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Start: GPT End: GPT Begin comScore Tag End comScore Tag Google Tag Manager End Google Tag Manager April 10, 2015 6:51am PT by Ashley Lee ‘Empire’: Taraji P. Henson Reveals Cookie’s Amazing Improvised Naomi Campbell Insult That Was Cut (Video) Lloyd Bishop/NBC Also improvised by Henson: ” ‘Boo boo kitty’ is the new ‘Bye, Felicia!’…
North Charleston, South Carolina, is first and foremost home. It’s where I spent my formative years, where my parents live, and where I went for Thanksgiving last year. But North Charleston is, for many people, a headline now. Charleston’s blacker, poorer neighbor is a headline because Walter Scott died there, because police officer Michael Slager murdered him there, allegedly. A…
<br /> Remember the scene from A League of Their Own where Jimmy Dugan, played by Tom Hanks, proclaims, “There’s no crying in baseball!” This is basically all I have wanted to scream at my tender, fragile, weak journalism colleagues who couldn’t handle the mildest of pushback from Rand Paul during an interview with Savannah…
Stack Overflow has released the results of its 2015 developer survey, which covers a wide range of topics including preferred programming languages, education, compensation, and even caffeine consumption. The 45-question survey ran for just two weeks in February and the site was able to collect results from more than 26,000 participants. Obviously, Stack Overflow survey…
Feidin Santana, who filmed the police killing of Walter Scott, is interviewed on NBC Nightly News. Photograph: NBC Walter Scott and police officer Michael Slager were struggling on the ground in the seconds before Slager shot Scott dead, the man who recorded video footage of the killing in South Carolina said on Wednesday evening. In…
Age of Empires II is so old it was released in the 20th century. And 15 years into the 21st-century, it’s getting a new expansion. It’s for the HD version of the game released on Steam a few years back, and will actually be the second expansion for the refreshed title; another, The Forgotten, originally…
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night. The nondescript building has…
I was painfully shy growing up. I’d flush when I had to get up in front of the class, and shook in fear of getting called on by the teacher. As I grew up, the anxiety subsided, somewhat. Echosmith’s glamorous frontwoman Sydney Sierota seems like the last person who would deal with isolation. But at…
It stands to reason that as revenge porn is cracked down upon, certain men will have to find other ingenious avenues for non-consensually sexualizing women. Well, meet DoppelBangHer, one of the most creative approaches I can possibly imagine. It’s a Reddit community where dudes go to crowdsource a very important question: How do I find…
The New York Daily News is reporting tonight that Hillary Clinton will announce her candidacy for President on Sunday. Business Insider politics editor Hunter Walker, who ran a similar report earlier today, joins Hardball with the scoop. Reports: Clinton to announce on Sunday | MSNBC.