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As a young-adult literature author born in Argentina and raised in Miami, Romina Garber aims to write the experiences she didn’t see in books growing up. “I didn’t have any reference points for my immigrant identity in the books I read or the shows I watched,” she says. That’s why she was heartbroken to see

Two of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage victims in Florida filed a shocking defamation lawsuit Thursday against Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown. Brown’s award-winning investigation into the disgraced financier’s prior sweetheart deal with prosecutors helped trigger Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking indictment. Plaintiffs Haley Robson and Courtney Wild claim in their new complaint filed in Miami-Dade County

Roxane Gay has joined Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and other artists and podcasters in removing their content from Spotify, revealing Thursday that the author has pulled all episodes of The Roxane Gay Agenda podcast from the streaming service over their handling of “misinformation.” On Feb. 1, Gay tweeted, “It won’t move any sort of needle

Libby Adame and her daughter Alicia Galaz appeared in court together for the first time since being charged with murder in the death of Karissa Rajpaul, whom they allegedly injected with silicone in an illegal butt-lift procedure. The Wednesday hearing was scheduled as an arraignment, but neither defendant entered a plea. In addition to murder

The second season of Euphoria has been, in a word, a clusterfuck. In addition to seemingly sidelining key characters, such as cam girl Kat (Barbie Ferreira), the show has paired up two completely disparate characters (Cassie, played by Sydney Sweeney; and Nate, played by Jacob Elordi) in the name of fan service, as well as given sympathetic

Ex-Miami Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores is suing the National Football League and its teams for racists hiring practices. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, alleges that the NFL “remains rife with racism, particularly when it comes to the hiring and retention of Black Head Coaches, Coordinators and General Managers.” Flores, a longtime

Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback and winningest player in NFL history, has officially announced his retirement after 22 seasons. Brady made the announcement in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday morning. “I’ve done a lot of reflecting the past week and have asked myself difficult questions,” he wrote. “And I am so proud of what

A federal judge on Monday rejected the plea deal between prosecutors and Travis McMichael on hate-crimes charges for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, CNN reports. Arbery was chased, shot at close range and murdered in 2020 while going for a run through a residential neighborhood in Georgia. As part of the now defunct deal, McMichael

Joe Rogan offered up a response to the ongoing controversy surrounding his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, and its role in spreading Covid-19 misinformation after artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell took their music off Spotify in protest.  In a video shared on Instagram, Rogan attempted to cover himself from every angle. He said

He’d traded his 10-year residency at Burning Man for the hermetic existence of an Olympic athlete, his all-nighters in Ibiza for goggles and a facemask in the open air. And still Benjamin Alexander could not escape the damn virus. He’d traced an initial bout with Covid-19 this time last year to a chairlift, en route

We’ll come to the homegrown terrorists he foiled and the race war they tried to foment. To the journalists he saved from assassination and the synagogue marked for carnage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. To the gun-rights march on the steps of a state capitol, where they planned to pick off cops and rallygoers. There’s

A former Kansas schoolteacher has been arrested and charged with leading an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria over the past decade. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen, was charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice announced Saturday, noting her leadership role in

In her new book, Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World , author Alexa Tsoulis-Reay explores what, if anything, it means to be “normal” when it comes to sexuality and desire and how the Internet (and other media technologies) are involved in the way people come to know who they are in the world today.

It’s unclear whether Michael Avenatti is making progress convincing a jury he was justified in taking his client Stormy Daniels’ book payments and lying to her about their whereabouts, but everyone in the courtroom Friday learned a lot about Daniel’s possible future show, Spooky Babes. Avenatti has pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud

Halfway through the new Netflix original movie Brazen, a character says of his recently murdered ex-wife: “The list of suspects gets to be a long one when it comes to a dead hooker.”  This loathsome man gets punched in the face by Alyssa Milano for his disrespect, telegraphing that we’re dealing with a story that

Stormy Daniels had never been intimidated by big-talking men. If anything, it’s the other way around. The porn star who Donald Trump failed to muzzle with hush money and an NDA faced her disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenatti Thursday in a Manhattan federal court, where he stands accused of forging Daniels’ signature and stealing hundreds

As the sporting world descends on Los Angeles in anticipation of the city’s first Super Bowl hosting gig in nearly 30 years, another storied event will also make its long overdue comeback. Rolling Stone is back to host one of Super Bowl Weekend’s most sought-after events: Rolling Stone Live. This year’s party will be hosted

On his first full day representing himself in his federal trial against charges that he stole money from his former client Stormy Daniels, attorney Michael Avenatti got spectacularly upstaged by his own former lawyer and helluva showman Sean Macias, a witness for the prosecution. Wednesday’s proceedings began deep in money matters and investigative procedure, just

At first, it seemed like harmless fun, a plotline directly lifted from female buddy romcoms like The Other Woman or John Tucker Must Die: a group of women discovered, via the power of social media, that they had all been dating the same man. West Elm Caleb, as he soon came to be known, was said to

Ali Abulaban may be in jail facing murder charges, but his social media presence remains unshaken. On Monday, a judge ordered the TikTok personality to stand trial for the murder of his wife and another person. Abulaban faces two counts of first-degree murder for the October 2021 shooting deaths of Ana Abulaban, 28, and Rayburn