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The president of NBC News is facing additional backlash over a series of columns he wrote for the Harvard Crimson in the 1990s. According to the Daily Beast, Noah Oppenheim’s 20-year-old columns began circulating around the NBC office this week, amid allegations he had downplayed the sexual assault claims against Matt Lauer—the embattled former host of Today. The accusations against […]
Kim Kardashian is feeling especially “blessed” this week. The reality TV star recently traveled to her ancestral homeland of Armenia, where she and her three youngest children—3-year-old Saint, 1-year-old Chicago, and 5-month-old Psalm—were baptized. Kardashian shared photos of her kids’ baptisms on social media this week, while thanking Armenia for “such a memorable trip.” “So blessed to have been baptized […]
Michael Drejka, the white Florida man found guilty of manslaughter after fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a parking space dispute, has now been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Drejka was sentenced Thursday and was originally facing a maximum sentence of 30 years behind bars, per NBC News. Prior to his sentencing, the […]
Donald Trump has, once again, been proven wrong. Back in September, POTUS traveled to Otay Mesa, California, to show off a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall that he claimed was “virtually impenetrable.” Trump toured the area with reporters, Army Corps engineers, and border protection officials in tow, bragging about the ways no one could get through or over the […]
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $8 billion to a man who claims to have experienced breast growth after taking a drug manufactured by the company. According to Reuters, a Philadelphia jury agreed that Johnson & Johnson failed to warn male patients about the risks of gynecomastia when marketing the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. Nicholas Murray, who […]
Starting next year, patients in California will be able to receive HIV prevention drugs without a prescription. A bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday authorizes pharmacists to furnish pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to those who are at high risk of contracting HIV and dispense post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to people who may have been exposed to the virus. According […]
Samuel Little is now considered the “most prolific serial killer” in American history after the FBI confirmed his connection to at least 50 murders. Last year, the 79-year-old inmate confessed to strangling 93 women between the years of 1970 and 2005. Little was sentenced in 2014 to three consecutive life sentences for murdering three Los Angeles […]
A professional Hearthstone player from Hong Kong has been suspended by Blizzard after streaming a message in support of those protesting against regional police and government forces. Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai has been determined to have broken competition rules by donning a mask and stating “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age,” Kotaku reports. As the […]
Liza Womack, Lil Peep‘s mother, has sued First Access Entertainment. Per a TMZ report, the suit was filed Monday against First Access “and people associated with” the entertainment company. In the suit, Womack argues that the use of drugs was “allowed, normalized, and even encouraged” by management. The suit also references specific moments during Peep’s final […]
On Sunday, images of Ellen DeGeneres sitting next to former president George W. Bush at the Dallas Cowboys–Green Bay Packers game began to make the rounds on social media. While some thought nothing of the pairing, others pointed to the irony of DeGeneres being friendly with Bush due to his policies and politics—particularly his anti-LGTBQ stance. […]
