Bella, 11, sits in her chair, her left hand tapping a yellow joystick switch. She is animated, her blue eyes sparkling, her wavy hair bouncing as she moves her head. Yesterday, she went back to school for the first time, after five months of lockdown. She has a lot to …
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A federal judge halted a Trump administration order to ban TikTok in the United States on Sunday, September 27th, the New York Times reports. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., granted TikTok a preliminary injunction against the ban, which was set to take effect this past Sunday at midnight and …
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Earlier this week,Rolling Stonereported that many sex workers were furious that actor Bella Thorne had made $2 million on OnlyFans, a subscription platform where creators sell content directly to their fans. Now, they’re even more outraged following apparent changes to OnlyFans policy that they say were implemented without warning. According …
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We may be currently living through Stephen King‘s The Stand, but come March, the acclaimed horror novelist promises a new narrative — at least in terms of fiction. Monday, he teased a new book titled Laterwith the tagline: “Only the dead have no secrets.” A full synopsis, courtesy of Amazon, …
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Fox News host Ed Henry was fired earlier this month after the network concluded an internal investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. Now, the former America’s Newsroom anchor is at the center of a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Monday, one which also names hosts Tucker Carlson, …
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In the years following Trump’s election, the deadly Charlottesville rally, and shooting massacres such as the those in Christchurch, New Zealand, El Paso, Texas, and Poway, California, many people have tried to address a virtually unanswerable question: What is the process by which a relatively mild-mannered, disaffected young white man …
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UPDATE: Energy Transfer LP, the company that owns the Dakota Access Pipeline, said Wednesday that it has no plans to shut the pipeline down, despite a federal ruling issued Monday. “We are not shutting in the line,” Energy Transfer spokeswoman Vicki Granado said in an email, according to Bloomberg. Granado …
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the British heiress and longtime confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested NBC New York reports. The FBI reportedly arrested Maxwell in New Hampshire around 8:30 a.m. Thursday. She’s accused of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors, and is expected to appear in federal court later today. …
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A few days ago, I was scrolling through TikTok and saw one featuring Olivia Benson, the beloved star of Law and Order: SVU played by Mariska Hargitay. The TikTok is captioned “#when I say ACAB,” and the audio is from Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” “I hope you know, I …
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Stephen Colbert will appear during a virtual marathon reading of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, hosted by the New York venue Symphony Space. The event will take place June 16th, which is known as “Bloomsday,” as Ulysses takes place over the course of one day, June 16th, 1904, and the book’s …
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