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A Vice Guide To Spending $300,000 On Dinner
CNN just aired an audio tape, allegedly recorded during the Michael Brown shooting, in which eleven gunshots can be heard—nearly double the number of shots originally reported. CNN says it has not independently verified the tape's authenticity. The recording, first played played late Monday night, was allegedly made b...
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Unconfirmed reports of hand grenade found in a safe at Shortlands property
News Shopper has received unconfirmed reports that a hand grenade has been found in a safe at a property in Shortlands. Alex McFee, who works at Curran and Pinner estate agents on Beckenham Lane, has sent in this picture of the road which has been taped off by police. The 20-year-old said: “We have been told a hand g...
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Isis video claims to show beheading of British hostage David Haines
Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were meant to supply Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in a border town, activists said today. The cache of weapons included hand grenades, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, acc...
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Kim Jong-Un planning Scottish restaurant
She was reportedly arrested as they tried to cross from Syria A wife and child of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have been detained by the Lebanese army, security officials have claimed. The Lebanese army made the arrests as they crossed from Syria ten days ago, Reuters reports. The woman was described by official...
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SMALL METEORITE STRIKES NICARAGUA, GOVERNMENT SAYS
Thousands of social media users are distributing an unverified photo which claims to show the body of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after he was purportedly killed by US airstrikes after three senior members of ISIS, including an aide to al-Baghdadi were also killed by US air strikes. Talking to NBC News, a senior ...
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'The Force Awakens' Release Date: JJ Abrams Plan for an Early Release of 'Star Wars' Movie?
Sons of Anarchy won’t get made into a movie. A hoax article saying that creator Kurt Sutter will launch a film with Charlie Hunnam and Brad Pitt has gone viral. The bogus piece was published on Empire News, a satirical news website. Here’s the disclaimer for the site: “Empire News is a satirical and entertainment web...
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'American bombing had signed my death certificate': Missing US journalist James Wright Foley goes unflinching to his death as ISIS behead him in horrific video, as a warning to Obama
President Barack Obama denounced Islamic State (Isis) militants for murdering an American journalist in retaliation for US air strikes in Iraq, showing an anger he has rarely displayed in remarks about the Iraq conflict. “No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and every single day,” Obama said Wednesday i...
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Michael Phelps' self-proclaimed 'girlfriend', 41, reveals she was born a male as she describes her 'amazing intimacy' with Olympic swimmer
Every superhero has an origin story, but one Russian boy’s unbelievable tale isn’t from a comic book — it’s very much real-life. Twelve-year-old Nikolai Kryaglyachenko was walking home from school one day when he stopped to lean against a lamppost. Unfortunately for Nikolai, the lamppost had a faulty wire and the sch...
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ISIS Beheading of U.S. Journalist James Foley Posted to YouTube
Editors' note: There are images in this post that some readers may find distressing. Islamic State militants on Tuesday released a video that purported to show the beheading of James Foley, an American freelance journalist who has been missing since he was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012. The authenticity of the ...
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BREAKING NEWS: ISIS beheads missing American journalist James Wright Foley as warning to US to cease action in Iraq
Eran Cicurel, an editor at Voice of Israel, has quoted YPG fighters familiar with the situation in Kobani, saying that Gill Rosenberg was not captured by IS. Cicurel's claims contradict IS claims, which made announcements on IS-affiliated websites Samoach al-Islam, al-Platform Media, and Twitter that Rosenberg had been...
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Texas plumber's truck on front line of Syria war
Young North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s health is just fine, his government said Thursday evening, so his sister is probably not running the country. It was said Kim Yo Jong had taken over while her brother underwent medical treatment, but So Se Pyong, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's ambassador to the Uni...
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Canada probes Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as possible suspect in Ottawa shooting - source
BAGHDAD — Three hundred Iraqi soldiers died in a chlorine gas attack carried out by the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, said Ali al-Budairi, an Iraqi MP from the Shia-dominated National Iraqi alliance in the Iraqi Parliament on Monday. It is unclear when the atta...
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Questions raised over Nicaragua 'meteorite'
On the same day Michael Brown was buried, a Ferguson man released what he claims to be new evidence in the case. CNN is reporting that the audio is from an unnamed man who says he was having a video chat with a woman when shots rang out on August 9. In the recording, as the man speaks to the woman, a quick series of sh...
