Nancy Salzman, the president and co-founder of NXIVM – an alleged sex cult based in Albany, New York that claimed to be a self-help group – pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of racketeering conspiracy, USA Today reports. The 64-year old, who was known by NXIVM members as “Prefect,” …

The sea pig just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sea pigs (a.k.a. Scotoplanes, a relative of the sea cucumber) look like caterpillars in drag, with flashy horns and bright colors. They live on the deep ocean floor and feast on whale corpses, among other …

On Tuesday morning, it was reported that actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, along with more than 30 other wealthy parents, had been charged with fraud following an investigation into a massive college admissions scam. According to court documents associated with the case, the scam involved parents paying tens of …

Two straight-A students embrace the eternal mission to leave high school with a bang in the trailer for Olivia Wilde‘s directorial debut, Booksmart. The film stars Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein as Amy and Molly, soon-to-be Ivy Leaguers who spent high school focusing exclusively on academics while allowing little room …

Overall, we have every reason to believe that the opioid crisis is getting better, not worse. Since the Centers for Disease Control issued its guidelines dictating appropriate opioid prescription rates and dosages in 2016, opioid prescriptions have declined significantly. Overdose deaths have also been on the decline, though some health …

Desus and Mero roped John Legend into writing a wild new love song about one of the Kid Mero’s most cherished activities, eating ass, on Desus and Mero Thursday. “Hold on, let me get into Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper mode,” Mero cracked as he sat down at the piano and …

Michael Cohen sat before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday for the last of four sessions. His story is far from over. The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump’s embattled former attorney and fixer told his lawyer last year to look into the possibility of a presidential pardon. Lanny …

Solange‘s When I Get Home, released on Friday, feels both meticulous and off-the-cuff, hyper-melodic for those listeners enticed by the Seventies references on 2016’s A Seat at the Table, but also attuned to the short track-lengths and loop structures favored by today’s young streamers. Solange oversaw the making of the …

Andrew Bird unspools an ambitious take on the circle of life on new song “Manifest.” The track will appear on Bird’s upcoming album, My Finest Work Yet, out March 22nd via Loma Vista Recordings. “Manifest” is a sweeping folk-rock tune that Bird says “traces our evolution from single celled organisms …

When details started surfacing about the gruesome 2015 murder of Dee Dee Blanchard — the mother of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who allegedly forced her to pretend she was disabled and had terminal cancer — it was clear that it would only be a matter of time before the story was …