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Mar 05 2024
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U.N. report: ‘Convincing’ information Hamas raped, tortured hostages
A team of United Nations experts tasked with gathering information on sexual violence linked to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel found “reasonable grounds to believe” that some victims were sexually assaulted, including rape and gang rape, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
“In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed,” a press release
Washington PostApr 18 2024
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Penguins Perspectives: The Tortured Penguins Department
Welcome to Penguins Perspectives, a weekly column by KDKA-TV Digital Producer Patrick Damp. Each Friday, Patrick will talk about the week that was, the week to come, what to watch for, and more. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - It is rare, but you remember it all too well: the Pittsburgh Penguins are not in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. When the season began, we were ready for combat. The short-lived but
CBS News (Online)Apr 19 2024
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The Tortured Poetry of Taylor Swift’s New Album
In the past several months, Taylor Swift has become culturally ubiquitous in a way that feels nearly terrifying. Superstardom tends to turn normal people into cartoons, projections, gods, monsters. Swift has been inching toward some sort of tipping point for a while. The most recent catalyst was, in part, love: in the midst of her record-breaking Eras Tour, Swift, who is thirty-four, began
The New YorkerApr 18 2024
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Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' is written in blood
For all of its fetishization of new sounds and stances, pop music was born and still thrives by asking fundamental questions. For example, what do you do with a broken heart? That's an awfully familiar one. Yet romantic failure does feel different every time. Its isolating sting produces a kind of obliterating possessiveness: my pain, my broken delusions, my hope for healing. A broken heart is
NPR Fact CheckApr 21 2024
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Mass. woman accused of torturing caged dog with shock collar
A Massachusetts woman is in custody after she was accused of abusing dogs, including torturing one with a shock collar, according to Billerica police.Amanda Cianciulli, 36, of Centerville, was arrested Friday on two counts of animal cruelty, the Billerica Police Department announced Saturday.Billerica police said that on Monday, April 15, they were notified of animal cruelty allegations
WCVBApr 26 2024
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Jury awards $350K for torture at Utah jail with sordid history of abuse, escapes
The letterhead on a fax from the Daggett County Sheriff's Office to this reporter in 2009. Photo: Erin Alberty/Axios A defunct Utah jail is in the spotlight one more time after a federal jury this week awarded more than $350,000 to former inmates who said the guards tortured them for fun. Why it matters: This is likely the former Daggett County jail's final appearance on the public stage after
AxiosApr 28 2024
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Taylor Swift Makes Chart History With 'The Tortured Poets Department'
Taylor Swift has once again made history on the charts. The Tortured Poets Department landed at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4). It’s her 14th album to top the charts, setting a tying record with Jay-Z for the most Number Ones among solo artists; the Beatles hold the top spot with 19 Number Ones. The Tortured Poets Department made history as it receives the largest
RollingStone.comApr 22 2024
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Has Blood On The Tracks
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a generational icon singer-songwriter who has not performed live in a while headlines a blowout stadium tour, giving shows that sum up the various “eras” of their career, from their earliest days as a precocious young newcomer, through their triumphant crossover into pop, to their more low-key narrative recent work. The artist inspires a following of
ForbesApr 08 2024
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Eagle Mountain woman charged with torturing dog
EAGLE MOUNTAIN — An Eagle Mountain woman was charged Monday with whipping and beating her dog. The 28-year-old woman is charged in 4th District Court with torture of a companion animal, a third-degree felony. On April 3, the Utah County Sheriff's Office received a video taken by a concerned citizen about a possible animal abuse case. The 90-second clip shows the woman "whipping the dog with a
KSLApr 19 2024
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Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholars Have Thoughts on ‘Tortured Poets’
Fans of Taylor Swift often study up for a new album, revisiting the singer’s older works to prepare to analyze lyrics and song titles for secret messages and meanings. “The Tortured Poets Department” is getting much the same treatment, and perhaps no group of listeners was better prepared than the students at Harvard University currently studying Ms. Swift’s works in an English class devoted
New York Times (News)