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Earlier this week a federal judge ruled that the NYPD’s infamous stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional.  Today the Bloomberg administration filed a notice of appeal of that ruling. Speaking Friday on his weekly radio show, Bloomberg blasted U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who earlier this week ruled the tactic was unconstitutional. “What does she know about policing? Absolutely zero,” Bloomberg …

Jezebel has some details: According to the letter, an unnumbered but significant amount of employees will no longer receive paid time off, will not be allowed to work more than 29.5 hours a week and will no longer have health insurance. The company has been inundated with numerous comments on their Facebook page from angry customers who say they will …

Groupon’s world headquarters is in Chicago.

More on this at Buzzfeed.

Another blow to the conspiracy theorists. A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada’s Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes. The CIA’s story about the legendary test site is contained in “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: …

Earlier today the Republican National Committee approved a resolution calling for GOP presidential candidates to boycott CNN and NBC in 2016 because both networks are working on documentaries about Hillary Clinton.  The Democrats have fired back: “After last year’s electoral losses, the RNC pledged to do a better job reaching out to the voters they had systematically alienated – like …

I don’t even know how to properly set this clip up, so maybe you should just watch it. The host totally slams Christine Quinn at the end of the call. More about this at New York Magazine.

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has issued a statement via press release: This kind of an anti-gay attack is unacceptable anywhere, but for it to happen in Chelsea which has such a large LGBT population is particularly shocking. And what’s worse is that this is happening after a summer of repeated attacks on members of the LGBT attack …

Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines is the biggest hit of 2013, remaining at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the ninth consecutive week today, giving him the longest run at the top for a male solo artist in five years.  But ever since the track debuted, many critics have noted its striking similarities to Marvin Gaye’s 1977 disco smash, Got To …