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The Justice Department has issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Reason, a prominent libertarian publication, to unmask the identity of commenters who made alleged threats against a federal judge. In the June 2 subpoena, first published by the blog Popehat on Monday, the Justice Department orders Reason to provide a federal grand jury with…
Kamala Khan is unstoppable! The popular new Marvel heroine will be one of several heroes joining Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the third season of Disney XD’s Avengers Assemble cartoon, titled Ultron Revolution, including her namesake Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and more. The reason the new Ms. Marvel gets top-billing over my beloved Carol Danvers in…
Franklin Richards, the son of the Fantastic four’s Reed Richards and Sue Storm, isn’t just a young hero-in-training, but one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel universe. And chief among those powers is being completely insane, as these facts will prove. Franklin is 47 years old. Not in actual years, of course. But…
When two titans of the food industry come together, the result is usually something amazing, delicious, and probably hazardous to your health. The newest fast food product is no exception. Taco Bell announced on Friday that their new dessert option, Cap’n Crunch Delights, will be available for purchase starting July 2. You can click on…
“Game of Thrones” is not a show that makes things easy for viewers. Beloved characters are killed off without warning. Gruesome body horror, amputation, mutilation, dismemberment and decapitation abounds. For some reason, creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff can’t stop writing scenes where consensual sex scenes are rewritten as violent sexual assaults. Television, it’s a…
The HHVM team has concluded its first ever open source performance lockdown, and we’re very excited to share the results with you. During our two week lockdown, we’ve made strides optimizing builtin functions, dynamic properties, string concatenation, and the file cache. In addition to improving HHVM, we also looked for places in the open source…
Photo Vincent Musetto Credit New York Post Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at The New York Post who wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism — HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR — died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 74. A former colleague, Myron Rushetzky, confirmed the death, at…
The alternative lodging site has some interesting views on the city’s neighborhoods. View Full Caption DNAinfo Illustration NEW YORK CITY — What does Airbnb think about New York City neighborhoods? The site, which connects travelers looking for an alternative to hotels with residents in cities across the world, features write-ups of many of the city’s ‘hoods….
Benny Johnson has become admired and loathed for his addictive brand of political Web journalism. “A hate click is just as valuable as a love click,” he says. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Benny Johnson needed to escape the Internet. In less than two years, he had built himself up into a Washington media-insider celebrity: one…
The New York Police Department is having trouble diversifying its ranks because so many black men have criminal records, according to Police Chief Bill Bratton. “We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton told the Guardian…