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Kyrie Irving will get to help the Brooklyn Nets win and/or contract Covid-19 during home games with New York City Mayor Eric Adams set to rollback vaccine requirements for athletes and performers working in the city, The New York Times reports. The new policy is expected to go into effect …

There’s nothing like a good true crime story, andKilling Time‘s teen protagonist Natalie Temple is possibly the genre’s biggest fan. When reporters from her quiet, simple town inform her that her teacher — and fellow true-crime aficionado — Mrs. Halsey was found dead, she takes it upon herself to uncover …

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 24, Russia began a coordinated invasion into Ukraine. First, it was airstrikes — rockets raining down on all the country’s major cities — later, the ground troops began to move in. Many Ukrainians hadn’t believed Russian President Vladimir Putin would actually start …

In 2018, while reporting from the Flat Earth International Conference in Colorado, I met a man who’dtowed a rocket ship into a hotel conference room. He was Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket stuntman and vocal champion of Flat Earth theory. He hoped to launch himself into space to take a …

The most divisive person on the internet isn’t Joe Rogan, or Hillary Clinton, or former President Trump, or Che Diaz from theSex and the CityrebootAnd Just Like That.It’s Meena, the elephant from the Singfranchise. Voiced by singer Tori Kelly, Meena is one of the many anthropomorphized animal contestants who enter …

A small green alien with sparkly eyes is furious at Mark Cuban. For weeks now, Space Cowboy — a Twitter user with the handle @topshotfund, whose profile picture is currently that of a cartoon extraterrestrial — has watched an NFT-centric account backed by Cuban take “serious advantage of the less …

“Tomorrow when you go to school unmasked, your heart’s gonna be racing and you’re gonna be nervous. But I want you to know you’re doing the right thing. Don’t ever, ever question it,” former Miss USA 2009 first runner-up Carrie Prejean Boller says in one of her Instagram Stories to …

The Los Angeles prosecutor who spent eight years pursuing Robert Durst before convincing a jury the eccentric millionaire murdered his best friend Susan Berman says it’s “absurd” to suggest the technicality that will posthumously void Durst’s conviction is a victory. Durst died Monday at age 78, four months after he …

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of three counts of wire fraud, as well as one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud against Theranos investors. The jury at federal court in San Jose, California, returned a not-guilty verdict on three charges of wire fraud, as well as …

When I was little, I used to make my Barbies participate in the Miss America pageant. I’d dress them up in evening gowns and parade them down the hall one-by-one, making them do the talent competition and the interviews. At the end, my mother, a diehard fan of the competition, …