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The daughter of basketball superstar Michael Jordan has come out via her Instagram account. On 29 August, Jordan’s only daughter Jasmine, 20, posted a photograph of herself and girlfriend Tyson-Thomas on the site with the caption: “This Little Closet Is Holding Me Back.” Responding to users’ questions on whether or not she was gay, she confirmed that it is true. …

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Here’s a live-stream of today’s iPhone announcement. UPDATE: The live-stream has concluded. Details about the new $99 phone are here.

New York Magazine reports that Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson has been fired over tweets like the ones above. Dickinson got in hot water yesterday over his most recent string of tweets about feminism, misogyny, and women in tech. A look at his tweets from over the years uncovered many more instances of Dickinson bashing feminists, gays, and the poor, …

The DCist provides a review: Deathfix—the Dischord Records supergroup comprised of [Blowoff DJ] Richard Morel, Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, and Medications’ Mark Cisnero, and new drummer Jerry Busher—released their debut self-titled album early this year, and it’s still a frontrunner for one of my favorite albums of 2013. Today, the psychedelic post-punk band put out a music video for their goofy, …

“I’m tired of them. I remember working at the Justice Department years ago when I first started right after 9/11 and a lawsuit like this came through, and before the day had finished, the United States Senate and the House of Representatives had both passed resolutions saying that they were for keeping ‘under God’ in the pledge. If these people …

Just in via email: Dear Joe, Slim Fast’s new marketing strategy has backfired. They are offending their target market, especially the new moms wanting to lose the last of the baby weight. One commercial even states this, but concludes saying, “I wanna be the hottest MILF in my area code.” MILF is short for “Mom I’d Like to F*ck.” Slim …

MSNBC has the latest: Syria confirmed it would accept a Russian-brokered deal to hand over its chemical weapons Tuesday, but the White House said President Barack Obama would still ask Congress to approve the use of military force against Damascus. Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told NBC News in Moscow that he hoped acceptance of the “peaceful solution” would “put …

The Mt. Diablo fire in San Francisco’s East Bay has grown to 3700 acres. A fire dubbed the “Morgan Fire” burning near Mount Diablo State Park in California quadrupled in size from Sunday night, charring a total of 3,700 acres by Monday afternoon and forcing evacuations of about 100 homes. That was more than double the number from early Monday …