Saturday, June 8, 2024

What the Mom of This Mass Shooter Can Teach Us (Newser Deep Dive)

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June 8, 2024
 
 
On May 23, 2014, Elliot Rodger fatally stabbed his two roommates and one of their friends in their Santa Barbara-area apartment, then went on a driving and shooting rampage through nearby Isla Vista, California, killing three more people and injuring 14 others before taking his own life. In the aftermath of the horrific crime, the 22-year-old became the face of the "incel" movement, short for "involuntary celibates," the violent, angry men who blame women for their lack of sexual and romantic success. Keep reading
 
One of the stories causing the biggest kerfuffle in DC this week is a 3,000-word piece in the Wall Street Journal whose headline provides the gist: "Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping." It's based on interviews with more than 45 people over a span of several months, and it has Democrats firing back that it's a biased and inaccurate hit piece. Keep reading
 
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The story was so sensational, it inspired a Lifetime television movie called Deadly Cheer Mom—but what was the truth behind the sordid tabloid tales? Raffaella Spone has come forward for the first time to tell her side of the story to the Guardian, and she insists almost none of what we all heard and read about her was true. Keep reading
 
"For thirty-five f—ing years, my brain's been turning over all these questions," says Sean Stewart. Questions like why the bodies of his 16-year-old brother, Shane, and Sally McNelly, 18, were left in the brush along a rough dirt path leading to a reservoir outside San Angelo in 1988. Keep reading
 
Not too long ago, "butter board" recipes and how-tos were all the rage on social media. Not surprisingly, the dairy industry was pretty happy about this sudden love of butter. Keep reading
 
From the Archives
When Gerald Cotten was in high school, the Ontario teen was known to hustle to get his work done in class so that he could spend any free time getting around the school's firewalls to play online games. If that sounds like the origin story of a future internet tycoon, you'd be right—only in the case of Cotten, who went on to become the CEO of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange—there's a very big twist. Keep reading
 
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