Earlier this month, T.I. appalled basically the entire world when he suggested on a podcast that he routinely checks his grown-ass daughter’s hymen to ensure her virginity is intact — a procedure, he was quick to point out, to which he does not subject his younger male son. (Not that …
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Sweden has dropped an investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations made against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, The New York Times reports. Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, said of the decision, “The evidence is not strong enough to form the basis of an indictment. In such a …
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Two students were killed and several more were injured in a shooting a high school in Santa Clarita, California, Thursday, The New York Times reports. On Twitter, the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station said the suspected shooter was a 16-year-old male who is currently hospitalized and “in grave condition from …
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Earlier this year, Rolling Stone contributing editor and environmental journalist Jeff Goodell went on an extraordinary journey to Antarctica to learn how climate change is irrevocably changing our planet. Goodell traveled aboard the Nathanial B. Palmership for a two-month journey to the world’s coldest locations — Western Antarctica and the …
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In the wake of the El Paso shooting and other white supremacist-motivated attacks, the Department of Homeland Security has added white supremacy to its list of domestic terrorism threats, marking the first time since the creation of the department post-9/11 that it has emphasized white nationalist domestic terrorism as a …
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Pregnancy is a difficult time. Your body becomes covered in stretch marks and splotches, your calves double in size overnight, and you can’t sit through so much as a PowerPoint presentation without getting up to pee at least thrice. (And don’t get me started on the men who won’t give …
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Civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert, a foreign affairs officer in the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources, as an attendee of the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally and a contributor to various white supremacist forums on the internet, according …
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As Pride Month draws to a close, a troubling report from the Southern Poverty Law Center blog HateWatch sheds light on a possible uptick in threats against transgender people. According to the post, the SPLC has witnessed a significant uptick in threats against transgender people during Pride Month. Although it …
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Jake Patterson, who pleaded guilty to abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, received a pair of life sentences for the slayings of James and Denise Closs as well as 40 years in prison for the 88-day kidnapping of Jayme. Jayme Closs did not attend the sentencing, but a …
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A 33-year-old Georgia man will serve no prison time after keeping a teenage girl in captivity for a year, imprisoning her in a dog cage and allegedly forcing her to have sex with him against her will. On Thursday, Michael Wysolovski pleaded guilty to first-degree cruelty to children and interstate …
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