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CNN plays chilling audio recording allegedly from Michael Brown shooting: “At least 11 shots”
On the same day Michael Brown Jr. was laid to rest, CNN Monday broadcast an audio recording in which the gunshots that felled the 18-year-old Aug. 9 can purportedly be heard in the background. The recording was taken by an unidentified local who was engaged in, and recording, another discussion at the time of the shoo...
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RCMP release security footage of Michael Zehaf Bibeau during attack, say he shot soldier in back
Corporal Nathan Cirillo, 24, was shot in the chest by a masked gunman, who then rode off in a car The solider killed today by a masked gunman as he stood guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada, has been named locally as Corporal Nathan Cirillo, while a deceased suspect has been identified as Michael Zeha...
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Militant Group Says It Killed American Journalist in Syria
A SCHOOLBOY who was almost killed when he was knocked out by a massive electrical shock claims he now has superpowers like those of Marvel’s Magneto. Nikolai Kryaglyachenko, 12, from Russia, had been walking home from school when he lent briefly against a lamppost that was electrified from a faulty wire, and was blast...
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Guru who ordered 400 followers to be castrated 'so they could be closer to God' is investigated for grievous bodily harm in India
The North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public for more than a month, leading to rumors his sister has taken over while the Supreme Leader fights an illness or sits under house arrest. Where is Kim Jong Un? The saber-rattling North Korean leader has not been seen in public for more than a month, sp...
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Islamic State claims to have beheaded American journalist
The recording, allegedly made near the shooting scene, seems to indicate the officer who shot Brown paused briefly in the middle of shooting at least 10 times. CNN aired the tape but cautioned that it could not independently verify whether it was authentic. A new audio recording surfaced Monday night that allegedly in...
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Pope Francis did not tell boy heaven has room for pets, contrary to report
Taylor Lianne Chandler, a woman who claims to be Michael Phelps' girlfriend, has revealed that she was born intersex and was given the name David Roy Fitch at birth. As per the Intersex Society of North America, intersex is: A general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive...
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White House Fence Jumper Pushed Past Female Guard
YouTuber Josh Paler Lin wanted to see what would happen if he gave $100 to a hungry homeless man. How would he spend the money? To find out, Josh approached a homeless man by a motorway in Los Angeles, and handed him $100, much to the man's surprise. He then proceeded to follow the homeless man in secret with a camera...
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Sadly, Pumpkin Spice Condoms Aren't A Thing After All
UTAH COUNTY — Over the years, holiday office Christmas parties have gained a reputation for crazy antics. Often, there's a lot of heavy drinking. One overly zealous drinker in Utah County nearly killed himself a couple of weeks ago, winding up in the hospital for three days. Even though the drinks at the party contain...
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#ISIS beheads photojournalist James Wright Foley in a massage to US to end its intervention in #Iraq.
Afghanistan veteran Sam Arnold uploaded this spine-chilling video of a US Marine getting a direct headshot from a Taliban sniper—only to be saved by his kevlar helmet. It's incredible to watch, especially the face of relief and disbelief of the impact victim. That was a really close call. According to Arnold, "the Mar...
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Nicaraguan commission on possible meteorite crash presents rock samples
The United States appears to now be flying unarmed surveillance drones over the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. The pictures thus far suggest that the drone being used is the MQ-1 Reaper. The two photos show the distinct downward facing V-shaped tail used on Predator drones, and the aircraft does not appear to be carry...
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Video Purports To Show Beheading Of U.S. Journalist By Militants
A DESPERATE mother was tricked into feasting on cooked meat from the body of her son by Islamic State militants, it has been claimed. The famished Kurdish mother had gone to plead with the jihadists to release her son. Cruel militants delayed talks with the elderly mum – feeding her a meal made with the corpse of her...
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Weaponized Ebola? ISIS Militants Said To Contract Deadly Virus
A Chinese woman spent an entire week in a KFC eating fried chicken wings after being dumped by her boyfriend because she ‘needed time to think’. Lovesick Tan Shen, 26, from Chengdu, in China’s southwest Sichuan Province, went to the fast food chain in search of some comfort food to get over the break-up. But seven da...
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Star Wars VII for a New SUMMER Release Date!?
