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Madonna celebrated International Women’s Day Wednesday by releasing a short film titled “Her-Story: Women Who Fight For Freedom.” The 12-minute black-and-white video was directed by fashion photography duo Luigi & Iango in collaboration with Vogue Germany. The video montage is broken into eight different chapters, each showing scenes of the singer smoking cigarettes in a foggy alley, engaging in choreographed dance sequences, and unfurling a large banner with a message that reads: “We should all be feminist.” The video, which is “dedicated to all women who fight for freedom,” also features sound bites from Madonna’s controversial speech last month at...

CIA documents published by WikiLeaks show that the CIA kept a database of “Japanese style faces” to utilize in online forums. The WikiLeaks data dump, which consists of 8,761 files and documents, was taken from a high-security isolated network situated inside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Within the data dump a folder called “Japanese Style Faces” can be found. These consist of ASCII expressions designed to represent faces and emotions, commonly used on internet message boards to denote a particular reaction. Some of the faces are listed below.

Paranoid New Yorkers now have a speedy way out of the city should disaster strike. Chris Dowhie, co-owner of Plan B Marine, runs a marine evacuation service which advertises the fastest possible way out of Manhattan. Whether it’s power failure, blackouts, grid failure, bad weather, flooding or a terrorist attack, Dowhie’s clients want to be prepared for doomsday.

I put this little ditty together since I know how much y'all love death metal. Don't thank me; your smiling faces are reward enough. For a free download of "Damnation II" click here, click on More, and choose Download.

It’s International Women’s Day and women across the world are celebrating the emancipation of women. But where would we be without virtue-signaling male feminists? Here’s a (non)exclusive list of things male feminists do and say to get the approval and tell everyone how chill they are with women’s rights:

A brother played a prank on his sister and swapped out her goldfish with baby carrots days ago... and he is still waiting for her to notice!

Author and sex columnist Dan Savage says many liberals are giving first lady Melania Trump a pass because she’s pretty — and that she doesn’t deserve one. “God knows there’s enough hate in the world and I don’t want to add to the sum total, but forgive me, I have got to get this off my chest: I f—ing hate Melania Trump,” Savage said at the start of his latest “Savage Love” podcast. “I’m not alone in loathing Donald Trump’s third wife — she’s married to a misogynist after all. Odds are good her husband hates her too,” Savage continued....

In the first episode of Humans+, Motherboard dives into the world of future prosthetics, and the people working on closing the gap between man and machine. We follow Melissa Loomis, an amputee from Ohio, who had experimental nerve reversal surgery and is going to Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab to test out its latest Modular Prosthetic Limb, a cutting-edge bionic arm funded in part by DARPA. Neuro-interfacing machinery is a game changer in terms rehabilitating patients, but what possibilities do these advancements open for the future?

Before International Women's Day, when anti-Trump protesters planned to strike for "A Day Without A Woman," actress Cate Blanchett said that her moral compass is "in my vagina." "It's all about, as you move forward in life, what's your moral compass — where does kindness and humanity sit in a really brutal world?" Blanchett, best known for her role as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said on "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert. Colbert asked her, "What is your moral compass? Where does kindness and humanity sit in a brutal world?" "It's in my vagina," Blanchett quipped,...

My son told me two women called into work yesterday saying they wouldn’t be in today because of #DayWithoutAWoman They were fired.

MST3K: Ping pong balls Crow and Tom Servo get Joel to say 'ping pong balls....' and like in Captain Kangaroo, down they come. Tom is really getting off on it!

Hillary Clinton is down with all the dankest memes -- just like you!

So this happened. I have a hypothesis. Gay people often get away with murder. Certainly behavior that straight men could never get away with. So my producer and I put that to the test. Behaving the exact same way and even repeating the exact same phrases to women at the mall. The only difference? One of us is gay. One straight. The reactions are, well... entirely expected. You're welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngATnQFL-FQ

After watching the second televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in October 2016—a battle between the first female candidate nominated by a major party and an opponent who’d just been caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women—Maria Guadalupe, an associate professor of economics and political science at INSEAD, had an idea. Millions had tuned in to watch a man face off against a woman for the first set of co-ed presidential debates in American history. But how would their perceptions change, she wondered, if the genders of the candidates were switched? She pictured an actress playing Trump,...

In all of the "only in Texas" moments, this sight at a Baytown Buc-ee's may take the cake. As seen in the viral video on Facebook, Josh Wilson captured a limousine hauling a Starcraft Marine boat at Buc-ee's. Yes, an awkward sight. "It caught me off guard for a second, but then I thought to myself heck yeah that's what I'm talking about," Wilson told ABC13. From a crawfish using its local Buc-ee's to make a grand 'escape,' to the rest stop being named the best in America, you can't escape Buc-ee's!

A BIZARRE and sinister-looking perfect black cube has terrified residents of a Texas town after it appeared in the skies above White Sands - the USA’s most secret military installation.The terrifying black cube was snapped over El Paso on the Texas border just a few miles from White Sands – the infamous US military testing site where the world’s first Atomic bomb was detonated. Almost all the experimental weapons research carried out ay White Sands is highly classified. The results of the cutting edge research only become public decades later. The famous Roswell UFO site where aliens are reported to...

It seems that March 8th will be "A Day Without Women," in which privileged (mostly white) women will protest, mainly Donald Trump: The [progressive] Women’s March organizers have announced the much-anticipated details of their next big show of resistance, the “Day Without A [progressive] Woman” strike which is taking place on March 8. 1. [Progressive] Women take the day off work — whether you are paid or unpaid. 2. Refrain from shopping for the day — or if you must shop, choose small, [progressive] women- and minority-owned businesses. 3. Wear red in solidarity with those participating in and supporting the...

A Southern California Chuck E. Cheese's saw two brawls among adults this week. The establishment in Victorville, about 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles, saw one fight erupt over tickets and another over an accidental push. Customer Sharon Cabrera shot footage of the first fight, which she uploaded to Facebook and YouTube.

Imagine what it’s like to lie on a bed in a floating capsule and look into the stars while it drifts to a desert island overnight. That’s a new experience a major theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture plans to offer by the end of this year. Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch-themed park in Sasebo, is developing the new service in which hotel guests sleep in spheric capsules whose top part is a bedroom. Then the capsules slowly move overnight to an island featuring attractions. Staying in the floating capsule, a two-story structure that holds up to four people, costs ¥30,000...