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NEW YORK — Immigration officials arrested 41 undocumented people last week in the New York City area, 38 of whom had criminal convictions, including residents from the North Shore of Staten Island, Bushwick and Elmhurst, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and advocates. The raids were part of “routine, daily targeted operations to arrest criminal aliens and…
Three individuals who were arrested had no criminal convictions, ICE said. | Getty Forty-one people were arrested in the five boroughs of New York City over the past week as part of a national Immigration and Customs Enforcement “targeted enforcement action,” a spokeswoman for the New York field office of ICE said Monday. ICE…
Last night, Piers Morgan’s smug little face was a panelist on Real Time With Bill Maher, and another panelist told him to fuck off. There’s more to this story, obviously, but the moment was so satisfying it stands on its own. Behold below, and bless you, Australian comic Jim Jefferies. Bless you. It’s SO BEAUTIFUL….
When I quit my editing job at Wired in 2012 to spend more time with my startup, Contextly was focussed on helping readers dive deeply into a story, via smart related links at the end of stories. I was frustrated then at the state of digital publishing tools and the lack of innovation in the news media…
Matt Kiser worked in news for many years, and now he works as a product manager at an algorithm startup in Seattle. But every day, Matt spends upwards of six hours working by hand on his single-subject blog, which launched in January. Starting a new project to track what the fuck just happened today. https://t.co/p64yr6BKJ3…
Last week, Merriam-Webster added more than a thousand words to the dictionary. Among them, “to ghost” was defined as abruptly cutting off all contact with someone by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls or messages. With Valentine’s Day approaching – a time of year some data analysts have found is actually a peak…
Image via screengrab. It’s been nearly a year since the release of the critical disaster that was Batman v. Superman, and most chatter about the upcoming standalone Batman movie—the one that’s supposed to star Ben Affleck—has died down. But it’s not because Affleck is trying to mend his relationship with Jennifer Garner or add some…
Image via Playboy. In late 2015, Playboy announced it would be a nudie mag no more. Their final issue featuring nipples and vag shots came out in January/February 2016, with Pamela Anderson on the cover, signifying the end of an era. It’s now the end of the new era. The first no-nude issue featured the…
Image via Netflix Almost half of couples who watch Netflix together end up doing something completely normal: skipping ahead on shows behind their partner’s back. According to the latest survey results, the occurrence of so-called Netflix cheating (an actual first-world problem that’s unforgivable to some), has increased tremendously since 2013, when the first study was…
Britney Ever After, Lifetime’s Britney Spears biopic that’s predestined to be awful, includes a dramatic reenactment of her breakup with Justin Timberlake in 2002. The melodramatic tone and acting in this scene perfectly satisfy Lifetime’s requirements. In the clip below, Britney enters a room backstage and sees Justin (Nathan Keyes) looking at a piece of…