A woman who claims to be the girlfriend of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps revealed in a Facebook post that she was born intersex, a fact she has not previously revealed to Phelps, among others. Taylor Lianne Chandler, 41, wrote a lengthy post describing her early life, saying that at birth she had male genitalia with ...
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Government fires employee who skipped work for 24 years
An official of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), who has been on furlough for the past 25 years, has been dismissed from service. On Thursday, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu issued orders to dismiss A.K. Verma for unauthorised absence from duty. Mr. Verma, who joined the CPWD as an assistant ex...
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Batmobile Stolen From 'Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice' Set? Report Claims That One Of The Batmobile Models Is Missing! Detroit Locals Responsible?
Robert Plant didn’t have a whole lotta love for this deal. He and the other living founding members of legendary hard-rock band Led Zeppelin were about to ink an $800 million contract with Virgin Atlantic billionaire Richard Branson to play a reunion tour, but the iconic band’s singer ripped the contract to shreds in t...
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Wife, child of Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi held in Lebanon, officials say
The woman also detained is believed to be al-Baghdadi's ex-wife DNA tests have confirmed that the child held by Lebanese authorities is the daughter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk told domestic television channel MTV that t...
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James Wright Foley, Kidnapped Journalist, Apparently Executed by ISIS
A picture of a letter to parents from a box of Lego in the 1970s is going viral after being uploaded to Reddit. To Parents. The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls. It’s the imagination that counts. Not skill. You build whatever comes into your head, the way you want it. A bed or a truck...
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Alleged audio of Michael Brown shooting released
After Stan Beaton's wife, Ruby, passed away in 2003, he saved the "leave a message after the beep" recording that they had shared. The recording was lost after Virgin Mobile conducted some technical work, but with the help of BBC Radio Leeds, the company was able to retrieve the deleted message for Stan — and captured...
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Bodies In Mexico Mass Grave Apparently Not Those Of Missing Students
Apple is hosting its ‘Spring Forward’ event tonight, where it will finally be answering the many questions surrounding the Watch. The Cupertino-based giant however is not resting on its laurels, and is reportedly already working on the next-generation Watch. According to Wall Street Journal, Apple has “studied platinu...
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Catholic Priest Dead For 48 Minutes, Is Miraculously Revived – His Revelations About God Are Even More Shocking
Does Russia have better smartphones or are Russians just better photographers under pressure – like when a Yeti walks directly in front of them? Whatever the case, the quest for better pictures and videos of Bigfoot, Yeti, Almasti and their counterparts got a new entry this week from Adygeysk, Russia. That’s where a lo...
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Bali spider burrows under Aussie’s chest
Axl Rose is not dead, despite internet reports to the contrary — but that should come as no surprise to fans who by now have surely grown tired of the seemingly endless stream of online hoaxes falsely reporting the death of just about every major celebrity, and plenty of minor celebs as well. The Axl Rose death hoax s...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had ankle surgery, report says
Amidst all the fist-pumping and Bono-goofing yesterday, one piece of information was conspicuously absent: The Apple Watch's battery life. What's the point of strapping a tiny computer to your body if it needs constant charging? According to Re/code, even Apple hasn't quite figured out the battery dilemma yet. After T...
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Boko Haram leader denies ceasefire deal, says 200 abducted girls married off
More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April, sparking the #BringBackOurGirls campaign A top military official in Nigeria was reported Friday to have announced a cease-fire between the government and the military group Boko Haram, igniting both skepticism and hopes that more than 200 schoolgirls who were kidnappe...
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Journalist James Wright Foley reportedly beheaded by ISIS
Militants from Islamic State (Isis) claimed to have killed an American journalist long held captive in Syria in retaliation for ongoing US airstrikes against its forces in Iraq. A propaganda video circulated on Tuesday showed a masked Isis fighter beheading a kneeling man dressed in an orange jumpsuit who is purported...
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Electric shock turns Russian boy into Marvel's Magneto
Claim: Eleven passenger planes are missing from an airport in Libya. PROBABLY FALSE Example: [Collected via email, September 2014] Seeking truth in stir of 11 missing / stolen commercial airliners from the Libyan airport during the fall of Tripoli. Origins: In early August 2014, some North African bloggers began to...
