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Tim Tebow to the Dolphins! How We Trolled Twitter to Believe a Crazy Rumor

John Boehner's Daughter to Marry a Rastafarian

House speaker, anti-weed guy, half-man/half-orange Republican John Boehner is about to become the father-in-law of a Rastafarian. Awwwww yeah, mon. Boehner's eldest daughter, Lindsey, 35, is set to marry 38-year-old Jamaican-born Rastafarian Dominic Lakhan at a ceremony scheduled for May 10 in Del ... More >>

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Possibly Identified and Arrested UPDATED

The age of 24 hour cable news/Twitter feeds have come smashing together...Via CNN, The Miami Herald had reported that Boston Marathon bombing investigators may have identified a suspect. There had been reports of a possible suspect leaving a black bag at the site of the second explosion via su ... More >>

CNN Reporter Finds Abducted Florida Boys in Cuba

Last week, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office issued an Amber Alert for two boys after their grandmother was tied up and the boys were taken from her. Days ago, the department began receiving reports that the boys' father, Josh Hakken, had arrived in Havana on his boat along with his wife. N ... More >>

Rainbow House Now Painted; Westboro Baptist Church Responds

The timing couldn't have been better for the shenanigans local activist Aaron Jackson and his non-profit, Planting Peace, pulled off in Topeka, Kansas yesterday. If you managed to avoid social media or the internet in general over the last 24 hours, the Destin-based activist, along with friends and ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's CNN Show Parts Unknown Premieres April 14

Follow Anthony Bourdain on Twitter and you'll find the man has no need for a PR rep. The chef, author, and television personality Tweets his own whereabouts and successes with as much skill as any seasoned hired gun. Recently, Bourdain has peppered his Tweets with pictures from some of his adventur ... More >>

Stranded Carnival Cruise Passengers Report Human Waste on Floor

After getting stuck for the past two days thanks to a generator failure that has stopped some of the toilets from working, Carnival Cruise's Dream is flying passengers off the ship. The good news is that the ship was not stuck in the middle of the sea but rather on the dock at Philipsburg, St. Maa ... More >>

The Onion, on Stage: The Brilliant News Satirists Skewer TED Talks in a Live Show

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Is Dead

If you're seeing a bunch of news-media types on a beeline for Weston, there's good reason: Hugo Chavez, the charismatic and controversial president of Venezuela, passed away today. The death occurred at 4:25 p.m., according to CNN. As well known for his U.S.-bashing and flamboyant behavior as his di ... More >>

Everglades Python Hunt: Can We Officially Call This One Giant Publicity Stunt? We Can

For the heat and hyperbole, who knew it was going to be this bad? But it is. The Great Python Hunt of 2013 may have been the greatest publicity stunt in the history of the Everglades. When the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission sent us its first python news release months ago, we wrote an intro ... More >>

New Times' Biogenesis Story: Extraordinary Attention and Denials

A story broken yesterday in New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times has received astounding national and international attention.The piece, which employed hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to show that major sports stars had received performance-enhancing drugs from a Coral Gables clin ... More >>

Casey Anthony: Appeals Court Tosses Out Two Convictions

Two charges down, two more to go -- that's the tally for Casey Anthony the horrible human being Florida mother woman who wiggled her way out of murder charges related to the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Today an appeals court tossed out two of Anthony's remaining convictions, charges for lying ... More >>

Python Challenge: FWC Announces First Kills in 2013 Contest

For the few hundred hunters who showed up Saturday for day one of the 2013 Python Challenge, it was a day of high excitement and little payoff, at least according to the numbers beamed out of the Glades on Saturday night. The kickoff party -- and really the good-time atmosphere fits the description ... More >>

The Ten Weirdest New Year's Eve Ball Drops: Pickles, Peeps, and Fish

Tonight, millions of people around the world will gather around their televisions to see a big lighted ball drop from One Times Square in New York City at midnight. Since 1907, the New Year's Eve ball has dropped at 11:59 p.m., traveling 77 feet in 60 seconds to signify the start of another year. &n ... More >>

NRA Holds Press Conference, Rick Scott Still Silent

It took them exactly one week after the Newtown tragedy to come up with things to say, but the NRA finally held their much ballyhooed press conference Friday to let all of America know that guns are totally awesome so don't stop buying them, please. NRA Head Honcho Wayne LaPierre joined our very ow ... More >>

Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After the Hoax, Falcon Heene Fronts a Metal Band

