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Subway Restaurants’ former spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison, three years more than the maximum sought by the government, after pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a deal that imposes lifetime supervision on the fallen sandwich pitchman. His sentencing Thursday in Indianapolis federal court largely ends a scandal…
Three police officials say a woman who blew herself up during a raid on an apartment in suburban Paris was the cousin of the alleged mastermind of last week’s attacks. But details about Hasna Aitboulahcen’s role in the attacks remain murky following a confusing exchange with police officers moments before she is believed to have…
Sean Rad, the 29-year-old co-founder and CEO of Tinder, wants me to believe he’s a “romantic”, who is “ready to settle down” and have “lots of children”. In fact, the last woman he shared a bedroom with was his mother, Fariba, when he took her to Rome recently — although he nearly fled after seeing all her…
Welcome to a very special edition of people are worried about unicorns. They really are! The most worrying unicorn of them all, Square, went public last night at $9 per share, below its $11 to $13 marketing range. That gives it a valuation of $2.9 billion, not even a tricorn, and a sharp fall from the $6 billion sexacorn valuation…
Back in college, while my friends mostly held down jobs in retail, worked at restaurants, or picked up random gigs through temp agencies, I worked as a nanny. And while a lot of those friends hated their jobs, I was kind of obsessed with mine. I spent my days and evenings with two fiercely smart,…
Barack Obama has hit back at Republicans who want to stop the US taking in Syrian refugees – with the president saying some of the language used in the wake of the Paris attacks only serves to strengthen the Islamic State terror group. Obama rounded on Republicans in Congress who are preparing legislation that threatens…
AddThis Button Begin I am sitting in Maryland’s basketball arena at 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday night and the arena clock says there are still 47 minutes before player introductions begin. That means the game will tip-off at 9:10, unless there’s some kind of delay because the football game on ESPN2–on a Tuesday night!–runs long. I’m sitting three…
Like a kid taking his basketball home because you weren’t going to let him play anyway, Kurt Sutter has cancelled his medieval mess of a show, The Bastard Executioner, due to low viewership. Rather than release a barrage of tweets to that effect, Sutter made the announcement by taking out an ad in The Hollywood…
Entry Text On Halloween, four boys who most likely went to my university pulled up next to me in a battered sedan as I walked to meet my friend. “Must be cold in that skirt,” they yelled, and then gunned the engine before I could respond. I ran the rest of the way home. A…
Could this be the final nail in the coffin of Silicon Alley? Tech start-up bros are going to feel a little less secure in their morning commutes following a recent alarming report that hoverboards-that-don’t-actually-hover may actually be illegal in NYC. Good thing we found a way to fund that capital plan. After a string of…