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For the first time in fifty years, a member of the Kennedy family has decided not to impose a mandatory minimum sentence on a man accused of a drug crime.
Fertile lovers a plus, gills a must and relocation fees included — only other Mangarahara cichlids or Ptychochromis Insolitus, need apply.
The long-awaited Citibike bike-sharing program is scheduled to debut in New York on May 27. To the denizens of brownstone Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, however, the Citibike program amounts to an urban insurrection.
In honor of Sunday's holiday, I asked an array of writers and other web folk to share stories that demonstrate the awesomeness of their particular moms. They've copy edited our work, made us the tacos that we like, hugged us into feeling better, made sure we were alive, inspired us in our own careers, and generally made us better people. Moms are awesome.
There is no headstone. The family is at a kind of relative peace with a traditional Muslim burial — an "an inter-faith coalition" has answered the call — and the city of Boston, too, with a body gone and a death certificate released and now maybe even this triple murder. But Tamerlan Tsarnaev's final resting place is traditional by no other means: This is a dead terrorism suspect's gravesite, and there may be dancing.
ABC News reports that there is "mounting evidence" that both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were involved in a unsolved triple-homicide involving lots of cash, pounds of pot, but not a lot of definitive evidence.
Law enforcement officials in Texas have launched a criminal investigation into the explosion at the fertilizer plant in West. Hours before, police arrested one of the first responders to that incident for possession of bomb-making materials, although no link was drawn between the two.
Jamelle Bouie on the GOP's search for scandal, Peggy Noonan on where the White House went wrong on Benghazi, Gary Younge on Charles Ramsey's heroism, Luke O'Neil on the problem with satire, and Megan McArdle on Elizabeth Warren's student loan proposal.
Kids' bedrooms are different now. Think "teen wing of the house" different, with videogame arcades, secret Harry Potter passageways, and DJ mixing stations, if you're lucky.
A familiar set of questions is being asked after a 72-foot catamaran belonging to Artemis Racing capsized in the San Francisco Bay, trapping a British sailor underwater for ten minutes on Thursday afternoon.
The next bank heist movie just got a lot less interesting. Prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed on Thursday afternoon that eight men successfully organized and executed an elaborate heist involving ... ATMs on the same subway line.
As reported by Betabeat.com, the State Department has asked Defense Distributed to remove its plans for the 'Liberator," the group's first fully 3D-printable gun.
Public Policy Polling, the masters of getting press attention for inconsequential polls, have gotten our attention. For its national poll of Americans' musical tastes, we figured we'd give you a quiz to see how you compare — with pop-up visuals.
The House convened yet another hearing on Thursday, this time with some of the smartest space people in the country, to check in and see if they've found us a new planet to live on. And we're still a ways away from life on Earth 2, but the first thing the scientists need is a gigantic telescope.
Since their release on the web on Monday, the Defense Distributed plans for a 3D-printable pistol have been downloaded 100,000 times. The number of weapons successfully printed from those designs, however, appears to be exactly 100,000 fewer. Although it's not for a lack of trying.
Time on human developments as seen from space, New York on Obama's climate change strategy, Slate on the future of China's climate, CNN on reaction to Tesla's Model S car, and Media Matters on The Wall Street Journal's climate change coverage.
A judge may have thrown out class-action status for the lawsuit against Hearst for using unpaid interns at its magazines, but the disgruntled former coffee-fetchers will continue the fight.
The special Senate election between Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey and businessman Gabriel Gomez took a familiar turn for the scandalous on Thursday, after Gomez's 2005 tax records surfaced in a front-page Boston Globe story about the candidate's mega-home.
Thursday Styles is bumping and grinding with all the vim and vigor of a sunny day. Have you heard of the latest trend in lunch, what all of the coolest office-weary kids are doing on their mid-day gruel breaks? They're. Dancing.
The NYPD has released video of eight New York Knicks fans wanted in connection with a potential hate crime outside Madison Square Garden. And that kind of attack against a gay couple, by a bunch of straight guys in Carmelo Anthony jerseys outside an NBA playoff game, is exactly what pro sports leagues have been worried about — even before the official embrace of Collins.
He's in the ground at an undisclosed location, police confirmed Thursday. But considering the existing threats, Tsarnaev's burial plot was destined to become a destination for angry American protesters, so it's probably best that nobody ever finds out — and it's likely that nobody ever will.
Amy Davidson on sexual assault in the military, Fareed Zakaria on U.S. credibility toward Syria, Jill Filipovic on "purity culture," Michael Hirsh on the Benghazi "cover-up," and Farhad Manjoo on his dog dilemma.
