On Thursday, authorities in Thousand Oaks, California, identified Marine veteranIan David Long, 28, as the gunman who killed 12 people and injured more than a dozen others at a popular bar frequented by college students earlier this week. Long was found dead inside Borderline Bar & Grille from what police …
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The Satanic Temple is threatening legal action against Netflix for the use of a Baphomet statue strikingly similar to theirs in the new series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The Temple’s co-founder and spokesperson Lucien Greaves tweeted Sunday that their monument design is copyrighted, and that the show “appropriated” it. …
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UPDATE:Rose McGowan apologized to Asia Argento over a statement she shared in August that she now admits “contained a number of facts that were not correct” regarding the sexual assault accusations against Argento. In a note on Twitter, McGowan said the most serious discrepancy was the claim that Argento allegedly …
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What does a Trump administration official have in common with a woman fleeing gang violence in El Salvador and a student in Iran speaking out against Ahmadinejad? They share the rare distinction of having written anonymous op-eds for the New York Times. On Wednesday, the Times published an anonymous op-ed …
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is developing new policies for how sexual assault and harassment will be handled on college campuses — further rolling back the protections for victims that President Obama put into place. DeVos’ new policies, which are still in progress but were obtained by the New York Times, …
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Before Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, disappeared earlier this week from their home in Frederick, Colorado, the life the 34-year-old had built with her husband of eight years, Christopher, seemed better than ever. They had met on Facebook, fell in love, and she moved …
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Less than a year after a series of wildfires in California destroyed more than 1.3 million acres, the Golden State has gone up in flames again, and is burning faster and bigger than ever before. That’s devastating news for residents, many of whom were forced to evacuate their homes for …
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Nearly four months after the death of cult leader Charles Manson, his remains were cremated on Saturday following a small, private funeral that featured songs by the Beach Boys and Guns ‘N Roses. Mark Pitcher, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene who presided over the service, told the Associated …
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Truman Capote’sIn Cold Blood is widely considered to be the first book in the true crime genre – since coming out in 1966, it’s influenced everything fromHelter Skelter toMaking A Murderer to the podcast Serial. Capote’s work of literary nonfiction is a journalistic deep dive into the brutal November 1959 …
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Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has announced the formation of a special task force to examine sexual abuse following the escalating number of recent sexual misconduct reports stemming from the entertainment industry. Lacey announced the special team on Thursday. On that day alone, news broke of comedian Louis …
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