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Nov 14, 2024 | 
aol.com | Brandy Zadrozny |Erik Ortiz
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones' primary online platform. Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
aol.com | Adam Reiss |Erik Ortiz
October 10, 2024 at 2:19 PMThe federal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs is scheduled to start May 5, a judge in New York declared Thursday as he set deadlines in the sex trafficking case against the embattled hip-hop mogul. Federal prosecutor Emily Johnson said the government could take three weeks to present its case against Combs, 54, who pleaded not guilty last month to charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aol.com | Chloe Melas |Erik Ortiz
October 3, 2024 at 3:18 PM The Menendez brothers are serving a life sentence for murdering their parents.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aol.com | Dan Slepian |Kim Cornett |Erik Ortiz |Nick McElroy
October 3, 2024 at 3:47 PMA condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country's first execution for "shaken baby syndrome," a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some criminal cases. After he filed a clemency petition with the state ahead of his execution, which is scheduled for Oct. 17, Robert Roberson told NBC News anchor Lester Holt in an interview airing Thursday that he is urging Texas Gov.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
aol.com | Erik Ortiz
The anticipated trial of the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students will be moved out of the same county where the killings took place in late 2022, a judge decided in a ruling released Monday. Latah County District Judge John Judge heard arguments last month about whether the trial of Bryan Kohberger, tentatively set for next June, should be moved to Ada County, about 300 miles south and home to Idaho’s capital, Boise.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Denise Chow |Erik Ortiz
Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal community in the Los Angeles area, could be described as a geological ticking time bomb. The affluent city sits atop steep cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean that, for hundreds of years, have been slowly shifting and giving way. Now, that movement is accelerating. Whereas the ground slid downward 8 inches annually in years past, it has lurched 13 inches per week in some places between July and August.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz
Almost 10 months after an Army reservist's deadly rampage in Lewiston, Maine, an independent commission said Tuesday that local law enforcement and the U.S. military had missed "several opportunities" that, if taken, "might have changed the course of these tragic events." While the independent commission's final report found that gunman Robert Card was solely responsible for his own conduct, other lapses played a role, including: A Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office sergeant conducting a...
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
aol.com | Erik Ortiz
August 5, 2024 at 1:15 PM Carolyn KasterLouisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has a suggestion for parents who don't believe the Ten Commandments should be displayed in public school classrooms throughout the state. "Tell your child not to look at them," he told reporters Monday.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
aol.com | Erik Ortiz |Daniel Arkin
Updated July 6, 2024 at 12:27 PMIn recent years, The Epoch Times has amassed a large audience as a publisher of right-wing news articles and peddler of baseless election conspiracies. This summer, the conservative media company is hoping to conquer new territory: Hollywood. Epoch Studios, a branch of the wider Epoch Times Association, plans to release “The Firing Squad,” a drama starring Kevin Sorbo and Cuba Gooding Jr. as drug smugglers who find God behind bars.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
aol.com | Erik Ortiz
July 5, 2024 at 10:48 AMThe writings of a Nashville school shooter won't be made public, a Tennessee judge ruled late Thursday, finding that there is more harm to be done in releasing them now.
