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Brothers who helped Jussie Smollett stage hate crime hoax say actor got 'sweetheart deal,' call on him to admit guilt
"The real injustice here was the sweetheart deal that [Smollett] was given by Kim Foxx's office at the beginning of all of this," Olabinjo said.
Jussie Smollett doesn't care if he tears America apart if it helps his career
Jussie Smollett marked half the country with a scarlet letter lie — and he's getting away with it.
Jussie Smollett's conviction for racist, homophobic attack hoax is tossed in stunning reversal
Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett has had his conviction for lying about a fake racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago thrown out by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Bigfoot heard 'screaming,' 'whooping' in state's Sasquatch hotspot
He was only showing off his wild side.
The new Fyre festival? Thousands turn up for ‘hoax’ Halloween parade that didn’t exist
Halloween revelers in Dublin felt trick-or-cheated after showing up in droves to a much-anticipated parade — that wasn’t actually scheduled.
Bigfoot captured in wild viral video by terrified hiker: 'Scariest moment of my life'
It was only a matter of time before Bigfoot became a TikTok star.
The catch behind the purple apples taking over social media
People are making pilgrimages to produce purveyors in Saskatchewan, Canada hoping to procure the purple apple.
Florida sheriff tells parents to ‘do your job’ after district spends $21K investigating hoax threats from students
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood spoke Friday at a news conference alongside Volusia Public Schools officials, describing the situation as "absolutely out of control."
MTA worker who slashed himself, faked subway attack so he could take summer off speaks out
Henry Herring admitted to The Post that he slashed himself to get time off from his job with the MTA -- but claims he had a "plausible reason" for trying...
MTA worker sliced his own hand, lied about being slashed on the subway in desperate bid 'to have the summer off': DA
A city transit worker allegedly admitted he slashed himself and claimed he was attacked in the subways in Queens in order to get some time off from the job because...
Nursing student breaks her silence one year after kidnap hoax: 'Work is not finished yet'
Carlee Russell made headlines when she faked her own abduction last summer.
AP takes down 'fact check' story about ridiculous X-rated JD Vance hoax
Author and journalist Noah Rothman slammed the Associated Press as "sleazy" for deleting the article, and for giving the fake claim any oxygen whatsoever.
Flight attendant reveals bizarre way you can urinate less on a plane
While one flight attendant swears by the trick, this is what doctors have to say.
I dated the 'Tinder Swindler' of Hinge — I can't believe I did something so dangerous
"I thought, 'This could be happening to anyone,'" the victim said. "You actually don't know who you're talking to."
Utah receives 4,000 hoax complaints after new restrictive transgender bathroom law
Utah officials say they have been inundated with more than 4,000 bogus complaints of transgender people using public bathrooms just 72 days after the state launched a program to report...
I'm a model who's so hot that people accuse me of being AI — it's complete insanity
Her case perhaps presents one of the pitfalls of being — to borrow the words of Ben Stiller in "Zoolander" — "really, really, really ridiculously good-looking" in the AI age.
Carlee Russell skirts jail time after blaming Alabama kidnapping hoax on 'emotional issues and stress'
“I absolutely regret my decision and in hindsight wish I had cried for help in a totally different manner."
Woman claims she married man who baby-sat her as a tot — but her story is not what it seems
This isn't what they meant by "young love."
Florida boy calls in fake school shooter threat so he could 'go home early': police
Dispatchers rushed every available deputy to the middle school, which went under an immediate lockdown despite no indication a gunman was stalking through the building.
Jussie Smollett headed back to jail after conviction upheld by appeals court in hate crime hoax
An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about...