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Boys Like Me
I was 14, just starting high school at an all-boys public school in the Bronx, when I began to feel a strong physical attraction to other boys. I was quiet and observant, and I didn’t yet know if I...
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How Snoopy Killed Peanuts
By the end of its run in 1999, Peanuts was an institution. It had become an omnipresent part of American culture, and that’s not a compliment.The general response to reading the average Peanuts strip...
View ArticleAccording to one A-list wedding planner, tabloid magazines are now flying...
According to one A-list wedding planner, tabloid magazines are now flying camera drones over celebrity weddings: “At one event I did recently in the Hamptons, one came in over the water... To the world...
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Prominent Attorney and Three Cops Arrested in California Murder Case
Three California Highway Patrol officers, a defense attorney, and five others have been arrested in connection to the 2012 murder of a California man who, the New York Post reports, officials said was...
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The Small-Town Secret I Kept for 12 Years
When I was 17, I smiled constantly, still hiding the worst secret of my life. By that point, I was barely conscious of keeping it. Seven years earlier, when I was just 10 years old, a town scandal had...
View Article“In contrast to companies where declarations about their philosophy amount to...
“In contrast to companies where declarations about their philosophy amount to vague platitudes, Amazon has rules that are part of its daily language and rituals, used in hiring, cited at meetings and...
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Police Union Targets Woman Who Posted Video of Cop Beating Handcuffed Man
On Thursday afternoon, Shenitria Blocker filmed a Miami police officer beating a handcuffed man in the back of a squad car, and Blocker’s friend Marilyn Smith posted the video to Facebook. Now,...
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Plane Carrying 54 Disappears Over Indonesia
On Sunday, after losing contact with ground control, an Indonesian airliner went missing over the country’s easternmost province of Papua, a remote and mountainous region, the Associated Press...
View ArticleOn Thursday, non-profit environmental-health watchdog group As You Sow filed...
On Thursday, non-profit environmental-health watchdog group As You Sow filed a notice of intent to bring legal action against Soylent, alleging that the meal replacement start-up failed to warn...
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Former NAACP Chairman and Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond Dies at 75
On Saturday night, after a brief illness, civil rights leader Julian Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75.Born on January 14, 1940, in...
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Today Show Cut Off Janelle Monae While She Was Speaking About Police Brutality
During a Friday performance on the Today show, Janelle Monae was cut off as she was speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement. At the end of her performance of “Hell You Talmbou” — a protest song...
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Anti-Taliban Minister and 13 Others Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bombing
On Sunday, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at anti-Taliban provincial minister Shuja Khanzada’s home in eastern Pakistan, killing him and 13 others, the Associated Press reports. A...
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James Harrison Makes Kids Give Back Participation Trophies
James Harrison, workout maniac, is not down for rewarding mere participation. The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker is apparently forcing his sons, who are eight and six years old, to return “Best of the...
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This Weekend in Trump: "We Either Have a Country, Or We Don't Have a Country"
Here are some things that Donald Trump, a Ralph Steadman illustration come to life, who arrived at the Iowa State Fair this weekend by helicopter and who apparently isn’t going away anytime soon, said...
View ArticleMike Huckabee: Denying Abortion To Ten-Year-Old Rape Victim Was the Right...
During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union this morning, Mike Huckabee was asked about “Mainumby,” a ten-year-old Paraguayan girl who became pregnant after she was raped by her stepfather. The...
View ArticleTourists and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton are upset with the growing number...
Tourists and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton are upset with the growing number of topless, painted women hustling people for money in Times Square, the New York Daily News reports. Other area fixtures...
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Gang Member Arrested After North Carolina Transgender Woman Found Dead
An alleged member of the Latin Kings gang, 23-year-old Angel Dejesus Arias, was arrested and charged in North Carolina this week, the Guardian reports, in the killing of Elisha Walker, a 20-year-old...
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Report: Off-Duty Cop Chauffeured Patrick Kane On Night Of Alleged Rape
According to a report from The Buffalo News, Thomas English—a police lieutenant with the city of Buffalo—drove Patrick Kane, his alleged rape victim, and two other people from SkyBar in downtown...
View Article“In a five-year period ending in 2010, according to a lawsuit, prosecutors in...
“In a five-year period ending in 2010, according to a lawsuit, prosecutors in Houston and Henry Counties in Alabama used peremptory strikes to remove 82 percent of eligible black potential jurors from...
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Quit Smoking Weed Around Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is fed up, man. Right after he took the first set from Jeremy Chardy in yesterday’s Rogers Cup semifinal in Montreal, Djokovic complained to the official that he could smell someone...
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