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In March 2018, Lauren Salzman, a high-ranking member in the self-empowerment organization NXIVM and a so-called “master” in the alleged sex cult DOS, was making a smoothie in the kitchen of a house outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, when her friend Loreta Garza, another NXIVM member, burst into the room. She …

A vigil for school shooting victim Kendrick Castillo, who died while trying to stop two gunmen from STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, broke out into cries of protest when high school students accused some speakers at the vigil of exploiting their grief for political ends. On Wednesday evening, nearly …

Some scientists fear a third of the polar bears in the world may be gone by 2030 due to climate change and how it will affect future sea conditions. To show how the species is struggling to survive as they search for food, National Geographic captured a moment where a …

In January, UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi charmed the internet with a fiercely spunky, smiley, physics-defying floor routine at a meet that scored her a perfect 10 — and more than 40 million views. A gymnast since age three, Ohashi quickly climbed the elite ranks. She beat Simone Biles to win …

Jake Thomas Patterson saw the 13-year-old girl with red hair just once, getting on a school bus that had pulled up in front of a house off Highway 8 outside Barron, Wisconsin, temporarily bringing his own car to a stop. That morning, Patterson, 21, was on his way to his …

A 23-year-old woman who was arrested for planning a terror attack on a Toledo, Ohio bar exchanged letters with Dylann Roof, the South Carolina church shooter currently awaiting federal death sentence. The FBI revealed the correspondence between Roof and Ohio native Elizabeth Lecron at a press conference Monday after Lecron …

Social media network Tumblr is permanently banning adult content, following an incident in mid-November where the discovery of child porn prompted Apple to remove the platform from its App Store. According to the Verge, as of December 17th, Tumblr users will be strictly prohibited from posting explicit sexual content and …