Four Minneapolis Police officers have been fired after video surfaced of an officer kneeling on a black man’s neck while he pleads that he can’t breathe, ultimately resulting in his death. The incredibly disturbing video shows the man, identified as George Floyd, being apprehended by police officers in downtown Minneapolis …
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During the coronavirus pandemic, public health authorities have urged people to exercise caution before having partner sex, due to unknowns about how the virus is transmitted. One small study published on Thursday appears to give some credence to this concern, indicating that the novel coronavirus may be detectable in semen. …
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Daniel Radcliffe, David Beckham, Dakota Fanning and more will read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first of J.K. Rowling’s classic series, out loud from home in quarantine. Radcliffe, who starred as Harry Potter in all eight films, kicked off the readings with Chapter One, “The Boy Who Lived,” …
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Across the country, churches, synagogues, mosques, and other houses of worship have been closing its doors in response to stay-at-home orders intended to curb the spread of COVID-19. Yet some religious leaders have been directly flouting such orders in order to keep hosting services at their houses of worship, while …
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Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein took aim at Netflix and Ava DuVernay Wednesday when she filed a lawsuit against the streaming service, director and DuVerney’s co-writer Attica Locke claiming that their miniseries, When They See Us, defamed her. The four-part series, which premiered on Netflix in May of 2019, “portrays Ms. …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) reclassified the international coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a “pandemic” on Wednesday. “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated …
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This post contains spoilers for the You book and TV series. Joe Goldberg is coming back for book three of the You series, and this time he’s taking a page from John Mellencamp and moving to a “Small Town” — the serial killer is sick of being chaotic evil and …
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Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp’s co-workers call her “the cape” — a small woman, she once flapped around a suspect’s shoulders like the garment as he tried to shake her off. She’s tough, resourceful and fiercely dedicated to her job — and she’s also the subject of a new five-part podcast …
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What’s it like to accidentally become confidants with a terrorist? Journalist Christof Putzel found himself in just that position in the early 2010s, when Omar Hammami reached out to him. Alabama-born Hammami, who had embraced his Muslim roots in high school, moved to Egypt in his early twenties. From there, …
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Lawyers for Brendan Dassey, one of the two men convicted in the murder featured in the Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, announced Wednesday that they will seek clemency from the Wisconsin governor for their client. “We’re filing a petition for executive clemency with Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin,” Dassey’s attorney …
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