When news of the college admissions scandal, a.k.a. Operation Varsity Blues, broke way back in March, many were left wondering what, exactly, had gone wrong with the college admissions system. Now, the College Board, the governing body for the SATs, has taken steps to address critiques that the SATs are …
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Howard Stern offered his take on Donald Trump‘s psyche and said “deep down he did not want to be president” during an interview with The New York Times. Trump was a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show from the early Nineties through 2015, when he announced his presidential campaign. …
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Michael Avenatti has been accused of embezzling nearly $2 million of a payment made in January 2017 to his client, Alexis Gardner, from her then-boyfriend, Miami Heat star Hassan Whiteside, The Los Angeles Times reports. Gardner, an actress and barista, hired Avenatti — best-known for representing porn star Stormy Daniels …
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Alaska is associated with many good things: cold-weather cruises, salmon bakes, a 1996 feel-good movie starring Pete from Mad Men and a baby polar bear, TK. And now, we can add one more entry to the list: on Tuesday, Alaska Lt. Gov. Kevin Myers signed new legislation making the state …
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More than 40 people, including Oscar-nominated actor Felicity Huffman and Fuller House star Lori Loughlin, have been charged with fraud for their alleged involvement in a massive college admissions scheme, per court documents that were unsealed on Tuesday. Huffman has been arrested, Deadline Hollywood confirmed. Despite reports that Loughlin was …
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Joaquín “Al Chapo” Guzmán paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, at the beginning of Peña Nieto’s term, in a bid by Guzmán to buy the protection of the then-incoming president, according to a witness who once worked closely with El Chapo. The accusations, which …
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A longtime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, has allegedly confessed to “accidentally” killing the six-year-old in a series of letters sent to a former high school classmate, according to the Daily Mail. Gary Oliva, 54, is a convicted pedophile currently serving a 10-year sentence …
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The Cher Show is packed with so much of her that it takes three talented actresses to portray the 72-year-old legend. The Broadway musical also depicts many characters from Cher’s life — Phil Spector, Greg Allman, Robert Altman, Rob “The Bagel Boy” Camilletti and her motherGeorgia Holt (played with hilarity …
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On Monday, the National Institutes of Health announced they intend to invest up to $20 million in the next two years to fund studies to develop alternatives to human fetal tissue, after the Trump administration threatened to pull funding from projects that rely on it for research — including the …
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Just ahead of the six-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, newly released personal documents offer disturbing insights into the troubled mindset of 20-year-old killer Adam Lanza. Following a successful lawsuit, the Hartford Courant obtained more than 1,000 pages of documents from the …
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