For one magical month, Michelle Obama will host an online series in which she reads children’s books out loud every Monday. Mondays With Michelle Obama, in partnership with Penguin Young Readers, Random House Children’s Books and PBS Kids, will kick off on April 20th and conclude on May 11th. The …
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In honor of Rolling Stone’s Climate Crisis Issue, we asked artists to contribute messages about what they, their governments, and everyday people can do to stand up to the threat of climate change. From England to Jamaica to the United States, we are hearing from artists and activists around the …
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Bummed about finishing Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness on Netflix? Don’t worry, the drama continues: Joe Exotic — a.k.a. Joseph Maldonado-Passage — filed a $94 million dollar lawsuit against the government and Jeffrey Lowe, his former business partner. The former zookeeper is currently serving 22 years in prison for …
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UPDATE: The NCAA announced Thursday that this year’s March Madness tournaments – and all remaining college athletic championship events – are canceled. “This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality …
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Joseph James DeAngelo — the man accused of being the Golden State Killer — has offered to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, according to a statement from his defense lawyers in court documents, New York Times reports. DeAngelo has been charged with a series of murders and …
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Opening statements aren’t slated to begin until January 22nd, but the criminal trial pitting the People of the State of New York against Harvey Weinstein has already witnessed its share of headline-grabbing moments. In just the first week of trial activities, Weinstein — facing five sex-crime charges that could land …
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Don Imus, a foul-mouthed pioneer of the shock-jock radio format, died Friday at the age of 79. His family said his wife and one of his sons were by his side at the Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, according to ABC News, but neither they …
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A woman calls your phone with a siren in the background, claiming your estranged husband, the father of your children, has been hurt in a terrible accident. The only way to save him is to wire $12,000 — your entire bank account, which you’d hoped would cover the overdue mortgage …
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The title of Ronan Farrow’s upcoming #MeToo exposé, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,is a reference to the practice of editors buying exclusive rights to a story that contains incriminating information, then burying it as a way of protecting the publication or its powerful allies. …
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As recently as a few years ago, the bowl cut was primarily known as an unfashionable hairstyle popular among toddlers whose parents cut their hair, and 1990s child stars. Over the past few years, however, some far-right extremists have appropriated references to the hairstyle as a chilling symbol of racism …
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