The marketing executive who oversaw Bud Light’s collaboration with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has taken a “leave of absence” from Anheuser-Busch following the company’s partnership that drew the ire of Kid Rock and conservatives. USA Today reports that Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s vice president of marketing at the time of …
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Andrew Lester turned himself in to authorities a day after being charged with armed assault in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, the sheriff’s department in Clay County, Missouri, announced Tuesday. Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson first announced the arrest at a news conference on Monday, The Washington Post reported. Yarl, …
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A federal judge in New York has filed letters asking law enforcement in the United Kingdom and Australia to help collect testimonies from four international witnesses in Prince Andrew‘s civil sexual assault case brought by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre has alleged that the royal sexually assaulted her when …
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One day after Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account was suspended over Covid-19 misinformation, Rand Paul announced that he’s fed up with Big Tech. To emphasize his fist-shaking, he declared he’d be joining a Donald Trump-backed video-streaming platform called Rumble. Why Rumble? Adored by the far-right, Rumble is a …
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Unless you’re a celebrity who dies or the author of an incendiary New York Timesop-ed, it’s fairly difficult to go viral during the tepid holiday news cycle. Yet one news story managed to break through the tedium of the waning days of 2022, about an AI assistant that reportedly encouraged …
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It started with a bang, the sound of metal crashing down on the sidewalks of Washington, D.C. as hundreds of Trumpers stormed the Capitol. It continued into another pandemic year; for every two steps we took forward with vaccines and testing, we were knocked back one by variants and those …
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Rose McGowan’s racketeering case against Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers was fully dismissed after McGowan fired her attorneys and missed a court-ordered filing deadline. McGowan filed the RICO suit against Weinstein and his attorneys, David Boies and Lisa Bloom, in 2019. She accused them of a “pattern of racketeering,” spying …
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Dave Halls, the Rust assistant director who handed actor Alec Baldwin the loaded gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last week, had been fired from a movie set in 2019 over what producers are characterizing as the negligent discharge of a firearm. A producer for the film Freedom’s Path confirmed …
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Robert Durst, the eccentric outcast of a powerful New York real-estate dynasty, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole Thursday for the execution-style murder of his best friend Susan Berman more than two decades ago. “There is sufficient evidence, indeed overwhelming evidence, of guilt,” Los Angeles County Superior …
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LeBron James had been pretty tight-lipped about his vaccination status prior to this week, but during the Los Angeles Lakers‘ media day on Tuesday, the four-time MVP confirmed that he has indeed been vaccinated against Covid-19. As for the league’s anti-vaxxers? It’s up to them, he says. “I know I …
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