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Paris Suspects Cornered: 2 Hostage Situations

(Newser) - French security forces have swarmed a small industrial town northeast of Paris in an operation to capture—or, the country's interior minister says, "neutralize"—a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo . The suspects are believed to be holed up... More »

Cosby Jokes About Rape Allegations

(Newser) - Not only is Bill Cosby performing comedy again despite the ever-growing rape allegations against him, he's cracking jokes about them. At a show last night in Ontario, Canada, Cosby got into an ad-libbed back-and-forth with a woman who stood up during the performance, reports the National Post . When he... More »

Golden Gate Taking First Weekend Off in 77 Years

(Newser) - San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge has apparently banked plenty of PTO hours over the last 77 years—and this weekend it's using 52 of them. Starting at midnight tonight and continuing through 4am Monday, the bridge will be closed to cars so that a movable median barrier can... More »

Billionaire's Ex Finally Cashes Nearly $1B Check

(Newser) - Is the epic divorce battle between oil magnate Harold Hamm and his ex-wife, Sue Ann Arnall, finally over? Hamm offered Arnall a check for $974,790,317.77 on Monday, but Arnall initially rejected the payout because she believed she was owed a larger divorce settlement. But yesterday, Hamm's... More »

Cleveland Cops Tackled, Cuffed Dying Boy's Sister

(Newser) - A lawyer for Tamir Rice 's family calls it the cruelest thing he's ever seen. In newly released surveillance video, two Cleveland police officers can be seen pushing the boy's 14-year-old sister to the ground as she tried to run to her brother's side just 90... More »

Ancient Shipwreck Yields 'Atlantis' Metal

(Newser) - It was considered one of the most precious metals in ancient times—and Plato claimed it lined the temple of Poseidon on the legendary island of Atlantis—but this appears to be the first time anybody in modern times has actually found some orichalcum. Researchers in Sicily say a shipwreck... More »

Crooked Cop Drove Ferrari to Work

(Newser) - Police officer Osman Iqbal of Birmingham, England, had lucrative sidelines in drugs, prostitution, and money laundering—and he might have gotten away with it for longer if he hadn't started driving a $250,000 Ferrari to his day job. After the officer, who made roughly $60,000 a year,... More »

Muggle's Potter-Themed Proposal Almost Thwarted

(Newser) - In the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore finds Harry at Surbiton station in Surrey, England, and whisks him away to Budleigh Babberton—a scene meant to depict the promise of new beginnings. So when Samuel Goetsch of Houston took his Texan girlfriend of four years Stephanie Dodd... More »

NYC Bans Styrofoam Cups, Containers

(Newser) - Diners, delis, and food carts in the country's biggest city have six months to find a greener alternative to the Styrofoam cups and takeout containers many of them use. New York has become the latest US city to ban foam containers, and the ban will take effect July 1,... More »