Carmella Creeper is actually the long-lost cousin of Franken Berry. General Mills describes her as “a zombie DJ with an edgy sound who is always the life of the party.” She has a fierce attitude and the looks to match, and Carmella is ready to shake things up at the Monsters’ haunted mansion.

Is the Only Murders in the Building star a comic genius or the most annoying actor on Earth?

A French documentary team believes they have reached an answer on the old mystery of whether Peter Stuart Ney, buried in Rowan County, is the same person as the famous Marshall Ney that fought alongside Napoleon at Waterloo. In a letter sent to the staff of Third Creek Presbyterian Church, where Peter Stuart was buried, […]

Tee fucking hee.

Can your favorite 20 songs give us insight into your soul? If yes, have fun analyzing the favorites of Nikki Haley, Chris Christie and others.

Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Nearly half the app’s workers refused and have been laid off.

The Florida governor is happy to be “first loser.” That’s what he wants!

“Let’s go do something,” Trump said. “I’d love to debate her. I would love it.”

He told the AP that he has trained for over 20 years to build up his spice tolerance. “Most people you see on social media — with any challenges — don’t understand the consequences,” he said.

Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.

A popular Chinese singer has prompted anger by performing a Russian wartime song in the ruins of the Mariupol theatre in Ukraine where hundreds of civilians were killed in a Russian airstrike. Wang Fang, 38, can be seen in a video singing Katyusha, a song that became associated with the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher during the Second World War. Wang is an established star who is married to Zhou Xiaoping, a Chinese ultra-nationalist anti-American writer and blogger who has been lauded by President Xi.

In what may prove to be one of the more remarkable intelligence failures of the drug war, the U.S. missed warnings that Genaro García Luna, the chief architect of Mexico’s fight against organized crime, could be in league with the criminals.

There are two stories being told in Georgia lately. In one, the state is under siege by violent left-wing militants who threaten public safety by fighting the construction of “Cop City,” an elaborate police training facility, in the forest near Atlanta. So claims a broad new RICO indictment released this week by the state’s attorney general, Chris Carr. In the indictment’s telling, 61 violent conspirators deserve prison for acts of vandalism and “intimidation.” That story appeals to state and local officials in both parties. After the indictment was unsealed, the state’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said his “priority” was to “keep Georgians safe, especially against out-of-state radicals that threaten the safety of our citizens and law enforcement.” The “radicals” have their own story to tell, about the abuse of power. In their account, the RICO indictment escalates a long-running crackdown on activism. This is not the first time the state has tried to frighten people away from the movement against Cop City. Some accused face previous domestic terrorism charges. Others had been arrested in connection to earlier protests. In March, more than 150 protesters chased police from a construction site and allegedly set construction equipment on fire before blending in with the crowd at a peaceful anti–Cop City concert nearby. The state arrested dozens, including a legal observer, for domestic terrorism “even though none of the warrants accuses any of them of injuring anyone or vandalizing anything,” the Associated Press reported. Police profiled individuals for wearing muddy shoes and clothing. Months earlier, they killed an activist in alleged self-defense during an attempt to clear the forest. The two stories are in direct conflict with each other. They cannot both be right. The RICO indictment tries to settle any debate — and it does, though not in the state’s favor. Read closely, the indictment is an artifact of political repression. In its reach it reveals the anti-democratic truth: Georgia cares more for Cop City than for civil liberties and is determined to quell dissent by whatever means it can.

A former British soldier awaiting trial on terror charges who escaped from a London prison remained at large Thursday as police stepped up security checks across the United Kingdom amid concerns he may try to flee the country.

Shivanthi Sathanandan, the second Vice Chairwoman for the DFL-MN, totally got carjacked in front of witnesses (no photography) and isn't doing some weird facebook stunt for attention. That is definitely what dried blood looks like, as anyone who has experienced a violent crime firsthand would know. Fortunately, even though she is bleeding from the forehead, her hair remains professionally dressed and uncaked by scabs. Doctors accredit her complete lack of visible scabs, bruises or swelling to the fact that her blood is a dilute mixture of rubbing alcohol and red food coloring.

Walker enrolled at four schools, but has only played at one due to outside circumstances

California would be the first state to explicitly ban the practice, but the process has been divisive.

Rolling outages remain a rare last resort. ERCOT has not called for them since the devastating February 2021 winter storm, when power was cut to millions of homes over days while extremely cold weather persisted. More than 200 people died. During that storm, the initial plan to cut power for short periods was abandoned when numerous power generators suddenly failed amid days of subfreezing temperatures, requiring the widespread shutdown of power for days.

Legal protections for children in the United States and in every individual state fall short of international children’s rights standards. One year after the release of a scorecard that measures US compliance with key international child rights standards, 11 states have enacted reforms that improve their rankings.

Earlier this summer, I showed up uninvited at a midtown Manhattan music venue, where a startup named the Praxis Society was holding an event as part of a weeklong series to promote its flagship product: a free-market Mediterranean city-state the company hopes to build under the leadership of a CEO who, former employees said, is interested in fascist authors and occultism and has touted a book that argues Black people are intellectually inferior to whites. I assumed I might get turned away, but after glancing at my ID, a security guard waved me inside, where Zoomers and young millennials made up most of the thin crowd and underground drill rappers performed for the mostly half-interested and mostly white audience. “I heard Peter Thiel is funding this,” a guest in a camo hat told me with wide eyes. The right-wing billionaire’s name kept coming up throughout the night. Indeed, he does have a connection to Praxis. A Thiel-backed venture capital fund, along with a group of investors with ties to the PayPal co-founder, have poured millions into the quixotic project. Guests also kept mentioning the “downtown scene,” the collection of edgy, anti-woke podcasters, Substackers, and influencers who share a belief that resistance-style liberalism and everything downstream of it is passé. It’s this crowd that Praxis—which spends lavishly on throwing parties—has courted as it attempts to attract members to buy-in (sometimes literally) to its utopian “cryptocity” vision. Praxis, a for-profit corporation, was founded as Bluebook Cities in 2019 by Californian Dryden Brown and former Boston College wide receiver Charlie Callinan. They envisioned an autonomous enclave where the free-market dreams of Chicago and Austrian school economists would become reality, a place libertarians could settle without the tyranny of regulation. While the project draws inspiration from ancient Greece and Rome, Brown, the company’s CEO, said in a 2021 interview that its style would be “hero futurism” with a “neo-Gilded Age kind of aesthetic.”