YouTube doesn’t exactly have a sterling reputation among parents these days. From reports of trolls gaming the algorithm to target kids with disturbing or violent content to parents freaking out over the (most likely extremely fake) “Momo” suicide challenge to the mere existence of the Paul brothers, YouTube is known …
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NFL quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick settled his long-running lawsuit with the football league on Friday. The details of the agreement have not been disclosed, and are subject to a confidentiality clause. Kaepernick’s lawsuit accused the league of collusion; he and Eric Reid, who also settled a lawsuit today, alleged that they …
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With a supermajority of Americans supporting marijuana legalization, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), has introduced a bill to tax and regulate the substance like alcohol. In a nod to the mainstreaming of marijuana culture, the legislation carries the stony bill number S. 420. It …
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For the first time since 2011, the Democrats have the majority in the House of Representatives, and it appears that reforming federal marijuana laws is one of their highest priorities. While 33 states so far have legalized medical and/or recreational use, cannabis remains federally prohibited, further complicating the implementation and …
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Medical marijuana might be supported by more than 90 percent of Americans,but it seems that at least one major television network doesn’t think prime-time viewers are ready for a commercial about how cannabis can help save lives. News broke last week that Acreage Holdings, a U.S. cannabis company publicly traded …
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Jussie Smollett returned to the stage at a Los Angeles club Saturday night, just days after the Empire actor was the victim in an attack that is being investigated as a possible hate crime. “I had to be here tonight, y’all. I couldn’t let those motherfuckers win,” Smollett told the …
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Two years after JonBenét Ramsey‘s brother Burke Ramsey filed a $750 million defamation lawsuit against CBS over the network’s docuseries The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, the two sides have reached “an amicable resolution of their differences.” The docuseries pushed the theory that Burke killed his younger sister in the infamous, …
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The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has denied Steven Avery’s December 17th motion requesting to use new “rapid DNA identification” testing on “suspected human skeletal remains” that were recovered but never identified during the original investigation into Teresa Halbach’s 2005 murder. Avery’s attorney, Kathleen Zellner, isn’t discouraged, however; she tells Rolling …
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