The second of two Canadian drug mules that documented their luxurious cocaine-smuggling journey on Instagram was sentenced to spend seven years in an Australian prison for her crimes. Melina Roberge, along with cohort Isabelle Lagace, were named “the worst cocaine smugglers of all time” when Rolling Stone profiled the pair …
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Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign hired American data-analysis firm Cambridge Analytica and its London-based parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories to gather data from over 50 million Facebook profiles to predict the behavior of American voters, according to investigations by The New York Timesand The Guardian. Over the weekend, Christopher Wylie, a …
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This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Millions of geeks watched with unbridled glee this week as Elon Musk‘s private rocket company, SpaceX, launched a red Tesla Roadster into space. Within minutes, there were live views of our beautiful planet from …
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Ashley Judd has been fighting back against gender bias and sexual harassment for a long time, she revealed during Univision Communications’ Behind the Camera: Where Diversity Begins panel at the Sundance Film Festival Sunday. The actress, who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct last October, revealed that her very first …
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Scarlett Johansson, Viola Davis, Halsey and other prominent artists, Hollywood actresses and industry veterans delivered powerful speeches at Women’s Marches throughout the country Saturday. The events follow in the wake of a months-long unearthing of sexual misconduct within Hollywood, and more recently, the start of the Time’s Up initiative. In …
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Ronan Farrow’s game-changing New Yorker feature, which ran last October following The New York Times’own explosive piece, helped to bring accusations of sexual harassment by media mogul Harvey Weinstein to light. In a new cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, the journalist opened up about the hurdles he faced in …
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Logan Paul was blasted on social media this New Year’s Eve after he posted a YouTube clip of himself visiting the famous Aokigahara “suicide woods” in Japan – a video that included footage of a man who had recently hanged himself. The “shock and awe” that Logan later apologized for, …
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YouTube star Logan Paul apologized for posting a video that included footage of a man who had committed suicide in a Japanese forest. The clip quickly got over six million views. Many accused Paul of glorifying and exploiting suicide. In a statement posted on Twitter, Paul said, “I didn’t do …
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UPDATE:A Tennessee state board of parole was split three ways during Cyntoia Brown’s clemency hearing on May 23, 2018. According to The Tennessean, the six-member panel was divided, with two voting for clemency and two voting against clemency, which would mean Brown could continue to serve a life sentence. Two …
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Quentin Tarantinosaid he has known for decades about Harvey Weinstein‘s alleged sexual misconduct and is ashamed for not severing ties with the producer, The New York Times reports. “I knew enough to do more than I did,” the director said, citing situations involving prominent actresses. Tarantino and Weinstein collaborated on …
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