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What seems like progress from the top-down may reveal the problem with Boy Scouts from the inside-out: its first official coming out party is still a microcosm of discord on gay acceptance, especially in Christian America, no matter what polls say today or the Supreme Court declares in a few weeks. Here's a survey of the reaction so far.
The heads were discovered on their way through customs at Chicago's O'Hare airport last night. But, somehow, authorities said no foul play was involved, and this sort of shipment has actually been uncovered before.
We hate to ruin Bloomberg News' squirm-inducing trend story of the day, but there's no solid evidence that the increasing popularity of the bikini wax is, in fact, actually leading to the elimination of pubic lice.
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The AP reports that Armstrong did indeed confess to doping in his Oprah interview, and CBS News has confirmed that Armstrong "has indicated a willingness to testify against others." Winfrey is expected to offer a preview in the latest stop in a series of private mea culpas that suggest he may really be telling all.
The group may have put itself back on its lobbying heels, because they introduced a new app for the iPhone and iPad last night — complete with virtual assault rifles — which the NRA's mobile developers (and Apple) say is appropriate for children ages four and up.
The former president's curious two-month visit to a Houston hospital has come to a healthy end, and he'll be returning home today, according to NBC News but not yet his back-and-forth family spokesperson.
Even as Buzz Bissinger retracts a Newsweek cover story, Armsgtrong still has his defenders. Did they still buy his lies? Or did they just enable the man they're now calling a "sleazeball"? Here's a look, in their own words, as the pre-Oprah debate heats up
For the first time in 138 days, Robin Roberts got up at 4 a.m. this morning and appeared on GMA not only to greet us with a "Good Morning America" but, more importantly, to let us and her co-hosts know that she'll be starting her comeback in earnest.
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We all got to witness the freak occurrence of an actual snake on an actual freakin' plane this week. And while news of the scrub python quickly spread from the side of a Qantas flight to YouTube, actual scientists are pretty used to this sort of thing. Seriously. We asked a real-life snake detective.
At a meeting Friday the vice president offered a clean slate, but Congress and the NRA are calling, and gaming leaders have few defenses. Here's a look at the revenge of the nerds.
As President Obama danced around questions about troop levels, he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to press their message at this afternoon's press briefing — American soldiers are about to be in support mode, and the withdrawal is coming... soon enough.
If you thought Todd Akin's defeat in November's Senate race ended the "legitimate rape" controversy, get ready for Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey, a pro-life OB-GYN who very much has gone there — and way beyond.
The White House may be signaling to gun-rights advocates that it will offer funding for police in schools, and more teachers may be signing up for gun training, but this could not be what anyone had in mind, could it?
In a gruesome and still mysterious twist of fate, Georgia police found the man curating the FPSRussia channel shot in the head and surrounded by guns — just not the one that left him dead.
Ohio's attorney general has revealed that student witnesses during a preliminary hearing never got an immunity deal, throwing open the possibility that testimony could be used against at least three more members of the Big Red football team. Who are they? And what does it say about that alleged cover-up?
A.J. Daulerio's tenure at Gawker lasted just over a year. Daulerio, who took over after editing Deadspin editor has quit, and senior writer John Cook is taking over as editor-in-chief.
There were indeed jokes, and most of them had to do with Mr. Lew's much discussed squiggly autograph. But the big news out of the White House today is that President Obama has officially announced his chief of staff is to replace Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury Department.
After comments surfaced that he supported "ex-gay" therapy, Pastor Louie Giglio has withdrawn from performing the inaugural benediction in the form of a bizarre, accusatory statement that suggests the administration might need better vetters.
But is it really an award, or just a PR stunt by the little known National Father's Day Council?
After suggesting that his defense would center on blaming the New Delhi gang-rape victim for her own rape, Manohar Lal Sharma is now claiming that his clients were tortured into giving a confession.
We're using past tense because, unfortunately, the snake did not make it to its final destination this morning.
