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.
Perhaps the most talked-about moment from the NRA's already eventful press conference came when Wayne LaPierre called out the "corrupting shadow industry" of video games — then cited 10 year old titles like they were good evidence.
Al Alverson got his daughter an iPad Mini for Christmas, which FedEx dropped on his doorstep Wednesday. Later that day, a UPS delivery man stole it right off of the front porch, which UPS denied ... until he showed them this video.
The Marine in charge of the squad caught urinating on dead members of the Taliban last year — on video — has been sentenced, and, well, all he's getting is a $500 fine and a demotion.
President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State today.
That the Apple CEO never got to enjoy his superyacht was disappointing enough, but now it doesn't look like anyone can.
ABC News's senior White house correspondent is leaving the network to become an anchor at CNN, and we play the guessing game for which slot he'll fill in new CNN boss Jeff Zucker's lineup.
The WikiLeaks founder re-emerged today for a Christmas address promising a leak guaranteed to affect "every country in this world." Fine, we'll bite. Maybe.
There was one piece of legislation introduced on the Senate floor yesterday in response to the Newtown shootings. It came ahead of any of the legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein or Vice President Biden's new commission. It was about video games. Why?
Membership is up, they tell us. People are giving more than usual, they say. We'll be back on Friday, they promised. But what's the truth about America's most powerful interest group after the massacre in Newtown?
Today the country has blessed us with Pyongyang Racer, the first video game ever to come out of North Korea, and just like their satellite, it's not very good.
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The latest info from the investigation in Connecticut indicates that Nancy Lanza may have left her son alone at home before the shootings, and begins to paint a clearer picture of Adam Lanza himself.
You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20 first-graders, that the National Rifle Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong.
The columnist responded to the controversy for the first time since calling the Redskins quarterback a "cornball brother" and being suspended by ESPN.
President Obama's highly anticipated press conference — in which he offered his strongest remarks about new gun legislation since the Newtown shootings, and officially announced a commission to be led by Vice President Biden — wasn't very interesting to the White House press pool. They wanted to talk about the fiscal cliff. Here's an anatomy of the insiders' priority shift.
The Anna-to-France mill has heated up again, this time by way of an "exclusive" this morning from The Hollywood Reporter's Tina Daunt.
What Engel and NBC didn't tell us about was missing technical support staffer Ian Rivers. We didn't know about him until NBC released a statement Wednesday morning.
It may be difficult to look at this many firearms at once after the Newtown shooting, but just think about it: They were all returned, in what's being called an instant gun-buyback boom, and in one of the most dangerous places in America.
The state news agency isn't quite as wrong as when The Onion tricked China's People's Daily into believing Kim Jong-un was the Sexiest Man Alive last month. But it doesn't seem to get the difference between Time's Obama pick and 4chan's reader-poll hack.
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Four and a half days after a 20-year-old man carried legal guns into a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 small children, the National Rifle Association spoke out on the Newtown massacre with a brief statement late Tuesday afternoon.
The ghost of the day before Sandy Hook — a piece of legislation with sad and provocative timing — will never come to pass. Whether it's a sign of how Republican legislators will react to Friday's school shooting, however, remains to be seen.
Well here's some more depressing news: adults are stocking up on backpacks lined with "carbon nanotube armor" in the wake of the Newtown massacre, and there's an entire sad micro-industry.
Most of the other schoolchildren of Newtown went back to class Tuesday, but one lingering question remained: where will the kids from Sandy Hook Elementary go to school now?
Do you hear that faint sound? It's the grumbling of conservative pundits who are now churning out a theory that Hillary Clinton is lying about her concussion to avoid having to testify about Benghazi.
The rogue country's successful launch last week of a "space object" quickly tumbled out of control and, well, it's spiraling somewhere over your head right now — and it might not stop floating around up there for the next several years.
Ignoring the will of the people — or at least the hacking collective 4chan, which hacked its online poll in favor of the North Korean Supreme Leader — Time's 2012 Person of the Year shortlist includes the usual mixed bag.
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Just as an investigation went to print Monday afternoon — about how the chain is selling in large numbers the same .223-calibre Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six adults in Newtown — the big-box chain removed its big seller.
Over the weekend, U.S. Marine Corps captain Matthew Phelps proposed to the love of his life, Ben Schock, inside the White House. Now that his bended knee is certifiably viral, we talked to Phelps about his newfound Internet fame and more.
The fallout from the leak of information into the Newtown funeral-protesting group made positive waves on Twitter Monday, with Westboro spokesperson Shirley Phelps-Roper getting her Twitter account hacked to look like a full-on decent human being.
In the aftermath of Friday's Newtown school shooting, we've heard tales mostly horrifying and occasionally heroic, from surviving witnesses and mourning citizens alike, but this one lies somewhere in between, all the more unshakeable.
People really liked what they thought were Morgan Freeman's words of wisdom on the media and its coverage of the Newtown shooting. The question now: Will they still like them knowing that Freeman didn't actually say them?
In the latest of its problems with sports and race on TV, ESPN has suspended commentator Rob Parker for calling Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III a "cornball brother."
Stephen Colbert's Super PAC is giving back: to Sandy relief, wounded soldiers, and maybe the greatest of good causes when it comes to campaign finance — the Super-PAC watchdogs.
Forbes took a look at how Slate is trying to figure out its revenue options, and, judging by its chief's instant freakout, those definitely do not include charging readers for access to every story.
Not too many people were convinced when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tried to use murder to explain gay marriage. Jon Stewart was one of them.
Liu Qiyuan refuses to die on December 21 — the day of this alleged Mayan apocalypse — which is why he's spent around $350,000 constructing seven gigantic survival pods strong enough, he claims, to withstand fires, tsunamis, and earthquakes.
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The so-called Top Conservaties on Twitter, led by their #tcot hashtag, dominated the trends on Twitter this election year, but official new data from Twitter suggests that they may not have controlled the conversations they started.
President Obama's one-time frontrunner for the position has withdrawn herself from consideration. Here's what we know so far.
Well this has got to be the coolest story of college-application season so far: The admissions office over at the University of Chicago received an elaborate package yesterday full of homemade memorabilia addressed to one Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr. — also known as Indiana Jones.
Only one doubter remains: Dylan Byers, the media reporter at Politico, who called asked if Silver was a one-term celebrity and is now clinging to the deafening noise of punditry to combat the unstoppable number wizard.
A government official in the Philippines has delivered just the latest of this week's threats to Justin Bieber, after the pop sensation decided to mock Filipino national hero Manny Pacquiao.
In the past few days a North Korean rocket launch and a giant asteroid both caught America by surprise — and obviously this means the end of the world is nigh.
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In the dystopian world of the news business the gamemakers at The Kansas City Star have offered two tributes, ahem, reporters, the choice in deciding who stays and who goes: if one stays, the other gets laid off — and vice versa.
The new site is fetch like totally a regulation hottie and soon to be Spring Fling Queen in the tumblr world. And we, like, talked to the girl that invented it, you know what we mean?
Mark Staake and his nephew were arrested on November 20 in a murder-for-hire plot. Nearly a month later, we've found out that murder-for-hire involved Justin Bieber and ... castration?
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