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Majors departs the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan after being sentenced on April 8. Photo: Shutterstock On Monday, a New York judge sentenced Jonathan Majors to participate in a domestic violence treatment program and declined to give Majors any jail time. The sentencing comes about four months after a jury found Majors guilty of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in an incident from March 2023. Majors will complete a one-year "in person batterers" intervention program... Читать дальше...

One morning in April 1994, a 34-year-old mother and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee was scrambling. Somewhere between rushing her first-grade daughter off to school, cursing herself for forgetting to send a signed permission slip along with her, and squeezing in a shower, a string of words materialized in Alice Randall's mind: Got a picture of your Momma in heels and pearls, and you're trying to make it in your Daddy's world. Months (and a few verses) later, that sentiment would become the chorus... Читать дальше...

Cicadas are loud, annoying, and ugly but you can't call them coy. Nothing says "the warm weather is finally here" like a bunch of male bugs screaming into the abyss in the hopes that it will make a female bug want to have sex with them. And this year we're extra lucky because trillions of cicadas will be singing for sex this spring. But these aren't just any cicadas—because some of them will be infected with a fungal STD that turns them into "hyper-sexual" zombie cicadas. Neat! Two cicada broods are emerging from the ground in the coming weeks... Читать дальше...

Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion rights have been left up to the states. The result has been catastrophic, with abortion access completely decimated in some regions, people with life-threatening pregnancy complications getting denied emergency abortions, and Republicans in some states trying to ban people from even traveling for abortion. Well, on Monday morning, former President Trump bucked with top anti-abortion leaders when he shared a Truth Social video in... Читать дальше...

Over the weekend, Don Lemon and his partner, Tim Malone, tied the knot in the only way I'd expect of an accused misogynist in corporate media and a real estate broker: an ultra-traditional ceremony in midtown, Manhattan. On Saturday, the longtime couple wed at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Good for them, I guess? But there are plenty of details about the nuptials that warrant an eye-roll. For starters: their matching velvet tuxedos. For a spring ceremony? Criminal. Secondly, their three little... Читать дальше...