Heather Ray Played CNN, The Daily News and More

The story had every ingredient for a viral web hit: an outraged mother, a boy with Down syndrome, some feckless city bureaucrats, and one extremely cute pygmy pig. So it's no surprise that after the Sun Sentinel broke the news, the media pounced. The City of Coral Springs wouldn't allow Heathe ... More >>

PSY's "Gangnam Style" Dominates YouTube and Pop Culture

Twinkies in Danger: Hostess May Liquidate Today

Growing up in Brooklyn, there were only two kinds of bread available at any given day -- fresh baked loaves of Italian bread for the grownups -- and Hostess Wonder Bread for us kids. Read Also: Bankrupt Twinkie Manufacturer Warns of Hundreds of Florida LayoffsIn fact, Hostess was pretty mu ... More >>

Allen West: Democrats "the most racist party I've ever seen in my life"

The sun rises, the sun sets, Allen West says some ridiculously hyperbolic shit. It's all part of the fabric of life, the universe, and everything. Speaking to a group of black Republicans last Wednesday at the RNC in Tampa, West opened his face hole and words came out to the effect that the Democr ... More >>

Tampa Mayor Says He'll Cancel RNC If Isaac Threatens

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn says he'll cancel the Republican National Convention if Tropical Storm Isaac becomes a real threat.As of Wednesday morning, Isaac is becoming a real threat. "Well, absolutely, we're prepared to call it off," Buckhorn told CNN this morning. "I mean, safety and human life tru ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Isn't Too Popular With Obama Re-Election Team, According to Book

According to a new ebook by Politico writer Glenn Thrush, DNC chair, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, isn't very popular in the Obama re-election team. According to Thrush, a secret poll done among Obama's team to determine the popularity of the President's campaign surrogates revealed that ... More >>

Obama Buys $13 Million in Florida TV Time, Romney Citing Florida Woes

We've already the political ads flowing in, but there are about to be a lot more: As part of a huge $77 million ad buy, the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama has allocated about $13.3 million to Florida ads that are set to start running today, according to CNN. His total media spending i ... More >>

Hallandale Beach Lifeguard Tomas Lopez Fired for Leaving Assigned Area to Save Swimmer UPDATED

Update, 2:25 p.m.: Lopez was reportedly offered his job back. He declined, adding what looks to be a conclusion on the biggest life guard PR meltdown we can remember.Original post, 11 a.m.:Hallandale Beach lifeguard Tomas Lopez ran 1,500 feet outside of his assigned area to help save a drowning vict ... More >>

CNN Botches Health-Care Ruling on Homepage

In the race to break the news of the U.S. Supreme Court health-care ruling, several media outlets wrongly rushed out headlines declaring it had been struck down. But none botched the news with as much gusto as CNN.Full-sized screenshot of the mistake after the jump.

George Zimmerman Says Trayvon Martin Told Him, "You're Gonna Die Tonight, Motherfucker"

Documents released this morning show that George Zimmerman admitting that he did not call 911 when he saw Trayvon Martin "casually walking in the rain looking into houses" -- he called the Sanford Police non-emergency line -- and then says Martin cursed and threatened his life numerous times.Zimmerm ... More >>

Crazy-Eyed Washington Columnist Defends Allen West From Hypothetical Democrat Hypocrisy On Fictional Racism

Sometimes there are slow news days. Washington Examiner commentary writer Joe Gehrke must have had the slowest of his life yesterday.He was criticizing a blog post by smirking HBO commentator Bill Maher, a nice, soft target for a conservative gentleman. Maher's post was a meandering meditation ... More >>

Fox News Accuses "Mole" of Larceny; Fox News Steals Stuff All the Time

Renegade Fox News employee Joe Muto got a lot of attention when he joined Gawker and started writing dispatches from the inside of the Murdoch empire. He got only one post in before he was found out and fired from Fox, with a follow-up letter from the legal folks being sent to Gawker threatening leg ... More >>

Allen West Defends Ted Nugent, Fellow Crazy-Eyed Utterer of Meaningless Insults

Allen West has bulldozed himself so far into Crazy Town that the regular people gawking from outside the fence can barely even see him anymore. He's back to calling the president "Barack Hussein Obama," has once again ditched the business suit in favor of a leather vest, and now, in a move we didn't ... More >>

Failed Vice Presidential Candidate Recommends Allen West for Vice President, Again

