The Demented GOP Schemes To Rewire The Electoral College And Elect A Tea Party President
Republicans know they can't win the popular vote. You won't believe sick schemes they've launched to get around it.
Republicans know they can't win the popular vote. You won't believe sick schemes they've launched to get around it.
We admire their creativity, but can someone please tell the Galaxy that it's better to drink booze than to slide across the floor on it?
"Serial," a podcast exploring the case of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, has become a global phenomenon. In an exclusive interview, Adnan’s family talks about listening to "Serial," toxic Reddit threads and how his imprisonment has destroyed their lives.
Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon because his criminal past is preventing him from easily franchising his burger joint. He shouldn't get one. Not because we have something against pardons. He shouldn't get one because instead of pardoning him, state and federal governments should ease laws that prevent convicted felons like him from fully participating in society.
Ever look at a rickety wooden roller coaster in Mexico and think, "Gee, that's just not scary enough?" Well trials rider Julien Dupont did exactly that.
Ralph Baer, a true pioneer of video games, has passed away at the age of 92. Baer developed the very first console video game system, originally known as the Brown Box, but later licensed and sold as 1972's Magnavox Odyssey, which laid the foundation for video games as we know them today.
It seems churlish, at best, to lament easy access to one of the world’s most vital commodities. But cheap gas has become like an industrial form of crack. It doesn’t really matter how much damage it causes, because we simply don’t have the power to walk away.
Later tonight, you'll be able to watch a man attempt to become a 25-foot, giant green anaconda's dinner — willingly. And to make sure our human snake snack makes it out alive, scientists spent months designing, testing, and building one incontrovertibly snake-proof suit.
“TACKLE!” the head coach yells, and thus begins a five-minute period the likes of which most of us haven’t seen in American football. Yes, the University of New Hampshire football team, the best in the FCS, is about to practice tackling. But before doing so, 25 players drop their helmets on the turf.
"By their account, this was a clash of cultures : Silicon Valley versus tradition, and everyone must choose a side. I believe this dangerously oversimplifies a debate many journalistic institutions are having today. They were colleagues whom I personally liked and respected, so I was sad to see them go and regret much of how it happened. But the New Republic is too important an institution to accept their departures as its end."
During World War II, companies stayed in the public eye by advertising products — often with the government's help — that weren't available to civilians.
The computer hackers drilled into the network at the elegant St. Regis Bangkok that night and, with a keystroke, laid bare the secrets of Sony Pictures Entertainment. What had begun with a secret incursion into the Hollywood studio’s computer system was reaching its climax in, of all places, a five-star hotel in the capital of Thailand.
Well, guys, another year, another major NBC live musical production to transition us from the awkward weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the senioritis of months, when no one wants to work, errbody wants to shop, and all Allison Williams wants to do is prove that she’s not just a pretty face... she’s also a pretty boy, people.
President Barack Obama, who had medical tests on Saturday after complaining of a sore throat, is suffering from acid reflux, the president's physician said.
Four hours before his final match as a member of the U.S. men's national team, Landon Donovan strolls down a soulless hotel hallway in search of closure. A maid asks if she can clean his room. "Sure," he says. "I won't be back."
The source of the gas was apparently chlorine powder left in a ninth-floor stairwell at the hotel, according to the Rosemont Public Safety Department. Investigators believe the gas was created intentionally and are treating it as a criminal matter.
The most dangerous weapon on the planet is Lionel Messi's left foot.
Secretary of State John Kerry personally phoned Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Friday morning to ask her to delay the imminent release of her committee’s report on CIA torture and rendition during the George W. Bush administration, according to administration and Congressional officials.
"Maybe I would have read about them in Spin, Alternative Press, or Magnet. But Bedhead could have just as easily passed me by, like so many other bands surely did. There would be no YouTube rabbit holes, Spotify playlists, Bandcamp searches, or SoundCloud deep dives."
Posts featuring paparazzi photos of Swift leaving her house became so common on the celebrity gossip site Oh No They Didn’t! that they got a name: Taylor Swift Walking Posts.
Police on Sunday arrested an Uber driver accused of raping a woman in the Indian capital, authorities said.
Ohio State will join Alabama, Oregon and Florida State in the inaugural College Football Playoff.