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Islamic State training fighter pilots in captured jets, monitoring group says
BEIRUT — Islamic State group jihadists are being trained by Saddam Hussein’s former pilots to fly three fighter jets captured from the Syrian military, a monitoring group said Friday Read more: Islamic State fighters training to fly captured jets -- watchdog | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-s...
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Once Again, The Banksy 'Arrest' Is A Giant Hoax. Repeat: A Hoax.
When Apple introduced its Apple Watch in September, the company said there would be three editions along with various face options and bands. Customers will literally have dozens of watch configurations to choose from. Only the base model got an official price of $349, however. Now a report claims to have pricing infor...
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Report: Israeli-Canadian woman fighting Islamic State has been kidnapped by terror group
BAGHDAD — Three hundred Iraqi soldiers died in a chlorine gas attack carried out by the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, said Ali al-Budairi, an Iraqi MP from the Shia-dominated National Iraqi alliance in the Iraqi Parliament on Monday. It is unclear when the atta...
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Rats are still running around at Vogue
Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief on Vogue magazine is allegedly displeased with the publications's new 1 World Trade Center offices. Their new workplace at the 25th and 26th floors of the building is said to be infested with rats and vermins. Moving to this new offices may be postponed until the pests are cleared away. R...
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80's Brat Pack star Judd Nelson forced to deny that he's dead after fake news story starts trending on social media
While it’s not clear exactly how waterproof the Apple Watch is, people who prefer to take their timepieces with them in the shower may have a new reason to be excited about the arrival of Apple’s new smartwatch. Tim Cook told an Apple Store employee in Germany that he wears his Apple Watch with him in the shower, with...
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Christian Bale Exits Steve Jobs Movie (Exclusive)
Less than two weeks after Aaron Sorkin said that Christian Bale would play Steve Jobs in the screenwriter's forthcoming biopic about the late Apple co-founder, Bale has dropped from the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bale "came to the conclusion he was not right for the part and decided to withdraw" befo...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be released this summer?
A MYSTERIOUS explosion that rocked Nicaragua’s crowded capital Managua, creating a large crater, appears to have been caused by a small meteorite. Amazingly, in a sprawling city of 1.2 million people, the impact near the international airport did not cause any known injuries, but it did leave a crater measuring 12 met...
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The Apple Watch has a low-power mode that only tells the time
This rumour is ridiculous, but it's pretty amusing and not all that hard to believe given where Zack Snyder is currently shooting Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. According to Bleeding Cool (who are often pretty reliable on the rumour front), "The scuttlebutt from sources in Detroit is that one of the Batmobile mode...
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DNA tests prove Lebanon IS holding ISIS chief al-Baghdadi's ex-wife and daughter after they were caught with fake passports
Dramatic footage from an Afghanistan battlefield shows the moment a U.S. Marine survived a bullet to his head, thanks to his kevlar helmet. According to Sam Arnold, who posted the video on YouTube, the footage was recorded on a helmet camera during a “joint helicopter raid” in the Now Zad district of Helmand Province ...
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Sources: Guns N' Roses Frontman Axl Rose Found Dead in West Hollywood Home at Age 52
Oh Internet, when will you ever stop killing perfectly healthy celebrities, or at least those that are healthy enough to be alive? Today, one of those ridiculously stupid and fake-looking hoax sites that generates random celebrity death stories once again proved that people are gullible and should have to take IQ tests...
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The Image That Everyone Is Sharing By 'Banksy' Isn't By Banksy — But It's Awesome
(Reuters) - First there was bendgate... now brace yourself for hairgate. Fresh from the online uproar over whether the shiny new iPhone 6 bends when carried around in pockets, Apple has been hit by a new complaint - that the handset traps users' hair or beards when they make calls. It is difficult to gauge whether th...
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An audio recording of the Michael Brown shooting has reportedly surfaced
A baseball cap and a portrait of Michael Brown is shown alongside his casket inside Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church before the start of funeral services in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo: Reuters Ferguson: An audio recording released on Tuesday morning may shed light on the death of a Missouri teenager fatally s...
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Lebanon confirms holding ISIS chief’s kin
A lot of folks are buzzing about 17-year-old Stuyvesant High School senior Mohammed "Mo" Islam who is rumored to have made $72 million from trading. New York Magazine's Jessica Pressler profiled him in a recent issue. But a number of folks who know Islam told Business Insider that they strongly believe that the $72 m...
