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Image: Wikimedia Candy corn is garbage food, and it’s terrible for you, too. Still, as per tradition, millions of Americans purchased hefty bags of the stuff over the weekend to hand out to trick-or-treaters and snarf when their loved ones weren’t looking. For most of us, a handful of candy corn is more than enough…
A plume of steam and ash billowing out of Mt. Saint Helens in 1982, two years after the most destructive eruption in US history. Image: Wikimedia Picture a volcanic eruption: fiery magma and smoke billowing skyward as a towering mountain empties its over-pressurized belly of a hot meal. At least, that’s how most of us…
(Twitter) Earlier today, an American Airlines plane with 170 people aboard caught fire at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Everyone was evacuated alive, though there are some minor injuries. But now a second plane, this one operated by FedEx, has exploded at the Ft. Lauderdale airport in Florida. It’s unclear what exactly caused the explosion of…
Illustration: Jim Cooke In September of 1984, at least 751 people got violently sick in The Dalles, Oregon. At first, no one in the town could figure out why. Those sickened had all eaten at ten different restaurants in the area, but local health officials couldn’t find a common food that may have caused their…
Vine Dries Up. Black Humor Loses a Home – NYTimes.com. Source: Vine Dries Up. Black Humor Loses a Home – NYTimes.com
Black riders in Seattle and Boston get longer wait times and more canceled rides.Adam Berry/Getty Images If you have a distinctively black-sounding name, you are more than twice as likely to have your Uber trip canceled than if you had a white-sounding name, a new study reports. For black men, the same study found,…
Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 31, 2016 Trump says Russia isn’t influencing our election, and so do these Russian trolls who are being paid to influence our election. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Mondays…
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Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and Facebook board member, appeared today at the National Press Club in Washington, where he gave a short speech defending his support of Donald Trump and answered journalists’ written questions about his decade-long campaign to destroy Gawker Media. His answers revealed a deep-seated hatred toward Gawker and its staff,…
Monday night, Slate published an explosive new story suggesting shady ties between a server registered to the Trump Organization and ones own by a Russian bank. While the Clinton campaign quickly pounced on the story as possibly “the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” security analysts raised doubts about the story’s conclusions…