Sarah Palin reiterated her belief yesterday that Congressman Allen West is the best choice for vice president, touting his military service and saying that the eventual Republican nominee shouldn't feel obligated to pander to the Republican establishment."When I talk about going rogue, what I want i ... More >>

Bill Clinton Coming to Broward Center Next Week

​Former President Bill Clinton is taking his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will "explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values," accor ... More >>

Allen West "Willing and Ready" to Be Vice President

​When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West that he is "always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.""As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future ... More >>

Gingrich, Santorum Build Florida Campaigns With Help From Antigay Crusaders

​The Republican presidential candidates can figure out a way to disagree on any topic -- we saw last night they could argue about everything from Terri Schiavo to beet sugar -- but there's one thing they all have in common: None of them has any plans to go anywhere near gay rights, and two -- Sant ... More >>

The Comedy of Larry King

Allen West Celebrates MLK Day by Telling President Obama Not to Play the "Race Card"

Rep. Allen Bernard "Harriet Tubman" West​Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "Harriet Tubman" who says he's trying to get the nation's African-Americans off the "21st century plantation," claims members of the Congressional Black Caucus are "racist," and suspects his potential opponent in his r ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quote a Finalist for PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year"

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz​Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a finalist for PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year" award(?), thanks to her accusation that Republicans want "Jim Crow laws."Wasserman Schultz joins President Obama -- who was nominated twice ... More >>

Voxxi.com, New News Website, Targets Hispanics and Latinos

Even though the journalism industry has been pummeled the past few years, with tremendous layoffs and profit declines (and the shuttering of some of our favorite titles), that hasn't stopped some foolish brave, optimistic people from wading into the new-media fray. If you crave your news with a Lati ... More >>

Allen West, Believe It or Not, Takes Up the Most Airtime of Any House Freshman

Harriet Tubman​Believe it or not, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" who compared being gay to liking ice cream and riding scooters, said gay soldiers can "change their behavior," called not-a-lady Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz the "most vile, unprofessional, and de ... More >>

CNN/Tea Party Express Republican Debate: Live Blog

​The Pulp will be in Tampa tonight to live-blog the Republican presidential debate, hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express.Eight candidates will take the stage for the debate -- moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer -- from 8 to 10 p.m., and the event will be streamed live online, which you can find he ... More >>

Fashion Night Out

Rick Scott Gets Told on CNN -- Again (Video)

​Gov. Rick Scott took his armchair president skills to CNN this morning as part of his belief that he has a say in federal government, and the CNN anchors made him look like a fool -- again.In early June, the governor went on CNN to defend his advocacy of drug-testing welfare recipients. He was as ... More >>

Famous Death Row Last Meals

He'll have the steak and eggs.​It seems a little strange that America treats criminals as well as it does.Yes, we lock them up in prisons with other burly men (or women) and let them out of their cells infrequently. And yes, there is the chance that they will be raped, shanked, or beaten to a pulp ... More >>

The World According to GOP Presidential Candidates

​In case you didn't notice -- between coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony Weiner, and Anderson Cooper probably wearing a skin-tight shirt -- CNN held a debate between hopeful Republican presidential candidates last night.You can guess what happened when Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Ne ... More >>

Gov. Rick Scott Invents A Scientific Study On Drug Use During Nationally Televised Interview

​Now for Gov. Rick Scott's charade of the day -- making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get their cash.On ... More >>

Democrats Honor Criminally Charged Politico With "Emeritus" Position

The Kings Point Condos have long been a tumor on Broward County's body politic. The Democratic-voter-packed condo complex for the elderly is in the heart of Tamarac -- and Tamarac, of course, is a nest of bribe takers that has recently become the corruption capital of not only Broward but also ... More >>

"Dusk Rings a Bell" at Mosaic Theatre: Where the Past Is far From Dead

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Seeing Gabby's Eyes Open Was "the Most Incredible Experience I Have Ever Had"

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington Giffords, Gillibrand, and Wasserman Schultz. ​ Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a close friend of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords', was in the Tucson hospital room last night when the congresswoman opened her eyes for the first time aft ... More >>

Miami Dolphins Stadium Renovation: A Field of Schemes

Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, left, with Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler and Ron Book, second from right. To the left of Book is his daughter Lauren, and that's apparently Jimmy Buffett in the middle. ​I think it's safe to say that the Miami Dolphins' plan to soak Broward taxpaye ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Indie Performance Space the Bubble Lives Up to Its Reputation