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NASA Researcher Arrested on a Plane on His Way to China

In what must have been like a total James Bond scenario, a NASA researcher at Langley named Bo Jiang was arrested on a plane bound for China as it pulled away from the gate at Dulles International...

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Two Thumbs Up for the Most Creative Single Serving Site in a Long Time

"Real tough guys don't need guns, they just need a positive, can-do attitude." In and of itself, the premise behind the single serving site Thumbs & Ammo is pure gold: User-submitted stills from...

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The House Across From Westboro Baptist Is Getting a Rainbow Pride Paint Job...

(UPDATE: We've swapped the original in-progress photo for one with a more complete paint job.) By the end of today, the inhabitants of the Westboro Baptist Church compound in Topeka, Kansas, should...

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British Tourist Jumps Out of Hotel Window in India to Escape Sexual Assault...

A British tourist in India was badly injured this morning after she reportedly jumped out of the window of her hotel room to escape the aggressive sexual advances of the hotel's owner. The unnamed...

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Your Retirement Savings Are Laughably Insufficient

When we say, as we often do, "You will never retire," while pointing directly at you and waving a fistful of dollar bills and burning an American flag, it is not meant to be taken as a jeer; rather, it...

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Selena Gomez Is Going to Need a Few Extra Bodyguards After This Serious...

Selena Gomez went on Letterman last night, ostensibly to discuss her new movie, Spring Breakers. But Dave couldn't help bring up Gomez's world-famous ex, and Gomez couldn't help burning her former...

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Chemical Weapon Attack? Syrian Government, Rebels Trade Accusations

The Syrian government and the rebels have each accused the other of using chemical weapons in a missile attack that killed 25 people on Tuesday, though U.S. and British officials have expressed...

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Going to College Reduces Your Chances of Being a Drunk

People who are uneducated boors generally assume that college is little more than a four year-long fraternity party during which the main activity is drinking vast quantities of intoxicating liquor....

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Google Maps Now Lets You Explore Everest, Kilimanjaro; Or You Could Just Look...

Google Maps has sent some explorer scrambling up to a few of the highest peaks on the seven continents to showcase views of the Aconcagua in South America, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Elbrus in...

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Unemployment Stories, Vol. 31: 'I Look at Me and I See Someone Who Has...

For the first time since 2008, no state in the union has a double-digit unemployment rate. That's some kind of progress, at least. There are still 12 million officially unemployed Americans. Every...

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Now It's Clear That Michael Jackson Was Not the Biological Father of At Least...

In case you don't trust your own eyes or sense of logic, the Jackson family has basically confirmed that at least one of Michael Jackson's children did not spring from his seed. According to a TMZ...

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Student Arrested for Having Sex in School Library, Another Arrested for...

Two high school students in Florida were arrested today following an investigation into an alleged sex act that took place in the school's library last week, which was filmed by a student and shared...

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Scientists Futzing Around Think They Can Maybe Bring Back Extinct Animals

Scientists in Australia are hopeful that they can bring back a strange species of frog that went extinct a quarter century ago. The Southern gastric brooding frogs, amphibians native to Queensland in...

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1865 Civil War Update: The Children of Two Veterans Are Still Receiving...

The U.S. Civil War officially ended 148 years ago this spring, and will likely be unofficially wrapping up any day now. But not quite yet. According to the AP, two children of veterans are still...

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Magneto to Marry Professor X

Magnet-powered mutant ultranationalist Magneto will set aside his political convictions for a day and officiate the wedding of his old friend and sometime enemy, assimilationist schoolmaster Professor...

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Who Is Guccifer, the Hacker Who's Terrorizing Politicos?

An Illuminati-obsessed hacker is breaking into the email accounts of Washington, D.C.'s political elite, and sharing what he finds. Who is Guccifer, and what's his motive? This weekend, the hacker who...

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If There Were a Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon, This Is What It Would Probably...

Cartoonist Bill Watterson has been notoriously against allowing his beloved creations Calvin and Hobbes to be commercially repurposed, despite their immense continued popularity nearly 20 years after...

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Bates Motel Is The Best Worst New Show On TV

It all seemed to be going to well until Norman Bates busted out his iPod. Up until then (and granted, it was just a few minutes of airtime), it seemed like A&E's new scripted series, Bates Motel,...

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Convicted School Shooter to Victims' Families: 'The Hand That Killed Your...

After removing a light-blue button-up shirt to reveal a t-shirt onto which he'd scrawled "KILLER" in black marker, T.J. Lane, who pleaded guilty last month to murdering three teenage boys in a school...

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Shiri Appleby Has Least Celebrated Nude Photo Leak in Internet History (NSFW)

Celebrity nude leaks are most often met with a respectable amount of fanfare and jubilation, irrespective of the celebrity's place in the Hollywood hierarchy. On rare occasions, the nude pics might...

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