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| 2025 | Alex Hirsch is credited in the project 'Umbert Actually!' in the role of Misterman Guyfella |
| March 2025 |
Richard Behar
Mideast Dig (formerly The Mideast Reporter) was officially closed.
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| 2025 | Alex Hirsch voices multiple characters (Grunkle Stan, Soos Ramirez, Hooty) in the 'Chibiverse' episode 'Stans 11' |
| 2025 | Scheduled to appear in the film 'Flight Risk' as Van Sant |
| 2024 |
Richard Behar
Published book 'Madoff: The Final Word' with Simon & Schuster, culminating over a decade of email correspondence with Bernie Madoff.
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| 2024 |
Richard Behar
Published article 'Trump, Madoff, And The Art (And Science) Of Pathological Lying' in Forbes, exploring comparative aspects of lying between Bernie Madoff and Donald Trump.
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| 2024 | Alex Hirsch voiced Grunkle Stan and Bill Cipher in an episode of 'How NOT To Draw' |
| 2024 | Begins voicing character Scumbug in Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| 2024 | Wrote The Book of Bill, which appeared on the Amazon and New York Times Best Seller's list. |
| August 29 2024 | Leah Remini announced via Instagram that she and Angelo Pagán have decided to divorce. |
| March 2024 | Leah Remini completed her associate degree at New York University and began working toward a bachelor's degree. |
| January 2 2024 | Died at the age of 59, surrounded by his living partner and close friends. |
| January 2 2024 | Passed away, concluding his long-standing activism against Scientology. |
| 2023 | Publicly announced his diagnosis of alopecia, which has caused facial hair loss. |
| 2023 |
Waco siege
Japanese doom metal band Church of Misery released a song 'Come and Get Me Sucker (David Koresh)' about the Waco Siege on their album Born Under a Mad Sign, which includes an audio sample from a Koresh interview with journalist Martin King.
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| 2023 | Leah Remini filed a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and David Miscavige, alleging harassment, stalking, psychological torture, and a campaign aimed at ruining her life and livelihood that lasted over ten years. |
| 2023 | After completing her second year at NYU, Leah Remini expressed that her educational journey has been one of the most difficult experiences of her life. |
| 2023 | Hirsch played the character Munkustrap in an episode titled 'Up' of the web series Bigtop Burger. |
| 2023 | Received special thanks credit in The Super Mario Bros Movie |
| 2023 | Voiced characters Scumbug and Boss Goon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem |
| October 7 2023 | October 2023 attacks become a pivotal context for Theroux's documentary, highlighting the escalating tensions and violence in the region. |
| October 7 2023 | Hamas-led attacks kill 1,200 Israelis, leading to an acceleration of settlement establishment and increased violence against Palestinian communities. |
| June 6 2023 | Began hosting The Louis Theroux Podcast as part of an exclusive deal with Spotify. |
| March 2023 |
Waco siege
Netflix releases the documentary series 'Waco: American Apocalypse', featuring previously unreleased footage and interviews with surviving cult members.
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| 2022 | Anonymous OpIran launched Operation White Paper in response to the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China, attacking and taking down Chinese government-controlled websites and leaking personal information of Chinese government officials. |
| 2022 | Honored with an Honorary Award from Human-Etisk Forbund (Norwegian Humanist Association) for his contributions. |
| 2022 | Leah Remini served as a judge on 'So You Think You Can Dance' during Season 17 for 9 episodes. |
| 2022 | Alex Hirsch appeared as himself in the Homestar Runner: Strong Bad Emails web series, specifically in the episode 'Parenting'. |
| 2022 | Alex Hirsch served as the New Content announcer for The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe |
| November 18 2022 | Released the second half of Inside Job's first season. |
| October 23 2022 | The Iranian hacker group 'Black Reward' published confidential files and documents from Iran's nuclear program, claiming to have hacked 324 emails containing over 100,000 messages and 50 gigabytes of files. |
| September 23 2022 | A hacktivist named 'Edaalate Ali' hacked Iran's state TV government channel during a live broadcast and released CCTV footage of Iran's prison facilities. |
| September 18 2022 | YourAnonSpider hacked the official webpage of Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, in retaliation for the death of Mahsa Amini. This was part of Anonymous' cyber operation against the Iranian government. |
| July 8 2022 | Tetsuya Yamagami allegedly assassinated former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, citing Abe's relationship with the Unification Church as his motivation, following his mother's large donations that bankrupted their family. |
| June 1 2022 | Conclusion of the massive data breach operation by DDoSecrets, which collected hundreds of gigabytes and millions of emails from approximately 18 different Russian organizations. |
| May 2022 | Theroux released 'Jiggle Jiggle', a full version of his viral rap, in collaboration with Manchester DJ duo Duke & Jones. |
| May 2022 | Diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour (Glioblastoma). |
| April 2022 | Theroux went viral after a clip of his rap from the Weird Weekends 'Gangsta Rap' episode was autotuned on TikTok, leading to a popular trend of users lip-syncing and dancing to the sound. |
| April 2022 | Ended his relationship with Dana Terrace sometime before April. |
| March 25 2022 | Beginning of a large-scale data collection operation by DDoSecrets, targeting multiple Russian organizations including the Central Bank of Russia, government agencies, media companies, and private businesses, allegedly hacked by Anonymous and aligned group NB65. |
| March 7 2022 | Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur and TheWarriorPoetz hacked 400 Russian surveillance cameras and broadcast them on a website, calling the operation 'Russian Camera Dump'. |
| February 25 2022 | Leaked 200 GB of emails from Belarusian weapons manufacturer Tetraedr, exposing logistical support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2021 | The National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales (NNLASS) reported receiving over 34,000 complaints about 'spiritual sales' and forced donations by the Unification Church, totaling approximately 123.7 billion yen (US$902 million). |
| 2021 | Leah Remini began the year as the host of the Game Show Network original series People Puzzler. |
| 2021 | Voices Bill Cipher in The Simpsons episode 'Bart's in Jail!' and contributes to Inside Job as a writer and voice actor |
| 2021 | Served as Story Consultant and voiced the character Dirk in The Mitchells vs. the Machines |
| November 2021 | Theroux published his third book, 'Theroux the Keyhole', a diary documenting his experiences during the UK COVID-19 lockdowns. |
| October 22 2021 | Co-executive produced Inside Job, with the first half of its first season premiering on Netflix. |
| October 4 2021 | Anonymous published additional disk images and leaked documents from the Republican Party of Texas. |
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