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Ellen Page has made a star turn as a documentarian in recent years, co-hosting the Viceland queer travelogue showGaycation with Ian Daniel and narrating environmental films likeVanishing of the Bees. Now, Page and Daniel have directed their own film,There’s Something in the Water, which premiered its first trailer on Wednesday …

“See the dot?” the Israeli Defense Forces soldier in the video asks. “You’re gonna aim that at your target.” He is directing these words to a woman in traditional Orthodox garb, complete with a wig and long sleeves for modesty. The woman, who appears at least a foot shorter than …

If you are a parent of small children, you know that YouTube without content filters (and sometimes even with filters) is nothing short of a cesspool. Clicking on a video of Elmo singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” for instance, could prompt the algorithm to suggest, say, a …

Paul Rudd shows off a neat party trick to Aisling Bea in a new promo video for the duo’s new Netflix comedy series, Living With Yourself. “Paul, do you remember our very first meeting?” Bea asks. “And the odd thing you did when I was leaving the room?” Bea then …

Samuel Little, 79, has been named the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, the FBI confirmed on Sunday. Little has confessed to 93 murders, 50 of which FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) can confirm. Now, the FBI is looking to verify five more of Little’s confessions, providing the …

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a “narco sub” carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine, worth over $165 million, earlier this month in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant, working with the Colombian Navy, carried out the stop and seizure, which also led to the apprehension …

Listen to an audio version of this story below: On the dusty, heat-blister town of Vacaville, California, halfway between Sacramento and Oakland, sits the bleak squat prison that holds a trim, handsome, highly articulate inmate named Bobby Beausoleil, almost 72, who has spent the past 50 years behind bars for …

Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer accused of holding Eric Garner in a chokehold during his fatal arrest, was fired on Monday, over five years after the incident sparked a national outcry against police brutality and became a defining moment in the Black Lives Matter movement, The New York Times reports. …

In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH — not to mention President Trump’s numerous highly incendiary statements on the tragedies — there’s been an increased scrutiny of the role of social media in spreading false information about the attacks. In their response, it’s …

On Tuesday, San Francisco city officials voted to ban e-cigarette sales in brick-and-mortar stores, becoming the first city in the United States to institute such a law. The ordinance, which passed unanimously, restricts the sale of e-cigarettes in San Francisco until they are officially approved by the FDA. It will …