A bidding war over an NFT of the viral “Charlie Bit My Finger” video — a “lovable piece of internet history” that “helped YouTube grow” in 2007, the family involved proclaimed — ended with a winning price of $760,999. After bids slowly trickled in during the Saturday portion of the …
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The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine in America under the Joe Biden administration has been a historic success. As of this week, more than 200 million shots have been administered — doubling the president’s original 100 day goal. Among vulnerable seniors, 81 percent have gotten at least one shot, as …
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Connie Walker vividly remembers the day she started to pitch a story about a missing indigenous woman to her boss at a national currents-affair show — a woman whose disappearance was garnering far less attention than that of a white woman in a similar situation. Walker had hardly started speaking …
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UPDATE 4/24: Following another week filled with more allegations of workplace misconduct, Scott Rudin revealed Saturday that he would resign from the Broadway League, the trade organization that organizes the Tony Awards. “I know apologizing is not, by any means, enough,” Rudin said in an apology to the New York …
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During the two weeks that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been on trial for murdering George Floyd, the legend of John Henry has come to mind. According to the great American folk ballad, the railroad laborer was working in West Virginia in the early 1870s when his company …
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In 2019, adult performer Jade Kush shot a scene where she appears on an elliptical machine in a tie-dye thong leotard and leg warmers, before a man in sweatpants approaches her and she starts to enthusiastically fellate him. It was, by most standards, a fairly typical porn scene. Yet when …
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Starting in the early 2000s, sports pundits began predicting that, any moment now, Kim Ng would become the first female general manager in Major League Baseball.They floated the ideain 2005, when she interviewed for the job with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It came up againin 2009, when she was considered …
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Texas is currently facing an unprecedented blackout crisis, leaving nearly three million people without electricity during the state’s biggest ice storm in years. Boil water notices have been issued to residents of Houston and Austin, warning them to heat their water due to possible contamination from broken pipes, low water …
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Police in Rochester, New York pepper-sprayed a nine-year-old girl while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car, as seen on body-camera footage from an incident last Friday, January 29th. As the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports, the footage was released Sunday, January 31st. Following the incident, the …
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Dave Wright, a Trump supporter based in Decatur, Illinois, was sick and tired of Facebook. A video he had posted in September of a woman reportedly being arrested for not wearing a mask was flagged for spreading misinformation, and last week during the election, a screengrab he shared hinting at …
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