Approximately 60,000 cannabis convictions will be dismissed and sealed, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Monday, saying his office aimed to “reverse the injustices of drug laws.” “Dismissing these convictions means the possibility […]
Joe Rogan Shares Video That Seems to Link Proof-of-Vaccine Requirements to Holocaust
Joe Rogan shared a fan-made video on his Instagram page that seems to traipse wildly down the slippery slope from proof-of-vaccine requirements to the literal Holocaust. The video was created by an account called Samuel […]
Would-Be Reagan Assassin John Hinckley, Jr. Apologizes to Jodie Foster for Trying to Kill President
Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. has been granted unconditional release in June 2022 by a federal judge. Hinckley — who injured then-President Ronald Reagan and three other people in 1981 outside a hotel in […]
Kyrie Irving Declines to Say Whether He Will Play Nets Home Games as Vaccine Questions Swirl
Kyrie Irving declined to answer a question on Monday about whether he will play in Brooklyn Nets home games this year given New York City’s requirement for professional athletes to be vaccinated to play indoors. […]
Watch: David Letterman Trolls Kevin Durant at Nets Press Conference
NBA press conferences can be a little dry, if not totally worthless when it comes to yielding anything resembling novel insight into how the players behind the microphone process the game. How does it feel […]
Instagram Postpones Instagram Kids, Says It Was Never Meant for Kids
Instagram has paused the development of a version of the app meant for kids, with Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri explaining in a blog post Monday, September 27th, that Instagram Kids was “never meant for […]
Should You Go to Prison for Killing Your Trafficker? Cyntoia Brown Long Weighs In
Cyntoia Brown Long has a message for Chrystul Kizer, a young woman whose shoes she was in back in 2004. Both were charged with first-degree murder for killing and robbing a man — and both […]
The NBA’s Anti-Vaxxers Are Trying to Push Around the League—And It’s Working
One by one, the basketball players — non-vaccinated star here, fully-inoculated veteran on mute down there, a full-on anti-vaxxer front-and-center — logged into the video conference. The annual summer meeting of the powerful NBA union […]
How One Weed Company Is Skirting Marijuana Rules to Sell THC Products in All 50 States
Last month, Wisconsin-based company LiftedMade launched a new kind of weed product: a THC-infused flavor-popping crystal candy, called Urb Rocks. Like most other THC products, it will get you high. Unlike other products, though, the […]
How Gabby Petito’s Death Exposed a Dark Side of #VanLife
Several years ago, Annie decided to buy a van. With her partner at the time, she made a pact: they were going to save $10,000 each and then hit the road for a year, living […]
TV Producer Says Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Her, Apologized to Her Husband First
Shelley Ross, a former TV news producer at ABC and CBS, recounted the time CNN host Chris Cuomo sexually harassed her and then apologized first to her husband, in an op-ed for The New York […]
FBI Issues Arrest Warrant for Brian Laundrie, Fiancé of Gabby Petito
There’s a federal warrant out for the arrest of Brian Laundrie following the homicide of his fiancée, the late “van life” blogger Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, the Denver division of the FBI announced Thursday. The warrant […]