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Philip Roth died at a point in American history when separating fact from fiction has become an integral task in our daily political discourse and mental survival. But with a writer like Roth, fantasy and reality are intertwined – we think we know his life story through the stories he …

A federal grand jury in Arizona has indicted Backpage.com‘s founders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, along with five of their employees, on 93 counts, Reuters reports. Knowingly facilitating prostitution, sex trafficking and money laundering are among the charges the classified-ads website is being accused of in the indictment. On Friday, …

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that communications sent over the Facebook Messenger app are not as private as users may think,Bloombergreports. He said Facebook scans some images and messages for security purposes. “On Messenger, when you send a photo, our automated systems scan it using photo matching technology to …

Five more women will get the opportunity to testify against Bill Cosby when his sexual assault retrial begins in April, a Montgomery County judge announced Thursday. The decision marks a major victory for the prosecution, allowing the team to establish Cosby as a serial predator with a pattern of drugging …

There’s no question that music has a strong presence within the NBA world. Players use it to get motivated and focused for games, some athletes make their own tracks, and Drake is even the “Global Ambassador” for the Toronto Raptors. With NBA All-Star festivities going down this past weekend in …

Kathy Griffin has been doing a lot of thinking in what she calls her “fuck-you house” in the eight months since she was blacklisted by Hollywood for a photo prank gone wrong. In a new cover story interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the comedian recounts the series of events leading …

Multiple women have accused Oscar-winning movie director Paul Haggis of sexual assault. Last month, publicist Haleigh Breest filed a civil suit alleging that the filmmaker, who picked up Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Academy Awards for 2004’sCrash, of rape. On Friday, three other women came forward to The Associated …

There was no more uplifting wrestling narrative in 2016 than career outlier James “Pretty Jimmy Dream” Ellsworth Morris’ rise through the ranks of WWE while performing as enhancement talent-done-good James Ellsworth. And a little over a year after his inauspicious debut against Braun Strowman, the company issued its most bittersweet …

Rock trio Goodbye June are gritty, hardcore – and total family men. The cousins grew up in West Tennessee and Southern Indiana before moving to Nashville to pursue their dream. “Being family and being around each other our whole lives, we eventually came together and were just like, ‘we want …

Former NBC host Billy Bush penned an op-ed criticizing Donald Trump for questioning the legitimacy of the leaked 2005 Access Hollywood footage where the then-Apprentice star bragged about sexually assaulting women. “He said it. ‘Grab ’em by the pussy.’ Of course he said it,” Bush wrote in the New York …