Welcome to the Juice Wars

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If you think juice is something that comes in orange and apple alone, you are missing out on a whole world of juice. The year 2013 will go down in history as the time of the juiciest juice wars yet. Who will the Next Top Juicer be?

By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 26, 2013

The Senate Finally Confirms Chuck Hagel

The Senate got their successful cloture vote on Tuesday afternoon, finishing the filibuster of Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Secretary of Defense — and clearing the way for a successful vote on his confirmation, 58-41.

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By Philip Bump

Feb 26, 2013

Banker Bonuses Still More Than Twice as High as American Household Incomes

Wall Street banks paid out nearly $122,000 in bonuses per banker last year, an increase of 9 percent over 2011 — and some 142 percent of the last available median household income recorded in this country.

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By J.K. Trotter

Feb 26, 2013

U.S. Government Orders Chinatown Bus Line to Shut Down

Penny-pinching travelers may want to think twice — actually, 21 times — before hopping aboard the infamously, almost impossibly cheap network of Chinatown buses, after Fung Wah decommissioned the majority of its fleet. Now the U.S. government is stepping in.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 24, 2013

The Great NASCAR Video Debate

During the aftermath of yesterday's scary NASCAR crash, a video emerged on Youtube taken mere feet away from where one of the car's tires landed in the grandstand. It was an amazing, fan shot video of what happened. And then Youtube and NASCAR pulled it on copyright grounds. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 21, 2013

Megan Fox Is the New April O'Neil

That headline is not a metaphor. Michael Bay's favorite bombshell, Megan Fox, will play sexy reporter April O'Neil in Paramount's reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

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By Richard Lawson

Feb 21, 2013

Ben Foster to Replace Shia LaBeouf, Esquire Reader, on Broadway

The drama of Shiagate continues! The two latest developments in the saga are encouraging and absurd.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 21, 2013

FBI Declares War on The Scooter Store

Approximately 150 federal and state law enforcement agents launched a massive raid on one of the biggest perpetrators of government fraud in America: The Scooter Store.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 20, 2013

The Great Beer Monopoly Deal May Be Back On

a few days after Anheuser-Busch InBev changed up the terms of the merger, things could be coming to a peaceful resolution with the U.S. Justice Department — and the world could be mixing Bud and Corona after all, technically speaking.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 20, 2013

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Owner of the Boston Globe?

Calling all aspiring media tycoons: The New York Times is reportedly shopping around The Boston Globe to potential buyers — again — and it won't cost 10 figures this time.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 20, 2013

Can Playboy Survive Without Nudity?

Now that Hugh Hefner's empire is leaning out of the "smut" business, the real Playboy boss is betting you actually will read it for the articles — or at least buy an iPhone app with lingerie instead of naked ladies.

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By Richard Lawson

Feb 20, 2013

The Smart Set

Scarlett Johansson Might Be Engaged

Today in celebrity gossip news: ScarJo might be getting hitched again if a big ring is to be believed, Justin Bieber goes partying in London, and Anderson Cooper whoops it up in Brazil.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 20, 2013

Soledad O'Brien Is Not a Part of Jeff Zucker's Vision for CNN

It looks like one of CNN's most liked stars won't fit at the burgeoning home of poop-cruise story torture and soft morning news — this is new president Jeff Zucker's CNN, and Soledad O'Brien is not it.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 19, 2013

Poor Patricia Cornwell Can Return to the Writing Life in Her Helicopter Now

The mystery novelist was awarded nearly $51 million in a lawsuit against her old financial management team, so she should be able to buy back the personal helicopter she used for book "research."

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 19, 2013

Jeep's Twitter Account Just Got the Burger King Treatment

One day after @BurgerKing got their Twitter account hijacked, @Jeep has become the newest corporate victim of social media espionage.

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By Richard Lawson

Feb 18, 2013

Are There Any Oscar Surprises Left?

Last night Argo won the Best Adapted Screenplay prize at the Writers Guild of America awards, seemingly inching the film closer to Oscar sure-thing status. Are there surprises left in any of the big categories?

