Lawmakers in New York are considering a bill that, if passed, would decriminalize prostitution across the entire state. The Stop Violence In the Sex Trades Act, introduced to the New York state legislature Monday, would “decriminalize & decarcerate the sex trades in NY” as well as be “the first statewide …
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Howard Stern’s new book Howard Stern Comes Again is a compendium of his best interviews with everyone from Lady Gaga and Conan O’Brien to Alec Baldwin, Paul McCartney and even Donald Trump. But as he reveals to Rolling Stone in this exclusive video, he wasn’t always able to land such …
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Update Wed., May 15, 2019: In a tweet, Gov. Kay Ivey said that she has signed HB 314. “Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act,” she wrote. “To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every …
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Our country tends to treat sex workers like, for lack of a better term, trash. Because sex work is largely illegal in the United States (the one exception is a handful of counties in Nevada, where prostitution is highly regulated), women who sell sex are often arrested and subject to …
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The disturbing, tragic story of Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard is headed to Hulustarting on March 20th, when the first season of the new anthology series,The Act, debuts. On Thursday, February 14th, Hulu released the first trailer for the true crime dramatization, revealing actress Joey King’s incredible transformation. The …
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán has been found guilty on 10 federal charges, ranging from drug trafficking to conspiracy to commit murder. At his sentencing hearing, which is expected to take place in June, he’ll be facing life behind bars in the United States. But what happened in the trial of …
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For over 20 years, Boogie has made his career as a photographer exploring the back alleys of some of the world’s biggest cities, such as New York, Istanbul and Tokyo. He goes inside the crowds, finding images that can be stark or unsettling, yet whether he’s photographing a portrait or …
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On Thursday, February 7th, in a post on Medium, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos published a series of emails from American Media Inc. (AMI), outlining what he called an “extortionate proposal.” Last month, The National Enquirer published intimate text messages exposing an affair between Bezos, who is married, and former TV …
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Sunday night’s Super Bowl audience watched the New England Patriots seize their sixth NFL championship and got an eyeful of Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine’s nipples, but at least one of the broadcast’s coveted ad spots was more essential to hear than to see. Michelob Ultra’s debut commercial for their …
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Only a few short years ago, Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout turned technology startup CEO, was the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world and heralded as “the next Steve Jobs” by Silicon Valley’s elite. Theranos, the biotech company she founded in 2003, at age 19, raked in nearly …
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