A California real estate broker has fled the authorities rather than reporting to serve prison time for her part in a massive family Covid-loan fraud scheme — making her the third convict in the group of eight to go on the lam. In Nov. 2020, Tamara Dadyan, then 39, was …
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Joe Rogan offered up a response to the ongoing controversy surrounding his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, and its role in spreading Covid-19 misinformation after artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell took their music off Spotify in protest. In a video shared on Instagram, Rogan attempted to cover himself …
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Gary Chambers lit up the internet on Tuesday with a campaign ad focused on one issue: the injustice of non-violent marijuana arrests. Sitting in a leather chair in a field near New Orleans’ City Park, the Louisiana Senate candidate puffed on a massive blunt while a voiceover rattled off statistics …
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The Tucson police department has officially terminated a cop who killed a disabled man, shooting the wheel-chair bound 61-year-old nine times in the back and side. The killing took place at the end of November in a big-box shopping complex south of downtown in the Arizona city. Officer Ryan Remington …
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The early days of the pandemic were an incredibly difficult time for Toronto-area sex workers. With people out of work and struggling to find relief aid, as well as policing efforts ramping up in the downtown area, many sex workers struggled to keep their heads above water. “When Covid hit …
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New York City will become the first U.S. city to open officially authorized injection sites in an effort to reduce drug overdose deaths. Two supervised injection sites will open in two Manhattan neighborhoods, East Harlem and Washington Heights, with operations expected to begin as soon as today, Nov. 30, according …
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Netflix‘s Squid Game— a South Korean show in which working-class people compete in life or death children’s games — is a smash, but it’s also confounding users when it comes to the subtitles, as The Weekreports. Last week, TikTok user Youngmi Mayer pointed out myriad failed translations in the English-language …
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Kyrie Irving declined to answer a question on Monday about whether he will play in Brooklyn Nets home games this year given New York City’s requirement for professional athletes to be vaccinated to play indoors. “I would like to keep all that private,” he said. “Please just respect my privacy.” …
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Paul Holes, the detective known for aiding cold case investigations — including the one that led to the arrest of the Golden State Killer — will publish a memoir, Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases, on April 26th, 2022 via Celadon Books. The book will find Holes offering an …
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British diver Tom Daley said he hoped the huge number of LGBTQ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics would help inspire a new generation after he finally won his first Olympic gold medal after four competitions. Daley and Matty Lee won gold in the men’s synchronized 10m platform competition, edging out …
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