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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

What would’ve been Lauren Smith-Fields’ 24th birthday celebration was instead a day of protest to demand answers and justice in her mysterious death. Today, approximately 100 family, friends, and activists gathered together in front of the Bridgeport, Connecticut, police department to march to the Margaret E. Morton Government Center, where they chanted “Happy Birthday, Lauren”

At the start of the new year, global NFT sales leapt over the $4 billion mark. Simultaneously, like the stench of a bloated trash bag busting open, talk of scamming in the space spread with gusto: Google searches for “NFT scam” hit an all-time high the week of Jan. 1. With droves of people buying

Celebrated French fashion designer Thierry Mugler, whose eponymous fashion line was worn by the likes of Diana Ross, David Bowie, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, died Sunday at the age of 73. His death was announced on the designer’s personal Instagram page, and later confirmed on the official Mugler fashion account, with the brand calling him

When thousands of protesters gathered on the National Mall on Sunday morning to protest Covid vaccine mandates, they did so, they insisted, to preserve personal freedoms. “No more mandates!” they shouted as they marched, serpentine and coiled, like the snakes on the “Don’t Tread On Me” flags hoisted above their heads. “This is not about

Gary Chambers lit up the internet on Tuesday with a campaign ad focused on one issue: the injustice of non-violent marijuana arrests. Sitting in a leather chair in a field near New Orleans’ City Park, the Louisiana Senate candidate puffed on a massive blunt while a voiceover rattled off statistics on the disproportionate number of

On the morning of Sept. 27, 2021, Josh Hargis opened a private video-chat link for what the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee billed as an open dialogue about its newly implemented mandate. Everyone on Team USA would need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by Nov. 1, unless they could obtain a medical exemption —

Governors and governmental departments are hurling blame in the case of Harmony Montgomery, the missing New Hampshire child whose mother told police she hadn’t seen her in over two years when she reported her disappearance in late 2021. Harmony was five years old in 2019, which is when her mother said she last saw her,

On Friday, after a four-month investigation, authorities announced they will close the case into the murder of Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old whose September disappearance during a cross-country road trip and the subsequent discovery of her body captured national media attention. In a statement, the Denver FBI said her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, had admitted to killing

The recent push to rebrand corporate logos to be more inclusive has, for the most part, been a good thing. Making Barbie more body-positive? Great. Renaming Aunt Jemima syrup? About damn time. Yet in brands’ fervent quest to capture youth audiences and capture the woke zeitgeist, they may be going just a little bit too far.

If you’ve spent even five minutes on TikTok this week, you may have seen at least one video referencing a new For Your Page villain: West Elm Caleb. According to the trending clips, Caleb is a 25-year-old furniture designer for West Elm. The white, conventionally attractive, 6’4” designer seemed to do pretty well on dating

Trying to predict Kanye West’s next move is a little bit like trying to predict the weather in San Francisco: difficult yet almost consistently disappointing. One rare possible exception is his burgeoning relationship with Uncut Gems starlet Julia Fox, a former designer and photographer turned New York City girl-about-town turned Hollywood starlet who is now adding celebrity

The Los Angeles Press Club has shared the full list of nominees for the 14th Annual National Arts & Entertainment Awards celebrating works of reporting and criticism in the arts and entertainment industries. Among its six nominations, Rolling Stone received an ensemble nomination in the Music Feature category for its extensive 500 Greatest Albums of

Before she was a radio show host and CNN legal analyst, Laura Coates was an attorney for the Department of Justice. Raised on the stories of Ruby Bridges and the Freedom Riders, she wanted to make a difference by upholding the Constitution in ways that affected every-day Americans. At first, she worked in the Office of

Former digital editor-in-chief of the New York Post Michelle Gotthelf has filed a lawsuit against her former employer and two former editors-in-chief of the publication, saying she was sexually harassed and that her authority was steadily undermined, culminating in her firing last week after more than 20 years with the publication. “For more than two

China will no longer allow the Chinese public to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Citing the continuing threat from Covid-19, the Beijing 2022 organizing committee announced it would end ticket sales to all events “to ensure the safety of all participants and spectators.” The committee had already banned foreign spectators from attending the games,

Wordle, the hit game of early 2022, is so popular that the creator of an entirely different game, also called Wordle!, is seeing a huge increase in business and is donating the proceeds of his app to charity. Steven Cravotta created an app he dubbed Wordle! when he was 18, however it has languished for

Novak Djokovic left Australia late Saturday night, officially putting an end to his legal battle to avoid deportation and dashing the unvaccinated tennis star’s hopes of playing in the Australian Open. Djokovic left at approximately 11 p.m. local time on an Emirates flight from Melbourne to Dubai, ESPN reports. Djokovic’s deportation came after his visa

The family of Lauren Smith-Fields intends to sue Bridgeport, Connecticut over city authorities’ handling of the 23-year-old’s untimely death, the family announced at a news conference Sunday. The family is also asking that an independent agency be brought in to handle the investigation of the death. Smith-Fields’ body was found in her Bridgeport apartment in

The UK government is set to launch a multi-pronged publicity attack on end-to-end encryption, Rolling Stone has learned. One key objective: mobilizing public opinion against Facebook’s decision to encrypt its Messenger app. The Home Office has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency — a spin-off of Saatchi and Saatchi, which made the “Labour Isn’t Working”