Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder after a mass shooting left 10 people dead at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, Monday, March 22nd. Boulder Police confirmed Alissa, who lives in Arvada, Colorado, was the suspect in the shooting in a statement …
Read More »Ava DuVernay Announces Spotify Podcast Series on Police Accountability
Ava DuVernay has announced that her first Spotify-produced podcast will be an unscripted series centered on the Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP). TheWhen They See Us andSelma filmmaker — who inked a multi-year partnership with the audio platform in January — announced the project’s synopsis as part of Spotify’s Stream …
Read More »'Philly D.A.': Larry Krasner Plans Radical Bail Reform in Clip From PBS Docuseries
The first three years of Larry Krasner’s tenure as Philadelphia District Attorney is the focus of the upcoming PBS docuseries Philly D.A.Ahead of the eight-part series arrival on April 20th, Rolling Stone has an exclusive clip that gives viewers an inside look into Krasner’s office. In the clip, the freshly …
Read More »How the Christian Right Helped Foment Insurrection
This story was produced by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization. Get their investigations emailed to you directly by signing up at RevealNews.org/newsletter. The January 6th Save America March, where then-President Donald Trump incited a crowd to attack the U.S. Capitol, opened with a prayer. …
Read More »'Dating Game' Helps Catch Serial Killer in Clip From '20/20′ Special
Rodney Alcala, the infamous serial killer whose spree of dozens of murders ended after he won on The Dating Game, is the focus of Friday’s two-hour episode of ABC’s 20/20. The show airs at 9 p.m. ET. In this exclusive clip from the 20/20 special, the now-adult friend of 12-year-old …
Read More »Kenosha Protest Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager involved in the shooting deaths of two people during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin this summer, pleaded not guilty to all charges during an arraignment Tuesday, January 5th, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Rittenhouse, 18, is facing five felonies, including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, …
Read More »United Nations Removes Cannabis From List of Dangerous Drugs
The United Nations’ Commission for Narcotic Drugs voted to remove medicinal cannabis from a category of dangerous drugs, The New York Times reports. The commission, which is made up of 53 member states, removed marijuana from the list of Schedule IV narcotics, as classified by the 1961 Single Convention on …
Read More »Marjorie Taylor Greene Becomes First QAnon Congressperson
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP congressional candidate who has endorsed the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, has won the 14th congressional district of Georgia, making her the first congressperson to officially endorse the conspiracy theory. Taylor Greene, the projected favorite, won in an overwhelming victory against Democratic candidate Kevin Van Ausdal, …
Read More »Go Inside a Zoom Horror Film With 'Take This Lollipop 2'
For fans of webcam horror flicks like Host and Unfriended, there’s now a new interactive short called Take This Lollipop 2 that will put you right into the Zoom grid — and danger. Take This Lollipop 2 is a sequel-of-sorts to a 2011 Facebook app with the same name, which …
Read More »Indecline Debuts 'The Art of Protest' Documentary
When Indecline started work on their documentary The Art of Protest in late 2018, they wanted to tell the history of resistance art. Over the previous two years — since they broke onto the national consciousness with their naked-Trump, guerilla-art instillation The Emperor Has No Balls, the activist-artist collective has …
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