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Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters’ apartment after landlord pries open door By Brian Ries2015-12-04 17:51:34 UTC In a surreal scene, a swarm of local and national media entered the apartment where Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived after the landlord tore off a piece of plywood that was blocking the door. News outlets, including MSNBC,…
Multiple news organizations are reporting that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance on Facebook to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Updated on December 4 at 12:06 p.m. Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Rizwan Farook, swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, on the morning the couple killed 14 people at a social-services center in San…
I’ve seen two reactions to the idea of Jessica Jones fans framing its antagonist Kilgrave as a potential romantic interest: abject disgust, or shameful participation. Almost all of the reactions I’ve seen have been in the former category, though, and they’ve been vehement. When I first saw the nascent Kilgrave fandom appearing on social media,…
Unlike the last trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which premiered at San Diego Comic-Con, the newest trailer focuses most of its attention on Bruce Wayne and Gotham’s Dark Knight. It starts off with Wayne meeting Clark Kent and dodging his questions about Batman at a fancy soiree thrown together by the eccentric Lex…
Oh my god. Oh my god. Genndy Tartakovsky’s iconic cartoon series Samurai Jack, which blended scifi and Japanese swordsman awesomeness, came to an end over a decade ago now. It’s lived on in the form of comics since, but at long last, Jack is coming back to television for a whole new season of adventures….
There was a lot of confusion about Donald Trump’s meeting with black pastors from around the country. Was it on? Was it off? Was it an endorsement? In the end, about 100 leaders of prominent African American churches came to talk to Trump. He expected an endorsement, but as Larry Wilmore explained on Tuesday’s “Nightly Show,” got…
On Tuesday morning, the homepage of Matt Drudge’s right-wing tabloid Drudge Report ran its top headline about Leonardo DiCaprio’s holiday vehicle, The Revenant, a nearly three-hour saga about a half-blooded Native American tracker named Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) and his battle against winter in brutal 1820s Montana as he seeks to avenge the death of his son, killed by a survival-obsessed…
Politics This French Philosopher Is The Only One Who Can Explain The Donald Trump Phenomenon by Judd Legum Sep 14, 2015 8:40am Donald Trump has political pundits stumped. They’ve been predicting his imminent downfall for months. Every “gaffe” that was supposed to destroy his support has only made him stronger. “DON VOYAGE: Trump Toast…
Stefano Schirato/REX Shutterstock Start Article Post Content CNN has suspended global affairs correspondent Elise Labott after she tweeted about Syrian refugees and a bill that would make it harder for them to enter the United States, according to multiple reports. Labott injected her own opinion about the bill in her tweet, along with the link…
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