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The mysterious Georgia Guidestones, the subject of numerous film and TV explorations and sometimes referred to as “America’s Stonehenge,” were blown to bits by an explosion this morning. The stone monuments, located in a rural area near Elberton, Georgia, were largely taken down by a detonation early this morning…

Eric R. Holder Jr. has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle. A Los Angeles County jury today also convicted the 32-year-old Holder on two counts each of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm involving two other people who were injured in the March…

UPDATED, 8:50 AM: News surfaced today that Donald Trump’s former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone will testify Friday in a closed-door transcribed interview before the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. It will be videotaped but not televised. Cipollone had been…

UPDATED with arrest, 4:55 PM: Police have arrested a person of interest in the horrific Fourth shooting at a Fourth of July Parade near Chicago. Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said in a news conference that officers initiated a traffic stop of the subject and “that subject did flee. A brief pursuit went on…

UPDATED, 4:54 PM:  A Chicago-area rapper identified by authorities as a person of interest in the Fourth of July parade shooting has been arrested. Deadline will not identify him. One of his music videos, for the song “Toy Soldier,” features crude, stick-figure-like animation of a man firing a long gun at people and…

In June 2017 The New Yorker magazine published a piece under the evocative title, "Remembering the Murder You Didn't Commit." It told the story of the "Beatrice Six"–three men and three women sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the 1985 rape and murder of a grandmother in the small Nebraska town of Beatrice…

Sonny Barger, the notorious founding member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, author, ex-convict, occasional Sons of Anarchy actor and one of the bikers who provided the violent, bloody security at the infamous 1969 Rolling Stones Altamont concert, died of Wednesday of cancer. He was 83. Barger announced his own…

Former R&B singer R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison at a Brooklyn federal court on nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering. Kelly had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison, with federal prosecutors having asked for a minimum of 25 years. The onetime superstar declined to make a courtroom…

UPDATED with planned appeal: Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend, confidante and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and the maximum $750,000 fine for her role in his sex-crimes operation involving underage girls. Here attorneys said this afternoon that they will appeal the sentence…

VH1 says it will “cut ties” with Black Ink Crew New York star Ceaser Emanuel following an uproar over a video showing him abusing dogs.. The show follows the daily operations of Emanuel’s shop, Black Ink Tattoo, in the Harlem section of Manhattan. He also owns studios in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Orlando, and…

Parents and reporters were asked to leave Uvalde City Hall this afternoon before a Texas House of Representatives committee held a hearing to gather testimony from officers involved in the response to a school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others there last month. Video posted by CNN…

Italian authorities have detained Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, according to the Associated Press, quoting Italian news media via local prosecutors. Haggis, 69, won a 2006 screenwriting Oscar for Crash…