Peter Fonda, the Oscar-nominated actor whose roles in Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider and Roger Corman’s The Trip made him a counterculture hero in the late 1960s, died Friday at the age of 79. The cause of death was respiratory failure due to lung cancer, his family confirmed to People. “It …
Read More »What Do We Actually Know About Jeffrey Epstein's Death?
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 …
Read More »Bernie Sanders' Chances Depend on Taking Support from Biden, and Soon
Top campaign staffers for Bernie Sanders held a press call Monday, and the message was positive. The senator, they said, is doing well and won the last debate. And polls show, they added, that the country cares about his favored issues, particularly health care. But that’s not always, his staff …
Read More »Who's Paige Thompson? Meet the Woman Allegedly Behind the Capitol One Data Breach
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 …
Read More »Maren Morris on the Highwomen, the Dixie Chicks and Her 'Playboy' Controversy
In a world where Lil Nas X has an unbeatable country smash, it’s hard to blame the likes of Maren Morris — who was performing in Texas honky-tonks at the age of 10 — for branching out. In the wake of 2018’s ubiquitous, super-poppy Zedd collaboration “The Middle,” Morris, 29, …
Read More »The Average Age of the World's Biggest Live Artists Is 53 — and Rising
“Grossed half a Billi on the Divide tour…” Ed Sheeran is learning the ways of the hip-hop megastar. The above commercially revealing, braggadocious lyric pops up within “Take Me Back To London”, the fourth track on Sheeran’s new album, No. 6 Collaborations Project, which is currently the most popular long-player …
Read More »Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured In His Jail Cell
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 …
Read More »Tainted Alcohol Linked to 19 Deaths In Costa Rica
The national health department in Costa Rica has issued a nationwide alert after at least 19 people died after ingesting alcohol tainted with methanol, a synthetic chemical used in anti-freeze and windshield wiper fluid. In a press release, the Ministry of Health said that 14 men and five women have …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Cats,' 'Hustlers,' 'Top Gun: Maverick'
This week in the wide, wide world of trailers: Our first looks at a feline T-Swift, a poledancing J-Lo and Tom Cruise back in the cockpit; clips of the upcoming doc on Motown and HBO’s next big blockbuster-TV fantasy bet; Brad Pitt gives us his best pensive face, Kirsten Dunst …
Read More »Jeffrey Epstein Denied Bail
At a bail hearing on Thursday at the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman denied bail for convicted sexual predator and wealthy hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, who has been charged with ex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, NBC Newsreports. …
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