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High-Ranking Connecticut Lawmaker Tells Teenager Testifying Before...
A 17-year-old Connecticut Science Center representative was hoping to convince the Connecticut House of Representatives to maintain funding for the center's ambassador program when she testified...
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Why Did Bradley Manning Do It?
Yesterday, 25-year-old former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning admitted he gave all those documents to Wikileaks and attempted to explain why he did it. In the Wikileaks debate Manning is...
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NBC Affiliate in Cleveland Airs 20-Year-Old Episode of Matlock In Lieu of...
Andy Griffith, who passed away last July, was unceremoniously absent from this year's Oscars "In Memoriam" tribute, so NBC's Cleveland affiliate WKYC-TV decided to make it up to him by giving Matlock...
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National Journal Writer Wants to Know Why the President Doesn't Just Murder...
National Journal writer Ron Fournier wants President Obama to do something about the government sequestration going into effect today. "I have... faith in him and his off[ice]," he tweets. Fournier's...
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Is Your Favorite 'Journalist' on the Malaysian Government's Payroll? Maybe
BuzzFeed's Rosie Gray today drops news that a number of people writing for a whole host of websites across the political spectrum were doing so on behalf of the Malaysian government. And for their...
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Leviathan: A Documentary Made By People Who Hate Documentaries
The fish slide around the deck, mouths gaping, eyes about to pop. The POV dips from blurry water to above the surface, and every time we rise the screech of gulls hovering above the sea is more...
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Out of the Mouth of Babes: 11-Year-Old Kid Calls Dallas City Council Members...
An 11-year-old boy stunned the Dallas City Council this week with a precociously astute remark about the members' disrespectful behavior. David Williams attended the council meeting so he could...
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Lindsay Lowdown: Lohan Wants to Become a Motivational Speaker; Judge Finds...
The perpetual motion machine of Lindsay Lohan's legal saga groaned on this week as Lohan's new judge decried Lohan's new lawyer as "incompetent," and unfit to practice law in California. We also found...
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A Lesson in Sexist Humor, Help Translating, Prison Time, and Other...
Gawker has recently taken on an ebullient team of Swedish correspondents Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex who self-described their role as a "worthless hire." Regardless, they have completed their first...
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A Few Men Who Begged Me Not to Write About Them
"Just promise me one thing," my soon to be ex-husband says. This essay begins at the Russian Samovar. My ex and I are discussing our divorce over carafes of vodka. We agree to split the Roth IRA, which...
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Insane Philly Teacher Proposal Ends Seniority and Water Fountains
Broke and looking to cut spending, the Philadelphia School District announced a list of demands of teachers this week that would cut back on seniority, extra pay for extra work, and access to water...
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China Turns Prisoner Executions Into Reality TV
China broadcast the final moments of four foreign drug traffickers yesterday, right before they were put to death by lethal injection for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese fisherman. The coverage, which...
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Sequester Frees Thousands of Immigrants Facing Deportation
The big winners in the enormous budget cuts that will gut the federal government: undocumented immigrants! The Department of Homeland Security has released from its jails more than 2000 immigrants who...
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State Department Finds Keystone XL Won't Hurt Environment or Help Economy
The State Department released its report yesterday on the environmental impact of constructing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. It found that the massive pipeline is "unlikely to have a...
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David Brooks Wishfully, Wrongly Believes the Chinese Have No Word for 'Nerd'
New York Times columnist and culture scholar David Brooks had some thoughts this week about the difference between hardworking Chinese students and lazy American students. The Chinese, he wrote, see...
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Florida Sinkhole Continues to Grow, Victim Might Never Be Recovered
The Florida sinkhole that swallowed a man while he was sleeping Thursday night is still expanding as police evacuated several houses near the one that is sitting on the sinkhole. "The hole took the...
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It's So Hard to Be an Ambitious 20-Something New Yorker
The New York Times Style section has logged another entry in its ongoing coverage of economic reality happening to young, pretty people. This time, the paper of record has focused on low-paying jobs...
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Apple Doesn't Want You Emailing About "Barely Legal Teens"
Apple's iCloud email service has a neat trick: instead of relegating emails that contains phrases like "barely legal teens" to your spam folder, it simply doesn't deliver your message. Macworld, which...
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The Daily News Had to Have Known This Cover Was in Terrible Taste
But they did it anyway. The search for the victim was called off just minutes ago. Authorities plan to demolish the house tomorrow.
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Dennis Rodman Says Kim Jong Un Just Wants Obama to 'Call Him'
In his first interview since his totally unbelievable trip to North Korea (where he, a bunch of Vice staffers, and the Harlem Globetrotters partied with brutal dictator Kim Jong Un), Dennis Rodman told...
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