This morning, the U.S. government released a list of PDF books and other media found inside Osama bin Ladenās compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Alongside an issue of al-Qaedaās online magazine Inspire and U.S. articles about terrorism and foreign policy was a copy David Ray Griffinās The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbingā¦
This 9/11 cake was created by Austrian baker Thomas Kienbauer as a metaphor for the current state of Vienna politics. In this metaphor, the Twin Towers of cake represent the ruling coalition Kienbaeur opposes, and the planes represent various fringe parties he apparently supports. (It is not a very good metaphor.)
A SWAT team surrounded Lil Wayne's Miami Beach mansion yesterday after a 911 caller claimed to have shot four people there. The call turned out to be a swatting hoax, a fake report of a crime too serious for law enforcement to ignore, even if they know it's likely fake. And in this case, there's a good chance theā¦
Terrorism persists because terrorism works. Terrorism works because we let it.
This clip of a man jamming on a keyboard and singing what sounds like "everybody knows shit, FUCK" has been making the rounds today: It's been dubbed "The Everybody Knows Shit Fuck Dance," and declared "one of the internet's greatest achievements" from a "street musician who only knows four words." Only some of thatā¦
Caity: The twin reflecting pools at the National September 11th Memorial are just what memorials should be: vast, and arresting, and humbling, and sad. The museum is very expensive.
Stephen Ramsey, a 45-year-old lothario, was arrested in his Naples, Florida, home after getting wasted and calling 911 several times looking for a date. At one point, with a chuckle, he asked the operator about her feelings on handcuffs before hanging up.
Russell Brand's revolution hit a bit of a snag last night after his comments on the BBC's Newsnight got him painted as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Judging by the headlines and the Twitter responses, you'd think Brand had said that burning jet fuel couldn't melt steel.
The FCC says a software glitch that made it impossible for the entire state of Washington to call emergency services for six hours "could have been prevented."
An alleged mother-son meth-making team managed to alert law enforcement to their activities when they accidentally dialed 911 while preparing for a cook at their Florida home.
On Monday, three firefighters who served on 9/11 died within hours of each other, according to the BBC. Lieutenant Howard Bischoff, 58, and firefighters Robert Leaver, 56, and Daniel Heglund, 58, all died of cancer, though it's unclear if their illnesses were linked to their service after the attacks.
As the country gathers in somber remembrance, Gawker takes part in its annual, ceremonial purification of the demons of cloying 9/11 memorial writing, in which a giant wicker statueācalled by writers the "Ambler Man"āis burned in effigy.
Second only to the sub rosa network of Tea Party fronts funded by Libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch, the infamously tone deaf plans for an Islamic community center just blocks away from 9/11's Ground Zero came to define the midterm elections of 2010. This is the weird story of who funded that mess.
Mr. Brainwash is either a terrible artist or a great work of art. Whatever he is, he was apparently in lower Manhattan today, putting up an enormous, garish 9/11 mural on a department store across from the World Trade Center site.
What's left of the late Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church pickets in the vicinity of Gawker Media on its God Hates the Media Dotcom tour of New York.
Days ahead of the 13th anniversary of the attacks, the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum has unveiled two additions to their collection: the dusty, tan shirt worn by a member of SEAL Team Six during the raid that took out Osama bin Laden and a commemorative coin given to "Maya," the CIA operative who served as theā¦
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A fatal concert shooting led to a major firearms bust Sunday when rapper Young Jeezy and several tour employees were arrested on possession charges.
Ferguson police officer Justin Cosma made headlines last week when he arrested and allegedly assaulted two reporters working out of a McDonalds and as it turns out, it's not the first time he's been accused of unlawful force.