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Jordan’s King May Participate Personally In ISIS Raids
A small meteorite landed near the international airport in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, on Saturday night, government officials say. Residents reported hearing a loud bang and feeling the impact, which left a crater 12m (40ft) wide and 5m deep. Government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo said the meteorite seemed to h...
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Magic Mushrooms Found in Queen Elizabeth's Garden at Buckingham Palace
On Friday, a rumor cropped up that one of the new Batmobile vehicles had been stolen in Detroit. The story wasn’t verified, but it did end up at a couple bigger news outlets. Because who can resist the phrase “stolen Batmobile”? Thankfully it was all just a rumor, but the story did give Batman v Superman director Zack ...
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U.S. airstrike kills Islamic Al Shabab terrorist leader in Somalia
The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident. An alarm box near the front ent...
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Has The Batman Vs. Superman Batmobile Been Stolen In Detroit?
Rajasthan, Oct 14: A man learnt a lesson, the hard way. Attempting to rape a teenager in public cost him his penis. A 46-year old man, Suresh Kumar was seen pinning a teenager to the wall in Ganganagar in Rajasthan. The next moment, he saw his penis chopped off and thrown on the road. He was dragged and taken to a loca...
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Tiger Woods' agent responded Monday to inflammatory allegations made by little-known pro Dan Olsen, who said on the Mad Dog in the Morning radio show last week that Woods is serving a suspension for a failed drug test. "These claims are absolutely, unequivocally and completely false," agent Mark Steinberg said. "They ...
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US Drones, Hunting for ISIS Leader, Seen Flying over Syrian Airspace
Durex denies rumors of a ‘pumpkin spice’ flavored condom. Oh my gourd it was a hoax! The arousal over a pumpkin spice flavored condom made its rounds on the internet over the weekend, but Durex confirmed that the autumnal-themed birth control is fake. “Durex has heard that people are saying we launched a ‘Pumpkin Sp...
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Continuing Violence Puts Boko Haram Ceasefire In Jeopardy
Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria on Friday claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough. Related Stories Nigeria says reaches deal with Boko Haram over abducted girls Reuters Nigeria, ex...
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Pentagon: ISIS Got U.S. Weapons Package
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is confirming that Islamic State group militants were able to seize one of the 28 bundles of weapons and medical supplies dropped to Kurdish forces on Monday. Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, says that two of the bundles went astray. One was destroyed by the U.S. The other f...
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Audio recording allegedly captures moment Michael Brown was shot
The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident. An alarm box near the front ent...
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Reports that Comcast will deny Internet service to users of the Tor Internet browser are false, the company says in a new blog post. The browser lets users surf the web with a higher degree of anonymity, making it more difficult for hackers (or the government) to follow them around the Internet. Comcast’s Jason Living...
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ISIS Beheads American Journalist
ISIS militants released gruesome video footage this afternoon of the beheading of American photojournalist James Wright Foley as a message to the U.S. to stop intervening in Iraq. Foley, a freelancer who contributed to the Global Post, was first captured in Libya in 2012, released, and then kidnapped again around Thank...
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‘Wild Misinformation’: Brian Williams Explains the Mike Seidel Liveshot
A man in his mid-to-late 50s is reportedly slapping people in Cumbria, England, for sneezing in public. One of his most recent victims was an 82-year-old woman who sneezed on Tuesday. On Monday, he reportedly smacked another woman for sneezing. "We are treating these two reported incidents as linked, and are appealin...
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The Chinese Guide to Avoiding a Bad English Name
Chinese people have been given state advice on the adoption of English sounding names – being urged to avoid those that make them sound like a “stripper” and instead opt for ones that imply the bearer is from “a fancy or conservative family”. A report published on the website of CCTV, a state broadcaster, offered read...
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What was fake on the Internet this week: Obama’s peace prize, pumpkin-spice condoms and insane winter snow
Durex denies rumors of a ‘pumpkin spice’ flavored condom. Oh my gourd it was a hoax! The arousal over a pumpkin spice flavored condom made its rounds on the internet over the weekend, but Durex confirmed that the autumnal-themed birth control is fake. “Durex has heard that people are saying we launched a ‘Pumpkin Sp...
