Satoshi Nakamoto, the Japanese-American man outed as the supposed inventor of bitcoin, has denied any link to the digital currency amid a farcical media chase through Los Angeles. Nakamoto, 64, disputed a Newsweek cover story that on Thursday unmasked him as the “father of bitcoin”. His denial cast doubt on a putative scoop the magazine used to relaunch its […]

Belle Knox, the Duke University freshman who recently revealed that she pays her tuition by performing sex acts on camera in professionally produced porn films, was forced into her admission by a fellow student, frat boy Thomas Bagley. Now Bagley himself is learning what it feels like to have rather sensitive information about yourself made […]

(Reuters) – A New York personal trainer pleaded guilty on Thursday to being part of a New Jersey ring that used violence to coerce Jewish husbands to agree to grant their wives religious divorces, federal prosecutors said on Thursday. David Hellman, 31, was one of 10 men, including two Orthodox Jewish rabbis, arrested last fall […]

A Florida man has been accused of having sex with a pit bull in his front yard as neighbors plead with him to stop. The Florida man has been identified as 57-year-old Bernard Marsonek. According to the Huffington Post, horrified neighbors flagged down Tampa Florida police with reports of a man, Marsonek, who was engaging […]

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are scrambling to pass legislation that will outlaw the taking of ‘upskirt’ photographs in the state. Charges were brought against Michael Robertson who was arrested in 2010 for using his cellphone on the Boston Subway to take ‘upskirt’ photos. Robertson, according to the The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling on Wednesday, didn’t […]

The Patrick Kennedy’s Coerced Rehab All Potheads Project — also known as the ironically named “Smart Approaches to Marijuana” — is busy establishing local chapters across the nation dedicated to promulgating the Kinder Gentler Drug War. Today, an op-ed written by its New England field director, Heidi Heilman, is a tour de force so replete […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is investigating whether its officers improperly monitored members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which oversees the intelligence agency, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The CIA inspector general is looking into the circumstances surrounding the committee’s investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program, Senate Intelligence Committee […]

Facebook and Instagram are taking a stand against illegal gun sales. If any of their users post any form of gun sale activity deemed to be illegal, they will delete them. This came about because of gun control advocates. Because of the pressure, the social network, with 1.3 billion users, will take the next two […]

What happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas. Unless it was Super Bowl weekend, and you got drunk and lost $500,000. That’s the reason behind California gambler Mark Johnston’s lawsuit against the Downtown Grand, according to a report from The Washington Post. No, Johnston said he didn’t lose it on the […]

DC now stands for Decriminalization in our nation’s capital. On Tuesday, the Washington DC City Council gave their seal of approval on a controversial bill to decriminalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana, a move that will strip away stiff criminal penalties and slap stoners on the wrist with civil fines. The […]