Elon Musk will face Twitter in a trial starting Oct. 17 over the Tesla CEO’s terminated $44 billion takeover of the social media platform. Lawyers for both Twitter and Musk agreed to a five-day trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, where Twitter filed a lawsuit against Musk earlier this month …
Read More »Brian Laundrie Claims Killing Gabby Petito Was 'Merciful' in Notebook Confession
Brian Laundrie wanted people to believe that he killed Gabby Petito because she was badly injured. The contents of his notebook, which authorities found near his remains in a Florida swamp last October — and which the FBI announced in January included a confession — have been shared by the …
Read More »Officers Entered Uvalde School with Rifles, Shield 9 Minutes After Shooter — But Did Virtually Nothing to Stop Him
Numerous armed police officers managed to enter the Texas elementary school where 21 people were killed during a mass shooting last monthjust minutes after the gunman stormed the building —but it took authorities nearly an hour to stop the shooter, the Austin Statesman reports. Documents and bodycam footage reviewed by …
Read More »Florida Gov. DeSantis 'Against' Covid Vaccine for Young Kids After FDA Approves Shots
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed his disapproval of the Covid vaccine for young children a day after an FDA panel approved and recommended the shot for children under age five. “I would say we are affirmatively against the Covid vaccine for young kids,” DeSantis said in a press conference. “These …
Read More »Wounded Uvalde Teacher Whose Students Died Says 'I Will Never Forgive' Police for Delayed Response
Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, shared his heartbreaking story of being in the classroom during the mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead last month. On Tuesday, he told Good Morning Americathat all 11 of his students were killed in front …
Read More »LeBron James Calls for Release of Brittney Griner From Russian Prison
LeBron James is sharing his public support for Brittney Griner, the WNBA player and Olympic Gold Medalist who was detained upon arriving in Moscow in February after allegedly carrying weed vape cartridges in her luggage. On Monday, the basketball star shared a letter from his Uninterrupted brand calling for the …
Read More »No, Kyle Rittenhouse, the Depp-Heard Verdict Shouldn't Be 'Fueling' You
Kyle Rittenhouse is cheering the Depp-Heard verdict on Twitter, saying it’s motivating him to move forward with the various defamation lawsuits he’s been threatening — and fundraising off of — for months. On Friday, he confirmed he’s hired Todd McMurtry, the lawyer already representing Nicholas Sandmann in several defamation cases …
Read More »A Dead-Name Passport and 16,500 Followers: How Zi Faámelu Escaped Ukraine
Zi Faámelu was getting desperate. It was five days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days since President Volodymyr Zelensky had declared martial law, and the 31-year-old musician, artist, and Instagram influencer knew she had to get out of Kyiv —and fast. She’d been trapped in her apartment, listening to …
Read More »Freedom Fries 2.0: Bars, Restaurants Change Names and Menus to Nix Russia Connections
Start a senseless and unprovoked war and the world will react in big and small ways. As world leaders sanctioned Russia and everyday people protested worldwide its invasion of Ukraine, other sectors pondered how to distance themselves from the conflict via… banning products and changing brand names boasting even the …
Read More »Bridgeport Police Open Criminal Investigation Into Death of Lauren Smith-Fields
The Bridgeport, Connecticut police department has opened a criminal investigation into the death of Lauren Smith-Fields, the 23-year-old woman who died in mid-December.On Monday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled her death to be accidental by way of acute intoxication, due to the combined effects of fentanyl, promethazine, …
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