BEIRUT (AP) — Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find: a jammed shelter, a car, the walls of a shared apartment, or floors and benches in hospital corridors. The strip is 25 miles … Read more
Britney Spears is responding to coverage of her memoir The Woman in Me. The 41-year-old Princes of Pop’s book sold more than one million copies within its first week of release. There have even been whispers about a possible movie deal. However, the majority of press coverage has highlighted low points in Britney‘s life and … Read more
Octavia Spencer is pulling double duty behind the camera for her latest projects. The Academy Award winner has teamed up with ID and Discovery to bring two new crime documentaries to true-crime aficionados like herself. Octavia executive produces and narrates The Lost Women of Highway 20, a three-part docuseries premiering on Sunday, that begins with a 13-year-old … Read more
Kensington Palace has been the source of stories against Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, claimed a British broadcaster. “When I worked in newsrooms, it’s a fact that every anti-Meghan and Harry story came from Kensington Palace. And if it comes from KP, why are they briefing against one of their own….why are there never any … Read more
Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) As federal regulations loom for the AI industry, Meta’s top AI guy seems to be attempting an interesting strategy to dissuade regulators from cracking down: tell them that, actually, AI isn’t all that impressive so how about just don’t bother with any new laws, alright? Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI … Read more
The Gaza Strip has endured seemingly endless tragedy. As Israel wages its war to root out Hamas in the aftermath of the latter’s Oct. 7 massacre, which killed 1,400 in Israel, at least 3,700 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. A blast at Al-Ahli hospital where many Gazans had sought refuge resulted in the loss … Read more
Across 75 years, Israel has built itself around a military so formidable in battle that the country qualifies as a warrior state. But for the 2,000 years before that, the story of the Jews was one of perseverance through persecution, flight, and the kind of intimate, house-to-house slaughter Israelis awoke to on the morning of … Read more
Ahead of TwitchCon Las Vegas, Twitch is launching stories for streamers to connect with their audience even when they aren’t live. Partners and Affiliates who have streamed at least once for 45 minutes or longer in the last 30 days are eligible to post stories, which are viewable for any of their followers and subscribers … Read more
Around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Doron Asher Katz called her husband. The 34-year-old was visiting her mother in the Nir Oz kibbutz, a communal settlement in the south of Israel, along with her two daughters, 2-year-old Aviv and 5-year-old Raz. “I got a phone call in which she was saying that they were locked down … Read more
True crime stories have always captured the public’s fascination due to their gripping narratives and the morbid curiosity surrounding real-life criminal cases. Here are some of the most well-known and enduring true crime stories to date. The Enigma of the Black Dahlia Murder (1947) In the archives of unsolved mysteries, few cases are as haunting … Read more