In a year when young victims of sexual assault have been shamed on social media by young people siding with accused athletes from Torrington to Steubenville, here is a six-time All-Star (albeit a very strange and estranged one), live-tweeting his self-defense to more than 510,000 Twitter followers and calling into question the judgment of a woman who appears to have accused him of a crime. The cops have nothing to say. But why isn't Twitter doing anything about it?
Citing a charitable sports donation gone bad, Ontario's Superior Court Judge vacated Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's seat on Monday, possibly leaving Canada's largest city mayorless — which is totally fine, if you ask Canadians.
Vanity Fair has been putting caucasian actresses on their New Hollywood cover for years, managing to generate thousands of conversations on the race topic... without really addressing it. Here's how The Hollywood Reporter captured the conversation.
Liberty University will be allowed to appeal Obamacare's individual mandate and a mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for workers.
We're about five months removed from the dismissal of Ann Curry from the Today show, and the NBC executives are still trying run interference between you, your hate for Matt Lauer and Matt Lauer. Their latest attempt involves complaining about your tweeting habits to The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz.
The septuagenarians ended their first 50th-anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena with a whimper and couldn't play the biggest hit of their 50-year careers because the rock stars decided to obey the city's strict curfew.
CNBC and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that the bankruptcy judge has cleared Hostess for liquidation. But what of our little yellow friend?
After mysteriously disappearing from the Mayo Clinic a little over a week ago and keeping mum ever since, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has handed in his resignation to Speaker John Boehner this afternoon.
The Palestinians and Israelis have brokered a cease fire agreement that went into effect at 9 p.m. Cairo time, but bombs were launched until the last possible minutes and now we're waiting to see if this thing sticks.
In news that will satisfy anyone interested in the CIA talking points about the Benghazi attacks who is not Senator John McCain, intelligence officials are now saying that the changes were measured choices made by ... intelligence officials, not the White House.
San Francisco's ban on fully-naked people may be on, but the half-monty photos will always endure.
The Dutch have done away with their silly weed-pass rule, which would have banned tourists from smoking legal dope in their "coffee shops" without a locals-only "cannabis card."
Nearly a month ago, Sandy slammed onshore and ruined things for a lot of people on the East Coast. The job market has now officially fallen victim as well, with unemployment claims hitting 410,000 today.
In order to convince a judge to deny Valle his bail request in court Tuesday, prosecutors revealed that NYPD cop Gilberto Valle had been planning way in advance for a Thanksgiving meal of "girl meat.""
His latest battle against reality and U.S. foreign policy arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon, with the Senator claiming that references to al Qaeda should have remained on unclassified CIA talking points used by Susan Rice.
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The Chairman of the Federal Reserve explained it all quite simply today: the sooner it's over, the better—and the sooner we can enjoy a good 2013.
The latest chapter in the Denny's-Obamacare saga: Denny's doesn't hate Obamacare like all those other allegedly conservative fast-food restaurants do — at least not the whole chain.
The ubiquity of PSY's "Gangnam Style" — and the pantomiming horse dance that goes along with it — has made the song/video/phenomenon pretty harmless around the world by now, except in one place: China.
Over the past few days we've watched this John McAfee murder scandal grow into full-fledged absurdity that should be paid attention for its utter defiance of reality.
Last night the maker of lovable Twitter account @NYTOnIt announced that the actual New York Times got Twitter to suspend (it's since been reinstated) the account because they said the @NYTOnIt avatar violated copyright laws. Really, New York Times? Really?
There's a lot of explaining to do, and it's not just the phone-hacking anymore. British prosecutors announced brand-new, bribery-related charges against former Rupert Murdoch editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson on Tuesday.
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We may have gorged down on high fructose corn syrup-enhanced baking treats for nothing. CNBC is reporting that Hostess and the Bakers Union have agreed to mediation and that (for now) a Twinkies shutdown has been avoided.
Rupert Murdoch can apologize (as he sort of did) about his "Jewish-owned press" tweet, but he still can't take it back. And because that tweet is out there, the big question now is which press, exactly, he was referring to.
President Obama's visit to Myan;... Burma ... Myan Southeast Asia, and the country once known as Burma, got off to a rocky start when he referred to the nation, in talks with its president on Monday, as Myanmar.
Peter Jackson's filming of the rest of his Hobbit trilogy drew interest from A-list New Zealand professionals like Nellie, the miniature Galloway cow, and Rainbow, a miniature pony. It also killed 27 of them.
