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A group of people who believe the Earth is flat have announced their “biggest, boldest, best adventure yet”: a Flat Earth cruise scheduled for 2020. The cruise, organized by the Flat Earth International Conference, promises to be a lovely time. Flat earthers – who include the rapper B.o.B. and reality television person Tila Tequila – will be able to enjoy restaurants, swimming pools and perhaps even an artificial surf wave. There’s just one problem for those seeking to celebrate the flatness of the Earth. The navigational systems cruise ships, and other vessels, use rely on the fact that the Earth...

Support for the Flat Earth movement has been exploding in popularity, with millions believing NASA is trying to dupe us about the shape of our planet. Google Trends data reveals searches for “flat earth” in the past two years have tripled, with a 90 percent surge in interest in the cranky conspiracy theory. High-profile celebrity endorsements have helped grow a community of people who reject “globehead” thinking and insist that the world is in fact flat. Those coming out about their belief include NBA player Kyrie Irving, who said in a podcast that he believed the Earth is not the...

Richard Spencer, white nationalist and creator of the term “alt-right,” will be speaking in Rudder Tower this December. Spencer will be speaking on the alt-right movement, a radical offshoot of conservatism which promotes white identity and white nationalism. Spencer’s speech will be focusing on explaining what the alt-right is, and how he believes this movement will affect the United States. Recently, video of a speech Spencer gave at a conference for the National Policy Institute, a think tank for white nationalists and the alt-right, circulated around the internet. Much of the speech included anti-semitic remarks and Nazi rhetoric. At the...

On Saturday, the National Policy Institute, a white-supremacist (though its adherents would prefer "race realists" or something more sanitized) think tank led by Richard Spencer, hosted its conference in the atrium of the Ronald Reagan Building. It's a building that’s just a pebble's throw away from the White House (current home of the first black president of the United States, and the house that Donald Trump, a noted birther and a white-nationalist-supported incoming leader of the free world, is about to redecorate), and also a quick walking distance from Trump's newly opened hotel in DC. The conference, headlined by leading...

Reality TV star Tila Tequila suffered facial cuts when she was pelted with rocks and bottles while performing at a music festival in Illinois early Saturday, according to a witness and a law enforcement official. "She's pretty cut up," said a performer who saw the violence at the "Gathering of the Juggalos" in rural Hardin County, Illinois. The witness asked not to be identified so that he does not anger the juggalos. Tequila, a Playboy model who also sings, posted a Twitter message Saturday, saying she would sue the festival, which is organized for fans of the hip-hop group Insane...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. – A sheriff says reality TV actress Tila Tequila complained that audience members pelted her with stones and feces during an outdoor music festival in southern Illinois. Hardin County Sheriff Tom Seiner told a Carterville TV station it happened early Saturday at the Gathering of the Juggalos. That's a weekend festival based around the band Insane Clown Posse and other groups from Psychopathic Records. Seiner told WSIL-TV that Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, complained that she was injured when audience members threw rocks at her. Seiner said Nguyen also complained that feces were thrown.

The socially liberal but politically conservative Meghan McCain has a new friend who shows no traces of conservatism -- Tila Tequila. The MTV reality television star of "A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila," was spotted at Mr. Chow this weekend in Beverly Hills with Sen. John McCain's daughter, who Nguyen (Tequila's real last name) claims is her new "girlfriend." Will Meghan's new bodacious BFF make an entrance into the political arena? Let's hope not.

SAN DIEGO (AP)—District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has dismissed reality TV star Tila Tequila’s accusations that San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman(notes) choked her and threw her to the ground early Sunday.

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Chargers star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested Sunday and accused of choking and restraining his girlfriend, reality TV star Tila Tequila, as she tried to leave his suburban home.

SAN DIEGO (AP)—San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman(notes) was arrested Sunday and accused of choking and restraining his girlfriend, reality TV star Tila Tequila, as she tried to leave his Southern California home. Tequila, 27, signed a citizen’s arrest warrant, charging Merriman with battery and false imprisonment, San Diego County Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Steadman said. Deputies responded about 3:45 a.m. to Merriman’s house in Poway, north of San Diego, after a woman called to say she was choked by the player and physically restrained when she had tried to leave, according to a Sheriff’s Department statement.

super-friender and MTV hookup star Tila Tequila has a message for President Obama: Repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays. In a blogpost at globalgrind.com, Tequila, née Tila Nguyen, tells the story of Dan Choi, "a hero to many of us in the human rights movement," who was booted from the Army after publicly announcing he's gay. "Being an openly bisexual woman myself and having a lot of close gay friends, I have always HATED that policy," which was instituted by former President Bill Clinton in a compromise over his position on gays in the military that...

This was going to be a "don't believe everything you read on Twitter" sort of post, but the reality involving a rumor that online celeb/MTV star Tila Tequila had died is a little scarier than that. It appears that a stalker broke into the "A Shot at Love" star's house early Monday and posted two messages to her Twitter account (which has some 79,000 followers). "Tila Tequila is dead," the first one read, followed a few minutes later by "I just broke into her house, killer her and her dog. Logged onto Twitter to tell you guys. She was signed...

Rocker Billy Corgan has reportedly found romance with an unlikely partner -- Internet pin-up-turned-reality TV star Tila Tequila. On Sunday, the Smashing Pumpkins front man arrived at Bravo's second annual "A-List Awards" with Tequila, who shot to fame with her MTV reality series "A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila."

Don't raise your eyebrows at Tila Tequila's friendship with Meghan McCain. "People may think we are so different, but she is a Scorpio and I'm a Scorpio, and we have very strong opinions about things," Tequila told Usmagazine.com at Bravo's A-List Awards Sunday in L.A. See photos of more celeb BFFs Us recently reported that the two had lunch at the famed Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood after contacting each other through Twitter. (Tequila had read that McCain looked up to her.) Look back at the McCain-Palin families on the campaign trail Now, McCain "is a really good friend of...

Looks like Meghan McCain has a shot at being Tila Tequila's new bff. The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain was spotted having lunch with the MySpace minx-turned reality TV star in West Hollywood last week -- and apparently the two have a lot in common. "People may think we are so different, but she is a Scorpio and I'm a Scorpio and we have very strong opinions about things," Tila Tequila told Usmagazine.com Sunday. Meghan "is a really good friend of mine," she said.The two dined out at the posh Chateau Marmont after contacting each other through Twitter,...