WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation had been up and running for just two months when the special counsel set his sights on Michael Cohen, the self-described consigliere and (former) brash personal lawyer to President Trump. According to newly released court documents, the special counsel’s office first got a search …
Read More »Muslim Student Confronts Chelsea Clinton at Vigil for Mosque Shooting Victims
Chelsea Clinton was attending a New York City memorial for the victims of the Mosque shooting in New Zealand when a college student came up to her and criticized Clinton for remarks she made on Twitter a few weeks earlier directed at Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar had been …
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The first episode of HBO’s new documentary, The Case Against Adnan Syed, premiered this past Sunday, once again bringing the murder conviction of the Baltimore man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend back into the headlines. Syed, the subject of the popular 2014 podcast, “Serial,” is currently serving a life sentence …
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Luke Perry‘s first appearance on Beverly Hills, 90210 as West Beverly bad boy Dylan McKay aired on Perry’s 24th birthday. That was relatively young compared to some of his co-stars (Gabrielle Carteris turned 30 midway through that first season), but Perry had a lived-in face and physicality. And as the …
Read More »Trump's 'National Emergency' Has Already Become a Legal Nightmare
Legal challenges to President Trump’s national emergency declaration are starting to pile up. Days after multiple advocacy groups filed lawsuits challenging the president’s “national emergency,” 16 states have sued the Trump administration over the president’s scheme to use executive privilege to build a border wall without the approval of Congress. …
Read More »Steven Avery's Lawyer Accuses Wisconsin AG's Office of Destroying Evidence
Attorney Kathleen Zellner has filed a new letter with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals on behalf of her client, Steven Avery, accusing the Attorney General’s Office of “trying to deceive” her and the Court about the status of key forensic evidence in the Making a Murderer case. Zellner’s letter, submitted …
Read More »'God Forgive Him': El Chapo's Guilty Verdict Brings Mixed Feelings in Mexico
Within moments of the jury announcing the guilty verdict of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the snow-laden court in Brooklyn, word of the result was rippling across Mexico, from the valleys sprinkled with opium poppies to the sprawling mountain capital. People gathered at stalls and watched on televisions as U.S. …
Read More »'Spotify Teardown' Is the Book Spotify Didn't Want Published
What do you know about Spotify, the Swedish music company? Five researchers who have spent the last several years investigating the inner workings of the global platform would argue that it is neither particularly Swedish nor truly a music company: They posit that Spotify is a shape-shifting tech business, serving …
Read More »Cardi B Turned Down Super Bowl Gig to 'Stand Behind' Colin Kaepernick
Cardi B confirmed in a new interview that she declined to perform at the Super Bowl LIII halftime show due to her support of Colin Kaepernick. Speaking to the Associated Press two days before Super Sunday, the rapper admitted she had “mixed feelings” about turning down the NFL’s invitation but …
Read More »Read the First Scary Story Jordan Peele Ever Told
Before he learned to tell stories of his own, Jordan Peele was a scared little kid, cringing from monsters in closets and other products of an imagination that would one day reshape Hollywood. As theUs and Get Out director explains in our new cover story, a key moment in his …
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