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In the segment above, which aired yesterday, the Fox News anchor reports on the very real trademark scandal currently happening, only to be distracted by Candy Crush Saga. Break free, Shep! "Greatness" isn't "going to happen"! Remember how this game ruined your life!

In the 2012 cycle, Tsunis and his wife, Olga, are listed among the “top individual contributors” on the strength of having given $267,244, roughly 89% of which went to Democrats and 10% to Republicans. In all, he raised $988,550 for Obama and gave $300,000 to Democratic super PACs and $75,800 to the Obama Victory Fund. Tsunis became a Democrat in November 2009 — after giving $50,000 to Republican Sen. John McCain’s 2008 campaign. So it’s perhaps fitting that it was the tart-tongued Arizona senator’s questions that elicited his sloppy confirmation hearing performance last week (it starts at about 1:14 here). To recap: Tsunis described Norway as having a president (“apparently under the impression that the country is a republic rather than a constitutional monarchy,” as the Local Norway's News notes dryly). And he characterized the anti-immigration Progress Party as being among “fringe elements” who “spew their hatred” and have been denounced by the government. That prompted McCain’s disbelieving answer: “The government has denounced them? The coalition government — they're part of the coalition of the government.” McCain, already flummoxed by the apparent inability of Obama’s choice to be ambassador to Hungary to list strategic U.S. interests there, closed his questioning with a bit of sarcasm: “I have no more questions for this incredibly highly qualified group of nominees.”

Justin Bieber ratted out his own mom, telling police she was the one who gave him the prescription drugs he took before he was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of DUI, according to TMZ

Former AMC programming director Ari Mark has joined up with Xbox Entertainment Studios in Santa Monica, where he will oversee the creation of unscripted video content for Microsoft. Previously, Mark worked with AMC in developing the network-original ...

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WASHINGTON—In a discouraging indicator of the nation’s diminishing civic awareness, a report released this week by Gallup revealed that the vast majority of Americans are unable to name their state’s current shadow lord.

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We get a lot of press releases at The A.V. Club and many of them are strange, dumb, shameless, or some combination of the above. With Stop The Presses!, we share them with you. 

One thing we can count on here at The A.V. Club: sleazy press releases offering “experts” to comment on whenever a big story happens in the tabloids. When news of Justin Bieber’s arrest broke early this morning, it was only a matter of time before we were pitched our first expert, and right on schedule, the first one arrived at 10:37 a.m. central.

Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license in Miami today.  Bieber told police that he had consumed some alcohol, and that he had been smoking marijuana and consumed some prescription medication.  The Opa Locka Florida police department in the Miami area is investigating a ...

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Dogs love snow. So, in the wake of the Polar Vortex and blizzard season, we asked experts the burning question: why do dogs love snow so much?

Seismologists have found that, contrary to popular thought, earthquakes in the central U.S. are not slowly tapering off — instead the threat appears to be building.

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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion opens with the Ainulindalë, the story of how the universe of Middle Earth came into existence. Artist Evan Palmer has painted his own adaptation of tale, imagining the radiant forms of Tolkien's universe taking shape.

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Hoping to ward off a federal appeal, the city of Portland has taken the unusual step of demanding more than $7,000 in court costs from an Occupy protester who lost a lawsuit seeking damages after taking a face full of pepper-spray during a chaotic anti-bank protest in late 2011.

Ben Haile, an attorney for Liz Nichols, confirmed the city's maneuver, first reported by the Oregonian. But Haile declined to immediately comment.

Nichols was sprayed by Sergeant Jeff McDaniel while shouting Officer Doris Paisley, Nichols' attorneys said. The attorneys said Paisley had driven a nightstick into Nichols' neck. Nichols, filing her suit in 2012, sought tens of thousands of dollars on account of pain and suffering caused by an eczema flareup and depression. Nichols lost her case last year.

The Oregonian, in an update to its initial story posted this afternoon, quotes a deputy city attorney laying bare the city's calculus.

Deputy city attorney David Landrum said he offered to drop the city's pursuit of costs if Nichols agreed to waive an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He called Nichols' attorneys with the offer.

"I said I don't need to drag this money out of her," Landrum said, noting that he knows Nichols is a college student at Portland State University.

Landrum said he didn't hear anything for weeks, so he called back and got his answer: Nichols decided to appeal. So the city sought its payback.

The payment order from the city, for $7,116, could increase via interest.

Update 1:55 PM: Haile phoned back to confirm Nichols has filed an appeal despite the payment order.

"She believes there were some mistakes in the trial that are reasons the trial should be redone," he says.

He also said there's no recourse for challenging a payment order. (Never mind it looking like the city is preying on a poor college student. And never mind the question of whether the city could live without the $7,000 it spent defending itself in a case that was hardly frivolous. Because it can, especially in light of the millions it's spent on legal fees in police-related lawsuits for the past two decades.)

Says Haile: "It is an unfortunate risk for seeking justice in the courts these days."

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Yeah, speak up, right wing assholes, I thought you were tough on immigration.

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Oregon GOP Group Defends Gun Raffle to Honor Lincoln and MLK with Inept Slavery Analogy:

An Oregon Republican group that was criticized for raffling off an AR-15 rifle to “celebrate the legacy” of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. has issued an apology that many see as worse than the offense.

The DeFractions love coffee:

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Let’s see, Captain Marvel, first issue, one complete page about coffee, practically a love letter if you see how much attention it gets:

Also, “morning person”. Not the only time:

Talking about Tony… Avengers Assemble:

Tony is a heavy coffee drinker, you ask for a drink and he…

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Quinns: At the end of last year Kotaku asked me for my top table games of the year, and I pulled this article from my bottom with the grace of a magician plucking a dove from his jacket. It starts like this...

As I've talked about before, board games aren't simply enjoying a resurgence right now. They're in a glittering golden age with fabulous releases every single week, the entire hobby evolving and adapting with Borg-like ease. There's no easier way to prove it than with my favourite releases from 2013.

Included on this list are a real-time Star Trek simulator, a uniquely dark game of managing a sunny colony, and a card game... with just 15 cards. But each one of these is a classic.

And proceeds to list my three favourite releases from 2013, plus one runner up. Does that sound like something that might interest you guys? If so, please, go read!

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When I wrote about Justin Bieber's trouble with the law last week, we didn't know how far he'd fall in just a few days. Now Bieber has been arrested for late-night drag racing in Miami Beach. If convicted, another immigrant in his situation would very likely languish in immigration detention before being deported. That person—like 84 percent of people in immigration detention-- would also likely not have an immigration attorney, let alone a high-priced one.

While the media is focused on what will happen to Bieber, let's instead focus on what will happen to all of the other immigrants who are detained and deported for lesser offenses than his. Learn more about them.

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