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Mr. Rogers once said that in times of crisis, you should always look for the helpers. Unfortunately, Mr. Rogers did not live in the age of social media, where people are less likely to offer help and more likely to board an airplane and announce that they have coronavirus to …

Elizabeth Wurtzel — author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America — died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. She was 52 years old. Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, …

Aaron Sorkin, the filmmaker behind The Social Network, shared an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him and Facebook of “assaulting truth” after their decision not to fact-check political ads on the site. In The New York Times, Sorkin opened his letter by recalling the intense vetting system The Social …

Actress Lori Loughlin, her husband Mossimo Giannulli and nine other parents will face new bribery charges in the college admissions scandal, known as Operation Varsity Blues. The new charges, returned by a grand jury in the District of Massachusetts Tuesday, allege that Loughlin, Giannulli and the others bribed employees at …

Two months ago, the world was introduced to Maj. Gen. Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi — the first Thai consort in nearly 100 years — through a set of more than 60 photos released on the Royal Household Bureau’s website. But these weren’t your average royal portraits: they featured Sineenat in a variety …

Ta-nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations — and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer, …

This story was originally published October 30th, 2008, in RS 1064. He was six-feet-two, and on a good day he weighed 200 pounds. He wore granny glasses with a head scarf, points knotted at the back, a look that was both pirate-like and house-wife-ish. He always wore his hair long. …

The sudden jail-cell death of the sex-offender socialite Jeffrey Epstein in federal custody has left the country baffled. How could such a high profile prisoner, who’d already allegedly attempted to kill himself, be left unattended and in position to cause himself harm? “Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must …

On Monday, federal investigators arrested a 33-year-old woman named Paige Thompson, a software engineer who is alleged to have singlehandedly orchestrated the Capitol One data breach, resulting in more than 100 million people’s personal data becoming compromised. The data included 140,000 Social Security numbers and more than 80,000 individual bank …

Jeffrey Epstein, the 66-year-old disgraced financier, who was arrested earlier this month on sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges, was found injured in his jail cell last night at New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, possibly as the result of a suicide attempt. NBC News reports that, according to …