• MSNBC

    Trump trial starts: D.A. argues Trump guilty of lies & 2016 crime

    Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is underway in New York. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner break down the latest from day one of Trump’s trial. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)

  • 'Under the Bridge' is a truly depressing true-crime drama

    Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone star in 'Under the Bridge,' Hulu's relentlessly grim adaptation of Rebecca Godfrey's book about the murder of Reena Virk. Read our review.

    • Time

    The Chilling True Story Behind Hulu Crime Drama Under the Bridge

    Hulu's new true-crime miniseries dramatizes the before and after of 14-year-old Reena Virk's 1997 murder in British Columbia.

  • BBC acquires two crime dramas from Swedish streamer Viaplay

    The BBC has acquired two Swedish crime dramas, End of Summer and Jana – Marked for Life, for its linear channels and iPlayer service in the UK. End of Summer, based on former police officer And

  • Donald Trump visits Harlem store, vows to combat crime

    Donald Trump made a pit stop Tuesday at a New York City convenience store where a worker stabbed an ex-con to death in self-defense in 2022. The former president vowed to take on crime and “straighten New York out.”

  • Under The Bridge review: A hard-hitting, scattered true-crime drama

    Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: Under The Bridge is triggering. Hulu’s true-crime drama, which premieres April 17, is generally difficult to digest, and it’s a particularly tough watch for anyone who’s lived as a teenage girl. That’s because it acutely captures the horrors of being a frantic, lonely 14-year-old acting out of rebellion, desperate to avoid being an outcast and striving to be part of the “cool” group. The show provocatively dissects these issues through the lens of its...

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr claims Trump had asked him to be running mate

    The assertion followed the launch of a website attacking the independent presidential candidate calling him a ‘leftist radical’Robert F Kennedy Jr, the prominent conspiracy theorist and independent presidential candidate, claimed on Monday he had turned down an offer from Donald Trump to be his running mate for the White House.The assertion followed the launch earlier in the day of a website attacking Kennedy, published by a pro-Trump political action committee called Make America Great Again...

    • GQ

    Don Winslow Explains Why He's Trading Crime Novels for Never-Trump Activism

    This past February, the increasingly legendary crime fiction author Don Winslow announced the publication of “City in Ruins,” the third and final book in his bestselling Danny Ryan series. He also announced that the novel would be his last, and that he was retiring from writing books, to concentrate full-time on political activism of the extremely anti-Donald Trump variety. This was not entirely unexpected, but it still felt like a surprise. For several years, Winslow and Shane Salerno—his best...

  • 'Monumental drama': Trump goes on trial in 'real test of our country and our legal system'

    Former President Donald Trump’s New York trial on charges related to paying hush money to an adult film star begins on April 15, 2024. The Conversation U.S. asked Tim Bakken, a former New York prosecutor and now a legal scholar teaching at West Point, and Karrin Vasby Anderson, a political communication expert at Colorado State University, to set the scene from each of their perspectives. It will be a “monumental drama” inside and outside the courtroom, said Bakken. Anderson adds, “It’s not just...

  • Poll: Trump Wins Latino Votes with Populist Pitch on Migration, Money, Crime

    American Latino voters prefer former President Donald Trump's policies on migration over President Joe Biden's policies, according to an Ipsos poll released on April 9.

  • Under the Bridge review – Lily Gladstone leads respectful yet bland true crime drama

    The recent Oscar nominee plays a cop investigating the brutal death of a teen in this noble but clunky retelling of a horrifying crime on Hulu

  • WATCH: Trump Visits Bodega Where Criminal’s Killing Sparked National Outrage Over Crime

    Former President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to a Manhattan bodega on Tuesday, where he met with Jose Alba, a worker who was cleared of murder charges after stabbing an ex-con in self-defense. Trump received a warm welcome from the crowd, who chanted “four more years” and cheered his name. Alba’s case had sparked […]