With flowing hair, a butterfly collar and an avid interest in photography and skydiving, Rodney Alcala seemed the ideal candidate for The Dating Game. In fact, Bachelor Number One won in 1978, scoring the affections of bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw with more than a few sexual innuendos. Luckily for Bradshaw, she …
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Over the past few weeks we’ve been confronted with daily reports about the coronavirus, but a lot of the information out there is confusing or contradictory. To start with, it’s a coronavirus, not the coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a coronavirus is part of a large virus …
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More often than not, Valentine’s Day is a day of disappointment. Your significant other will be underwhelmed by even the grandest romantic gesture you come up with, and if they’re allergic to flowers or lactose intolerant, you have to get creative without giving them hives and/or Cadbury-induced diarrhea. That’s why …
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The Murder Squad, a collaboration between retired detective Paul Holes and investigative journalist Billy Jensen, launched in spring of 2019 with the aim of helping to solve cold cases by asking listeners to pitch in on investigation. On Monday, they announced that their podcast may have scored its first cold-case …
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, will “step back as senior members of the Royal Family” with plans to become “financially independent” and split their time between North America and England. In a statement shared on Instagram, the couple, wrote, “It is …
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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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