The death toll of this week’s pro-Trump attack on the U.S. Capitol rose to five Thursday night when a United States Capitol Police officer died from injuries sustained during the melee. Gallery: Attack on the U.S. Capitol Capitol Police issued a statement that United States Capitol Police Officer Brian D. …
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In a move rendered effectively meaningless by the fact that the president will be out of office in (at most) 14 days, Twitter has temporarily suspended President Trump for 12 hours after removing three tweets that it said constituted “repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy.” Gallery: Trump’s …
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We all deal with election-related stress in different ways. Some of us are scheduling calls with our therapists. Some of us are buying out shelves of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food. Some of us have taped a bottle of Chateau Diana to our sweaty paws and started drinking ourselves into …
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A conservative Christian preacher promised to bring “salvations, signs and wonders, and miracles” to Nashville on Sunday night when he hosted a mass religious gathering in the city’s Public Square Park downtown. The real miracle, however, will be if no one catches the coronavirus. Sean Feucht, a Christian musician, online …
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The unfounded rumors that “antifa” are responsible for the wildfires in California and Oregon appears to stem from posts on Twitter and Facebook, alleging that members of a loosely connected network of anti-fascist protesters had come to the small town of Molalla, Oregon to commit arson. They were bolstered by …
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Hannibal Buress will experiment with a new format on an upcoming music and comedy tour for drive-in theaters. The “Let’s See How This Goes” trek —which features a “masks required, socially distanced” format, according to a statement — will run for five dates in late September: the 22nd in Cleveland; …
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You really don’t need an excuse to light up these days, and in many parts of the country, you don’t need a license to either. But for those who favor a more concentrated cannabis experience, you’ll want to set aside July 10th as your new date to dab. While April …
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Norma McCorvey, who used the pseudonym “Jane Roe” in the landmark reproductive rights case Roe v. Wade, said that the reason she was an anti-abortion activist later in life was because she was paid. The revelation comes in the new FX documentary AKA Jane Roe, which premieres this Friday, May …
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Earlier this week, a grainy black-and-white video allegedly depicting the abduction of Karol Sanchez, a 16-year-old Bronx, New York teenager, began circulating on Twitter. The video appeared to show two men grabbing Sanchez off the street and shoving her into a car before speeding away, leaving her terrified mother alone …
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Leonard Pozner, the father of 6-year-old Noah Pozner, the youngest victim in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 26 people in December 2012, has been awarded $450,000 in a defamation lawsuit against a conspiracy theorist who claimed the shooting never happened. A Wisconsin jury has ruled that James …
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