Adnan Syed from Serial has been released, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could be involved in a criminal investigation, and the Queen’s corgis remain alive.
Now 41, Syed served 23 years of a life sentence for the strangling death of his 18-year-old girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999, when he was 17. Syed’s first trial, in December 1999, was declared a mistrial after jurors overheard the judge call Syed’s defense attorney a liar. Two months later, his second trial ended with his conviction of Lee’s murder, along with kidnapping and robbery, and he received a life sentence plus 30 years.
“The most ridiculous thing I’ve read about myself,” pop star Rina Sawayama said in a TikTok that went viral two weeks ago. “That I’m an industry plant. Sis, I’m 31. Whoever tried to plant me did not do a great job.”Sawayama , came out, during the early months of the pandemic in April 2020, promotion was stuck exclusively online. “I wasn't doing any shows. I wasn't doing anything in person. My screentime was probably insane,” she told BuzzFeed News, a mind-bending Y2K time capsule that focused largely on social identity , blew up regardless. The Guardian named it one of the 50 best albums of 2020, and it peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Top 100 Dance chart.
,” she said. “And this is the truest version of you. And we're in the room together. And we're having an amazing time. And that's really like, all I can hope for.”
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