Dec 18 2011
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Kim Jong-il, the fearsome, furtive, and fashion-forward leader of North Korea, is dead at age 69. This according to…
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Nov 23 2011
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If the past months have taught us anything, it's that there is no one right way to protest injustice. Conversely,…
Nov 10 2011
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Two collisions took two lives within four hours of each other on San Diego's Interstate 8 today. Not particularly…
Nov 8 2011
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Like thousands of New Yorkers, Dr. Anthony Marx, the 52-year-old president of the New York Public Library, was…
Jul 18 2011
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Greetings from sunny Los Angeles, California, where the two-day closure of a 10-mile strip of freeway has produced…
Jul 18 2011
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Greetings from sunny Los Angeles, California, where the two-day closure of a 10-mile strip of freeway has produced…
Jul 15 2011
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I know a grand total of about five phone numbers off by heart. One is mine — not the landline, though, still have to…
Jul 6 2011
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Last month, 89-year-old apocalypse forecaster Harold Camping suffered a stroke, likely related to the cumulative…
Jul 1 2011
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NASA officials learned last March that a British auction house had an item labeled "Movie Camera from the Lunar…
Jun 30 2011
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Russell Brand and Katy Perry have purchased a new home. The price was $6.5 million, which apparently buys you 9,000…
Jun 22 2011
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Kang Ya, a 29-year-old from Sacramento, has been taken into custody for what police are saying were fatal burns…
Jun 20 2011
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As a flooded Nebraska contends with a potential nuclear incident, the tornado-ravaged state of Tennessee will soon…
Jun 1 2011
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It all started when a passenger on a Ghana-bound United flight out of D.C.'s Dulles Airport decided to recline his…
May 31 2011
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Get a load of Randon Reid, a 26-year-old from Phoenix arrested after his car was spotted speeding away from a…
May 27 2011
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Minutes before midnight, after a landslide House vote of 250-153, President Obama signed legislation backing a…
May 25 2011
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Steven Heller is a celebrated expert. His area of expertise is graphic design. In other words, he sees order in…
May 24 2011
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Vuvuzelas, those ceremonial trumpets favored by South Africans that, when tooted in unison, approximate the sound of…
May 24 2011
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The Nigerian scam (aliases: the 419 scam, the Spanish Prisoner scam, the Letter From Jerusalem) dates back to the…
May 23 2011
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Harold Camping speaks! The 89-year-old Nostradamus from Northern California, who spent millions of his followers'…
May 20 2011
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Daniel Moore, an 18-year-old from Gainesville, was arrested after his cellphone "somehow" dialed 911, leading cops…