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Late last month, less than 72 hours after special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, two listings popped up on Amazon that appeared to make the report available for the general public. There was only one problem: the full report …

Recently, there has been a string of devastating fires at historically black churches in Louisiana, with three churches burning within 10 days. And although the alleged culprit has been arrested — Holden Matthews, 21, the son of a sheriff’s deputy, is now facing arson and hate crime charges — the …

Earlier this week, the Argentine condom and sex toy company Tulipan came out with an ad for a “consent” condom pack. In order to use the condom, the condom package must be pressed on all four sides simultaneously, which means that it requires four hands to open. Tulipan marketed the …

More than 50 women have filed suit against Salesforce, an online customer management relationship provider, alleging that the company’s data tools helped facilitate sex trafficking on the now-defunct website Backpage. The women, known only as Jane Does, are accusing the company of facilitating sex trafficking because Salesforce “designed and implemented …

For the past 40 years, researchers have desperately been trying to find a cure for HIV. Although antiretroviral treatments now make living with the virus manageable, many still cannot afford such drugs, and researchers have yet to find a way to eliminate the virus from the body entirely — until …

In the past week, there’s been a flurry of media coverage around a new book called Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. One of the main points is that legalization is a terrible idea, because legal pot is already causing more people to become schizophrenic …

Over three decades after releasing her disturbing dystopian novelThe Handmaid’s Tale —which spawned a 1990 movie adaptation (starringNatasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall) and the critically acclaimed Hulu series (starring Elizabeth Moss) — author Margaret Atwood is prepping a sequel. Publisher Penguin Random House announced a September 10th, 2019 …

On Monday, Christopher Watts, the Colorado man arrested and charged in the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters, received three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Watts announced two weeks ago he wouldplead guilty in an effort to avoid the death penalty for the murder of …

On Sunday, September 30th, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1437, limiting the state’s long-held felony murder rule and creating a pathway to resentencing for hundreds of convicted prisoners. For decades, prosecutors have been able to hold accomplices responsible for murders that occur during the commission of a felony, …

At a hearing in Brooklyn today, a federal judge agreed to move the trial of NXIVM founder Keith Raniere and his co-defendants from October to January 7th, at the government’s request. This scheduling change comes a day after prosecutors brought charges against four more members of the alleged cult; Clare …