Two More Women Come Forward With Bill Cosby Stories

Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/12/15 08:04PM

Just when you think you've heard 'em all, two more women with horrifyingly detailed stories about how Bill Cosby offered them career advice and followed up by drugging and raping them.

Obama Secretly Partied With Bill Ayers Last Summer

J.K. Trotter · 02/12/15 03:10PM

On Aug. 30, 2014, MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner and former White House chef Sam Kass got married at a private wedding north of New York City. It was widely reported at the time that President Obama, a longtime friend of the groom, attended the ceremony with his family. There were two other notable guests, however, whose attendance has been successfully kept secret: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the former campus radicals whose loose association with the Obama family over the years has inspired countless Fox News fever-dreams and led to Sarah Palin’s famous accusation that Obama “pal[s] around with terrorists.”

"Nut Rage" Exec Sentenced to One Year for In-Flight Macadamia Meltdown

Taylor Berman · 02/12/15 12:06PM

Korea Air Lines' infamous "nut rage" executive was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday after being found guilty of obstructing aviation safety. In December, Heather Cho—the company's former vice president in charge of in-flight service—ordered a crew chief off a Seoul-bound flight because she and others in the first class cabin had been served macadamia nuts in a bag, not a dish.

Leaders Reach Shaky Cease-fire Deal to End War in Ukraine 

Aleksander Chan · 02/12/15 09:00AM

After more than 16 hours of negotiations in Minsk between leaders from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France, a peace deal has been reached that calls for the end of the fighting between Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatist forces. More than 5,600 people have died in the nearly year-long war.

Hundreds Feared Drowned Off the Italian Coast

Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/11/15 10:00PM

Authorities believe an estimated 300 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in dinghies were "swallowed by the waves" leaving only a handful of survivors off the Italian coast.

Obama Calls for War: "ISIL Is Going to Lose"

Aleksander Chan · 02/11/15 04:30PM

President Obama issued a proposal to Congress today seeking authorization for a three-year military operation that would ramp up the United States' fight against Islamic State forces in Syria and Iraq, primarily through "a systematic and sustained campaign of airstrikes."

Fancy NYC Eatery Traumatizes Woman With Fresh Fish Served Hook Still In

Andy Cush · 02/11/15 01:47PM

Fancy food: it is a funny thing. One person might not understand why another might enjoy eating tortured goose liver or snails, and the other might say, "Mmm, I love these snails and tortured goose liver. More, please!" Aliona Russo, a non-fancy woman, recently sat down for dinner at Manhattan's fancy Villagio on the Park restaurant and was traumatized to find a perfectly fresh fish sitting on her plate. So fresh, in fact, that the hook was still sitting in the little fishy's mouth.

Local Jails Are Insatiable Monsters

Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/15 12:12PM

It has become increasingly clear to mainstream America that our nation's decades-long experiment with mass incarceration is fundamentally a bad idea. And though state prisons loom large in the public mind, it's actually local jails where most of the (bad) action happens.