After yet another weekend of horrific mass shootings in a country where gun violence has become numbingly routine, The New York Post has called for an assault weapons ban. The U.S. tabloid, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, made its case on the cover of its Monday issue, writing …
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Leonard Pozner, father of the Sandy Hook massacre’s youngest victim, has won a defamation lawsuit against the editors of a book that claims the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut never occurred. Wisconsin’s Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington issued a summary judgment on Monday against James Fetzer and Mike Palecek, …
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For years, opponents of marijuana legalization have voiced the same arguments whenever the subject of dispensaries comes up: having legal cannabis vendors, they say, promotes the spread of crime, brings property values down in the neighborhood and encourages teenage marijuana use. And even though the push for marijuana legalization has …
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Sol Pais, the 18-year-old woman who was the subject of an FBI manhunt following reports that she was “obsessed” with Columbine, has been found dead in Denver, according to the FBI (per the New York Times). She was reportedly seen running naked through the woods with a gun and was …
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Thomas Kokoraleis, 59, was released from a Chicago prison on Friday after serving 35 years, or half of his 70-year prison sentence, for abduction, rape and murder. Kokoraleis was part of a satanic cult known as the “Ripper Crew” that terrorized the streets of Chicago during the early 1980s, and …
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New York has joined the growing list of states suing the Sackler family, the owners of the company Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the Associated Press reports. On Thursday, the state attorney general amended a lawsuit against Purdue Pharmaceuticals to include the Sacklers, as well as five other opioid manufacturers such as Johnson …
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Last weekend, an Austrlian teenager won the hearts and minds of people all around the world when he cracked an egg over the head of Fraser Anning, a far-right Australian politician who implied that immigration and “Muslim fanatics” were responsible for the shooting. Now, William Connolly, 17, a.k.a. “Egg Boy,” …
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Update: This story has been updated to include parts of a statement provided by Michael Griesbach, an attorney for Andrew Colborn. On December 17th, Andrew Colborn, a former officer with the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office, filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the filmmakers behind Making a Murderer, seeking unspecified damages …
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For the first time in U.S. history, a psychedelic drug is on the fast track to getting approved for treating depression by the federal government. Late last month, Compass Pathways, a U.K.-based company that researches and develops mental health treatments, announced the FDA granted them what’s called a “breakthrough therapy …
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The deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh — where 11 people were killed during Saturday morning services last week by a gunman shouting anti-Semitic epithets — was not an isolated incident. Yes, it was part of this country’s mass shooting epidemic, but it was also part …
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