On Thursday, the Associated Press reports, outside a police station, in Paris, police officers shot and killed a man waving a knife and wearing what turned out to be a fake explosive vest. The incident came on the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Are you up to date on the election’s newest micro-controversy? Yesterday, the Washington Post published a cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as trained circus monkeys, a reference to a recent political ad released by his campaign that uses Cruz’s admittedly adorable tots as, arguably, props. Later that night,…
Two men believed to be connected to Amedy Coulibaly, one of three gunmen who terrorized Paris in January, have been charged with "terrorist conspiracy to commit crimes against people," The New York Times reports.
Wikipedia's entry on Muhammad was first published on November 8, 2001. It was eleven sentences long. Over the next few years, several thousand new words were added and edited, but it wasn't until 2005 that an image of Muhammad was attached: A 16th-century painting depicting the Islamic prophet. Two hours later, the…
The New York City Police Department has assigned police officers to guard the Manhattan offices of at least three media outlets—Gawker Media, BuzzFeed, and The Daily Beast—in direct response to the deadly shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7. Two officers assigned to Gawker’s offices in…
The government of Paris plans to sue Fox News for airing several segments claiming the French capital contained “no-go zones” that prohibit entry to non-Muslims and are frequently avoided by city police. Fox has since retracted and apologized for airing the segments, which were widely mocked by French media.
Saïd Kouachi, one of the two gunmen who attacked the offices of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, was buried last night in an unmarked grave in the city of Reims, where he had lived, The New York Times reports. The burial took place over the protests of the mayor and others.
An anti-Charlie Hebdo protest in Karachi, Pakistan turned violent on Thursday when four people, including two journalists, were shot outside the French Consulate. The New York Times reports that it's not clear if the victims were wounded by protestors or police.
As France reels in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks last week, coroners grapple with a separate issue—what to do with the bodies of the dead French alleged terrorists.
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During an interview on Sky News, French journalist and Charlie Hebdo contributor Caroline Fourest attempted to make a point about the U.K. media's decision not to show the most recent Charlie Hebdo cover (which features a cartoon of a penis-shaped Muhammad) by holding the cover up for the cameras.
As millions around the world rally behind Charlie Hebdo and the freedom of press, France has quietly been detaining people for exercising free speech on social media.
Parisians lined up at dawn to buy Charlie Hebdo's new dick-covered issue, which reportedly sold out at most locations in just minutes. To deal with the overwhelming demand, the magazine's publisher announced that an additional two million copies would be printed.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has come forward claiming responsibility for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices that left 12 dead. In a video originally uploaded to YouTube, Yemeni al Qaeda leader Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi heralds brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi as "two heroes of Islam."
The new Charlie Hebdo cover is fraught with meaning... and dicks.
Lawyers for alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want his criminal trial suspended until public starts to forget about the "extraordinarily prejudicial" Charlie Hebdo attacks last week.
Here’s what the cover looks like right-side up:
New video has emerged of the Kouachi brothers' shootout with police following their deadly attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices. The video shows Cherif and Said Kouachi shouting, "We are avenging the prophet Muhammad!" and calmly reloading their assault rifles before driving off. Seconds later, a police car approaches…
BBC Foreign Correspondent Fergal Keane was given an advanced copy of this week's Charlie Hebdo. Judging from Keane's description of the issue, the magazine contains about what you'd expect: crude caricatures of Muhammad, a woman lifting her burka to show her naked body, sexual images of the pope, cartoons about ISIS,…
The surviving members of Charle Hebdo held a press conference this morning to discuss last week's massacre and how they prepared the magazine's new issue. "I honestly didn't know if I could still draw," cartoonist Rénald Luzier—better known as Luz —told reporters.
