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George Zimmerman Wants To ‘Show America Who I Truly Am’

Source: AP / ABC News George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, said in an interview released Wednesday that he’s trying to be a good person and he thinks he can help others after what he has gone through. Zimmerman said in a videotaped interview […]

Arizona Indicts Darren Sharper On 2 More Rape Counts

Source: Brent Schrotenboer / USA Today Former NFL safety Darren Sharper has been charged with two more counts of sexual assault and three more counts of administering dangerous drugs, this time in Arizona, where he allegedly raped two women in November. Detectives from Tempe served Sharper’s attorney with a grand jury indictment on those charges Wednesday morning, […]

Journalism Startups Aren’t A Revolution If They’re Filled With All These White Men

Source: Emily Bell / The Guardian When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect from the New York Times, it began a wave of new, new money-backed “personal brand” journalism startups that launch in earnest with FiveThirtyEight on ESPN next week. This was supposed to be a good thing. “A very luxurious situation” indeed. […]

Man Who Allegedly Shot Rookie Cop Calls NYPD ‘Biggest Gang In New York’

Source: Oren Yaniv / New York Daily News The remorseless Brooklyn fare-beater who shot a rookie cop disparaged the city’s Finest as “the biggest gang in New York,” which is “always messing with black people,” according to court documents released Tuesday. Rashun Robinson, 28, allegedly wounded Officer James Li on Feb. 26 after the cop […]

Bill O’Reilly Is Very Freaked Out By Beyonce

Source: Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post Bill O’Reilly has found a new threat to society’s children: Beyonce. The anchor played host to Russell Simmons on his Monday show, and told him that he’d taken a look at the singer’s very steamy “Partition” video (purely for research purposes, of course). O’Reilly said he was shocked and […]

Key Senators Agree On Plan To Replace Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Source: Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Congressional efforts to shut down bailed-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took a significant step forward Tuesday as key senators announced bipartisan agreement on a plan to overhaul the housing finance system. The proposal, which will be detailed in the coming days, would slowly shrink the companies and replace them with […]

Families: Cellphones Of Missing Passengers Still Ring

Source: Greg Toppo / USA Today Family members of a few passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are pushing the airline to search for the GPS location of their loved ones’ cellphones after saying they’d successfully placed calls to missing passengers’ mobile phones. A few family members said dialing the numbers resulted in ringing […]

Adult Swim Greenlights New Live-Action Series From Aaron McGruder Titled ‘Black Jesus’

Source: Tambay A. Obenson / IndieWire Adult Swim has announced that the network has greenlit a new half-hour live-action scripted comedy from Aaron McGruder titled Black Jesus. The series will find Jesus living in present day Compton, CA, on a daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood, with the help of his small but loyal group of […]

Woman Charged With Manslaughter In Botched Butt Lift Death Of Queens 22-Year-Old

Source: New York Daily News A 22-year-old woman who died under mysterious circumstances in a Manhattan hot sheets hotel last summer was the victim of a botched buttocks lift — Tamira Mobley, 28, of Wood-Ridge, N.J., has been charged in the death, police sources said Tuesday. Tamara Blaine was suffering a seizure when police arrived at […]

Jon Stewart Rounds Up ‘Crazy’ CPAC On The Daily Show

Source: Josh Feldman / Mediaite Jon Stewart rounded up the best of “crazy” CPAC Monday night, which he described as “Burning Man for people who don’t do drugs and are afraid of fire.” He summed up the big, patriotic speeches with some genital-centered jokes, declaring, “Take it out and jerk it for America!” To read this […]