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After bearing some heavy criticism for being slow to respond to last week’s mass shooting, the still all-too-many presidential candidates have been quick to offer up their thoughts and, as always, their prayers in the wake of today’s shooting in San Bernardino. http://gawker.com/as-many-as-20-… Donald Trump went the “support our men in blue route”… … riiiight…
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani isn’t saying Donald Trump is right about his unambiguous claim that “thousands and thousands of people were cheering” in Jersey on 9/11. But he’s also not saying that Donald Trump isn’t not right. And to back up his timorous show of support, Giuliani trotted out a straight-up hate…
On the campaign trail, Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich has gained an unfortunate reputation for his tendency to speak disrespectfully to and about women, like that time when he told a college student he didn’t have any Taylor Swift tickets, or lamented how easily a diet can become sidelined when spumoni is in the picture….
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….
12:11 P.M. Fred Henning was holed up inside the paralegal’s office where he works with his wife, about a block from the scene of the San Bernadino shooting. Henning said they were standing outside as helicopters swooped over the area, but fled into the building as police flooded the area. “We just came inside because…
(For Gorditas only) The Story of the Man Who Won 100,000x Lifetime Taco Bell Cards (with tweets) · jwherrman · Storify.
The decision by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to gradually give away 99 percent of their Facebook fortune is big news not just for the huge sum involved—about $46 billion—but for how the couple chose to achieve their philanthropic goal. Rather than set up a private foundation or charitable trust as Bill and Melinda Gates did, the Chan…
Nearly 7,000 Peace Corps currently serve in about 65 countries. Roughly one in five of them is sexually assaulted during that service, according to the results of a recent anonymous Peace Corps safety questionnaire, obtained exclusively by CBS News. The report also shows that nearly half don’t report the assaults. Pressure to change a culture…
The FBI processed 185,345 gun background checks on Black Friday, setting a new record. The 2015 number was about 5 percent higher than the number performed on Black Friday in 2014. The checks are required for permits and purchases from federally licensed dealers. On the same day, three people were murdered by a gunman at…
Click here to watch live video There were initial reports of at least 20 victims down amid an active shooter incident in San Bernardino late Wednesday morning, according to a police official. The San Bernardino Fire Department first tweeted around 11:15 a.m. that they were responding to a report of a “20-victim shooting.” San Bernardino…