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Portrait of the Week

HOME The City of New York agreed to pay Occupy Wall Street $365K for stomping all over its book tent when the NYPD raided Zuccotti Park in November 2011. ... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked the FBI to investigate how Mother Jones obtained an audio device that secretly recorded one of ...

Portrait of the Week

HOME Film critic Roger Ebert announced Tuesday that he would be taking a leave of absence, adding, “I am not going away.” He died on Thursday. ... Two young girls called 911 after witnessing the abduction of a couple in Manhattan. Witnesses claimed that masked men forced the couple into ...

Portrait of the Week

HOME Hopper Penn, the 19-year old son of Milk actor Sean Penn, tackled a photographer whom he subsequently called a “faggot.” Noticing the man was black, Hopper called him a "fucking nigger.” ... An eBay user tried to sell his autographed picture of Jim Carrey to raise money ...

Portrait of the Week

HOME NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced legislation requiring stores to hide tobacco products inside cabinets or under counters where customers can’t see them. ... The Government Accountability Office said it will not allow the cash-strapped US Postal Service to cease Saturday deliveries. ...

Portrait of the Week

HOME A judge smacked down Mayor Michael Bloomberg"s soda ban in New York City. Bloomberg vowed to appeal the decision, calling it "irresponsible not to try to do everything we can to save lives." ... The US Department of Agriculture might buy 400,000 tons of sugar to prop up the ...

Remembering Hugo

You will be missed, Hugo Chavez. The world has lost a man who was larger than life, and we don"t only mean your Body Mass Index. We will always love and admire you, even though you are now technically dead. Because we absorb most of our political insight from people who"ve done nothing ...