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Lacey Baker, Nyjah Huston, Brighton Zeuner and Tom Schaar are among the skateboarders named to the first U.S. national skateboarding team. The men’s and women’s teams feature eight skateboarders each, with four competing in the street discipline and four competing in park. The national team announcement comes as USA Skateboarding …

On the heels of their hit podcast The Dropout, ABC News and 20/20 are releasing a two-hour documentary of the same name about Elizabeth Holmes and the decade-long scam she allegedly pulled off, convincing the world that her company, Theranos, would revolutionize the healthcare industry. Instead of doing that, it …

It’s been a whirlwind few years for Kristen Roupenian. In 2014, as she was finishing a Ph.D. in English at Harvard, she abandoned her plan to work at the State Department and decided to go for an MFA in fiction instead. For many people, such a choice is the first …

Last September, an image surfaced on Instagram of Emma Coronel Aispuro, the 29-year-old former beauty queen and wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, hosting her seven-year-old daughters’ Barbie-themed birthday party at a sprawling mansion in Culiacan, in the Mexican region of Sinoloa. In one photo, Coronel Aispuro, in a bedazzled …

Nicholas Godejohn, 29, has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his role in the 2015 murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, 48, the mother of his then-girlfriend Gypsy Rose, who is also serving time for her role in the murder. As documented by the 2017 HBO documentary Mommie …

Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning creators of the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening, have reunited, along with director and co-book writer Jessie Nelson (Waitress), for a new take on perennial classicAlice in Wonderland. Titled Alice by Heart, this adaptation of the Lewis Carroll tale is set …

The Harris County Sheriff’s Department outside Houston, Texas, has arrested two suspects in the murder of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes, who was fatally shot on December 30thin what was initially believed to be a random “racially motivated” attack. Eric Black Jr., 20, was taken into custody on Saturday, January 5th, and …

After being denied 18 times, a California parole board recommended that former Charles Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil be released from prison, The Associated Press reports. He has been serving a life sentence — previously commuted from the death penalty — for the 1969 murder of Gary Hinman, a music teacher …

Louis C.K. mocked the Parkland high school shooting survivors and gender pronouns in leaked audio from one of the comedian’s recent comeback sets. The recording reportedly captures the comedian’s nearly hour-long routine at Long Island, New York’s Governor’s Comedy Club on December 16th. “So what kind of a year did …

This year wasn’t necessarily revolutionary when it comes to marijuana in America, but it was a year marked by numerous states continuing to push the legalization efforts of their neighbors. But supporters still say it was a sea-changing year, in part because between Jeff Sessions being removed as attorney general …