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Steubenville High School Football Players Found Guilty of Rape
The two Steubenville high-school football players who stood trial this week on rape charges were found guilty this morning. The trial, which divided a small Ohio town and uncovered a history of adults...
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Want a One-Way Ticket to Mars?
Another week, another eccentric millionaire making promises to colonize Mars. This time, it's Dutchman Bas Lansdorp, whose Mars One project is looking to put teams of astronauts on the Red (well, not...
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This Week in Gun Violence: Suicides at Sporting Goods Store, Gun Safety Class
Last night, an as-yet unidentified man locked himself inside of the bathroom at a Pennsylvania sporting goods store, then shot himself after a four-hour "standoff" with local police. The man had...
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Penises are Being Stolen
A crime wave is spreading through rural areas in parts of central Africa. The stolen property? Penises. Anthropologist Louisa Lombard writes that the phenomenon of penis-snatching has left the gritty...
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John Boehner 'Can't Imagine' Ever Supporting Gay Marriage
Today John Boehner told Martha Raddatz, host of ABC's "This Week," that he "can't imagine" himself ever supporting gay marriage, even after Senator Portman's high-profile reversal on the issue. MARTHA...
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Doctors Can Now Keep Livers Alive Longer
Great news for people who abuse their livers (on this day of widespread liver abuse) — doctors in Britain have perfected a device that will keep livers alive longer, drastically increasing the...
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NYPD Will Now Run Criminal Checks on Domestic Abuse Victims
In a move that might discourage women from reporting domestic abuse, the NYPD has issued a new directive to its officers that they run a criminal check on both the accused and the accuser when...
View ArticleCNN Reports On The 'Promising Future' of the Steubenville Rapists, Who Are...
One way to report on the outcome of a rape trial is to discuss the legal ramifications of the decision or the effect the proceedings may have on the life of the victim. Another angle reporters can...
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Oregon Girl Scout Troop Duped by Fake $24,000 Cookie Order
The recent Girl Scout cookie crime wave continued last week when two Oregon Girl Scout troops were hoaxed by a fake order for 6,000 boxes of cookies worth roughly $24,000. By the time the troops...
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NYPD Officer Charged With Spying on 21-Year-Old Neighbor
At least one NYPD officer has taken his department's elaborate spying program to heart: eight-year NYPD veteran Miguel Gomez was arrested on Friday and charged with using a surveillance camera to spy...
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Two Dead After Private Jet Crashes Through Three Homes in Indiana Neighborhood
A private jet crashed Sunday evening through three homes in a neighborhood near an airport in South Bend, Indiana. Two of the plane's four passengers reportedly died in the crash, according to an FAA...
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Two Canadian Inmates Escape via Hijacked Helicopter in Daring Mid-Day Prison...
Taking their cues from direct-to-DVD action movies, two inmates broke out of a Quebec prison today by climbing a rope to a hijacked helicopter hovering above the jail's yard. Quebec provincial police...
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E.U. Demands Cypriots Pay Up
Eurozone finance ministers are demanding a one-time levy on bank deposits of all sizes—even on insured accounts—as part of a bailout package for Cyprus, which is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy....
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Police Find Explosives, Assault Weapon in Dorm Room of Student Who Committed...
Police investigating reports of a man with a gun at a University of Central Florida dorm found a student dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound—and explosives and firearms in his room....
View ArticleOregon Law Professor Educates Students by Shoving Them, Stealing Their Phone
College is not some soft fantasyland where professors gently stroke students' egos with uncontroversial lessons. College is a place where students come to have their opinions challenged, preferably by...
View ArticleDeaf Woman Reacts to Hearing the Sound of Her Son's Voice for the Very First...
If there is one thing the Internet loves its cochlear implants. Namely, watching people with cochlear implants react to having them switched on for the first time. 26-year-old Amy has been deaf since...
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Gangbanger Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Nuts, Blames Ninjas
Police in Chicago say a teenager with gang ties tried to blame a self-inflicted gunshot to the groin on a pair of ninjas before eventually coming clean. The unnamed 17-year-old was brought to Loyola...
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After 100 LSD-Fueled Sex Encounters, Man with No Penis to Build New one Out...
Today, in very interesting human beings: Andrew Wardle, a 39-year-old British man who was a) born with no penis and yet nevertheless managed to, with the help of LSD and ecstasy, b) sleep with over 100...
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People Are Perfectly Willing to Gamble With Their Own Health Coverage
In America, we have a stupid system of health care in which your health insurance, which might naturally be considered a fundamental human need, is covered by your employer, resulting in a horrible,...
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How David Carr Became the Daddy of Girls
Three years ago, New York Times media reporter and occult career-bender David Carr was taking a tour through South by Southwest and asked the festival's film person what movie he should see. She tipped...
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