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The Los Angeles Press Club held its annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards on Sunday, where Rolling Stone took home five top awards. Cheyenne Roundtree and Jason Newman won Celebrity News – print for “Inside Kanye West’s Yeezy: Abrupt Firings, Alleged Nazi Inspiration and ‘Pure Chaos,” with judges commenting, “Roundtree and Newman’s article provides

Elon Musk, whose antisemitic remarks have been at the center of a mass X (formerly Twitter) exodus, told advertisers boycotting the company to “go fuck yourself” during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday. “It’s gonna kill the company,” Musk lamented of the ongoing boycott, adding, “That will be what bankrupts the company and

On Nov. 20, a trivia team from Oxford appeared on the BBC’s University Challenge, one of the U.K.’s longest-running game shows. On it, Melika Gorgianeh, a team member and PhD candidate in astrophysics, wore a navy blue, pink, and green jacket and was seated behind the team mascot: a fluffy, smiley, stuffed blue octopus.  A

Courts and Cirme The charges come a week after the former police officer who killed George Floyd was stabbed in federal prison in Tucson, Arizona The federal inmate who allegedly stabbed Derek Chauvin — the former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — has been charged with attempted murder, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office

Four years ago, Tesla unveiled a prototype of its Cybertruck — an electric, angular, stainless steel vehicle that CEO Elon Musk envisioned as the futuristic successor to the classic American pickup — in an event that went viral for the wrong reasons. During an attempt to show off the strength of the vehicle’s “Armor Glass,”

Elon Musk appeared at Tesla‘s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on Thursday to unveil the long-awaited Cybertruck, first teased in a disastrous 2019 demo that left the prototype with two shattered windows. And while nothing broke during this launch, which was broadcast live on X (formerly Twitter), it nonetheless drew mixed reviews from Tesla customers, with

As the Ozempic craze pushes advancements in weight-management medicine forward, pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, the company behind the so-called “miracle-drug,” is continuing to crack down on off-brand semaglutide products they say put patients in danger. The drug company announced Wednesday it has filed 12 legal actions in all against medical spas and compounding pharmacies they

His Own Demise The billionaire told boycotting advertisers to “go fuck yourself” during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit Wednesday On Wednesday, Elon Musk retaliated against major advertisers leaving X (formerly Twitter) following his antisemitic remarks on the platform, and told them to “go fuck yourself” during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit. His remarks have

Every once in a while, you come across a social media post that is so successful at making a lot of people very angry that it almost seems like it was lab-engineered by a Russian troll farm for the express purpose of destabilizing Western civilization. Such is the Dog Lady tweet.  If you’ve logged onto

A new Peacock docuseries about the ex-wife and family of suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann has unsurprisingly irked authorities and some families of victims potentially tied to the case. The project was first confirmed earlier this month, and, as The New York Times notes, camera crews have been spotted at the home of

Advances in astronomy and science make it more clear by the day that, unexpectedly, the math is on the side of aliens. As late as the 1990s, scientists weren’t sure that there were planets anywhere else in our galaxy or in the universe beyond, but advances like the Kepler Space Telescope have led astronomers to

Spying on presidents used to be a tough business. One of the great unsung heroes of American history was a formerly enslaved woman named Mary Bowser, a spy who infiltrated the family of Jefferson Davis as a domestic servant, and eventually landed a full-time job in the Southern White House, the political seat of his

As calls for a ceasefire mount and the civilian death toll rises, with at least 12,700 Palestinians estimated dead and 1,200 Israelis killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, both antisemitism and Islamophobia have been on the rise globally. There has arguably never been more of a need for the Anti-Defamation League, one of the

J ust before eight in the morning on May 29, Lourdy Denis answered his phone and a woman informed him that his son had been shot in the head. She’d found Denis’ number scribbled on the back of the child’s notebook, and pleaded with him to come quickly. Denis raced to the Doctors Without Borders

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder, was reportedly stabbed and injured Friday at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, where Chauvin is currently serving a 21-year sentence for his role in Floyd’s May 2020 death. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an unnamed inmate was stabbed at approximately 12:30

YA is dead — at least, that was one prevailing thought after a string of popular young adult books failed to garner success on screens in 2016.  Studio executives blamed the slew of unsuccessful adaptations on a new generation of readers no longer interested in coming-of-age stories. But as YA film and TV once again

While 62 year-old Johnny Hollman Sr. died after being tased by former Atlanta Police Department officer Kiran Kimbrough on Aug. 10, jarring body camera footage of the incident was just released on Nov. 22. On Friday, the Georgia NAACP issued a statement and said Hollman’s death “is not an isolated incident.” The statement continued: “It

For-you-pages aren’t just for selling half-price hair straighteners and ill-advised parasite cleanses anymore. According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, a “growing share” of adults in the U.S. are getting their news directly from TikTok, at a time when other platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X are seeing a rapid decline in

Model Behavior The successful motion to dismiss did not challenge the key claim that Meta’s language model was improperly trained on copyrighted material A federal judge has tossed several claims in a copyright infringement case brought by authors — including Sarah Silverman — against Meta over the way it trains its artificial intelligence language models.