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MANHATTAN — Leave the bomb, take the bag. In two separate cases, thieves snatching bags from city streets and train stations inadvertently helped law enforcement get the upper hand in an ongoing bomb spree that’s hurt dozens of people and spans both sides of the Hudson River, sources said. UPDATE: CAUGHT: Chelsea Bombing Suspect Taken…
In a post published Monday, Radar Online wrote that it has identified an A-list actor who pretends to be a “family-man” while simultaneously presiding over a Hollywood pedophile sex ring. The actor, who is not named in the report, allegedly raped teen idol Corey Haim (who died of a drug overdose in 2010), and his…
Much has been written about how sexism dictates whether a garment gets usable pockets. While class unquestionably plays a part, men’s clothing tends to have capacious, visible pockets; women’s clothing tends to have small pockets, if any at all. Content with their pockets, men have little to say about them, but women have been complaining…
Found: Video of Donald Trump celebrating an attack on New York City. “I knew this was going to happen,” Trump bragged early Monday morning in a phone interview with Fox and Friends about the bomb that went off in New York City this weekend, injuring 29 people. “I should be a newscaster because I called…
View this image › Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, US. Sept. 9, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen Andrew Cullen / Reuters ID: 9592524 Right about the time the news came in that construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline would be…
Last Saturday, The New York Times published an extraordinary story. What made the story extraordinary wasn’t the event the Times covered. What made it extraordinary was the way the Times covered it. On its front page, top right—the most precious space in American print journalism—the Times wrote about Friday’s press conference in which Donald Trump…
Los Angeles officials have steadfastly refused to identify the Wet Prince of Bel Air, the homeowner who pumped an astonishing 11.8 million gallons of water during a single year of California’s crippling drought. The city said naming water-wasting customers wasn’t in the public interest, even after Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found last…
On September 13, owners of HP OfficeJet, OfficeJet Pro and OfficeJet Pro X began contacting third-party ink vendors by the thousand, reporting that their HP printers no longer accepted third-party ink. The last HP printer firmware update was pushed in March 2016, and it appears that with that update (or possibly an earlier one),…
Three of the four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblower to return to the U.S. with no charges. That’s the normal course for a news organization, which owes its sources…
Investigators believe there are more people involved in the New York and New Jersey bombing plots than just Rahami, but they do not have a good idea who else might be involved, two U.S. officials told Reuters. There are more people involved in NY bomb plot: two U.S. officials Investigators have…