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Jenevieve – “Résumé”Screenshot: YouTube Do you remember the middle of last winter ,when we all blasted music as loud as we could and reveled in our living room dance parties? (Oh, was that just me?) Well, they’re back and better than ever with Miss Rona rearing her head again and …

This article was published online on August 9, 2021. When Bobby McIlvaine died on September 11, 2001, his desk at home was a study in plate tectonics, coated in shifting piles of leather-bound diaries and yellow legal pads. He’d kept the diaries since he was a teenager, and they were …

A Black Atlanta police officer was fired this week after an internal investigation into a viral video of a sergeant kicking a handcuffed woman in the head, according to a press release. Sgt. Marc Theodule, who had been with the department since 2009, was fired after the Office of Professional …

The stories surrounding female athletes in this summer’s games have largely been centered on the gymnastics, soccer and track Olympic teams, however another team continued to just win. The U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball team won its seventh straight goal medal defeating China 90-75 Sunday. The streak ties the longest Gold …

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) walks through the Senate subway ahead of a vote in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. After the House impeached Trump last year, the Senate voted today to acquit the President on two articles of impeachment as …

For The Atlantic’s September issue, staff writer Jennifer Senior recounts one family’s heartbreaking loss in the 9/11 attacks, and their struggle to move on On the morning of September 11, 2001, a charming, ambitious young man named Bobby McIlvaine attended a conference in the World Trade Center. Like thousands of …

How old is too old for a child to be breastfed? That’s the question some are posing after Coco Austin went viral for sharing that she still breastfeeds the 5-year-old daughter she shares with rapper and actor Ice-T.  “Chanel still likes my boobs,” the 42-year-old mother shared in a video while chatting with Us Weekly. “It’s …

According to KABC, two families have stated that the LAPD performed a botched detonation of fireworks in a South Los Angeles neighborhood on June 30 that contributed to the deaths of family members. The families of two elderly men who both died last month following the botched fireworks explosion have …

Photo: Andy Jacobsohn (Getty Images) The former president of people who believe that the insurrection on the Capitol was nothing more than a frat party has officially lost his orange-tinted brain. During an interview with Fox News’ host Dan Bongino—you know, the fake tough guy and former cop who would …

This article was published online on August 9, 2021. Eugene Richards lives in Brooklyn, but was out of the country on September 11, 2001. When he returned to New York City four days later, he has written, he “metamorphosed into a bruise.” He stayed home, convinced that no one needed …