CNN legal contributor Paul Callan explained on Monday how police in New York were tricking marijuana users into getting themselves arrested. Under current New York law, individuals in private possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana only face a finable violation. But if the same amount of marijuana is…
A Russian man is now warning people not to dress up as zombies and chase Miami residents after he was nearly shot while attempting it as part of an ill-conceived viral video project. Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, who says he came to the United States in 2004 to become an actor, posted…
Miss Ohio Audrey Bolte on Sunday cited Julia Roberts’ prostitute character in the film Pretty Woman as a role where women were portrayed in an “accurate and positive way.” “Do you think women are depicted in movies and on television in an accurate and positive way? And please give us…
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Friday awkwardly explained that she had misspoken when she said that “homosexuality is a lifestyle choice.” During a Thursday segment about Kansas Pastor Curtis Knapp, who believes that LGBT people should be executed by the government, Banfield attempted to address his comparison between homosexuality and…
Twenty-one-year-old Alexander Kinyua is being held without bail after confessing that he killed his roommate and ate his brain and heart, according to Baltimore’s CBS affiliate, WJZ. Authorities are waiting on the coroner’s report to make positive identification of the body, but believe that the victim is Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie,…
A gay Hispanic man and his partner in Gilbert, Arizona say that their family, which includes a disabled daughter, has been targeted with a series of hate crimes that amount to “terrorism” — and they worry that the police are not taking their case seriously. “I truthfully believe it’s because…
Christopher Cerf, creator of the children’s program The Electric Company and an award-winning composer who produced the theme song to Sesame Street, told a reporter recently that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “perverted” his music “to serve evil” by using his most famous composition to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.…
Video of a young boy at a church in Indiana being cheered as he sings about how “no homos are gonna make it to heaven” has gone viral. “The Bible is right, somebody’s wrong,” the boy, who appears to be around 4-years-old, sings. “Romans 1 and 27, ain’t no homo…
A British woman was sentenced to 21 weeks in jail on Tuesday after video of her berating minorities on the London Underground was uploaded to YouTube, according to BBC News. “Fucking foreign fucking shitheads,” Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, yelled at her fellow passengers after boarding the train. “Where did you come…