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Born in Germany, raised in Montana, now living in New York, comedian Reggie Watts describes his style as “culture sampling.”

Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.

[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

Argentina’s Lio Messi, the best soccer player on the planet, stands all of 5’7” and needed growth-hormone injections to get there.

In the wake of 9/11, terrorist networks moved their recruitment and training efforts online, giving birth to Jihad-geeks like Irhabi_007.

The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.

Fred Franzia makes a lot of money selling really cheap wine.

In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

In need of a new lead singer, Journey settled on an unknown 40-year-old from the Philippines whose clips they found online. Arnel Pineda was perfect: just a small-town boy, living in a lonely world.

In the chaotic days before the Berlin Wall fell, the East German secret police shredded 45 million pages. Fifteen years later, a team of computer scientists figured out how to put it all back together.

The author wanted to give up her day job but keep her lifestyle. So she turned to Seeking Arrangement, a site that pairs rich, older men interested in “companionship” with 20-somethings interested in “gifts.”

A dispatch from the frozen, drunken wasteland of Eastern Siberia.

The justly paranoid man behind WikiLeaks.

A 1970 review of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider.

In 2003, Gary Coleman ran for governor of California. But what he really wanted was to have never come to Hollywood in the first place.

A mayday call in the critical moments after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.

What fragmented reading experiences do to neural circuitry. (It’s not good.)

The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.

Lenny makes $5,000 a week selling coke. It was easy to get into the business after finishing prep school. Getting out and going legit after his final score is proving much more difficult.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

The contradiction-rich world of Maya Arulpragasam.

Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.

A teenage Florida hacker crew, millions of credit cards numbers stolen by driving by big box stores and entering their networks, $1.1 million in cash buried in a backyard, an FBI snitch,  and how it all fell apart.