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The New York governor's much anticipated speech did not outline his gun-control proposals in detail, but behind the scenes, the state legislature is reportedly "within 95 percent of a deal" and could agree on wide-reaching measures by the end of the week.
More than 100,000 people signed an official petition asking the Obama administration to consider deporting the CNN host after his focus on gun control after Newtown, and the White House had some bad news for those people on Wednesday afternoon.
Less than a day after Walmart said it was too busy to meet with Vice President Joe Biden and his commission on gun-legislation proposals, the nation's largest gun seller has had a change of heart.
As he sets out to find libertarian "Woodwards and Bernsteins" in transforming his online news operation, Glenn Beck is breaking ranks even further with the other big libertarian in the room — Alex Jones, who lit an online firestorm over his gun-rights meltdown on Piers Morgan Tonight and whom Beck just called a "crazy person."
Three men who police say brutally raped 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey on a bus in New Delhi — after which one of them allegedly tried to run her over with it — will plead not guilty to charges of rape and murder.
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The controversial pretrial conditions offered by the U.S. military to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning will now amount to just a little over three months trimmed off any future sentence, a military judge ruled Tuesday afternoon.
Lost in the controversy over the paper that published a map of local gun owners — and now in Gawker's followup move to do the same — is that these lists... are publicly available. Turns out, it's the debate that comes next that might matter more.
If Robert Griffin III's knee was the first casualty of the Redskins offseason, consider this the second.
Ahead of next month's rape trial of two Ohio high-school football players, the secretive editors, hackers, and lawyers behind LocalLeaks disclose to The Atlantic Wire how they're enhancing their operation — and the "huge revelations" still on the way.
As Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt's excellent adventure to the Internet Black Hole known as North Korea carries on, they visited some of the only people in the country who are allowed access to the Internet.
A social-media firestorm has spent the last week enveloping the city, and on Tuesday morning it took a frightening turn: all district schools in the city went on a precautionary lockdown after police received word of "some type of shooting threat made on social media."
The Twitterverse woke up Tuesday morning to NFL player Darnell Dockett virtually trying to woo Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend with the tempting prospect of ... fried chicken wings and a visit to a Miami strip club.
This deep purple is a brand-new shade that the Australian bureau of meteorology was forced to add to its heat index because their country is, you know, kind of on fire.
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Ada Louise Huxtable, the famed New York Times and Wall Street Journal architecture critic who won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970, has died. She was 91.
After screaming to the Internet that former Rep. Gabby Giffords's visit to Newtown on Friday was some kind of an underhanded political move, Newtown's State Representative DebraLee Hovey is apologizing — and there are a couple big "if"s involved.
We thought the point of a trillion-dollar coin wasn't about the coin itself so much as what an idea that crazy said about Republicans' idea of compromise these days. Tell that to Greg Walden of Oregon.
According to gun groups who feel threatened by the Obama administration's newfound push for gun-control legislation, January 19 has now been designated "Gun Appreciation Day."
As a petition seeking "real justice" crosses the threshold that will demand a public response as high up as the White House, here's a look back at the small city's long history of corruption, from a Justice Department investigation to rape survivors just now coming forward with tales of the police discouraging them from speaking out.
If you believe in unicorns, you can believe the latest fairy tale to emerge from Pyongyang.
The Steubenville rape case is rapidly broadening in blame to include more of the so-called "Rape Crew," as Kent State University is now reviewing the status of an accepted student athlete who may have hosted the party where the alleged rape took place.
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Steubenville High's famed football coach may resign as soon as Monday, and the recent graduate whose shocking video confession was leaked by hackers who took the case national may be in trouble with his college.
Reports are criss-crossing the usually hush-hush country nation that Kim Jong-un's wife may have given birth to a future supreme leader. Not that anything's been confirmed, because this is North Korea, after all.
As the new Congress certified President Obama's win in the electoral college, word came of the official final count from the Associated Press: the man behind the 47-percent video won over exactly 47.2 percent of America.
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