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A former U.S. gymnastics coach died by suicide Thursday, hours after he was charged with over 20 counts including human trafficking, racketeering and criminal sexual conduct. The Michigan Attorney General’s office confirmed to Rolling Stone that John Geddert, who coached the U.S. women’s gymnastics team at the 2012 Olympic games in London, died by suicide

If you watch enough true crime documentaries on streaming platforms, you start to notice a template emerging. There are the moodily lit reenactments, complete with perky voiceovers from the victim’s diary or blog, written during happier times. There are the journalists and “experts” on the case (more often than not, YouTubers or message board posters)

Tiger Woods was hospitalized Tuesday morning following a severe roll-over car accident in Los Angeles. The golf legend, 45, is currently in surgery for “multiple leg injuries,” according to his agent Mark Steinberg as quoted in Golf Digest. This morning @LMTLASD responded to a roll-over collision in which @TigerWoods was injured. Please see our statement…

Deja Foxx was unpacking in her dorm room to start her sophomore year at Columbia University when Meena Harris DM’d her about working on her Aunt Kamala’s presidential campaign. “I just started repacking,” Foxx says, laughing. “I wasn’t going to sit in a classroom and talk about Plato and Aristotle when I had skills that

No police officers will face charges in the death of Daniel Prude, who died seven days after cops in Rochester, New York placed a hood over his head, knelt on him, and pressed his face into the pavement for several minutes, suffocating him. While speaking at the Aenon Baptist Church in Rochester on Tuesday, February

Starting in the early 2000s, sports pundits began predicting that, any moment now, Kim Ng would become the first female general manager in Major League Baseball. They floated the idea in 2005, when she interviewed for the job with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It came up again in 2009, when she was considered for the role with the San

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of infamous drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán “El Chapo” Loera, was arrested Monday in Virginia on charges stemming from her alleged involvement in international drug trafficking.  El Chapo Trial: What’s Up With His Wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro? The 31-year-old Coronel, a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen and former beauty queen, was apprehended at

Former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are making a podcast. The two have teamed up for Renegades: Born in the USA, the second original podcast series from the partnership between Spotify and Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground. Renegades is an eight-episode podcast featuring Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen in conversation with

Dr. Nicole Van Groningen is exhausted. A hospitalist and assistant professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Van Groningen has been on the front lines fighting Covid-19 for 11 months, and as L.A. comes down from its worst surge in cases since the pandemic began, she’d spent the final two weeks of January at

Spotify and Gimlet Media have released the trailer for journalist Connie Walker’s upcoming true-crime podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain, which will premiere March 1st. The eight-episode series will center around the mysterious disappearance of Jermain Charlo, an indigenous woman, who went missing in 2018 after going out to a bar one night in Missoula,

The recently rebooted TV series Unsolved Mysteries is launching a new weekly podcast Wednesday, February 17th. To accompany the launch announcement, Unsolved Mysteries released a trailer that features interviews with various people sharing their eerie tales. Each episode will focus on a different mystery and will feature guests closely associated with the case, such as

Texas is currently facing an unprecedented blackout crisis, leaving nearly three million people without electricity during the state’s biggest ice storm in years. Boil water notices have been issued to residents of Houston and Austin, warning them to heat their water due to possible contamination from broken pipes, low water pressure, and offline treatment plants.

Donald Trump’s former Atlantic City hotel and casino, Trump Plaza, was imploded Wednesday, February 17th. The demolition took place around 9 a.m. ET with the help of about 3,000 sticks of dynamite, according to The New York Times. A nearby lot was reportedly charging people $10 to park their cars and watch the show. Trump

A few days before Texas went dark, Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience to tout the wonders of the Lone Star State. Both Rogan and Musk have recently moved to Austin, part of a wave of privileged migrants who have come to Texas for lax regulation, low taxes, and great tacos. On the

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, two techies started a new social network built around an increasingly unloved feature of people’s iPhones: actually talking into it. The app, called Clubhouse, was at first niche. There are no posts, no pictures, no videos. As if to underline how little time you need to look

As the CEO of Jettly, a private jet charter service, Justin Crabbe has facilitated countless types of travel over the years. But over the past two months, a new category has emerged: coronavirus medical tourism, which involves traveling outside your home state to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. “We are seeing this quite often across the

This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. Psychedelic reform isn’t exactly President Joe Biden’s top priority. But as his administration and the new congress gets underway, advocates are hopeful that the next four years will continue to bring policy changes that chip

Recent attacks on elderly Asian victims are at the center of a rising national dialogue about anti-Asian and Asian-American racism, with the latest incidents coming nearly a year after the coronavirus pandemic spawned increased vitriol towards people of Asian descent across the country. Last month, 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee died, two days after the Thai man

Bella Thorne’s controversial foray into OnlyFans is the focus of this clip from OnlyFans: Selling Sexy, a new Hulu documentary about the subscription platform where creators sell content directly to their fans. The site, a favorite of the sex work community, reached the mainstream in August 2020 when, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, former child star