DRUG DEALER
Cody McLaury, who died in 2019 after buying ketamine from the same dealer Matthew Perry used, was a “sweet, gentle, misunderstood person,” his longtime friend says.
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‘SUE THE COUNTY’
The questionable monument of an iconic Kenyan gold medalist was taken down just hours after it was unveiled.
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SLIDING DOORS
“It’s pretty amazing what one person can do,” Patti Miller, a former student at Mankato West High School, told The Daily Beast.
CARPE DIEM
It’s a hell of a time to be a political conspiracy theorist in the U.S.
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‘NO ONE GETS HURT’
A series of July 17 radio transmissions obtained by the Daily Beast captures officers mobilizing to secure the president before his trip to Las Vegas came to an abrupt end.
‘DID HIS JOB’
Adriano Assis never made it on Voepass Flight 2283, which crashed into a residential area on Friday, killing all 62 people on board.
DREAM TEAM
The Midwestern teacher is bringing major “dad vibes” to the Harris campaign, to the delight of many. But he’s getting some help along the way.
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‘WILL WE SEE YOU?’
A member of the award-winning band took to Facebook just hours before being killed in a plane crash alongside two of her bandmates.
‘LITTLE BIT PISSED’
Other contestants “were aware and were present and involved in this whole thing,” he said a day after his bird-killing scandal aired.
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IN DEMAND
Cassandra Kulukundis, a casting director on 2013’s “Her,” thinks she has an answer for why the A-lister was relentlessly pursued to voice OpenAI’s virtual assistant.