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 18, 2013

Burger King's Twitter Account Got Seriously Hacked

It seems that the officially verified Twitter account of the Burger King has become the victim of a prank, since the account announced they were sold to McDonald's and all their employees are on drugs.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 17, 2013

World Lets Out Collective 'Cheers!' Upon Hearing the Maker's Mark News

On a relatively quiet news weekend, the heavy drinkers populating your social media channels burst out in collective cheers on Sunday when the Kentucky whiskey brand Maker's Mark announced it would not, in fact, water down its own product as planned.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 16, 2013

Stat of the Day

Facebook Is Getting a $429 Million Tax Refund This Year

February really is the cruelest month because, on top of all this snow, one is forced to start contemplating death, or at least filling out one's taxes. You might be left scratching your head, and wishing you had a better accountant, when you hear how Facebook is getting hundreds of millions in a tax refund this year. 

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 15, 2013

Buying Herbalife Stock Is the Way Hedge Funders Say 'I Hate You'

Investing giant Carl Icahn is still fighting his war of words against hedge fund rival Bill Ackman, but he swears it's not about personal feelings—it's about making money. Hurting Ackman's feelings in the process is just a nice bonus.

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By David Wagner

Feb 15, 2013

Could the Penguin-Random House Merger Actually Help Amazon?

The just-approved marriage between Penguin and Random House holds that beleaguered publishers will now be able to stand up to bookselling goliath Amazon. But a publishing consolidation might be exactly what Amazon wants.

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By Richard Lawson

Feb 14, 2013

The Call Sheet

The Hard Times of Whitney Cummings

Today in showbiz news: Whitney Cummings gets a show canceled, Ron Weasley heads to TV, and Peter Dinklage is joining the X-Men.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 14, 2013

The Many Ways We Have to Say 'Happy Valentine's Day'

The good news is, there's a sentiment for everyone. The bad news is, you might end up with the sentiment you don't want. Read on, lovelorn and love-satisfied friends, for the best and worst and most thought-provoking sentiments of Valentine's Day.  

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 13, 2013

Marty Peretz Does Not Like Chris Hughes's New New Republic

Well, this was bound to happen. Former New Republic owner Marty Peretz is very publicly bemoaning current New Republic owner Chris Hughes and saying he doesn't "recognize the magazine" anymore.

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By Adam Clark Estes and Connor Simpson

Feb 13, 2013

Four Airlines Now Control 86 Percent of Air Travel in the U.S.

We've been waiting and waiting for the final confirmation that -- finally! -- American Airlines and U.S. Airways would complete their merger this week. It seems today is the big day.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 13, 2013

Get Used to Deadspin Scooping Your Old Media Idols

Earlier this week, Deadspin published a story about a University of Toledo track coach who was busted for sending illicit messages to students. The Toledo Blade, the 177-year-old newspaper that was also chasing the story, got scooped. Sound familiar? 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 13, 2013

3D Printers Aren't the Manufacturing Cure Obama Is Looking For

In his State of the Union address and his road show to tell a manufacturing plan as a job creator, the president has called 3D printing "the future." But a look at the rapidly growing industry's challenges reveals that it may not be growing as fast as the president would like.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 13, 2013

Time Warner Is Getting Sick of Time Inc.

Time Warner is in secret negotiations to sell off part of Time Inc., sources tell the Time Inc. publication Fortune, in a move that could signal just how sick media giants are getting of trying to stop the bleeding from print.

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By David Wagner

Feb 12, 2013

Four Loko's Days of Deception Are Over

According to the terms of their settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the makers of Four Loko will have to label cans of their potent product with more alcohol information and make the lids resealable.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 12, 2013

Fear of a Cord-Never Generation

For years cable and satellite companies have maintained they're not afraid of people canceling their service and watching video over the Internet (i.e. cutting the cord), but the cord nevers — the young people who never sign up for pay-TV service in the first place — are a totally different story.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 11, 2013

Yes, You Can Still Sneak Around The New York Times Paywall

Freeloaders across the web shuddered at reports that The New York Times had plugged its once easily penetrable pay wall on Monday night. No need to shudder, freeloaders. You can still, er, load for free.

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By John Hudson

Feb 11, 2013

Media Diet

Gavin Newsom: What I Read

The former San Francisco mayor and current lieutenant governor of California is an apologist for Google Plus and Michael Savage.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 10, 2013

This Is the Week for the US Airways-American Airlines Merger

After weeks of waffling and speculating, several news outlets report that the $11 billion merger between US Airways and American Airlines will arrive as soon as this week.

