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An unemployed mother of nine children- ranging in age from 21 to 3- is suing a hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts for sterilizing her without her consent.
Tessa Savicki, 35, claims the hospital was merely supposed to implant an IUD (an ...
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Shellie Ross counts herself among the growing ranks of moms who blog (and tweet), with thousands of followers subscribed to her Twitter feed- an impressive audience for a social media civilian.
Now Ross is in the crosshairs of holier-than-thou ...
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A Milwaukee teacher has been charged with disorderly conduct and fined $175 after she cut the hair of a 7-year-old girl to punish the child for playing with it.
7-year-old Lamya Cammon says the teacher cut off one ...
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Warning: boobies.
WJLA in Washington set off a bit of controversy in a segment yesterday by showing nipples in their entirety on broadcast tee-vee. In the horrifying, seedy context of a breast self-exam. Video below shows the shocking ...
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The furor over Jan Moir has died down on Twitter, but a new evil British columnist has stepped into the Twitter hate limelight.
This time it's UK restaurant critic AA Gill, who you may remember for describing the ...
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Larry Whitten was brought in to reverse the fortunes of a hotel in Taos, New Mexico.
So he did what any smart businessman would do- he started by pissing off and alienating the heavily-Hispanic staff. Whitten has been ...
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Was it TMI or a welcome, candid look into women's workplace issues?
Penelope Trunk, of The Brazen Careerist, tweeted to her now-19,000 followers during a work function that she was currently miscarrying. Like, that second. Trunk said:
I'm in ...
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An Ohio amusement park has disassembled a distasteful Halloween display that caused offense among parkgoers.
The display featured skeletons dressed as many recently (and not so recently) deceased celebrities. Included were Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and a Sonny ...
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Joe Wilson's outburst during Barack Obama's address to the nation over the healthcare debate is the partisan gift that keeps on giving, as Jimmy Carter's gone stirring the pot again.
Carter, in an interview with NBC, drew on ...
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Carrie Prejean, who shot to fame for her advocacy of "opposite marriage," is suing Miss USA officials for libel, slander and religious discrimination with claims they asked her to "stop talking about God" before she even made her ...
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One of the biggest draws of Entourage is the vicarious glee in the adventure of Vince and his "boys."
The underlying thread of the show is how stand up the guys are, often passing up a night with ...
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It seemed like circumcision was rightly about to lose its place in American culture.
The American Medical Association spoke out about the US-centric procedure in 1999, saying:
"Virtually all current policy statements from specialty societies and medical organizations do ...
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Glamour readers are fangirling like crazy over "plus size" model Lizzi Miller.
Miller turned heads in the latest issue because of the simple fact that she resembles most readers of the fashion mag. Miller, 20, is a size ...
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18-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya is refuting claims that her extraordinary performance in races may be down to the fact that she's not entirely female.
Semenya is strikingly muscular and angular, but her handlers insist that she ...
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Roseanne Barr is back in the news this week after a controversial photo shoot with Jewish hipster mag Heeb.
Barr did a layout with the publication which depicts the former prime-time queen as a Hitler-esque (complete with tiny ...
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"Ill-gotten, illegally accumulated" sand is at the center of a beachfront battle at a Mexico resort.
In what must be the silliest bust ever, Mexico's environmental protection attorney general told the AP:
"Today we made the decision to close this ...
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The condom broke. I'm a tits man. I'm living proof my mum is easy.
A new line of cotton t-shirts are drawing criticism in Australia due to some decidedly un-childlike slogans. Shirts for babies bearing the provocative slogans have ...
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It was jarring, stunning, moving and very sad. And it was also shopped.
The New York Times Magazine piece "The Ruins of the Second Gilded Age" was an essay composed of atmospheric shots, each depicting the stagnation of ...
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