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Jilted lover chops off his penis after girlfriend dumps him
Oliver Ilic mutilated himself after his girlfriend threw him over because of his abilities as a lover. A Macedonian man hacked off his own manhood after being dumped for having bad bedroom skills. Jilted lover Oliver Ilic reportedly tossed his member in the trash after slicing it off with a single swipe from a razor ...
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Video shows ISIL beheading of photojournalist James Foley
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Watch marine take sniper shot to the head and live
Vice Media CEO and co-founder Shane Smith, whose billion-dollar company was accused of underpaying its employees earlier this year, spent $300,000 on dinner at a Las Vegas hotel last month. MGM Resorts International revealed on an earnings call Tuesday that unidentified guests had enjoyed a $300,000 meal in January. O...
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This is from Today websherfif Retraction from Boston.com Earlier tonight, Boston.com published a piece suggesting Harvard Business School Professor Ben Edelman sent an email with racist overtones to Sichuan Garden. We cannot verify that Edelman, in fact, sent the email. We have taken the story down. The Web S...
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- A journeyman professional golfer who has spent time recently giving lessons and caddying said in a radio interview that Tiger Woods has been suspended for a month by the PGA Tour -- a claim that the PGA Tour and Woods' agent vehemently deny. Dan Olsen, 48, who last played a PGA Tour event a...
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ISIS pays tribute to its 'Cub of Baghdadi' child soldier
Canadian national and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Gill Rosenberg, 31, revealed to the Israeli media earlier this month that she had traveled to Iraq to help the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fight off ISIS. "They are our brothers," she told Israel Radio of the Kurds. "They are good people. They...
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Money makes the world go round, right? Lunchtime: it’s that essential break in the day when you get to catch up with friends, check your feeds, eat some crappy lunch line food and, oh, if you’re 17-year-old Mohammed “Teen Wolf” Islam, allegedly rake in $72 million playing the stock market. New York magazine reported ...
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ISIS fighters 'have contracted Ebola': World Health Organisation investigating reports militants showed up at Iraqi hospital with lethal disease
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Twitter is abuzz with rumours that Cuba's former communist leader Fidel Castro has died, although the timing is suspiciously close to the death of another high-profile person who shares his name. While reports of the death of Cuba's 88-year-old former leader could be true, there has been no official confirmation and h...
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More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April, sparking the #BringBackOurGirls campaign A top military official in Nigeria was reported Friday to have announced a cease-fire between the government and the military group Boko Haram, igniting both skepticism and hopes that more than 200 schoolgirls who were kidnappe...
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A police search is underway for a man who slaps people who sneeze Police in northwest England are hunting for a middle-aged man who has allegedly been slapping residents of the borough Carlisle when they sneeze. One of the reported incidents involved the man smacking an 82-year-old woman in broad daylight. God bless y...
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Guru who ordered 400 followers to be castrated 'so they could be closer to God' is investigated for grievous bodily harm in India
In further trouble for Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, head of Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda, Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered a CBI probe into the allegations of forced castration of his followers inside the ashram. Justice K Kannan of the High Court passed the order on a petition filed by Hansraj Chauhan, a former f...
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Years ago, I had a job in China where I evaluated the spoken English of college students. One bright young woman introduced herself to me with her Chinese name. Then she added: "You can call me 'Easy.' That's my English name." I paused, thought for a moment, and then decided to say something. "You might want to consid...
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Amazon is set to launch a free, ad-supported video service separate from its $99 Prime Instant Video offering, according to the New York Post. In case you're having deja vu, the WSJ reported exactly the same thing back in March and Amazon firmly denied it. However, the Post confidently said that the offering is now a d...
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That Was Fast: Christian Bale Bails on Steve Jobs Biopic
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Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, slain Ottawa shooter, had criminal record in Quebec, B.C.
A Muslim convert shot dead a Canadian soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa today before exchanging dozens of shots with guards inside Parliament in a terrifying attack that left the nation's capital on lockdown. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old father, as he stood guar...
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James Wright Foley, Kidnapped Journalist, Apparently Executed by ISIS
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posted a video on Tuesday that it said showed the beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who was kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago, according to a transcript released by the SITE Intelligence Group. The authenticity of the video, which was also posted on YouTube, cou...
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Video showing American journalist beheaded believed real, officials and family say
Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton were expected to announce the change Monday, but reaction to the new policy has been mixed ahead of the press conference. The NYPD’s old strategy for combating pot possession is going up in smoke. In a historic change, city cops will stop arresting people on low-leve...
