Reality Show's Ghost-Hunting Couple Found Dead In Grisly Murder-Suicide

Melissa Cronin · 09/23/15 11:00PM

A man and woman who appeared in the reality show Ghost Adventures were found dead from an apparent murder-suicide in Reno, Nev. on Tuesday. The estranged couple, Mark and Debby Constantino, were found by police who were investigating the death of a third person, a man whose name has not been released and with whom Debby Constantino had been living.

Donald Trump Deems Hillary Clinton "The Original Birther"

Christina Lee · 09/23/15 10:30PM

Today Donald Trump tried to give credit where credit is due. While speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, he mocked the “shrill” Hillary Clinton for denying that she started the birther movement, doubting that President Barack Obama was born in the United States before he did.

U.S. Gov't Admits Fingerprint Records of 5.6 Million Federal Employees Stolen in Hack

Melissa Cronin · 09/23/15 09:00PM

One of the worst government data breaches in history was at first thought to have leaked the fingerprints of 1.1 million. Now the government has announced that the hack, coupled with a second related breach, actually affected a staggering 21.5 million federal employees and their families — a full 7 percent of the U.S. population. Among those, an estimated 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen.

Fear the Vegetable

Melissa Cronin · 09/23/15 07:30PM

Vegetables are not the wholesome foods we once thought. Despite their purported fountain-of-youth properties, it’s become clear that, in the public consciousness at least, America’s real enemy #1 is green and leafy.

Serial Producer to Reporters: Please Respect Our Process By Not Doing Your Job

Gabrielle Bluestone · 09/23/15 03:07PM

The second season of the wildly popular This American Life spinoff podcast Serial will reportedly investigate the disappearance, capture, and release of former prisoner-of-war Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. But you didn’t hear that from us, because Serial’s producers would prefer other journalists not report what they’re working on, because it “makes our job reporting harder.”

Andy Cush · 09/23/15 11:24AM

Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were among 100 people pardoned by Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today, according to a Sisi spokesman. In 2013, the men were arrested along with a colleague on trumped-up charges of “conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast false news.”