The Momo Challenge, an alleged social media-based challenge featuring a bird-like wraith encouraging children to harm themselves, has sparked an internet-based moral panic. Sheriff departments have issued Facebook posts warning parents about it. Schools have sent emails to students about it. Hell, even Kim Kardashian West posted on Instagram about …
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Bruce McArthur, the Canadian serial killer who murdered eight men between 2010 and 2017, was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the crimes that haunted Toronto’s LGBTQ community. McArthur, a mall Santa and landscaper who dismembered his victims and placed their remains in potted plants, will be eligible for …
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The trial of accused cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera inched toward the finish line Tuesday morning as the defense team rested its case after calling a single witness to testify. In a lightning round of questioning that clocked in at less than half an hour, defense attorney Jeffrey …
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New details have emerged about the rape, and subsequent pregnancy, of an incapacitated female patient at a long-term care facility in Phoenix, Arizona. On Wednesday, January 23rd, Nathan Sutherland, a 36-year-old nurse employed by Hacienda HealthCare, was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult …
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The hardest-working decade of 2018? That’s easy: the Nineties. The whole concept of the Nineties continues to haunt the pop imagination, epitomizing everything our sorry excuse for a decade fails to be. Let’s face it, the “teens” never became a thing, just like the “zeroes” didn’t. So as we head …
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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said on Monday that he is carefully considering the clemency request for Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for killing a 43-year-old man who had solicited her for sex when she was just 16 years old. …
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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 midterm election results are in, and in addition to winning control of the House of Representatives, Democratic candidates managed to unseat Republican incumbents in other key positions — including “the top two elected officials most determined to keep [Steven Avery] and [Brendan Dassey] convicted.” That’s how defense attorney Jerry …
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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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