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Update: The New York Times recently published an opinion piece by Alex Berenson to promote his new book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. In it, he argues that current pro-marijuana movement is ignoring scientific evidence that pot could be more harmful than advocates are …

A preliminary report from the autopsy of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts has ruled the death a “homicide resulting from multiple sharp force injuries,” according to CNN. The Brooklyn, Iowa, college student disappeared during an evening jog five weeks ago; her body was recovered from a cornfield on Tuesday, after authorities were …

On Saturday evening, Chicago police shot and killed Harith “Snoop” Augustus, a 37-year-old barber, prompting a night of protests in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. On Sunday, the police department released body-camera footage of the incident, “in the interest of transparency & to dispell [sic] inaccurate information,” according to CPD …

Forget Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, forget Hillary Clinton’s and James Comey’s ridiculously self-serving memoirs. Former chief book critic for The New York Times Michiko Kakutani has written the first great book of the Trump administration. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (out July …

Most Eighties and Nineties babies remember the Truth Campaign: The series of anti-smoking ads that took a fresh and unflinching stance on the dangers of cigarette smoking. The TV spots pulled no punches. They featured images that were difficult to look at, like people with tracheotomies and voice boxes singing …

In Utah, the Knights of Crystal Blade – a radical, fundamentalist Mormon offshoot – is under investigation for the abduction and assault of underage child brides.Authorities have charged Robert Shane Rowe – a man from California who was allegedly promised a child bride – with one count of child sodomy.Last …

Rebecca Corry, the comedian, writer and actress who was one of several women to accuse Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct, discussed her decision to speak out and the ways victims of abuse continue to be dismissed even in the #MeToo era. “It’s hell making the decision to speak out, and …

Shortly after Donald Trump took office, the college town of Berkeley, California, found itself at war. Three violent protests broke out in the city within three months of Trump’s inauguration. In early February, a riot erupted at its famously liberal university as masked anti-fascists from the movement known as antifa …

On July 1st, 2017, Nevada became the fifth state to legalize recreational marijuana. Since then, plenty of places have cropped up where tourists and locals alike can procure pot – the problem is, there aren’t many places to legally smoke it. Adults over the age of 21 can buy up …

George R. R. Martin disappointed impatient fans on Wednesday, revealing that TheWinds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth installment of his A Song of Ice and Fire series, will not be out in 2018. But the sci-fi author softened the blow by announcing Fire & Blood, which details the “monumental history …