Новости за 29.10.2015

Owen Labrie, 20, has been sentenced to one year in jail for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate at the elite St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. In a statement delivered by video in court Thursday, the victim said she still suffers from flashbacks and said the St. Paul’s community showed her a stunning lack of compassion after the assault: “No one understood.”

New research from The University of Pennsylvania has confirmed everything your mother has told you already: being married will save your entire life. Well, at least if you’re going through heart surgery. According to the findings, married people have a much greater chance of surviving than those who are single.

Weekly-ish, a pre-approved, snap-judged music guide based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. There’s really no debating this, come on stop.

In an age of billionaire nerds with chips on their slumped shoulders, bros are often caricatured as beefy dipshits or smeared as preening, bullying date rapists. Well, put a big fat tally in the W column, for bros of America have scored a resounding victory: Paul Ryan, bro king, has been elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Congrats, bro !

Stephenie Meyer recently demonstrated that taking one of your old novels and “rewriting” it as a gender-bent retelling can be a lucrative way to appeal to one’s fans. But what if the story that you’re writing up isn’t yours to begin with? A romance novelist specializing in gay fiction has just been uncovered as a plagiarist due to her interesting practice of taking others’ work, switching the gender of one main character and calling it her own. Her response? She “made a mistake.”

What The Fuck Is This? is a new column examining terrifying medical instruments throughout history.

In darker National Cat Day news, a North Carolina woman named Aimee Cook has been charged with 14 counts of animal abuse after a suitcase containing 14 dead cats and kittens was found near near the dumpster of an apartment complex.

During the Politics and Eggs breakfast in Manchester, New Hampshire this Wednesday, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton managed to yet again stand out against her fellow Democratic candidates, this time by coming out in support of the death penalty.

So who is Christina Rossetti?

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Another question to make you think: Why is this photo so blurry?

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Florida State University’s Chi Omega house looks exactly as a sorority house should: large and stately, with a conservative symmetry in its manicured lawn and beige portico that transmits the values of the sisters who live there. With large Greek letters on its exterior and hand-painted banners hung from its balconies, the house could belong on any large Southern college campus. It’s pretty and charming, yet decidedly unremarkable. I neither thought nor knew much about the sisters or their house... Читать дальше...

Today is National Cat Day, and the question on literally everyone’s mind is, “Am I a cat lady?” Well, rack your brain no longer, because we have created a quiz that will help you answer that question once and for all.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a black man with a history of spewing radically ignorant conservative views, has set a target on Black Lives Matter, referring to the movement and its activists as “garbage,” “black slime” and “subhuman creeps” in the past week.

This week saw the release of the first major, large-scale biography on one of pop music’s biggest and most guarded stars: Beyoncé. The product of hundreds of hours of interviews from dozens of sources, J. Randy Taraborrelli’s Becoming Beyoncé aims to be the definitive chronicle on the creation of an icon. It also suggests that virtually everything Beyoncé has told the public checks out. You won’t find any credence given to pregnancy conspiracy theories or Illuminati affiliations. Beyoncé is portrayed... Читать дальше...

Britney Spears is reportedly having trouble selling tickets for her Vegas residency and obviously Céline Dion did this to her.

Like many, Hillary Clinton live-tweeted tonight’s frightening Republican debate . Among her tweets were responses to the topics discussed, such as gun violence prevention, health care and immigration, but there was one that stood out like a sparkling diamond. It was in the form of the most brilliant, sassy GIF.

As if this story could get any worse, the South Carolina teenage girl who was seen being violently thrown around in her classroom by a police officer in a video earlier this week is reported to have recently lost her mother.

Every once in awhile a photo-taking trend comes along that causes us to simply ask, “Why?” Several years ago, it was “planking .” Before that, it was the “fingerstache.” Now there’s a photo meme that people are going nuts for, literally. It’s called Nutscaping, and it involves a dude’s single testicle hovering over a majestic natural landscape.

[Long, drawn-out, blood-curdling scream]

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Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez are so jazzed about divorcing each other that they can’t stop filing for divorce from each other.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Kendall Jenner is all over the place, Zoe Saldana enjoys an interesting lunch and Rose McGowan loves the dead.

Among the many services to which millennials can now turn in times of crisis: Need a Mom. Is it real? Or is it simply too real? Great question. Also, hope they offer gift cards!

A group of six very cool Russian women have locked themselves in a fake space ship in an attempt to study what an eight-day all-female mission to the moon might do to a person psychologically and physically.

Here is an example of science gone too far.

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Actress Karla Souza, who’s on the cover of GQ Mexico’s October issue, says the cover image would’ve been much more revealing if the magazine had its way.