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On Thursday, the Tate became the latest institution to reject any further donations from the Sackler family, the controversial owner of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which is alleged to have played a major role in driving the opioid crisis. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Tate wrote: “The Sackler family has …

Hormel Foods and its subsidiary Jennie-O Turkey Store said they will donate $25,000 to Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old girl who was recently found after being kidnapped last October following a shooting that left both her parents dead. Closs’ parents, James and Denise Closs, were both longtime employees of the Jennie-O …

Authorities in Chico, California, are investigating a “mass casualty overdose,” likely from the drug fentanyl, that left one person dead and hospitalized 12 others over the weekend. Police responded to a 911 call at a residence on Saturday, January 12th at approximately 9 a.m., and dispensed six doses of the …

This 12-part podcast from How Stuff Worksfollows Melissa Moore, who was raised as Melissa Jesperson, a writer from Washington State who also happens to be the daughter of Canadian-born serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, a.k.a. the Happy Face Killer. Jesperson, a six-foot-six truck driver who spent much of his life …

Convicted killer Samuel Little, 78, could turn out to be among the country’s most prolific serial killers in history, and one that, until now, law enforcement didn’t even realize existed. According to the FBI, after being convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for three murders in Southern …

A few angry men on the internet have launched a campaign encouraging others to report sex workers to the IRS for failing to report income they make online, claiming they’ll get a cut of any back taxes collected as a reward for being “whistleblowers.” The campaign, dubbed the “Thot Audit,” …

Tuesday’s midterms were all about the “blue wave” of voters who helped the Democrats take back majority control of the House of Representatives, but in Nevada, the crimson wave had its own victory. The state became the 10th in the nation to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax,” meaning women will …

Tiffany Haddish has announced a stand-up tour. The 2019 trek is named #SheReady after her most common catchphrase. Haddish’s tour will launch in Miami on New Year’s Eve and then head to the west coast. The rest of the dates take place in California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and New …

In the late 1990s, when Ryen McPherson was a teenager living in the idyllic San Diego suburb of La Mesa, California, he met two middle-aged homeless men named Donnie Brennan and Rufus Hannah. McPherson, an aspiring filmmaker, was always tooling around town with a video camera. Brennan and Hannah had …

Garry Trudeau marked Donald Trump as a con man early on. The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and illustrator ofDoonesburyhas mocked Trump relentlessly since the 1980s, homing in on the then real-estate mogul’s insatiable appetite for attention and penchant for lying, a body of work that was anthologized in Trudeau’s2016 bestseller,Yuge!: …