2 Guns was the top movie this weekend, with a somewhat disappointing $27.4 million. The Smurfs 2, the other major debut last week, also underperformed, grossing just $18.5 million.
2 Guns was the top movie this weekend, with a somewhat disappointing $27.4 million.
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Death Row Inmate Commits Suicide 3 Days Before Scheduled Execution
An Ohio man on death row was found hanged in his cell on Sunday, just three days before his scheduled execution.
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Man Jailed for Dining & Dashing After Restaurant Facebook-Shames Him
Last week, The Brewer's Cabinet, a restaurant in Reno, Nevada, filed a police report after a patron left without paying his bill. Not satisfied with the police report, the restaurant also posted a picture of the man to the company's Facebook page, hoping to warn other local businesses. The post went viral, gathering hundreds of shares and likes, and at least three other local restaurants confirmed that the same man owed them money.
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Bloodhound Gang Banned From Russia for Flag Desecration
The Bloodhound Gang made news for the first time ever last week during a performance in Ukraine. After respectfully praising the Ukrainian flag, the group's bassist, Jared Hasselhoff, placed a Russian flag in his pants, rubbed it on his ass, and said to the approving crowd, “Don't tell Putin.”
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Middle East Embassy Shutdown Extended Over "Credible Threat"
Prompted by intercepted "chatter" of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. embassies across the Middle East and North Africa will be shut down through August 10—an extension of yesterday's previously announced closure and a global travel alert from the State Department.
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Get The Full Weiner Experience with Sydney Leathers' 'Sex Tape' [NSFW]
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Want to see what's so great about Sydney Leathers' naked bits that Anthony Weiner felt compelled to annihilate his political prospects over them?
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Brawny Man Suffers Very Public Humiliation While Trying to Open Bottle
It's bad enough when someone hands you a water bottle to open and you fail to perform the seemingly simple task.
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The New Mumford & Sons Music Video Is The Perfect Music Video
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Guide Dogs in Love Help Their Blind Owners Find Each Other
As if you needed additional proof that dogs are the best, one couple is crediting their pets with helping them find true love.
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The Not-So-Final Embarrassment of Tina Brown
The dessicated, online-only husk of what was once a big magazine called Newsweek has finally been sold off (despite our explicit instructions not to buy it
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Why Didn't the Boston Globe Sell to the Highest Bidder?
This weekend, The New York Times Co. sold the Boston Globe to John W. Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox. Henry paid $70 million. (Or negative $40 million, by more realistic calculations.) Oddly, several other bidders made higher bids than Henry. Why did the NYT Co. leave that money on the table?
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University of Iowa Named America's Top College for Getting Bombed
One of America's strangest educational rituals—assessing which of our nation's fucked-up college students get the most fucked up—is upon us again. And this year, Iowa City's University of Iowa has been picked by the Princeton Review as the drunkest and raging-est institute of higher learning the United States has to offer. Congratulations, U of I! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!
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Jeff Bezos Is Buying the Washington Post
Here is what just happened this afternoon, with no warning: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose net worth is estimated to be more than $25 billion, just purchased the Washington Post. By himself. What?
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Ex-GOP Leader Who Made Fun of Weiner Arrested for Sexting a Minor
A former GOP leader who cracked wise about Anthony Weiner's sexting woes has found himself embroiled in a seedier version of the scandal after being arrested last Friday for allegedly sending sexually explicit material to a teenager over the Internet.
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That Hair Color Spells Trouble: Dan Rather & Co. Recap The Newsroom
One headline summation of this latest edition of The Newsroom could read: A riveting new subplot unfolds and a previously unsympathetic heroine—associate producer Maggie Jordan (played by Alison Pill)—emerges transformed. Another might be: That hair color spells trouble (both Maggie's old blonde and new red. Not to mention that the new cut is awful).
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According to a new Gallup poll, only 36 percent of 18 to 29 year olds have tried marijuana.
According to a new Gallup poll, only 36 percent of 18 to 29 year olds have tried marijuana. That's down from 46 percent for the same age group in 1999, and 56 percent in 1985. What new barrier is preventing young people from getting as high as gas prices like their parents and grandparents before them?
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Python Escapes Canadian Pet Store, Kills Two Children in Apartment
This is the stuff of nightmares: two young boys were killed Monday morning by a python that had escaped from a pet store in New Brunswick, Canada. The two brothers, aged five and seven, were sleeping in a friend's apartment, located just above the pet store, when the incident occurred.
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Boston Clergyman Allegedly Found With a Prostitute Behind a Cemetery
Last December, Pope Benedict XVI named Massachusetts episcopal vicar Arthur M. Coyle a Prelate of Honor, the second of three monsignor ranks within the Catholic Church. Yesterday, police allegedly discovered Coyle with a prostitute behind a cemetery.
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Three people were killed and several others were wounded during a shooting Monday evening at a town
Three people were killed and several others were wounded during a shooting Monday evening at a town supervisor's meeting in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The suspected gunman is in police custody.
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Precious Art Appraised as Detroit Tries to Dig Out of Debt
A couple weeks after a state-appointed emergency manager filed a bankruptcy claim
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