The dragging of Elmo's name into the mud has begun again. With a lot less to lose than Kevin Clash (aka the voice of Elmo), the man behind Clash's underage sex allegations, Sheldon Stephens, apparently won't take the $125,000 settlement he already accepted, and is now sticking by his original story: that Clash had sex with him when he was 16.
We're all supposed to hate Tina Brown. We get it. She's the queen of shock covers, she talks on the Amtrak quiet car, and completely sunk one of the most iconic magazines she was paid a lot to fix. So when we sat down with New York's Q&A with the Queen of Chaos last night we were prepared to hate but ....
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Burberry got exclusive, American Express went small, and Pernod got all boozy in the Social Media Power Rankings this week.
Republican Senators have had their sights set on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lately, threatening to block her nomination as Secretary of State because they believe she went on a few Sunday morning shows and said incorrect stuff about the attacks in Benghazi. Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee has released the CIA info Rice was given, so we can now compare the differences:
After seeing the departure of its editor-in-chief Chris Anderson on November 2, Wired has announced that Scott Dadich—the magazine's former creative director from 2006-2010—will take over the magazine
The search for bridges that Keith Olbermann has not yet burned has stopped at the MLB Network where he'll be a guest host ... while there is no baseball being played. Laugh all you want—we know it's not glamorous as his previous jobs, but we think it's actually all a pretty good fit.
Last night The New York Times dropped a blockbuster story: their new CEO Mark Thompson, who is just finishing his first week on the job, might be lying about how much he knew about sex abuse allegations while he was running the BBC. This morning all we can wonder about is how long we'll be referring to him as CEO.
We think we may have found the award for the grossest repercussion that Hurricane Sandy has left behind: the damaged New Jersey plant dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of partially-treated human waste water into the New York Harbor.
Oh Mitt Romney. We really thought we and Jon Stewart were through with you and vice versa. Thankfully you and we are not.
This week we were introduced to the ramblings of Maine's outgoing GOP Chairman Charlie Webster who said was voter fraud being committed in Maine because "dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day," he said. Today he told Talking Points Memo: "I know black people. I play basketball every Sunday with a black guy."
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Over the past few days we've heard just how upset John McCain has been about Susan Rice's maybe-nomination because of how she handled the terror attacks in Benghazi and the lack of information he's been given regarding those attacks. He was so busy doing that, that he missed a classified Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing yesterday.
Thanks to the political equivalent of a "come at me, bro" from the President yesterday, it looks like Susan Rice is one step closer to becoming the Secretary of State. And we haven't even heard from any Senators yet.
Today's unemployment claims figures are out and they're huge: 439,000—that's the highest number in a year and a half, and close to an 80,000 jump from the previous week. And if you ask anyone, it's because of the natural disaster that hit the East Coast two weeks ago.
Last week's election remains on the minds of Fox News correspondents who still can't figure out why Republicans lost. Now, it seems, they're looking for someone to blame ways to broaden their base. Jon Stewart is here to help them figure out how to woo single women.
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Let's be honest, this Petraeus thing is just odd. So odd that we are having trouble giving it a name because it's an undulating charybdis of adultery, ill logic, adults acting stupid, and embarrassment involving people who are supposed to be the most upstanding Americans in the country. And we were wondering how this mess looks to everyone who doesn't live here.
Even though we heard this week that police have yet to find any evidence connecting Pedro Hernandez to the disappearance of Etan Patz and were told the case was fizzling, a grand jury has reportedly issued an indictment against Hernandez. So, either Hernandez's confession from May is convincing enough for the grand jury, or there's more evidence that we don't know about.
Poor Luke Russert got cut off at the knees today after he asked Nancy Pelosi if her old self was blocking a younger generation of Democrats from attaining power. But did he have a point? Yes, he did. The thing is, though, Luke Russert isn't allowed to ask that kind of question.
On Friday, the bottom fell out on the news cycle. After the election, we really thought we were in for weeks heaped on top of weeks of Fiscal Cliff sorting, explaining and whatnot. And then there was this shiny Petraeus scandal which was gifted from the gods of slow news days, which now involves showrunners from Law And Order SVU. Wait what?
There's a reason Australian "reporter" Andrea Yu is China's favorite foreign journalist. It's because they're using her to skew the Communist Party Congress coverage.
NBC News has a Senate source telling them David Petraeus will be appearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, where a closed hearing on the terror attack in Benghazi is on the schedule.
After a few days of exclusive meetings with top House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi announced that she was staying on a House Minority Leader for the next congressional term. We also (by way of Luke Russert) have learned: that you should never, ever, call Nancy Pelosi old in the middle of her press conference.
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