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For the first time ever, filmmakers for National Geographic have captured the annual rite of passage many baby penguins take before they embark on their first swim: a daring leap from a towering ice shelf.
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Fame and infamy have often followed those in O.J. Simpson’s orbit, with some of the biggest names in law, entertainment, and pop culture owing their stardom to the so-called Trial of the Century, which saw the football superstar acquitted for the brutal slaying of his estranged wife and her friend in 1995.
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Shohei Ohtani’s longtime Japanese-langauge interpreter has been charged with stealing more than $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star to pay off his personal gambling debts, the Department of Justice announced in a release on Thursday.
Читать дальше...Lawrence Schiller
My last encounter with O.J. Simpson was in 1997, just before his civil trial was to commence in Santa Monica. He was being sued for wrongful death by the families of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.
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Just weeks before his death, O.J. Simpson—who was famously acquitted of the brutal 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman—made an awkward joke about “confessing.”
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The top two advisers to former President Donald Trump are urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to add more debates to the schedule and to hold them earlier in the election cycle—the latest move in the campaign’s attempt to pressure President Joe Biden to agree to a public showdown.
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When Team U.S.A.’s track & field athletes line up at the Paris Olympics this summer, you might wonder whether some of them are auditioning for a Baywatch reboot.
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A confrontation between a UC Berkeley law professor and a student protester got physical on Tuesday, becoming the latest campus flare-up over Gaza.
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“Be open and honest!”
It’s the phrase Kyle Richards has become infamous for, whether she’s imploring Denise Richards to admit she cheated on her husband, asking Lisa Vanderpump to admit to leaking to the press, or demanding Sutton Stracke to come clean that she’s having an affair with her horse.
Richards has built a reputation for grilling her castmates, while skating by without revealing her own skeletons. So when Season 13 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills aired... Читать дальше...
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Moments after it was reported that O.J. Simpson had died of cancer on Thursday, The View’s Joy Behar did the least shocking thing imaginable—she compared the acquitted double-murderer to Donald Trump.
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Caitlyn Jenner didn’t mince words on Thursday in adding her two cents on the passing of O.J. Simpson, the star NFL running back later accused and acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. Jenner is now divorced from Kris Jenner—herself the ex-wife of Robert Kardashian, who famously acted as Simpson’s defense attorney during the Trial of the Century.
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Fred Goldman, whose son Ronald was stabbed to death alongside O.J. Simpson’s estranged wife, Nicole, said Thursday that the disgraced football star’s death doesn’t change a thing for him and his family.
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J.K. Rowling has reignited her beef with Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson over the issue of transgender identity and rights.
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Akebono Taro, the Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler who broke boundaries when he became the first foreigner to achieve the sport’s highest title, has died of heart failure in Tokyo, his family said in a statement on Thursday. He was 54 years old.
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An American woman died after she was involved in a golf cart crash and a subsequent bar fight, authorities in Belize said Thursday.
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The reasons behind X-Men ’97 creator Beau DeMayo’s firing from the Marvel series are still a mystery, and he still hasn’t addressed what happened—but he did break his internet silence for the first time after leaving the show this week to answer fan questions about the critically well-received series.
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O.J. Simpson, whose football legacy was forever tarnished by horrific murder accusations that culminated in the “Trial of the Century,” has died from cancer, his family announced Thursday.
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A memoir written by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the final years of his life will be published in the fall, according to a report.
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The Biden administration on Thursday announced that it is moving to close the so-called gun-show loophole in which people selling guns online, at shows, and other informal venues have been able to do so without conducting background checks on their customers.
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They couldn’t even wait for the show trial to reach its scheduled conclusion. In a shock early verdict, a Vietnamese court sentenced one of the world’s wealthiest women to be executed after the country’s biggest ever fraud trial.
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A mom charged with reckless endangerment and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of her 3-year-old had left her son with no adult supervision and spent the evening drinking in a bar despite being aware he was unwell, prosecutors say.
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Three mariners were rescued from a remote atoll in the Pacific on Tuesday after a U.S. Navy plane spotted a sign reading “HELP” that the stranded men had built on a beach with palm fronds.
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The Dallas Police Department on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice in connection with a multi-car pile-up last month.
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Rajee Narinesingh was dining at a Florida restaurant with friends in October when a woman stopped her in the women’s bathroom and told her to leave.
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