Newly released video footage of a police interview with Alek Minassian, the suspect in the 2018 Toronto van attack, sheds light on how he became an incel, a term used to describe an “involuntary celibate” male, as well as how he was subject to a slow radicalization process that ultimately …
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In the midst of a nationwide vaping-related illness epidemic that has resulted in at least eight deaths, Walmart has decided not to stop selling e-cigarettes, the company announced Friday. In a statement, the company said that the lack of information regarding the health risks of e-cigarettes, as well as the …
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An Oklahoma judge on Monday ruled against Johnson & Johnson in the first trial of an opioid manufacturer, ordering the company to pay the state $572 million for its role in the nationwide epidemic. “The opioid crisis is an imminent danger and menace to Oklahomans,” said Judge Thad Balkman in …
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Reverend William J. O’Malley, the Jesuit teacher who became a minor celebrity after playing Father Dyer in The Exorcist, has been accused of sexually abusing one of his former students at the McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, New York. The former student, identified only by the initials “J.W.,” accused …
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Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, has died of an apparent overdose at the age of 22. In a statement on Thursday, the Kennedy family said that paramedics were called to a medical emergency at the family compound on Cape Cod in Hyannis Port, Mass. Although the …
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Not so long ago, there was no public shame in being a dirty old man. While political pundits proclaimed 1992 the Year of the Woman, Donald Trump was manhandling an NFL cheerleader on camera, with pedo-predator Jeffrey Epstein snickering right next to him. In the early 2000s, when Donald Trump …
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The numbers are in: This Broadway season broke attendance and box-office records (nearly $2 billion), which should really juice up the Tony Awards this year. Why? I’d call it Hollywood heat. Stars of movies, TV and YouTube converged on Broadway this year like never before. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and …
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It was once simply understood that, if you smoked weed, there were good effects and there were bad. A strain for relaxation might also lead you to gorge an entire box of cookies; a variety that helped ease social anxiety for a party might leave you unable to mutter a …
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Rachel DeLoache Williams, a formerVanity Fairphoto editor who wrote a viral article about fake German heiress Anna Delvey (a.k.a. Anna Sorokin), testified on Wednesday and Thursday about how Sorokin allegedly scammed her out of $62,000 following a trip the two took to Morocco. During cross-examination on Thursday, Williams became highly …
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Weeks after the State’s Attorney dropped all felony charges against Jussie Smollett – to the dismay of the Chicago police department – the city of Chicago has filed a civil complaint against the Empire actor that seeks to recoup the money spent in police overtime during the investigation. The city …
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