The Brazilian partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained in Heathrow Airport this morning for nine hours, as he was transferring planes on his way back to Brazil from visiting filmmaker (and Greenwald confidante) Laura Poitras in Berlin.
Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained in London for Terror Questioning
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Man Orders $1700 Gun Safe, Finds Bonus 300 Pounds of Weed Inside It
An Ohio man thought he was just ordering a $1700 safe for his 24 long rifles and dozen shotguns, but little did he know it had already been stuffed full of nearly half a million dollars worth of tightly wrapped Mexican bud.
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Lee Daniels' The Butler, the important if awkwardly-titled new movie starring Oprah, topped the week
Lee Daniels' The Butler, the important
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Cup Noodles Bet Leads to Giant Juvenile Prison Riot in Florida
A dispute over three Cup Noodles containers at a juvenile correction facility in Florida turned into a four-hour riot Saturday night. By the time authorities regained control, eight juveniles had been injured and the facility had sustained “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of damage.
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Man hacks Zuckerberg's Facebook to show how much his security sucks
A Palestinian man hacked into Zuckerberg's Facebook page to demonstrate how much its security sucks. This happened after his efforts to communicate the access hole were snubbed by the company's security team on numerous occasions.
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Man Survives Being Hit "Straight-On" by 110 MPH Amtrak Train
Friday morning, a 22-year-old Indiana man survived being struck by an Amtrak train reportedly traveling 110 mph. The man suffered only a few broken bones, despite being thrown more than 20 feet from the track.
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Just a reminder: If your cable goes out before or during Breaking Bad, don't call 911.
Just a reminder: If your cable goes out before or during Breaking Bad, don't call 911.
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This Is the Amazing Cover Art for Prince's New Single
On Friday, Prince used his week-old Twitter account
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Hot-Dog-Legs Are Back
Over the last 48 hours there has been a re-emergence of the appreciation of hot-dog-legs, so if you have them, show them.
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You are overpaying for that lobster dinner.
You are overpaying for that lobster dinner.
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Super Secret Royal Baby Family Portraits Leak on Twitter
On Monday, the press office for Prince William announced that the first official family portraits of Prince George would be released at 12:00 a.m. BST Tuesday morning. However, given the choice between waiting 3 hours to see the pictures or seeing them NOW NOW NOW RIGHT NOW RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW, the world chose the latter; the photos were leaked to Twitter around 9 p.m. BST.
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How Playboy Pissed Off An Artsy West Texas Town
It turns out that residents of West Texas aren't exactly warming up to Playboy's "art installation" just outside of the small town of Marfa
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In 2007, scientists were only "90 percent to 100 percent certain" that man-made global warming was r
In 2007, scientists were only "90 percent to 100 percent certain" that man-made global warming was real. Now, they're "95 percent to 100 percent" sure about it. Expect global warming deniers to begin apologizing any minute now.
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What The Dumb Hysteria Over A-Rod And PEDs Is Really About
As you all know, Major League Baseball seems determined to prematurely end the career of one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Given that the 211-game suspension provides chance both to attack the never-popular A-Rod
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EMT Saves Heart Attack Victim While Suffering Heart Attack of His Own
An EMS technician performing CPR on a man suffering from a heart attack refused to let a tiny thing like having a heart attack of his own stop him from saving his patient's life.
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Condé Nast Stops Paying Interns
Magazine conglomerate Condé Nast, which was slapped with a lawsuit in June for paying interns less than a dollar per hour, has decided to stop paying interns altogether. Zero. Several recent Conde interns told the Who Pays Interns Tumblr, which documents the internship wages at media companies, that their employer has stopped dispensing any kind of stipend (Previously, interns received $550 per semester.)
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J.J. Abrams Just Released a Terrifying Teaser About Absolutely Nothing
Taking a page from the American Horror Story playbook, Lost creator J.J. Abrams has just released a teaser for his latest Bad Robot project, that tells you basically nothing while scaring the living shit out of you at the same time.
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Are You Gawker's New Editorial Fellow?
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Calvin Klein's Boyfriend Doesn't Want Any Gay People to Touch Him
Welcome to Next Question With Michael Musto, a regular feature in which Musto uses his time-honed skills to interrogate big celebrities, former celebrities, and wannabe celebrities. Musto is a pop culture icon, regular TV presence, and the author of four books.
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Incredible Before-and-After Photos Match Up Old and New NYC
New York documentarian Paul Sahner's blog NYC Grid is a lovely project, and amongst the coolest recurring features on the site is Before & After, which compares archival images of New York monuments with photos of the same spot today. Above, we see the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge as it was in 1915, compared with the monster in 2013.
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