A high school kid in Australia was suspended for two weeks for an attempted assault on Prime Minister Julia Gillard with a Vegemite sandwich. But the kid says he's just a patsy set up to take the fall the second sandwich thrower. It's not quite Aussie knoll, but welcome to Sandwichgate.
When Ariel Castro is eventually brought to trial for his crimes in the Cleveland kidnappings (he appeared in court Thursday morning), one of the key pieces of evidence may be a letter he wrote confessing to his many crimes — a letter made more awful by the fact it was written nine years ago.
A Time story about "senior advisor" Gabriel Schoenfeld offers a sneak peek at his short eBook, A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign, which comes out on May 14. The gist: Romney should have listened to Schoenfeld more. Duh.
A preliminary tally indicates that almost a third of all of the managed bee colonies in the United States — 31.1 percent — didn't survive the winter. That makes it the fourth-worst winter since 2006.
The 52-year-old former schoolbus driver accused of holding and abusing three women in his Cleveland home, will face four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, police announced Wednesday afternoon. Castro's two brothers, Pedro and Onil, have not been charged at this time.
He is the neighbor who helped save three women and apparently a child from living in captivity in brutal conditions in Cleveland. He also gave a couple interviews that led the Internet to turn him into a meme. Now it turns out that Ramsey has a few convictions to his name.
Outside a Phoenix courthouse Wednesday afternoon, America watched the final stage of one of the more interesting mysteries we've seen in recent television history: Why doesn't Nancy Grace just walk over to be interviewed by Ashleigh Banfield?
Here's a disturbing sign of how truly puzzling the up-and-down weather has been in Wisconsin this year: On Tuesday, when Madison residents enjoyed temperatures that hit 78 degrees, a number of calls filtered into the 911 system with reports of dead people in the grass. Also known as, you know, sunbathers.
Voters in Ohio and New York made their own decisions on fracking. Expect more; one of the biggest environmental fights in America is increasingly happening at the country's lowest political level.
Here's the perfect website to fix what ills you, real-estate-wise. Schadenfreude, we have you.
Perhaps the biggest enduring mystery of the Cleveland kidnapping case centers on the circumstances behind Amanda Berry's pregnancy and childbirth while in captivity. Well, today we got more chilling answers as Berry and another captive returned home.
U.S. News & World Report on natural gas-powered cars, The New York Times on the future of nuclear energy in Japan, Grist on the hidden history of spills in the Gulf of Mexico, Business Insider on how to make money off the fear of climate change, and Nature on the threat of Beijing's air quality.
A Houston woman discovered a giant African land snail in her garden—a slimy horror of a creature that is as disgusting as it is deadly.
Karen Tumulty on Mark Sanford's comeback, Aisha Harris on the reaction to Charles Ramsey, Jill Lawrence on Terry McAuliffe's trouble with women, Maureen Dowd on sexual assault in the military, and Brentin Mock on how the Sierra Club embraced immigration reform.
On Tuesday, President Obama met with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea at the White House, which the Yonhap News agency and every pretty much every news outlet on Earth reported. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Yonhap — South Korea's worldwide leader in news — had any photos. So, you know, why not fake a handshake between two world leaders?
All-out nuclear war isn't something Americans worry about too much these days, which is good because the people in charge of fighting that war have apparently been doing a lousy job lately.
The case of the three women held captive for a decade in Cleveland reaches a new level of absurdity with a Tuesday night report detailing the many warning signs that police appear to have ignored.
California's Public Utilities Commission is recommending that PG&E be fined $2.25 billion for the 2010 natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion that killed ten people in San Bruno, California. If it holds, it will be one of the largest in history.
In 2004, Sylvia Browne told the mother of one of the women kidnapped in Cleveland that her daughter was dead. Louwana Miller believed the talk-show psyhcic, and now she'll never know that her daughter, Amanda Berry, was found alive Monday night: Berry's mother died two years after Browne foretold the future incorrectly... again.
Lawyers for James Holmes have finally entered an official plea in the case: they're going going to mount a "not guilty by reason of insanity" defense, The Denver Post reports.
Harvard was only the beginning. Eight months after allegations of widespread cheating rocked the Ivy League university, another cheating scandal emerged on Tuesday afternoon at an affiliate college of Columbia University.
A federal proposal to have information about joining unions added to the collection of posters in your company breakroom was rejected by a court on Tuesday. In short: The government can't threaten to punish a business for deciding to keep its mouth shut.
Oversharing is widely deplored and highly criticized, and those who commit the crime are often themselves considered affronts to good taste. Maybe they can't help it. Also, couldn't it be worse? Beware the undershare!
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