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No, Saudi TV Didn't Blur Out Michelle Obama's Face When the President Met King Salman
HAVANA (AP) — Social media around the world have been flooded with rumors of Fidel Castro's death, but there was no sign Friday that the reports were true, even if the 88-year-old former Cuban leader has not been seen in public for months. Similar speculation has swept across Cuban expatriate communities repeatedly ov...
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Isis militants claim to have killed US journalist James Foley
THIS is the terrible moment a desperately poor young woman tries to sell her son – to fund life-saving treatment for her daughter. Mum Meng Xiangyan faced a real-life Sophie's Choice when poverty forced her to decide between her twins. The distraught 29-year-old said that she and her husband loved both of their child...
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Anyone for dog meat soup? Kim Jong-Un considers opening restaurant in Scotland selling North Korean delicacies
WATCHERS of North Korea's secretive regime believe it could be planning another surprise move, a restaurant in Scotland. The Cambodia eaterie Leader Kim Jong-Un has already opened a diner in Amsterdam, with the 'Pyongyang' chain of restaurants also having branches in China and parts of Asia. It has been reported that...
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Nigeria, Boko Haram reach ceasefire deal, kidnapped girls to go free, official says
A year before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un came to power, a directive was issued for anyone sharing his name to change it – maintaining a tradition upheld by the reclusive state’s ruling Kim dynasty, a report said. An internal state document obtained by South Korea’s KBS TV station contains an “administrative order...
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Kim Jong-Un's sister reportedly running N. Korea
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The Scottish SPCA is appealing to the public for any information related to a dog that was found abandoned at a railway station along with a suitcase full of its belongings. The dog, a male shar-pei crossbreed was found tied to a railing at Ayr Station, located in southwestern Scotland, last Friday. Next to the dog was...
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MPs credit sergeant-at-arms for saving lives in Parliament Hill shootings
He’s being called a hero for shooting a rampaging gunman dead on Parliament Hill — and it may mark the first time Sergeant-At-Arms Kevin Vickers has ever fired a gun in the line of duty. “This the first time in his career that he’s shot anyone,” said Erin, Vickers’ niece. A retired RCMP officer who once served in Cal...
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'They ate through the ceilings and pooped on the keyboards': Rats are 'taking over' Vogue's new World Trade Center office and Anna Wintour 'no longer wants to work there'
On Friday, Gawker reported that Vogue’s brand-new offices at 1 World Trade Center had a predicament as old as New York City itself: a rat infestation. It’s already gotten so bad that editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is wary of entering her personal office. Over the next three days, two other outlets reported even grosser d...
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Google Grows With $1.6 Billion in California Office Deals
Journalist Matt Taibbi is on a leave of absence from First Look Media after disagreements with executives, New York Magazine's Andrew Rice reports. Taibbi is supposed to launch a publication this fall called Racket, focused on financial and political corruption. According to Rice, Taibbi has been absent for several we...
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Boko Haram Could Release Kidnapped Girls, Nigerian Officials Say
LONDON -- A pickup truck once owned by a plumbing company in Texas has somehow found its way to the front lines of Syria's civil war and been converted into an anti-aircraft weapon for Islamic militants. A photo posted to Twitter on Monday by the Ansar al-Deen Front, an Islamic extremist brigade seemingly comprised la...
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The United States appears to now be flying unarmed surveillance drones over the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. The pictures thus far suggest that the drone being used is the MQ-1 Reaper. The two photos show the distinct downward facing V-shaped tail used on Predator drones, and the aircraft does not appear to be carry...
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Experts: More facts needed on purported audio recording of Michael Brown shooting
Planetary Alignment On Jan 4, 2015 Will Decrease Gravity For 5 Minutes Causing Partial Weightlessness. Strange natural occurrences are happening in the world today. But nothing more magnificent than the one you will experience on January 4, 2015. According to British astronomer Patrick Moore, at exactly 9:47 PST AM o...
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CNN Plays Alleged Recording of Michael Brown Shooting
Two of the nation’s leading experts on the use of deadly force by the police are warning against overreaction to an audio recording that purportedly captures the sound of the gunshots that killed Michael Brown. The newly surfaced recording, which has not been publicly verified by investigators, was first broadcast by ...
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