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Over the past few days, I’ve participated in two watershed cultural moments. First, I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a theater with reclining seats. Second, I watched eight straight hours of The Great British Bake Off. Guess which one has affected me more?

Barbara Dawson, 57, died on Monday of a blood clot in her lungs after being arrested for refusing to leave Florida’s Calhoun Liberty Hospital.

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The Fifty Shades of Grey film became such a phenomenon earlier this year that avoiding it was fairly impossible. The movie turned out to be ridiculous (and bad) enough in itself that there’s no need to spoof it, but, as usual, Marlon Wayans is doing it anyway.

Sean Shaynak, formerly a math and science teacher at the elite Brooklyn Tech High School, pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping, obscenity, and sexual abuse, among other crimes. Prosecutors say Shaynak sexually abused seven of his female students between 2011 and 2014; the kidnapping charge resulted from taking one of them, then 15, across state lines to a New Jersey nude beach.

The Deadspin staff pick their favorite sports moments from 2015, and explain what made them so special. Here they are.

Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we decide not to buy In Touch, Star, OK, and Life & Style because nothing interesting is happening anyway and it’s much more fun to imagine the sordid things currently happening to the characters from our favorite holiday movies in an absurdist way that features no sense whatsoever regarding timelines or continuity.

Taystee, Suzanne, Boo, and all your other Orange Is the New Black favorites have arrived to deliver their own Litchfield version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas—which naturally includes looting, vibrating screwdrivers, and prison riots.

Since the Miss Universe pageant didn’t exactly work out in Miss Colombia’s favor, porn giant Vivid Entertainment wants her to consider a career in porn.

“Hello, it’s me,” is not what we’ll be saying come 2016 to any of these songs or artists. Why? Because they all had their moment in 2015, duh.

Anna Yocca, the 31-year-old Tennessee woman charged with attempted murder for attempting to terminate her pregnancy with a coat hanger , has pleaded not guilty. Yocca is being held on a $200,000 bond and was recently appointed a public defender.

Charlie Sheen admitted his HIV-positive status to Matt Lauer in mid-November, partially in order to get ahead of a National Enquirer story, but also to stop the stream of people he said were blackmailing him over the information. Sheen had been gossiped about before that piece was released, most notably in an “exclusive” article on Radar Online published a few weeks before entitled “Hollywood Superstar’s Desperate Battle With AIDS Revealed.” But now, Sheen has spoken to the very publication... Читать дальше...

In a rather momentous occasion, the entire Beatles catalog will, at last, be available for streaming starting on Christmas Eve. It’s a miracle involving lots of money.

This is the twelfth week of Jezebel’s first annual Fantasy Kardashian-Jenner League , a fantasy league about the Kardashians, the Jenners, and closely-related family members. The rules are here ; playoffs are January 9, 2016.

Sean Penn goes by a number of honorifics: actor, journalist, philanthropist, activist, humanitarian. At scattered points throughout his career, however, reporters and biographers have branded him with a much less noble title: wife beater. Since the late Eighties, numerous media outlets have alleged, with varying degrees of specificity and confidence, that Penn is guilty of assaulting—in some versions, torturing—his ex-wife of four years, Madonna. But are these accounts actually true?

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It’s strange to edit a feminist website when almost nothing offends you, because the feminist website is traditionally imagined to run on offense.

Air Force Maj. Adrianna Vorderbruggen was one of the six troops killed in Afghanistan earlier this week. Vorderbruggen was one of the first openly gay women in active service in the military, as well as one of the first to be wed in a same-sex ceremony.

Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals, and everything else making life miserable on a local level. Know a small time person who is a big time dick we should feature? Email us.

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Actress and formerly suspended Fox News contributor Stacey Dash has filed a police report against a man who is allegedly harassing her, according to TMZ.

Someone give me a remix of Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” that’s heavy on the sleigh bells, because Teresa Giudice has strutted out of minimum security prison just in time to celebrate the holidays with her loving family. Or, at least her loving children.

Earlier this week, presidential candidate and malevolent Cracker Jack Donald Trump was confronted with the upsetting reality that Hillary Clinton pees, something he found too gross to discuss: “It’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting.” Bernie Sanders has more upsetting revelations for the Donald.

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Months after cutting Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding and raiding clinics, Texas has now ended funding for the organization’s HIV prevention programs. The Texas Tribune reports that PP received notification on Monday that the Department of Health Services would not renew its contract for prevention services.