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Suicide Bomb at American Embassy in Turkey Kills Two
A suicide bomber struck inside the American embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, on Friday, killing a Turkish embassy worker and the suicide bomber. According to investigators, the bomber panicked...
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There Was Horse Meat in Burger King's Burgers After All
Though it initially made "absolute assurances" that all of its burgers were 100% beef, Burger King has been forced to admit that some of its patties may have contained horse meat, after traces of...
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22 U.S. Veterans Kill Themselves Each Day
Suicide is the leading cause of death among active duty US soldiers. And it's widely known that suicide is a big problem for veterans, too—but solid statistics have been hard to come by. Now, a new...
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Applebee's Responds to Fired Server Scandal, Claims Waitress Disregarded a...
Applebee's this morning finally issued an official statement concerning the controversial termination of server Chelsea Welch, and managed to rile up even more potential customers in the process. The...
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Is a Broke-Ass Sinkhole of Despair
In 2011, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania went bankrupt. Municipally bankrupt. The city is broke, tapped, in penury, scraping by on nada. Personal bankruptcy is tragic, and corporate bankruptcy is financially...
View ArticleEd Koch's Message to Mario Cuomo from Beyond the Grave: 'You Prick!'
In an interview with the New York Times that was "not to be made public until Mr. Koch's death," former NYC mayor Ed Koch—who died earlier this morning—finally said what he really wanted to about his...
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Orphaned Baby Bear Cubs Refuse to Sleep This Winter, Just Wanna Stay Up and...
Twenty-seven New Hampshire bear cub orphans are having the slumber party of their lives this winter, because they have decided not to go to sleep. They are waking each other up, playing in the trees...
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Letters From Death Row: Douglas Feldman, Texas Inmate 999326
As part of an ongoing project, we've written letters to American death row prisoners scheduled for execution this year. We asked them about their lives in prison, their daily routines, and their...
View ArticleSteven Tyler Dresses in Drag, Calls Himself "Pepper LaBeija" and Now the...
If you need any more proof of the increased cultural pull of Jennie Livingston's 1990 New York drag-ball documentary Paris Is Burning, look no further than the most popular show in the United States....
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Obama Administration's New Compromise Lets Religious Organizations Pretend...
The Obama administration has proposed another compromise on the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate. And it's pretty fair! Women get access to birth control without having to pay out the wazoo...
View ArticleSesame Street's Spoof of Downton Abbey Is Exactly What Your Cranky Inner...
It's Friday afternoon. You've just about finished pretending to do actual work, and you want to go home. Now. Your inner child is getting crankier by the second. Enter: Sesame Street's spoof of...
View ArticleHigh School Football 'Coach of the Year' Caught on Tape Making Homophobic...
The head football coach at Lauderdale County High School in Alabama gave a number of students a lesson in bigotry recently when he expressed his distaste for "queers" and "big fat gorilla" Michelle...
View ArticleL.A. Idiot Keeps Doing Whippits as Gun-Toting Police Surround His Car
A Los Angeles man wanted for allegedly drinking and driving was stopped today after a brief low-speed car chase in which LAPD disabled the vehicle with a spike strip. With nothing left to do but wait...
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The Iranian Monkey Space Launch Is Likely, Probably, Almost Definitely a Fraud
On Monday, Iran announced they had sent a monkey into space. Because such a move would never have anything to do with warfare, officials swore the launch was another step toward Tehran's totally...
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'I’m Certain More Than One Person Had Pissed Themselves': Every Straphanger's...
On Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., the city's Metro green line, which connects its southern fringes to its northern extremities, up and stopped moving during rush hour after workers accidentally...
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Indiana Man Asks Black Coworker to Help Him Murder His Wife: 'You're Black. I...
Looking to get out of going through a messy and expensive divorce, 27-year-old Stephen Perry of Carmel, Indiana, allegedly decided to ask a coworker to kill his estranged wife instead. Perry and...
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15 Photos (and Two Videos) from the Gritty 1980s New York of Ed Koch
Ed Koch, who died this morning at 88, was the the only mayor New York City had during its legendarily gritty 1980s, and while his death comes far too late to be the end of an era, it serves as another...
View ArticleWatch Ellen DeGeneres' Adorable Birthday Tribute to Portia de Rossi
Yesterday was Portia de Rossi's 40th birthday. So on her daytime talk show today, Ellen DeGeneres paid tribute to her wife of four years. In the sketch called "de Bold, de Beautiful, de Rossi", Ellen...
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This Year's Super Bowl Will Be Gayer Than Last Year's
The suspense is burning. For the first time in the history of the Super Bowl, people who care nothing about football can experience the same level of investment over the outcome of the big day as...
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Barney Bush Dies at 84 (in Dog Years)
Barney Bush, former First Dog of the United States (FDOTUS), has lost his battle with lymphoma. The Scottish Terrier was 12 years old and described by Bush as the son he never had. Barney was born in...
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