Month: July 2020

In a move that was both widely expected and staggeringly corrupt, almost without American precedent, President Donald Trump granted commutation to longtime friend, adviser, and convicted felon Roger Stone on Friday, cutting short the more than three year prison sentence that a federal judge handed him in February. The move comes as a reward—something Trump
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One of the stories featured in Stephen King‘s new collection If It Bleeds is titled Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, and THR reports tonight that a feature film adaptation is in the works for Netflix. The project is being developed by “American Story Creator” Ryan Murphy and Blumhouse. THR details, “The story follows a young boy who
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Relic, Natalie Erika James’s directorial debut, has what most every respectable horror movie seems to have nowadays: atmosphere. It’s got the sickly color correction, the trembling score, the spooky corridors, the avant-garde-lite waking dreams, the unanswered questions. It’s got curious camera angles that pointedly obstruct our view of the action, making the world of the
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On Monday, the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust released footage from a video call featuring its president, Prince Harry, vice president, Meghan Markle, and a variety of young leaders who have participated in its programs. The topic was fairness and justice, touching on the history of the Commonwealth of Nations—a voluntary association of 54 largely English-speaking countries
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Weren’t gender reveal parties left behind in 2019? What? They weren’t? Oh, no. (Stock photo via Elements Envato) A supportive mum held a second gender reveal party for her transgender daughter after realising she made a mistake with the first one. Julie Hindsley, 33, from Texas, USA, threw a huge gender reveal party when she
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AMC Entertainment Friday announced a debt restructuring that it said would “prove highly beneficial to the company and its shareholders.” The deal will reduce the principal amount of its total debt liabilities, extend the maturities of a significant percentage of outstanding debt, reduce cash interest expenses, and boost its cash and liquidity position to help
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Asked if she has ever heard anything similar to Endres’ statements—especially about the fact that he asked the funeral home to assemble his late wife’s bones—in her 30-plus years working on unsolved cases, Meurer said she had. “Earlier this year I was speaking to someone—it wasn’t related to an Unsolved Mysteries case—but this woman’s daughter
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Citing security risks, the 500,000 U.S.-based employees of Amazon were told to delete TikTok from their phones by the end of the day on Friday, according to The New York Times. Workers are still permitted to use the Chinese-owned video app via their laptop browsers, but mobile devices with access to Amazon email are no
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Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis has shared their heartbreaking story of how they learned about their medical history. In a Twitter thread shared earlier this week, Pagonis – who has reclaimed the word “hermaphrodite” – said that they had recently discovered new information about their body that they hadn’t previously known. When they were 18-years-old, Pagonis
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Exclusive Armie Hammer and his wife, Elizabeth Chambers have both just filed for divorce. Elizabeth filed the divorce petition, and Armie filed his answer at the same time, so it was clearly coordinated. There are differences. Elizabeth wants sole physical custody of their 2 children — 5-year-old Harper Grace and 3-year-old Ford. Armie is asking
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