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On Monday, New York state and federal authorities made public a lawsuit against currently imprisoned “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli over shady business practices which will seek (in part) to ban him for life from the pharmaceuticals industry. The suit is also looking for financial relief and penalties, though specific figures weren’t available for those. Shkreli […]
As people were trying to make sense of this year’s Academy Awards regressing back towards the #OscarsSoWhite 2015 controversy, author and Academy member Stephen King tried to address the ongoing issue earlier this month in a series of tweets. King claimed that, personally, when he voted for the nominees in the categories of Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay, […]
Maya Moore has extended her basketball hiatus for an important cause. The WNBA star confirmed her decision to the New York Times this week, stating she will shelve her professional career for a second straight season in the interest of criminal justice reform. Moore told the outlet she will dedicate her time advocating for the release of Jonathan Irons—a Missouri inmate whom she […]
United States prosecutors have charged an ex-Mexican federal police commander with accepting bribes from drug cartels including Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman‘s Sinaloa Cartel, the New York Times reports. Ivan Reyes Arzate pleaded not guilty to three conspiracy charges during a hearing in Brooklyn, New York. Per the New York Times, Arzate allegedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars in […]
An Oklahoma man known as “Joe Exotic” has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for murder-for-hire and wildlife charges. Born Joseph Maldonado-Passage, the big cat breeder was sentenced on Wednesday. In April 2019, he had been convicted of hiring a hitman to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin in Florida, murdering five tigers, […]
Saudi Arabia denied hacking Jeff Bezos‘ phone in 2018 despite the leak being traced back to an account operated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In a new statement, the Saudi Arabian embassy called claims of the country hacking Bezos’ phone “absurd” accusations. Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos’ […]
Oregon marijuana sales on the Idaho border are an estimated 420 percent higher than the state average. While Oregon is a recreational weed state, Idaho is not, an unfortunate reality for Idahoans that makes the higher-than-average sales along the states’ border possible. The fitting stat comes from the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis (OEA) by […]
On Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the country’s first case of the Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The virus, which is said to have originated in Wuhan, China and is related to the same family as Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the common cold, has infected over 400 people, CNN […]
Fresh off the news that his latest $175 million budget film Doolittle is projected to lose $100 million at the box office, Robert Downey Jr. is enveloped in a wave of bad press as his remarks in a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast about donning blackface in Tropic Thunder have started to circulate. In the 2008 Ben Stiller-directed comedy, Downey Jr. plays an Australian-born actor named Kirk […]
A Maryland police officer was suspended this week over an unsettling video in which Delonte West was seen in handcuffs. The video was recorded earlier this week, after the former NBA player was seen getting beaten in the middle of a street. One of the responding officers allegedly filmed his interaction with West as he sat on […]
