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A Philadelphia father was shot and killed during a carjacking last Thursday while trying to protect his two-year-old daughter.
Gerard Grandzol was returning home from Lemon Hill after a long day of playing frisbee with his young daughter and the family dog. Upon arriving at his home on Melon Street, police say the father was met by two carjackers who threatened him at gunpoint.
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Every year, thousands of people travel to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend the Burning Man festival to engage in a whole mess of oddities and activities. This year many people got to try human breast milk.
Yes, breast milk.
The Burning Man festival adheres to a set of 10 Principles, one of which being "to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources." One attendee took…
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Never a stranger to controversy, South Park recently made headlines again after it was discovered that the upcoming video game based on the show will feature a difficulty setting based on a character's skin color, gender and gender identity.
The game, titled "South Park: The Fractured But Whole," requires a player to choose a "difficulty setting" at the beginning of the game, which ends up…
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A man from a village in Northern India has been on a quest to undo the arranged marriage for his daughter that he helped set up.
In two reports seen here and here, NPR detailed how Lumbaram, an man from a village in the northern region of India, originally married off his 15-year-old daughter Durga to a man in his 40's who had a reputation for heavy drinking and little to no education.
Durga…
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When Patrick Mitchell was just 12 years old, he begged his mother to let him start taking estrogen hormones to transition into a female.
Now, just two years later, Patrick has changed his mind about the drastic decision.
"You wish you could just change everything about you, you just see any girl and you say I'd kill to be like that," Patrick told 60 Minutes Australia, according to an upcoming…
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In a rare turn for the good guys, armed employees at a Cleveland Taco Bell shot and killed a suspect during a robbery attempt this week.
The would-be-thief has been identified as De'Carlo Jackson, 24, according to Cleveland.com. The two employees, ages 19 and 23, shot Jackson six times at around 2:45 a.m. inside their Taco Bell located on West 117th Street in the city's Edgewater neighborhood.…
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Ever since the notoriously left-leaning University of California-Berkeley (UCB) announced that it would be hosting a lecture by conservative author and speaker Ben Shapiro, the months leading up to the event have been marked with controversy.
Now, university officials say they'll be slashing the number of attendees allowed at the event.
According to a news post from Young America's Foundation,…
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Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas leaving an path of destruction in its wake from flood waters and storm winds. But now that the storm has died and the flood waters have begun receding, a new issue has arrived: mosquitos.
As local officials scramble to address the large list of problems in the aftermath of the storm, the threat of a mosquito population increase is not only scary, but…
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Rev. Robert Lee IV, a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee who recently landed in the public spotlight after declaring he supports removing Confederate monuments, announced Monday that he has resigned from the Bethany United Church of Christ where he held a pastoral post.
Lee said he resigned after members of his congregation put his tenure to a vote after his well-publicized speech at…
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About four years ago, UC Santa Cruz art professor Elizabeth Stephens set out on a journey that would lead to a documentary film and an exponential growth public interest in...ecosexuality.
She came out with a documentary called "Ecosexual Love Story," in which she and her partner frolicked around the woods doing everything you might expect an ecosexual to do: licking trees, splashing around in…