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A week after a daring raid against ISIS that freed 70 Kurdish hostages and left an American special forces operator dead, NBC News has obtained what it says is body-cam footage from the assault.
On October 24, 2015, Finley Jay Lanning entered the world at 9 lbs, 0 oz. He was born into the loving arms of his parents and the hearts of his fans—people who knew his name and were waiting for him.
In July 2014, my husband Daniel, our two young boys, and I took a full U-Haul from Cleveland, Tenn., to Richmond, Va., for Daniel’s new job as a teacher at a Christian private school. The move had pushed us past broke, into donations from relatives, but we were eager nonetheless. After many years, my husband had…
Former Congressman Barney Frank visited the Gawker office last week to discuss Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, the documentary about his life that’s now running on Showtime (and on demand). In front of a crowd, Frank and I discussed his doc, the closet on Capitol Hill, and his own coming out…
Two workers in the U.S. Capitol and Senate cafeteria say they’ve been “relentlessly harassed and intimidated by our bosses” for trying to organize a union. Perhaps their customers could help them out?
Since the image of James Bond was first spotted on a beak-spouted jug c. 1802–1575 B.C., old white guys have given interviews to the Daily Mail wherein they state the character should be played by a straight white guy exclusively. This time: Roger Moore.
How did Donald Trump get his start? He did it the same way self-made American men have been doing it since time immemorial: hard work, bootstraps, determination, elbow grease, perseverance, and a tiny little pile of money from his daddy.
Opal Covey, a woman who identifies as a prophetess, is currently running for the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, for the fifth time. She also identifies as a miracle worker—a political Annie Sullivan, if you will—and her platforms include ridding the city of potholes and building amusement parks. “That will bring great…
Four months after the deadly shooting in Charleston reignited the national debate about the appropriateness of hanging a deeply racist symbol on government property, the University of Mississippi has removed the Mississippi state flag—which includes a miniature confederate emblem in its top left corner—from its campus.
Upon finding a drunken stranger in our beds, most of us would ask him to get out of the house. Maybe yell, maybe call the police. But that’s not what this perfect gentleman did.
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The World Health Organization has given vegetarians all of the ammo we need to win every argument from now on about nasty meat—which gives you cancer.
At least 105 people were killed this morning when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit South Asia, according to Afghan and Pakistani officials.
On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs launched what he described as a “revolutionary” product known as the iPod, to which many Mac enthusiasts responded: “YOU SUCK, JOBS! WHERE ARE OUR SEX ROBOTS AND TELEPORTATION PDAs?!”
After widespread anti-corruption protests helped oust the last government, former comic television actor, Jimmy Morales, who once played a hapless cowboy who accidentally became president, has been elected president of Guatemala.
On Friday, after Ben Carson passed him in the polls in Iowa, Donald Trump called his fellow candidate “super low energy.” Carson offered a response Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” by referring to his violent past: “There was a time when I was very volatile.”
On Sunday, a whale-watching boat carrying 27 passengers sank into the waters west of Vargas Island, off the coast of British Columbia, CBC News reports. Paramedics for the BC Ambulance Service said at least three people have died.
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Three New Jersey teenagers were indicted by an Essex County grand jury Friday on charges that they used Twitter to facilitate a variety of gang and gun-related crimes, NJ Advance Media reports.
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Suspect Held on Four Charges of Second-Degree Murder After Car Crash at Oklahoma State Homecoming
