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One person is dead and three more are injured after a gunman opened fire in a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens hookah lounge early this morning. According to police, the shooting occurred at Buda Lounge on Flatbush Avenue just before 3 a.m. One 27-year-old man, who was shot in the head and torso, was pronounced dead at Kings…
Per an alert sent to students by school administrators, Savannah State University in Georgia is on lockdown while campus police investigate a shooting near the student union. One man has been taken to the hospital, CBS 46 reports. “The SSU campus is on lockdown following a shooting incident this evening at or near the Student…
A billionaire hedge fund investor and GOP donor who publicly mocked Hillary Clinton this year for being married to “a liar and a cheat” had an account on the cheating site Ashley Madison, according to data released by hackers calling themselves the Impact Team. The name and email address of Dan Loeb, founder of hedge…
Soon after the on-air shootings of two Virginia journalists, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians called on Congress to take up gun control. “We have got to do something about gun violence in America — and I will take it on,” Clinton told reporters in Iowa. “There are many people who face it…
We live in an age of nerds. Sometimes I try to explain to my kids that I grew up in a time — a dark age known as The Eighties — when reading comic books, playing fantasy-based card games, watching Doctor Who, or being really into computers could get you publicly pantsed. There was a…
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was last seen hawking paintings of the Confederate battle flag that praised the Second Amendment, took to Twitter in the wake of yesterday’s shootings of Alison Parker and Adam Ward to condemn the “Black [piece of shit]” who murdered them and the “Ignorant Baboon” in the White…
CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has built his campaign on belligerent — even outright racist — rhetoric. On Tuesday, for example, Trump told Jorge Ramos, a prominent Mexican-American journalist, to “go back to Univision” shortly before one of Trump’s bodyguards pushed Ramos out of the room. Outside of immigration policy, however,…
This is what we will tell you about the two young TV journalists for Virginia station WDBJ who were shot to death on Wednesday, on air. Reporter Alison Parker had just turned 24, and had celebrated her birthday with her colleague and boyfriend, Chris Hurst. Cameraman Adam Ward, 27, was engaged to the station’s morning producer, Melissa…
While we know guns had nothing to do with the tragedy today that took the lives of Virginia TV station WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, in addition to the suicide of the shooter, a disgruntled former employee of the station, we thought we’d mention some other recent deaths in which guns had…
Oh hey, New York Times Facebook word-writer social media person, what are YOU doing? Oh, just posting this article with these words written above it? Ah, we see. And what salacious wonders will we find when we click on this article about how Huma Abedin is “back in the spotlight”? Because, from the words you wrote…