Most people associate the Kentucky Derby with mint juleps, giant hats and Instagram posts of bros wearing pastel shorts. But an ominous warning from Kentucky state Attorney General Andy Beshear suggests that the Derby is a prime target for sex traffickers as well. In advance of this year’s event on …
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Robert Mueller wrote a scathing letter to Attorney General Bill Barr in late March, blasting Barr’s infamous four-page summary to Congress because it did “not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel’s findings. That is the takeaway from a bombshell report published Tuesday evening in the …
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Shortly after its 2017 release, the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why rang the alarm bells of many mental health experts and advocates, who believed that the series glorified teen suicide and presented it as a foregone conclusion for anyone who experienced trauma. Now, research from the Journal of the American …
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Amazon‘s free music-streaming service has launched in the U.S. — but the tech giant is making anything but a big deal out of it. The ad-supported free service quietly became available this week exclusively through Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant programmed into Echo devices, indicating that Amazon is more interested in …
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In the space of just a few weeks, Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” has already enjoyed multiple lives, transforming from a goofy TikTok craze to a left-field hit to a rallying cry for those who want to eliminate the barriers between genres. Now the single has reached a new …
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Five years after Amazon’s award-winning series Transparent became one of the most visible dramatizations of trans life, the series will kill off its central character, Maura Pfefferman, in its feature-length musical series finale. The decision comes after the show fired actor Jeffrey Tambor, who played Maura, following allegations of sexual …
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A new trailer for the final season ofGame of Thrones captures the destruction of Winterfell ahead of the show’s premiere, April 14th on HBO. The short clip, titled “Aftermath,” tracks through a decimated and deserted Kingdom of the North while chilling audio from a recent battle filters in and out. …
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Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny unite to defend their quirky small town from zombies in the first trailer for The Dead Don’t Die, the upcoming horror-comedy from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. The clip opens with the zombies unleashing their wrath on a small diner, and the local …
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Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti called accusations that he tried to extort Nike “absolutely absurd” during an interview on CBS NewsWednesday. Avenatti was arrested Monday on accusations that he tried to shake down Nike by alleging the company illegally paid high school athletes and their families to get them to attend …
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Midway through the fifth and final season premiere of the CW’s warmhearted telenovela Jane the Virgin, the eponymous heroine (Gina Rodriguez) spends a seven-minute-plus scene gradually freaking out over the apparent resurrection of her late husband, Michael (Brett Dier), and what it may mean for her and her family. “We’re …
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