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On Oct. 19, Asian-American SoCal resident Nancy Ng, 29, went kayaking on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. The excursion was part of a yoga retreat Ng was on, and included at least nine other participants, who rented kayaks from a local business and set out. It was the last time anyone …

To non-gamers, the most famous person on Mythic Quest, Rob McElhenney’s workplace comedy set at a gaming company, is probably its creator and star. Or maybe it’s F. Murray Abraham, the legendary character actor who plays the game’s head writer. But to gamers, it’s Ashly Burch. While her role as …

At almost eight months pregnant, Brittany Echols, 31, stood in the Saturday afternoon heat; the stifling humidity hard on anyone as it topped 70 percent outside the Supreme Court. Yet, defiant to the blazing sun, sign in hand, she participated in her very first protest. “My daughter is my choice,” …

Every few months, a new, flirty and fun personality archetype drops on the internet. A few years ago, it was VSCO girls, for ladies who love their waterbottles, Fjallraven Kanken backpacks, and Save the Turtles stickers; a few months back, it was the Clean Girl, for those Emily Mariko types …

It’s an uncomfortable thing to admit that America is a country besieged by extremist ideologies. But after the 2016 election of a president who made far-right fringe views the new norm for the Republican party, and after the January 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by hundreds of conspiracy-minded …

It has been less than a decade since 26 people, most of them children, were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, and barely 10 days since the last major U.S. mass shooting made national news in Buffalo. And now, yet again, the nation faces the senseless deaths of a mass shooting …

Remember Cara Delevingne, of Taylor Swift #girlsquad and Ashley Benson sex swing-shopping fame? Over the past week, the model-turned-actress-question-mark, who is perhaps best known for her “Shane from The L Word”-esque reputation in Hollywood (she’s dated Benson and St. Vincent, among others, and has been tied to numerous other models …

“Sometimes you just gotta say fuck it and spend $125 on burrata,” taunts the voice over a slo-mo cheese pull. It’s a review of Saint Theo’s, a trendy Manhattan restaurant, but the food is far less memorable than the narration: “Yes, this piece of cheese was more than my electric …

An Arizona man was arrested and charged with animal cruelty after a menagerie of pets — including snakes, lizards, birds, dogs, and rabbits — were found in his freezer. Michael Patrick Turland faces 94 counts of animal cruelty after Mohave County deputies uncovered his frozen collection of dead animals, including …

There’s nothing that parents of small children love more than giving kids unfettered access to phones and iPads — then freaking out over what kinds of age-inappropriate content they may be seeing on such devices. Case in point: the recent panic over Huggy Wuggy, a character from a video game …