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'A Death Star Isn't on the Horizon': The White House's Hilarious and Nerdy...
The White House crushed the dreams of thousands of Star Wars fans yesterday when they officially rejected a petition to start building a Death Star by 2016. The petition wasn't quite as successful as...
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The Treasury Won't Mint the Trillion-Dollar Coin
Put down your comically oversized bags with $$$ scrawled on the side, slip off your burglarin' shoes and drop the crowbar: the trillion-dollar coin is no more, and with it, your dreams of one last big...
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Police Shoot, Critically Injure Gunman During Screening of Les Misérables
Police in San Diego shot and critically injured an armed suspect during a screening of Les Misérables on Saturday night. The gunman, identified by police as 20-year-old Tom Billodeaux, reportedly fled...
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Six Arrested After Another Gruesome Gang-Rape Reported in India
Just one month after a similar attack ended in tragedy, police in India arrested six men after they allegedly gang-raped a woman aboard a bus in India. The attack occurred Friday night as the...
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Lawrence Wright's Scientology Exposé Comes Out This Week
New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright's long-awaited Scientology book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, will be released this Thursday, and the reviews are already...
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The New Miss America Is From Park Slope
Brooklyn, a young, up-and-coming borough of New York City, truly has it all now: Last night, Mallory Hytes Hagan, a 23-year-old who lives in Park Slope, was crowned Miss America. Hagan, formerly Miss...
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Now's Your Chance To Talk to James Cameron and Jane Goodall About Science
Everyone could do with a little extra science today, if only to distract themselves from the blank and empty yawn that is a Sunday afternoon. To celebrate their 125th anniversary, National Geographic...
View ArticleYou Tell Us: Who Will Win Big at the Golden Globes
The best thing about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is they'll nominate anyone just to get all the cool celebrities to come to their super-fun party, the Golden Globes. Plus, since it's not...
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Glenn Beck vs. The Citadel: Who Announced Plans for a Libertarian Commune...
This week saw not one but two announcements about the development of intentional living communities dedicated to the principles of libertarianism: one from Glenn Beck (Independence, USA, a "city-theme...
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20-Year-Old Allegedly Shoots Atlanta Police Officer In the Face, Looks Like...
In case you needed another reason not to shoot a police officer, the photo to the right should do it. That's a picture of 20-year-old Frank Emmitt Nance, or what's left of him, after he was arrested...
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Jennifer Lawrence Would Like To Welcome You To the 2013 Gawker Golden Globes...
Welcome to America's annual salute to Tiggle Bitties: The Golden Globes. What memes will be born tonight, of nervous sweat and awkward tears? Who will take home Hollywood's okay-est prize? Who can't...
View ArticleOut Woman Jodie Foster Came Out Again at the Golden Globe Awards
In 2007, at a Women in Entertainment breakfast, Jodie Foster came out to the world by referring to her partner (or girlfriend or whatever, I don't know what she prefers) of then 14 years, Cydney...
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'No More Teasing': Justin Timberlake Releases First New Song in Six Years,...
The countdown unveiled by Justin Timberlake on Friday lapsed last night, revealing that it was, as rumored, counting down to the release of the singer's first new single in six years: "Suit & Tie...
View ArticleThink You've Heard Annoying Birdsong? This Guy Taught His Cockatiel How to...
YouTuber Rainykauke figured his parrot wasn't being annoying enough, so he taught Harvey how to sing dubstep by beatboxing around the house. "I instantly regretted it," he says. "The moment someone...
View ArticleMiss America Contestant Opposes All Marijuana Use That Isn't Recreational or...
Miss Iowa Mariah Cary (yup) might have been taking some of her own confusing advice when she responded to a question about Marijuana legalization by saying the drug should only be used recreationally...
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Apparently Teachers Aren't Allowed to Fantasize About Stabbing Their Students...
I've never been a teacher. And thank god, because I can say with 98% certainty that the majority of my day would consist of me, standing in front of a room full of unruly "tweens" who Just Won't...
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Ordinary Housecat Beats Professional Wealth Managers in Year-Long...
Britain's The Observer has just concluded a year-long investment challenge which sought to determine if decades of experience gave seasoned stock market professionals any stock-picking advantage over...
View ArticleRobin Roberts Announces Her Return to Good Morning America a Matter of...
Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts announced this morning she expects to return to the show sometime in February. Roberts has not been on live television since August, when she began treatment...
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Real Housewife Brags That She Is 'Gone With the Wind Fabulous' in Her New...
On last night's Watch What Happens Live, Real Housewives of Atlanta firecracker Kenya Moore debuted her new "single," a one-minute-thirty-second house song in which she brags about how "fabulous" she...
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Palace Confirms: Royal Baby Will Burst Forth from Kate Middleton In July (And...
Exciting news today for the people who have been saying for weeks that Kate Middleton is having twins: YOU'RE ALL WRONG. How's it feel to be wrong? How does it taste? Metallic, like blood, or bitter,...
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