North Korea on Sunday denied responsibility for hacking the computers of Sony Pictures but appeared to relish the cyberattack that crippled the computer systems of the Hollywood company, which is set to release a comedy involving an assassination attempt of its leader, Kim Jong-un.
The Boston Bandits were unknown in their own sports-crazed city until one of their players was allegedly murdered by ex-Patriots star Aaron Hernandez. Ever since, Odin Lloyd’s teammates have been using this tragedy — the team’s fourth death in the past few years — as motivation to band together and win a ring in his memory, all while shining a light on a gritty pay-to-play semipro league that has existed for decades on the outer fringes of organized sports.
For the first time in his life, everyone agrees with Al Sharpton.
Charles C. Johnson, a former Daily Caller writer and founder of GotNews (a conservative site rife with racist and Islamophobic content parading as "Independent, Unbiased & Unafraid") has claimed that multiple sources have confirmed to him the identity of "Jackie," the woman whose alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia was recounted in the Rolling Stone piece "A Rape on Campus." So, in an absolutely disgusting move, Johnson has published her name, or what he thinks her name is.
One morning, James Bridle set out to walk the perimeter of London. He didn't make it all the way, but he did see 427 surveillance cameras.
Staten Island's top prosecutor did not ask grand jurors to consider a reckless endangerment charge in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a source familiar with the case told NBC 4 New York. District Attorney Daniel Donovan only asked grand jurors to consider manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges against NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo.
A note that initially said the magazine “misplaced” its trust in an alleged gang rape victim was edited Saturday to say the “mistakes are on Rolling Stone.”
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is not just a problem in the NFL. BuzzFeed News reports on youth football, brain disease, the suicide of a 25-year-old man.
The shooting death of Tamir Rice, and a damning Justice report on Cleveland’s police, cry out for radical change.
Police in Berkeley used tear gas late Saturday night to break up an evening-long protest over recent incidents in which unarmed African American men were killed by police.
American special forces who tried to rescue photojournalist Luke Somers from al-Qaeda in Yemen were not aware of the identity of the other hostage held with him, a U.S. official has told the BBC.
There is another James Bond movie in the works, the 24th in the series of gun-slingin', sex-havin', Russia-or-whoever-it-is-nowadays-hatin' flicks to appear on-screen since Sean Connery kicked the whole thing off. But next year's film, Spectre, features something rarely seen in the Bond world: an age-appropriate co-star.
When gamers give game developers tens of millions of dollars before a game even hits shelves, is that permission to release a buggy game?
Did you know the Bitcoin community is driven by tension, drama, competing agendas, and at least two starkly different visions of our economic future?
The U.S. military overnight transferred six Guantánamo detainees to Uruguay. All of them had been imprisoned since 2002 – more than 12 years. None has ever been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of any wrongdoing. They had all been cleared for release years ago by the Pentagon itself, but nonetheless remained in cages until today.
Even though eBook readers like the Kindle are popular, paperback books are still awesome. They may be fragile, but with the right tricks, you can keep them in great condition to read for years to come. Here's how.
New research cautions journalists against harming their most vulnerable sources.
If you can’t send a selfie from a rock concert or an NFL game, does it still count as being there? That’s more than an existential question as texting, tweeting, Snapchatting and Instagramming fans outpace — and overload — networks at public events.
Neither raised fists nor a banner would do: when five students confronted the leader of the Thai military junta at a press conference this month, they wore shirts saying “We don’t want the coup” and raised the instantly recognizable three-fingered Mockingjay salute — leading to their immediate detention
Deliberate fouling, rushed and sloppy play, outright concession of games — stop the madness!
Gifts, as much as they can be symbols of love, can also be symbols of hate. Here are some suggestions for how to express your hate this Christmas.
"Death panel" rhetoric is a mere footnote in the success of the Affordable Care Act, but it still hurts.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II, designed for the Cold War, is old. It’s slow. And it’s about as sophisticated as a hammer. But it is heavily armored and wickedly armed, making it a ruthlessly effective weapon. And that is why, despite ongoing efforts by Defense Department brass to kill it, the Warthog is headed back into battle to help in the fight against ISIS.