charges of sex trafficking by force and coercion, sex trafficking of a minor and by force and

Married during the pandemic, Joseph and Emily Ferlazzo were supposed to be celebrating their first wedding anniversary with a scenic Vermont camping trip. The couple left Northfield, New Hampshire, on Friday, October 15th, driving the converted bus that was also their home, which they lived in on Emily’s parents’ property. They traveled a little more

Authorities have used dental records to identify the remains of Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the murder of his fiancée Gabby Petito. Laundrie was missing for more than a month before his remains were found in the Carlton Reserve in North Port, Florida, earlier this week, the Tampa FBI announced Thursday. Laundrie was

Simone Biles revealed she’s still suffering from “the twisties” — a disorienting condition that forced the gymnast to withdraw from events during the Tokyo Olympics — in a new interview with the Today show. “I’m still scared to do gymnastics,” Biles admitted. “To do something that I’ve done forever and just not be able to

Authorities in Florida discovered human remains along with personal items belonging to Brian Laundrie — a person of interest in the death of his fiancée Gabby Petito — in a North Port, Florida, park Wednesday, Oct. 20. Michael McPherson, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Tampa Field Office in Florida, confirmed the findings in