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El Chapo didn’t want any evidence left behind. So after beating a pair of rival narcos to a broken, bloody pulp, he shot them both in the head and ordered his men to burn the bodies. “I don’t want any bones to remain,” he said. His men obliged. They dragged …

A private investigator delves into a shocking case of police brutality and wrongful imprisonment in the new true-crime podcast, Conviction. Reporter Saki Knafo will host the show, with all seven episodes of its first season set to arrive February 4th. Season One of Conviction will center around the case of …

Jennifer and Sarah Hart, 38, were a married pair of crunchy white liberals who, by all outside appearances, seemed like dedicated mothers to their six adopted black children: Markis, Hannah, Abigail, Devonte, Jeremiah and Ciera. They moved around the country with their home-schooled brood, but in2017 they settled — for …

Daniel Borden — an Ohio man charged in the beating of a black man during 2017’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — has been sentenced to just under four years in prison, Associated Press reports. Borden, 21, who was one of four men charged with beating DeAndre Harris …

As Bernie Sanders gears up for a likely second presidential bid, accounts of sexism, harassment and pay disparity from female staffers on his 2016 campaign have surfaced, raising questions about his “progressive bona fides,” the New York Times reported on Wednesday. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday …

If 2017 was the year of anger, 2018 will likely go down as the year of anxiety. This was the year when countless dystopian “what if”s came true. What if Donald Trump is amoral enough to lock kids in cages? (He is.) What if mobile apps are tracking your physical …

This year has been great for weed. Canada legalized, and Mexico’s Supreme Court overturned the ban against it. Here in the U.S., Michigan said yes to recreational pot, Massachusetts started to open dispensaries and California’s booming market continued to grow. CBD became the hot new trend in health and wellness, …

Banksy’s latest prank could cost one person over $1 million after the street artist self-destructed one of his works moments after it was sold at auction. A framed version of Banksy’s “Girl With Balloon,” one of the artist’s most iconic images, hit the auction block Friday night at Sotheby’s in …

Johns Hopkins researchers got octopuses high on MDMA, and their findings might lead to a deeper understanding of social interaction — not just in the fascinating cephalopods, but in humans, too. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, researchers soaked octopuses in diluted MDMA, which they …

On Sunday, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States, called for the resignation of Pope Francis in an 11-page statement published by several conservative Catholic media outlets. In the 7,000-plus word screed, Viganò claimed Pope Francis knew since 2013 that American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick “was …