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The Barney’s Briber! $700 Not Tempting to Cop

While we’re not in the business of coaching crooks on how to become smarter criminals, it would seem obvious that if you offered a cop a bribe—as a shoplifter who got arrested at Barneys, 660 Madison...

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The Barney’s Briber! $700 Not Tempting to Cop

While we’re not in the business of coaching crooks on how to become smarter criminals, it would seem obvious that if you offered a cop a bribe—as a shoplifter who got arrested at Barneys, 660 Madison...

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Gunman Kills 27, Including 18 Children, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,...

During the 9 o’clock hour on Friday morning, at least one black-clad male entered Sandy Hook Elementary, a K through 4 school in Newtown, Connecticut. Police believe he was armed with two...

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Rep. Jerry Nadler: Now Is the Time for 'A Serious Discussion About Gun Control'

Jerrold Nadler. (Photo: Getty) In the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that, as of this writing, left at least 27 people dead including the alleged gunman...

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NRA Cancels Country Music Event After School Shooting

The NRA Country logo. After this morning’s shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, the National Rifle Association cancelled a planned Twitter promotion with country music rapper Colt Ford. A live...

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LeVar Burton Takes to Reading Rainbow Blog to Help Parents Explain School...

A Word from LeVar. (ReadingRainbowBlog) Today’s tragedy in Connecticut is not the type of news that makes reporters get out bed and say “Now this is the kind of thing I went to journalism school for!”...

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How Negotiating With Gun Advocates Just Gives Them More Ammunition

“What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention! First of all, when you’ve a gun— Everybody pays attention.” —Stephen Sondheim, Assassins Last year I had the opportunity to review Candice...

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NRA Takes a Stand on Violent Video Games, Movies and Anything Else That Isn’t...

President of the NRA at today’s conference (Washington Post) Today, the president of the National Rifle Association of America, Wayne LaPierre, made his organization’s highly-anticipated statement...

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Morning Media Mix

(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC after his not-so-appropriate on-air comments about Sarah Palin. “It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special...

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Cries for Gun Control Resound Across Social Media Following Mass Shooting at...

Following the devastating news that 27 people, including 20 children, had been killed in a mass shooting at an elementary

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Anonymous Attacks Westboro Baptist Church Over Plans to Picket Sandy Hook...

The Westboro Baptist Church, widely reviled for its homophobic beliefs and protests of veteran funerals, announced on Saturday that it

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Twitter Account of Westboro Baptist Church Spokesperson Hacked; Teen Hacker...

Anonymous announced its intention to “destroy” Westboro Baptist Church this weekend following news that the group would be picketing the

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Anonymous Takes Down Westboro Baptist Church Website

Anonymous is currently executing a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) on the website of the Westboro Baptist Church, GodHatesFags.com.

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Anonymous Plans to Form Human Shield to Protect Sandy Hook Funeral Goers from...

Anonymous has been hitting the Westboro Baptist Church hard after the hate group announced it would picket funerals in Newtown.

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Twitter Suspends Anonymous’s Most Popular Account, @YourAnonNews (Update:...

Twitter has suspended one of the Anonymous’s most followed accounts, @YourAnonNews, which boasted almost 800,000 followers prior to its suspension.

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President Obama Responds to Petitions Against Gun Violence in New Video

In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, social networks lit up

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Gun Debate Plays Out in White House Online Petition Portal, Where … Nobody...

In the two weeks since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the White House Open

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‘We Cannot Go Backwards’: De Blasio Rips Cuomo Compromise on Gun Control

After the Charleston shooting, Bill de Blasio attacked Andrew Cuomo's deal to roll back provisions of the SAFE Act.

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Free at Last: Katie Couric “Liberated” from Confines of Network TV

While shooting the documentary (airing on Epix May 18, 24, 29, as well as Epix On Demand), Ms. Couric met plenty of paranoid gun nuts (my characterization, not hers), so I asked her for tips on...

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Return to Sandy Hook

As the documentary ‘Newtown’ opens, Nicole Hockley and her Sandy Hook Promise are training millions of Americans to prevent school murders like the one that took her young son's life.

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