The Old Switcheroo The case of United States v. Daedone and Cherwitz was the first federal forced-labor conspiracy conviction that relied entirely on psychological coercion, with no physical restraint and no spoken threats. In fact, it rested entirely on a conspiracy-only charge.
Brendan Fraser is coming home. The Academy Award-winning actor was announced Friday May 15, 2026 as the honorary starter for the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500, the man who will stand atop the flag stand and wave the green flag to send 33 cars roaring into Turn 1 at the sp
Residents of Battleview Drive in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta woke up one morning in the past two weeks to find up to 50 empty Waymo robotaxis entering their dead-end street between 6 and 7 AM. No passengers. No drivers. Just a parade of driverless Jaguar I-PACE SUVs roll
Five Below launched its biggest toy event of the year today, Saturday May 16, 2026, when toy manufacturer RMS USA dropped the Golden Ticket Dumpling series exclusively at Five Below stores nationwide. Every container is a mystery. Every customer gets one per day. And somewhere in
Bank of America has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it charged customers multiple out-of-network fees during a single ATM balance inquiry at 7-Eleven stores, and if you had a Bank of America account and used one of those ATMs between May 2018
Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini began streaming on Netflix on Friday May 15, 2026, a fictionalized account of the case that gripped the country when a California mother disappeared while jogging in November 2016, turned up 22 days later chained and branded on a highway medi
Straus Family Creamery, the Northern California organic dairy producer, voluntarily recalled select flavors of its Organic Super Premium Ice Cream on Wednesday May 14, 2026 after discovering the potential presence of metal foreign material in a limited number of production runs.
John Travolta walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday May 15, 2026 wearing a white beret, glasses and a beard and moustache so perfectly manicured that fans online said it looked like someone had drawn it on his face. Visible weight loss completed a transforma
Spotify has given its iconic green logo a dramatic makeover, replacing its familiar flat design with a sparkling green disco ball icon that has taken the internet by storm. Rolling out across iOS on May 13, 2026, the redesign marks the streaming giant’s 20th anniversary celebrati
Claudine Longet, the French-born singer and actress who became one of the most familiar faces of American variety television in the 1960s through her marriage to Andy Williams and her role alongside Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards’ 1968 film The Party, died on Thursday May 14, 202
Jack Grynberg was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who arrived in Denver in 1949 with twenty-seven dollars in his pocket and built one of the great independent oil fortunes of the twentieth century. He died in 2021 at the age of 89. By then, his three children — Rachel, Stephen,
Smoking Monkey Pizza, the award-winning wood-fired pizza chain founded in Renton, Washington, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to court records reported by Bankruptcy Observer and TheStreet. The filing by parent company TB Enterprises LLC is aimed at reor
