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IO9 raves: Alfonso Cuaron’s latest Gravity trailer will knock the wind right out of you. The simple two-minute clip — made entirely in one take — shows what happens when things fall apart for George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in space. It is simply stunning. Earlier this year The Film Stage revealed that Gravity only has 156 shots in its …

“The circus that Mr. Weiner has brought to the mayor’s race these last two months has been a disservice to New Yorkers who are looking for someone who has the judgment and maturity to lead this City and a record of actually delivering real results for them. Instead we have seen a pattern of reckless behavior, consistently poor judgment, and …

One day after officials in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County offered to defy the ban on same-sex marriage, a lesbian couple has taken them up on it. Two women were wed in a religious ceremony Wednesday morning after getting a marriage license from county officials who defied a Pennsylvania law banning same-sex unions. Alicia Terrizzi, 45, said that she and Loreen Bloodgood …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: The Alabama Public Service Commission kicked off a meeting on power rates last week with a prayer against gay marriage and reproductive rights. John Delwin Jordan, who was at the meeting to testify on behalf of the Prattville Tea Party, opened up the meeting in prayer after receiving a laudatory introduction by Twinkle …

“I’m not going anywhere. I love this job. I think there were a couple of very bad rumors about that. I have been able to get some major problems solved for our citizens. Virginia is in better shape that most states. Democrats and Republicans are working together well in our state. I’ve tried to create that climate for bipartisan cooperation. …

Mayor Bloomberg today vetoed a bill that would create an office to oversee the NYPD and that would make it easier for citizens to sue the police for abuses. Gothamist reports: The Community Safety Act, which is comprised of two separate laws meant to crack down on the NYPD’s racial profiling, was passed by the City Council with enough votes …

“When you start bending over spiritually and intellectually to people who take care of you all day, you can pretend by boycotting a single city with a stand your ground law that somehow you don’t have to boycott Chicago, where 700 people are slaughtered every year because they’re not standing their ground.  They’re let out of their cages to create …

Pat Robertson’s CBN grossed over $487 million in FY12, according to the Evangelical Council for Fiscal Accountability, a group to which CBN reports. As astounding as that figure is, it’s still down significantly from CBN’s 2010 gross of $747 million.

Bruce abruptly resigned from GOProud’s board of directors two years ago, but refused to say why.

Raw Story reports: The mayor of Gilberton, Pennsylvania is standing by her city’s police chief despite a series of profanity-laced and threatening videos. In a video that has received wide attention, police chief Mark Kessler repeatedly tells those upset by his use of profanity to “go f*ck yourself” as he fires various automatic weapons. Mayor Mary Lou Hannon told The …

The Associated Press reports: Several hundred extremists shouting “Kill the gays” attacked gay activists and clashed with police on Wednesday in a bid to disrupt the first ever pride event in staunchly conservative Montenegro, which is seeking to improve its human rights record as it bids to join the European Union. Angry assailants threw rocks, bottles, glasses and various other …

From the New York Times editorial board: The timing here matters, as it would for any politician who violates the public’s trust and then asks to have it back. Things are different now, he insists. “This behavior is behind me,” he said again on Tuesday. He suggested that people should have known that his sexting was an unresolved problem well …

Saying that it’s unrealistic to believe Florida’s constitutional ban on marriage could be overturned at this time, a coalition of LGBT rights groups says it will be better to wait for the next Supreme Court ruling. Steve Rothaus reports at the Miami Herald: Gay marriage will “be imposed” on Florida by the U.S. Supreme Court before state voters, judges or …

Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County says it will defy state law and issue same-sex marriage licenses. D. Bruce Hanes, the county’s register of wills, said he wants to come down “on the right side of history and the law.” Hanes had been prepared to issue a license Tuesday to two women who contacted him last week. The women, however, changed their minds …

Sky News reports: The Cassini spacecraft has captured a rare image of Earth taken hundreds of millions of miles away from the outer Solar System. The picture was captured on July 19 by the probe’s wide-angle camera from a distance of 900 million miles. Magnifying the image five times reveals not only the Earth but also the Moon, a fainter …