According to an internal review, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is free and clear of any charges that he was involved in a high school-style prank to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge. Not cleared: His now-fired deputy chief of staff of intergovernmental affairs Bridget Anne Kelly, who is being thrown…
Pick your poison: crooked elected officials, or human trafficking? Apparently, that's the kind of choice you make when you're a U.S. Attorney. Which is how Chris Christie ended up going relatively easy on a suspected trafficker, while nailing a shady mayor.
Last night on Late Night, Jimmy Fallon came out dressed as New Jersey-born rock legend Bruce Springsteen to perform a parody of Springsteen's "Born to Run," rewritten to make fun of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's recent bridge scandal.
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Today, new emails have surfaced that prove what many have long suspected: Chris Christie is a vindictive, bullying asshole who has no business running a White Castle, much less an entire state.
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Fast food workers in 100 cities went on strike yesterday, agitating for a $15 minimum wage and the right to unionize. It's the latest move in a series of protests that have grown and gained momentum over the past year—a brave, necessary, and unequivocal clarion call for the dignity and humanity of America's low-wage…
BREAKING: Christie administration withdraws appeal of gay marriage ruling
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV)
October 21, 2013
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A lot of reasonable, rational people are happy to welcome same-sex marriage to New Jersey tomorrow. Every other Garden State sourpuss can join their tough-talk governor in the Wrong Side of History pasture, conveniently located just off the NJ Turnpike behind a crumbling Roy Rogers.
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The Glee episode addressing Cory Monteith's tragic and untimely death aired last night, and it handled the matter with dignity and grace. Notably, the cause of his character's death was never addressed — "I care more about how he lived," says Kurt at the start of the episode.
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After years of telling the curious masses to MYOB, Michelle Rodriguez has essentially come out as bisexual, saying that she's "gone both ways." So are you happy now? Can you please stop asking her so many intrusive, probing vagina-questions? Thx!
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On Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law that prohibits licensed therapists from providing gay conversion therapy to minors, declaring that being "lesbian, gay or bisexual is not a disease, disorder, illness, deficiency or shortcoming." Conservative groups are planning to sue the state,…
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Chris Christie, who has gone on record multiple times as a World Class H8er of the Maysles brothers-directed cinéma vérité series Jersey Shore, met the cast of Jersey Shore when both Christie's team and Snooki's team were filming segments for the Today Show in Seaside Heights. And it wasn't even entertaining in a…
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To me, Cinderella is the Superman of fairy tale heroines—I'm not mad, but the chick is BLAAAAAAAAND. That said, though, I'll probably go see Disney's live-action Cinderella adaptation (scheduled for release next year) because I'm a ridiculous woman-baby and magic is my food. Anyway, Richard Madden (a.k.a. the King in…
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie got lap-band surgery because he cares about his wife and kids and not because he has presidential aspirations and America would (hypocritically) never vote for a fat guy, no way, nope.
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PATERSON, NJ - MAY 02: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Jon Bon Jovi attend the Overdose Prevention Act Bill signing at Barnert Medical Arts Complex on May 2, 2013 in Paterson, New Jersey. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)
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While she's been a lightning rod for claims of both feminism and anti-feminism (particularly since announcing her Mrs. Carter World Tour), Beyoncé has tended in the past to steer clear of the F-word that's put so many female celebrities in the hot seat. Until now, at least. Bey tells Vogue UK in a cover interview for…
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Bad news for tweens and high-school kids hoping to be dark like Snooki and The Gang: Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill banning those under the age of 17 from using commercial tanning beds.
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New Jersey may soon follow (but hopefully not too far) in California's footsteps by passing a bill outlawing so-called "gay conversion therapy" for those under the age of 18. After being disowned by former proponent Dr. Robert Spitzer, such conversion therapies are coming under scrutiny in New Jersey, where lawmakers are …
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IMHO, Naomi Watts has always been the more endearing half of the blonde, icy "Aussie Posse" best-friend duo that includes herself and Nicole Kidman. Watts, who got a Lead Actress Academy Award nod for her role in The Impossible, is filming a 60 Minutes CBS segment as part of their pre-Oscars nominee special. But when…
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Today in uncomfortable-slantymouth news ( :-\ ), convicted murderer/hardcore Belieber Dana Martin allegedly recruited a fellow inmate to (I AM REALLY SORRY ABOUT TYPING THIS) murder Justin Bieber and his bodyguard and then castrate them with pruning shears.
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