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 …
Read More »'Get Vaccinated or Else': The Anti-Vaxxers of the Winter Games Fought the Olympic Mandate. Did the Mandate Win?
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 …
Read More »Shaun White 'Definitely' Wants to Retire After the 2022 Olympics — If Covid Doesn't Shut Them Down First
Next month’s Winter Games in Beijing will be the last Olympics for Shaun White. They’ve gotta be, right? “Oh, for sure,” the three-time gold medalist confirmed to Rolling Stone on Wednesday, a little jet-lagged — and very wistful — over the phone from Switzerland. Too bad the man who re-invented …
Read More »'A Huge Scam': Fans Who Bought Tekashi 6ix9ine-Backed NFTs Are Pissed
Saliva is dripping out of the corners of a serpentine-tongued man’s mouth, which hangs open in a toothy smile. His eyes lack proper pupils; instead, rainbow dollar signs glow in their place as his fingers wrap around the handle of a bloody chainsaw. It sounds ridiculous — but, for some, …
Read More »O.J. Simpson's Parole Ends Early: He's 'a Completely Free Man'
O.J. Simpson is “a completely free man,” according to his lawyer in Las Vegas. The former football star and actor who was acquitted for murder in California and convicted in Las Vegas for armed robbery was granted early parole. The Division of Parole and Probation submitted an early discharge request …
Read More »Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year Shows Just How Much of a Bummer 2021 Was
Dictionary giant Merriam-Webster released its Word of the Year contenders, with “vaccine” taking the top spot, followed by words like “woke,” “insurrection,” and “cicada.” Merriam-Webster chooses its Word of the Year based on lookup volume on its website, and Editor at Large Peter Sokolowski said searches for “vaccine” increased by …
Read More »NFL Fines Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers for Covid-19 Protocol Violations
The National Football League has fined the Green Bay Packers and their quarterback Aaron Rodgers for violating Covid-19 protocols, CNBC reports. On Tuesday, the NFL announced it would fine the Packers $300,000. Rodgers was fined $14,650 for going to a party unvaccinated. Rodgers was caught on video unmasked at a …
Read More »'Rust' Director Recounts Fatal Shooting of Halyna Hutchins
The director of Rust has spoken out on the moment he witnessed Alec Baldwin fatally shoot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie’s set in New Mexico. Hutchinsdied during the movie’s production last week after Baldwin fired a prop gun that had been wrongly declared safe for use, while director Joel …
Read More »'The Rage Would Come Out of Nowhere': Personality Change Has Emerged as a Symptom of Long Covid
One July day in 2020, Julie Fallon, a second-grade teacher from Massachusetts, found herself standing in a dumpster in her driveway, shaking and enraged. She doesn’t remember what had triggered her anger that summer afternoon, but recalls reaching for the nearest items and smashing them against the other contents. “I …
Read More »A Photographer's Year on the Front Lines of an American Uprising
Mel D. Cole always told himself that if he saw a chance to photograph history in action, he’d take it. So when he heard about a protest at New York’s Foley Square following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, he headed downtown. “It was so intense I couldn’t …
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