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The mayor of Newport News, Virginia where, a day earlier, a six-year-old elementary student brought a gun to school and intentionally shot his teacher, called the incident a “red flag for the country” during a press conference Saturday.  Mayor Phillip Jones told reporters that the teacher — a woman in her 30s — remains hospitalized

He is one of the most unappealing men you could imagine — a cropped haircut floating atop that thin, weirdly muscular frame, punctuated by a reedy, deeply irritating voice. No one agrees with him. You do not log on to Twitter and see the phrase, “Hey, when Skip is on, you gotta admit he makes

Removed Player Bauer was accused of assault by three separate women and had been serving the longest suspension in baseball history Trevor Bauer will no longer play for the Dodgers. On Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the organization is cutting ties with the pitcher after an investigation into sexual and physical assault allegations

The Stud was packed wall-to-wall with shirtless men, but JP and their friends were in their own dimension. The traveling party Horse Meat Disco had commandeered the San Francisco bar, filling it with pounding dance music and the carnal stench of amyl nitrate poppers, but for three and a half hours, JP’s group sat at

A roommate of the victims of the Idaho killer says she spotted him before he left their home. A new affidavit, unsealed Thursday, revealed new information about what led investigators to locate Bryan Kohberger, the primary suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students. On Nov. 13, police were called to the house around 11:58

When Andrew Breshears arrived at the Agapé Boarding School in 2018, he was a sandy-haired 12-year-old who weighed less than 100 pounds. He enjoyed watching movies, listening to Elvis, and playing soccer with his friends. “I was sheltered,” Breshears says. But he struggled at home. When he was told he couldn’t live with his mother

Courts and Crime An eight-second video of the officer repeatedly hitting the young girl’s head went viral online The New York Police Department suspended an officer after he was caught hitting a young girl while he was allegedly attempting to break up a fight on Staten Island Tuesday, Jan.3.  The incident occurred at a bus

Crypto Crimes The former crypto giant allegedly defrauded millions of investors through FTX crypto schemes Sam Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges in connection to the collapse of FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange of which he was the cofounder. As The New York Times reports, Bankman-Fried did not speak during the hearing, and

As prayers for Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills player who collapsed during a game Monday, began to roll in on social media after he received CPR on the field, so too did the inevitable conspiracy theories that somehow the cardiac arrest he suffered came from the Covid vaccine. During the Bills game against the Cincinnati

A suspect believed to be involved in the November murders of four University of Idaho students was arrested Friday in Pennsylvania. Moscow Police Chief James Fry identified the suspect as Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28. Kohberger received a bachelor’s and master’s degree from DeSales University and was a graduate student at Washington State University at the

From celebrity appearances to sneaker releases, New Yorkers are used to standing in very long lines. But yesterday afternoon in Manhattan’s Astor Place, something new brought hundreds of people to the streets: the state’s very first legal recreational weed sales.  Though cannabis possession and (limited) public consumption were OK’d for adults by the city last

It was weird enough that misogynistic lifestyle influencer Andrew Tate, 36, and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 19, were engaged in a Twitter spat at year’s end, weeks after Tate had been reinstated on Twitter by new owner Elon Musk following a five-year suspension. Baited by this preening man-baby into a fight over carbon emissions, Thunberg

Paul McCartney, Halsey, Naomi Campbell, and more shared heartfelt tributes to the late Vivienne Westwood,whose death yesterday at the age of 81 has shaken both the fashion and music worlds. Westwood popularized punk’s iconic style, and her pivotal work with Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren broke through the status quo by challenging fashion — and

Almost 10 years after he retired due to health problems, the former Pope Benedict XVI, who served as the head of the Catholic Church from 2005 until 2013, when he became the first pope in six centuries to step down, has died. He was 95. “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict

Five women in California have sued a network of organizations associated with the International Churches of Christ and two of its leaders, claiming they are victims of childhood sexual abuse and a financial pyramid scheme perpetrated by a “cult.” The federal claim, filed Friday night in the Central District of California and obtained by Rolling

In the mid-Nineties in Norilsk, Siberia, seven-year-old Nadya Tolokonnikova dreamt of being an advertising executive — drawing up pitches for Fanta and Coca-Cola commercials. It might be a surprisingly corporate dream for the future face of Russia’s Pussy Riot, but nothing is quite what it seems in Siberia. Even today, Norilsk is a “closed city”

Acclaimed fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has died at age 81. A statement released through her official social media accounts announced her death, sharing that she was surrounded by family at her Clapham, South London home. “The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better,” the statement continued. The post concluded with

Crime and Courts The former major league baseball player was shot at a bar in Dominican Republic in June 2019 The First Collegiate Court of Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic has convicted 10 individuals on attempted murder-related charges connected to an attack on former major league baseball player David Ortiz, who was shot in the

A man on death row in Texas is appealing his sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that a video clip of him chatting with a Comedy Central comedian was used improperly as evidence against him during his trial. In 2015, comedian Jeff Ross visited a Texas jail to film some jokes for the Comedy

In 1995, Lamont, a Black man from Harlem, New York, then in his mid-twenties, was arrested and charged with selling drugs as part of a vast criminal enterprise. Though he maintains it was a case of mistaken identity, the feds claimed he dealt cocaine and kicked profits up to a drug lord. His first trial resulted