The frozen body of a 32-year-old Manhattan woman was discovered Monday after a team of rescuers braved 108-mile-per hour winds trying to save her before it was too late.
During Tuesday's swearing in of Ashton Carter, our new Secretary of Defense, Vice President Joe Biden had a word or two reserved for Carter's wife, Stephanie. What words they were, we'll never know, because they were whispered sensuously into her ear, but here are some possible words: sweet; cheeks; Bubba J; grind; heyooooo; stuffed; thrust.
Disturbing new details emerged Monday from the preliminary hearing for Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, the Waukesha, Wisc., teens accused of stabbing their friend 19 times to appease the fictional Slender Man character. Geyer's lawyer claims the now 13-year-old believed she had to kill her friend or Slender Man "would kill my whole family in three seconds."
They didn't know each other's names, but on a sunny sidewalk in front of a prom-dress shop in Chula Vista, Calif., they knew each other's bodies. A man in a yellow hoodie and a woman in nothing but sensible shoes and a skirt were cited for public indecency on Friday after a witness recorded their afternoon fuck sesh and called the police.
This episode of Billy on the Street has a lot going for it: Michelle Obama slow dancing with Big Bird, a random woman named Elena, carrots, a poster of Ariana Grande's ponytail, a recitation of Gwyneth Paltrow's 1999 Oscar acceptance speech. It's also very, very funny.
Last year a homeless Ohio woman repeatedly walked for miles to face her rapist in court, because, according to a local detective, "He was counting on her not showing up."
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Debbi Wood became famous as "Britain's most jealous woman" when she spoke to tabloids about her Othello Syndrome—a psychological disorder that causes sufferers to believe their partners are cheating on them—back in 2013. Now Wood, who says she regularly forces her fiancé to take lie detector tests, is getting a National Health Service-funded gastric band operation that she says will make her more confident in her man's fidelity.
Carnegie Mellon University is one of the country's preeminent geek schools; think Stanford, without all the nonsense preening, bullshit self-aggrandizement, lustful VCs and palm trees. This year, more than 1,200 students applied for its M.A. program in computer science; yesterday an untold number of them received a computerized fuck-you in return.
Let's set the scene: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, early afternoon, on a cold winter Sunday. You, an admirer of Impressionism, are taking in a portrait of a woman relaxing by the seashore, painted by French master Renoir. A metal pole and a man in a green Canada Goose jacket appear in front of the painting. He is flashing a dirtbag grin in your direction.
Just when you thought everyone in Boston was a dick, here's a good samaritan tale that will make you rethink your most deeply held beliefs regarding Massholes. When one Bostonian found someone with New York plates parked in his carefully shoveled spot, he took all the snow he had removed earlier and dumped it on top of the offending car ... but he was nice enough to leave the passenger door uncovered in case of emergency.
A Texas judge has temporarily blocked President Obama's executive immigration policy action that would defer the deportation of some 5 million immigrants living in the United States.
