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While 62 year-old Johnny Hollman Sr. died after being tased by former Atlanta Police Department officer Kiran Kimbrough on Aug. 10, jarring body camera footage of the incident was just released on Nov. 22. On Friday, the Georgia NAACP issued a statement and said Hollman’s death “is not an isolated …

UPDATE 1/29: Sales of Maus have surged online since a Tennessee school board’s decision to ban the graphic novel. According to the Associated Press, two editions of the Art Spiegelman’s book have both entered onto Amazon’s Top 20 sales chart Friday; prior to the controversy, Maus wasn’t even in the …

The original artwork of Spider-Man donning his black costume for the first time sold for $3.36 million at auction Friday, setting a new record for comic book art. Artist Mike Zeck’s hand-drawn black-and-white art for Page 25 of 1984’s Secret Wars No. 8 issue had a pre-auction estimate of $330,000; …

The Queen has stripped Prince Andrew of his military titles and charities, Buckingham Palace announced Thursday. The announcement comes the day after a federal judge in New York denied a motion to dismiss a sexual assault lawsuit against Andrew brought by Virginia Giuffre. A brief statement from Buckingham Palace read, …

Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of helping procure underage girls for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, the question remains as to what will happen for the rest of Epstein’s victims as well as his powerful associates and others who may have helped facilitate the abuse. Here are five civil …

The defense has rested in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial. Maxwell’s lawyers called nine witnesses over two days, and on Friday afternoon, Maxwell spoke to Judge Alison Nathan to answer a question that has been plaguing observers since the trial was announced: “Your honor, the government has not proven its case …

About a year before her sister, Brooke Preston, was brutally killed by their roommate Randy Herman, Jr. in 2017, Jordan Preston remembers driving with her from Sarasota, Florida, to West Palm Beach, where she had a job interview. On the car ride over, they accidentally hit a turtle in the …

A former Chicago detective offered a detailed breakdown Tuesday of the investigation that led authorities to believe Jussie Smollett staged an attack against himself in the first full day of testimony in the actor’s disorderly conduct trial. Detective Michael Theis was the first witness for the prosecution and his testimony …

The jury finished hearing closing arguments Tuesday morning in the trial of three white men charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, on a residential street in Brunswick, Georgia. The February 2020 killing occurred while Arbery was running through the neighborhood of Satilla Shores; a father …

On Friday, after more than three days of deliberation, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty in the homicides of two people and wounding of a third who he shot with an AR-15 during a night of protests against police brutality last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Earlier in the trial, …