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Police Officer Placed on Desk Duty After Mistakenly Tackling and Handcuffing...
The NYPD officer who tackled and handcuffed retired tennis player James Blake has been placed on desk duty in the wake of his headline-generating mistake, the New York Times reports. Blake, a former...
View ArticleJustin, Babe, Help a Guy Out; Fallon Brings Timberlake on to Tie Colbert in...
In a week when Stephen Colbert’s debut is easily the biggest news in Late Night, what’s reigning ratings champ Jimmy Fallon’s strategy for holding onto the crown? Having Donald Trump on, when Colbert...
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Matthew McConaughey Mercifully Silenced
*******PRECIOUS SILENCE*******Lincoln Motor Company has come to its senses and realized that it is far better for everyone if Matthew McConaughey is not allowed to speak. In his new series of ads for...
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How to Build a Better Internet
I pay Time Warner Cable $70 a month for broadband that works 70-percent of the time. Just for fun, I recently upgraded to the company’s best, fastest service—300 Mbps—and guess what. After weeks of...
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Jailed Kids Who Refused to See Their Dad Now Live With Him After...
The saga of the three children jailed by a judge for refusing to see their allegedly abusive father has taken a strange twist since it played out in a Michigan courtroom in July: the kids now live with...
View ArticleDonald Trump Feels the Same Way About Libertarianism as He Does About the Bible
“I like it. A lot of good things. I don’t want to talk to you now, but lot of good things. A lot of good points,” said Donald Trump, man of principle, when Reason asked for his views on Libertarianism...
View ArticleAnn Coulter, You Got Served (by Tavis Smiley)
“Let me just say up front: I hope that this conversation can be as much about humanity and dignity as it is about politics and polling, because I want to try to better understand to the extent that I...
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Black Man Receives Apology for Abuse From NYPD
On Monday, a black man named James Blake was assaulted by a New York City police officer outside his east Midtown hotel. The officer executed what his commissioner later called a “fast approach”...
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Baltimore Cops Have Found A New Enemy: Dirt-Bikers
On North Avenue in the Station North Arts district—a midpoint between East and West Baltimore—a wall is affixed with a wheatpaste image of legendary dirt-biker Wheelie Wayne popping his namesake...
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Extraordinarily Nice Weather on the Way for the Eastern U.S. This Weekend
Most of the time when you see a post here on The Vane, it’s about some horrible weather event somewhere that killed lots of people and destroyed most of their belongings. I have good news for once!...
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500 Days of Kristin, Day 228: A Sentence by Kristin Cavallari
Kristin Cavallari, whose debut book Balancing in Heels f.k.a. Balancing on Heels hits shelves in 272 days, wrote something yesterday. It was a post on the Official Kristin Cavallari App for iPhone and...
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The New iPhone Is Set to Record You, Whether You Ask It To Or Not
The new iPhones, Apple announced yesterday, will be set by default to automatically record a constant stream of sound and video whenever the camera app is in use, without the user pressing the shutter...
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Two Sad Tales of Life As a Forgotten Celebrity
What happens when you were was famous but are no longer famous? Can you still hang out with your old friends who still happen to be famous—much more famous than you are now? Here are two stories that...
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Barely Any Americans Could Answer All of These Basic Science Questions
Earth’s hottest layer is the core, we use uranium to build nukes, and ocean tides are created by the gravitational pull of the Moon. Like, duh! But did you also know that the boiling point of water...
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Internet Troll Arrested for Alleged Plot to Bomb 9/11 Memorial Event
A Florida college student described as an “online troll” responsible for “hoax events” is in custody after allegedly instructing an FBI informant to place a pressure cooker bomb at an event...
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One Marine Dead, 18 Others Injured in Training Accident at California...
One U.S. Marine was killed and 18 other service members were injured on Thursday when a vehicle rolled over during routine training at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, the Associated Press reports.Further...
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Report: Daniel Craig Donated Almost $50,000 to Sketchy Bernie Sanders Super PAC
According to a new report from the Center for Public Integrity, Skyfall star Daniel Craig gave nearly $50,000 to a super PAC accused of falsely representing an affiliation with Democratic presidential...
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Hungarian Camerawoman Who Kicked Refugees: I Thought I Was Being Attacked
On Thursday, a camerawoman who was fired from a Hungarian news station after being caught tripping and kicking migrants—including small children—apologized for her actions while denying she was a...
View ArticleWatch Joe Biden Reflect on the Life of His Son Beau on Colbert
Joe Biden, in New York on business, was the first guest on Stephen Colbert’s third show last night, and where most late night interviews are jovial and lighthearted, the chat between Biden and Colbert...
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Behind the Scenes of the Uber Protest That Got Cut From Colbert's Show Last...
Last night Stephen Colbert brought on Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick as a guest and things didn’t go as you saw them on TV: according to reports, cab drivers disrupted the interview at least twice,...
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