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A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney. | |
Submitted at Today, 12:16 AM by B. Weed | |
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Following a trial process, in which 37-year-old Neely Raye Pesognellie Petrie-Blanchard represented herself in her murder trial of 50-year-old Christopher Hallett, jurors deliberated on Friday, April 19, 2024, for roughly 30 minutes before finding Petrie-Blanchard guilty of Murder in the First-Degree with a Firearm. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 07:31 PM by sleeppoor | |
Snake bite victims are endangering medical staff by bringing the reptiles with them to hospital, doctors say.
In Queensland's Wide Bay region, doctors have come face to face with some of the world's most venomous snakes captured by patients believing it'll help with identification and treatment.
In one case earlier this month, emergency staff at Bundaberg Hospital, four hours north of Brisbane, were handed a plastic food container with a small eastern brown snake inside peering back at them. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:46 PM by Wreckard | |
The Granite State could be the first to ditch polio and measles requirements for childcare. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:46 AM by sleeppoor | |
Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former president | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 12:54 AM by sleeppoor | |
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden, whose administration says FISA's warrantless spying power is vital to national security. Amendments to expand privacy safeguards failed. | |
Submitted at 04-21-2024, 06:14 PM by sleeppoor | |
New York should use its red-light and speed cameras to prevent deadly crashes.
If New York City had been able to keep vehicles with five or more speed- or red-light tickets off the roads in 2022, the city could have saved as many as 26 lives, out of the total of 142 lives lost in this 2022 dataset, reducing the death toll by 18%. | |
Submitted at 04-21-2024, 01:03 AM by sleeppoor | |
The governor of New Mexico spoke with the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week and expressed concern about a recent surge of Border Patrol seizures of marijuana from state-licensed businesses, Marijuana Moment has learned exclusively. But the top Biden official simply reiterated that federal cannabis laws haven’t changed, indicating that the seizures will continue.
The office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) shared details about the conversation with Marijuana Moment, adding that her administration is “working on a strategy to protect New Mexico’s cannabis industry” from adverse federal enforcement actions. | |
Submitted at 04-21-2024, 12:55 AM by sleeppoor | |
A social media manager for an up-and-coming actor reached out to me this week to complain that her client, who’s about to star in a “major Netflix show” and is at a pivotal point in his career, has a Wikifeet problem. When you google him, four of the first 10 photos that show up are shots of his feet that were posted to the celebrity foot-rating site. “This could be harmless enough,” the woman writes, “but unfortunately his Testicles are showing in three! You can imagine that’s something I never thought I’d be putting in an email.” | |
Submitted at 04-21-2024, 12:38 AM by Mordant | |
The departure of American forces from Niger follows the expulsion of French troops in the wake of last summer’s coup. | |
Submitted at 04-20-2024, 09:42 PM by Nibbles | |
Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines | |
Submitted at 04-20-2024, 02:26 AM by B. Weed | |
Murray Sawchuck, aka Murray the Magician, racked up 65 million YouTube views exposing how simple tricks are done — a cardinal sin among magicians. Now his fate in the Academy of Magical Arts hangs in the balance. | |
Submitted at 04-19-2024, 11:57 PM by Mordant | |
A person self-immolated at a park across from the courthouse where former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial is taking place. | |
Submitted at 04-19-2024, 06:37 PM by sleeppoor | |
"It was a complete overreaction on their part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this...it feels like a very fascist environment." | |
Submitted at 04-19-2024, 06:36 PM by sleeppoor | |
Apple removed Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China on Friday after the iPhone maker was ordered by the Chinese government. | |
Submitted at 04-19-2024, 02:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud. | |
Submitted at 04-19-2024, 01:56 AM by sleeppoor | |
Documentary filmmakers were publishing guidelines on how to ethically use generative AI right as Netflix’s true crime doc was adding fake images to the historical record. | |
Submitted at 04-18-2024, 08:27 PM by sleeppoor | |
Terra Morehead, who retired as a federal prosecutor last August, has agreed to turn over her law license as part of an agreement with a Kansas disciplinary board. As a Wyandotte County prosecutor in the 1990s, Morehead helped KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski frame an innocent man who spent 23 years in prison. | |
Submitted at 04-18-2024, 08:19 PM by sleeppoor | |
The Athletic Commission unanimously voted to "warn AEW not to do this again or there will be punitive action made against them if they do." The news was first reported by Real Rasslin'.
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Submitted at 04-18-2024, 07:31 PM by delicatessen | |
Tony Soprano? Donald Trump?! Video of the New York Knicks' recruiting pitch to LeBron James has finally surfaced, and you have to see it to believe it. | |
Submitted at 04-18-2024, 03:09 AM by sleeppoor | |