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Apple's the Last Defendant After Last Publisher Settles E-Book Antitrust Suit

The last remaining publisher holdout in the e-book pricing antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, has decided to settle about ten months after the lawsuit was originally filed. Now Apple is the only remaining party fighting the DOJ lawsuit.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 6, 2013

The Latest Airline Merger Is So American It Hurts

Have you ever wondered what it's like to fly bareback on a bald eagle? If you're looking for the purest American flight experience, look no further than the coming merger of American Airlines and U.S. Airways — forming the most American airline to ever exist, at least in name.

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By Connor Simpson

Feb 6, 2013

The Libor Bankers Chat About Corruption Like 14-Year-Old Girls

Royal Bank of Scotland reached a $612 million settlement with authorities today to resolve the Libor scandal, but an investigation has revealed something awfully sinister  — they instant-message each other not unlike the rest of us (slightly less morally bankrupt) commoners.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 6, 2013

Tim Geithner Is Not Selling Out

Unemployed Treasury secretaries generally don't stay unemployed for long, but unlike some of his predecessors, newly private citizen Tim Geithner won't be going for the big bucks right away.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 6, 2013

Microsoft Surface Pro: Not a Tablet, Not Yet a Laptop

With Microsoft's Surface Pro going on sale this Saturday, the gadget experts have put out their lengthy takes on the bigger more expensive tablet-laptop hybrid, many of them confused about what the gadget is supposed to be.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 5, 2013

Everything You Need to Know About the Dell Buyout

After weeks of rumored talks, Dell has announced its sale to Microsoft, Silver Lake Partners, and founder Michael Dell for $24.4 billion, the biggest leveraged buyout since the 2008 financial crisis.

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By Lois Beckett, ProPublica

Feb 5, 2013

Political Opinions for Sale? Democrats Consider Selling Voter Data

State Democratic parties formed a cooperative to sell their voter data. Now they're looking for commercial customers.

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By J.K. Trotter

Feb 4, 2013

Today's Best

Five Best Monday Columns

Michael Lewis on Goldman Sachs, Steve Kornacki on the remaking of the GOP, Charles C.W. Cooke on Black History Month, Jennifer Vanasco on pedophilia in the Boy Scouts, and Michael Tomasky on the paranoia of the NRA.

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By Richard Lawson

Feb 1, 2013

Movie Review

'Warm Bodies': Eating Brains, Capturing Hearts

Two brain activity-crossed lovers are worth rooting for in a sweet zombie romance that's just darkly clever enough to glide over its rather sizable plot holes.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 1, 2013

The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show

With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can Netflix afford it?

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 1, 2013

Beyond 14,000: America Has a Real Economy Again

The Dow is hovering around that big round number, and as we finish off a fifth straight week of positive growth for the market, hell, that's not a bad start to 2013.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 1, 2013

Newsweek Daily Beast Is NewsBeast, and That's the End of That Chapter

In one of the final, wheezing gasps from the magazine that the world, for 79 years, used to know as Newsweek, there is now word that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company has officially changed its name to "NewsBeast" — which sounds about as fierce as the company is not.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 1, 2013

The Jobs Report Has Some Very Good Hidden Numbers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that the unemployment rate for January rose slightly, but revisions to previous months showed a huge surge in hiring.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 31, 2013

Who Wants a Nice Tall Glass of Coca-Cola's Algorithmic Orange Juice?

Coca-Cola won't say how it makes its best-selling Simply Orange orange juice, but one thing is for sure: It's not so simple.

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By David Wagner

Jan 31, 2013

The World's Biggest Beer Monopoly Got Sued by the U.S. Government

Mixing Budweiser and Coors would be too much for the beer market to swallow, according to a lawsuit just filed by the Justice Department seeking to block Anheuser-Busch InBev's merger with Mexican brewing giant Grupo Modelo.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 30, 2013

China Hacked the New York Times for Four Months Straight

You might say that The New York Times was asking for trouble when it got into the business of reporting the truth about potentially corrupt Chinese leaders. And trouble is exactly what it got.

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By David Wagner

Jan 30, 2013

How the GDP's Big Shrink Might Impact a Budget Deal

U.S. gross domestic product fell by 0.1 percent in 2012's fourth quarter, and analysts are chalking up the losses to reduced government spending — especially on defense. Will evidence about downsized federal budgets shrinking GDP change how lawmakers approach the budget fight?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 29, 2013

$100 Million in Oil Money Richer, Al Gore's Unsure Why Critics Are Being So Critical

Al Gore is a complicated, accomplished man. Sometimes, he's misunderstood, while other times he's misunderestimated. But Al Gore is not disingenious. At least, according to Al Gore he's not.

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