Kim Kardashian West discussed the backlash to her White House visit and Kanye West‘s brief relationship with President Donald Trump during an interview with Van Jones at Rolling Stone and Variety‘s Criminal Justice Reform Summit on Wednesday. Over the past few years, Kardashian has become an advocate for criminal justice …
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The June 2015 murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard captured headlines not simply because of its brutality —Blanchard was stabbed 17 times — but the bizarre story that motivated her killers. Days after 48-year-old Blanchard was found dead in her Springfield, Missouri, home, her daughter, Gypsy Rose, and her daughter’s …
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a controversial new form of the powerful synthetic opiate sufentanil for managing acute pain in adults, just weeks after the chairman of the advisory committee warned that doing so would lead to “diversion, abuse and death.” Sufentanil has been used intravenously since the …
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Julien’s Auctions, undeterred by Banksy’s latest prank, announced plans to auction off more works by the street artist in November. “We can’t guarantee that our four Banksy’s will automatically shred or explode but they will sell to the highest bidder,” the auction house’s Darren Julien said in a statement. On …
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On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio signed a bill that adds a third gender option to birth certificates in the city. Denoted as “X,” the option is intended for gender nonconforming citizens. DeBlasio called the law “an essential example of freedom.” “If you’re denied the right to express …
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On Monday’s CBS This Morning, anchor Norah O’Donnell offered the first public comment from the network on the forced resignation of her now former boss, Leslie Moonves. Moonves stepped down as chairman, president and CEO of CBS Sunday night, after the New Yorker revealed that a total of 12 women …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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