North Korean Ambassador Rejects Donald Trump's Offer to Meet Kim Jong-Un as "Propaganda"
Hudson Hongo · 05/23/16 06:44PMCliven Bundy's Lawyer Tried to Get the Koch Brothers to Pay 19 Militia Idiots' Legal Fees
Brendan O'Connor · 05/23/16 04:50PMFBI Now Investigating Virginia Governor Who Replaced the Virginia Governor Convicted of Corruption
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/23/16 04:13PMObama Is Set to Release Two Dozen More Prisoners From Guantanamo Bay
Andy Cush · 05/23/16 03:50PM
President Obama has about eight months left to close down Guantanamo Bay, fulfilling a pledge he made to Americans at the beginning of his presidency. According to a report in the Guardian, his latest step toward that goal is the transfer of 22 or 23 detainees out of the prison sometime before the end of July.
Sadly, Bubba Is an Addict Who Cannot Be Trusted
Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/16 03:09PMGod Damnit, Someone Is Making a Keurig Machine for Weed
Andy Cush · 05/23/16 02:40PM
Alongside the pleasantly mellow way we’re feeling about the spread of legalized pot, there is a dark undercurrent of paranoia. When getting high is no longer a crime, will it stop being so much fun? Will bald guys in khakis start loudly discussing their favorite sativa blends while in line at the supermarket? Will smarmy weed VCs and entrepreneurs try to “disrupt” the market of novelty bongs and cigarette-shaped one-hitters with some technology nobody asked for? Will someone invent a goddamned Keurig machine for smoking pot?
Bill O’Reilly Plans to Sue Ex-Wife for $10 Million, Accuses Her of Cheating
J.K. Trotter · 05/23/16 02:20PM
Bill O’Reilly’s legal battle against his ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy appeared to be over earlier this year when a panel of three appellate justices unanimously granted McPhilmy residential custody of the ex-couple’s two children. According to court documents filed late last month, however, O’Reilly intends to sue McPhilmy for $10 million on charges of misleading him about the terms of their separation agreement. In the same papers, the Fox News host accuses McPhilmy of using the proceeds of their separation to underwrite an affair with another man. And he wants the entire lawsuit to proceed in secret.
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Tom Scocca · 05/23/16 02:00PMObama Has Handle on Work-Life Balance
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/23/16 01:40PM"Don't Stay in School, Kids"
Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/16 01:20PMGlobal Warming Exists Only On a Small Slice of Beachfront Property in Ireland Owned By Donald Trump
Jordan Sargent · 05/23/16 12:40PM
For all the ways in which Donald Trump supposedly represents the destruction of the Republican party, the presumptive presidential nominee has toed the line on global warming, deeming himself a nonbeliever even as he’s drifted away from the most hardcore anti-climate change rhetoric. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that all changes when the future of one of his businesses is at stake.
Mayor de Blasio Couldn't Get Horse-Drawn Carriages Banned From Central Park and Now They're Getting a Raise
Brendan O'Connor · 05/23/16 12:20PM
Bill de Blasio’s attempts to deliver on his promise to ban Central Park’s horse and carriage industry on “day one” of his mayoralty have produced little more than a federal investigation into the animal-rights interest group backing his candidacy. Now, the mayor is obligated to give those very same drivers raises.
Cop Has Problem
Marina Galperina · 05/23/16 11:30AM
A decorated NYPD officer, who beat up a woman in 2014 while “sleepwalking” in his underwear, was charged with a DWI after the vehicle he was driving crashed into three parked cars and rolled over early Sunday morning. The officer suffered minor injuries and was arraigned last night and released on his own recognizance.
The Great Fortune of Capturing Anthony Weiner's Misfortune: Weiner
Rich Juzwiak · 05/23/16 11:10AM
An extraordinary thing fell into the laps of filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg as they documented Anthony Weiner’s 2013 bid for New York City mayor: Weiner’s dick. For about six weeks, Kriegman and Steinberg filmed Weiner’s promising attempt at public redemption after his 2011 sexting scandal caused him to resign from Congress—and then a second wave of sexting allegations emerged.
The Era of Bank Branches on Every Corner Is Ending
Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/16 10:50AMSupreme Court Throws Out Death Sentence for Black Man Convicted by All-White Jury
Andy Cush · 05/23/16 10:30AM
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning to overturn the death sentence of Timothy Tyrone Foster, a black man who was convicted of murdering a white woman in Georgia in 1987. Prosecutors struck all four black prospective jurors during selection for Foster’s case, leaving him with an entirely white jury deciding his fate.