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“The police have attempted to scare marriage equality activists out of speaking up against bigotry. They have failed.” Many may consider the word f-ck to be unsavory, but an Australian magistrate has ruled that it isn’t offensive in the eyes of the law — at least in one controversial case. On Tuesday, Sydney Magistrate Geoffrey Bradd threw out the offensive language charges brought against marriage equality activists Cat Rose, Patrick Wright, and April Holcombe by New South Wales police following a rally in support of same-sex marriage in September 2015....

Sally-Anne Jones, who was once a member of an all-girl punk band, joined ISIS after converting to Islam and traveling to Syria in 2013. TwitterPhotoshopped image of Sally Jones she shared on her twitter. A British woman who left the UK to become a recruiter for ISIS has reportedly just been killed in Syria. The Sun reports that Sally-Anne Jones, 48, a British woman who became a recruiter for ISIS, was killed by an American drone strike this June....

“It’s totally illegal to do it. Did I know it? No. Did I know I couldn’t feed a turtle? Alligators…yeah, I kind of knew that.” Volusia County Jail/FacebookFlorida man Paul Fortin described the alligator in his lake as a “good friend.” He calls him Hank. Sixty-seven-year-old Paul Fortin likes to take a leisurely stroll to the lake behind his house in Daytona Beach to meet up with his pal, a 10-foot alligator named Hank....

Political ambition—or as some might call it when it comes to Richard Nixon, treason—prolonged the war in Vietnam for half a decade. Here’s how it happened. Richard Nixon (left) and Henry Kissinger (right) meet. January 27, 2016, marks the 43rd anniversary of the formal peace in Vietnam. On that day in 1973, representatives of the United States finally reached agreement with North and South Vietnam to cease fire and withdraw the last American combat troops from the country....

Jackie Robinson Jr. tragically died at age 24 — just a year before his legendary father — in a horrific car accident in Connecticut on June 17, 1971. Public Domain, Find-A-GraveJackie Robinson Jr. was born November 9, 1945. Jackie Robinson Jr., the firstborn of Baseball Hall of Fame player Jackie Robinson, met an untimely death on June 17, 1971, in a fatal car accident. Born just five months before his father made history and dying just a year before him, Jackie Robinson Jr....

The United States had worked for nearly 14 years to deport Jakiw Palij, but no country would accept him — until now. U.S. Justice Department; 2018 ABC NewsLeft: Jakiw Palij in 1957; Right: Palij being deported in 2018. A former Nazi death camp guard who had been living in the United States for decades has finally been deported back to Germany. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents removed Jakiw Palij from his home in Queens, N....

The case of Dr. Sam Sheppard was so controversial from the outset that the federal court later ruled his initial trial a “mockery of justice.” AlchetronDr. Samuel Sheppard’s mugshot. In the early hours of July 4, 1954, the wife of a respected neurosurgeon was bludgeoned to death. The first person to find her body was her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, whose spotty alibi quickly made him the prime suspect in her murder....

Taken together, the bulk of Latin America and central Africa (as circled in the murder map above) are home to a combined 1.2 billion people, approximately. That’s less than either India or China alone and just 16.5 percent of the world’s total population. Yet, each year, those two regions combined account for more homicides than the rest of the world put together. No matter how you look at the numbers, the picture doesn’t get any better....

Shortly after 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant was found shot and killed at her home, police arrested Aariel Maynor at the scene of a nearby botched burglary. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Recording AcademyJacqueline Avant was the wife of legendary music executive Clarance Avant. A suspect in the murder of 81-year-old philanthropist Jacqueline Avant is under arrest after literally shooting himself in the foot. Aariel Maynor, 29, is accused of shooting Avant at her Beverly Hills home, after which police say he accidentally shot himself with his AR-15 rifle while trying to rob a separate residence....

David Parker Ray, the “Toy Box Killer,” is believed to have tortured and killed more than 50 women inside his soundproof trailer. Getty ImagesDavid Parker Ray, the “Toy Box Killer.” On March 19, 1999, 22-year-old Cynthia Vigil was hooking in a parking lot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when a man claiming to be an undercover cop told her she was under arrest for solicitation of sex work and put her in the back of his car....

After he learned that the Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was impersonating him in order to spread racist messages to kids, Mr. Rogers took them on — and won. Getty ImagesAfter the KKK mimicked his voice to create a hate hotline, Mr. Rogers took them to court. Fred Rogers was the beloved creator and host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a late ’60s television program for kids that ran a stunning 31 seasons....

From Operation Teardrop to the Biscari massacre, these are the atrocities that the U.S. would rather forget. Wikimedia Commons One need only say the word “Nuremberg” and most anyone with a passing knowledge of history will immediately recall the few dozen Nazis who stood trial for some of the world’s worst war crimes ever in that German city soon after World War II. Yet even those with an above-average knowledge of history will scarcely recall the war crimes perpetrated by the Allies, including the United States, during the war....

The newly dated fossil suggests humans migrated out of Africa far earlier than we thought. When a broken skull was excavated from a limestone cliff in the Apidima cave in Greece in the 1970s, experts didn’t fully understand what they’d found, and stored it in a museum in Athens. Now, according to The Guardian, a new analysis has now found the skull fragment to be the oldest human fossil ever found outside of Africa....

Heed the hotel’s advice before booking your stay at the Arctic Hideaway: “Pack wool … even in the summer.” Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The World’s Largest Underwater Restaurant Just Opened In Norway — And It’s Breathtaking Welcome To Icehotel, The Magical Arctic Resort Made Entirely Of Snow And Ice A Brief History Of The Amphicar: The Amphibious Automobile Of Your Dreams...

Mastodon tusk reveals evidence of bloody clash, mass grave of Iron Age frogs uncovered, 500-year-old skeletons found under Irish pub. 13,000-Year-Old Mastodon Tusk Found In Indiana Reveals His Turbulent Life And Bloody Death In A Mating Season Battle Jeremy Marble/University of Michigan NewsScientists compare mastodon and elephant tusks to the rings inside tree trunks in that both can tell almost an entire life story, right down to a specific day....

Valery Legasov was a respected chemist who led the investigation behind what caused the meltdown at Chernobyl. Two years later, he ended his own life unexpectedly. ExpressValery Legasov presents his report in the Chernobyl investigation. Soviet nuclear physicist Valery Legasov led the commission that investigated the Chernobyl catastrophe. He was a proponent of transparency between the commission’s findings and the public in spite of the Soviet Union government’s efforts to downplay the disaster....

Rumors spread that Abraham Lincoln was Black even before he was elected president and have persisted for over 150 years — but is there any truth to them? Public DomainAbraham Lincoln was famously reticent to discuss his family history during his life. Abraham Lincoln was many things. He was the president, the “Great Emancipator,” and the man who steered the United States through the Civil War. But was Abraham Lincoln Black?...

If a child was struck by lightning, that meant the gods accepted the sacrifice. Dagmara SochaIncas considered children to be pure, thus making them the ideal human sacrifice to offer the gods. New research on the remains of a handful of Inca child sacrifice victims has given scientists more clues as to how this sacrificial practice was carried out, and even more information about the children themselves. Newsweek reports that researchers believe the victims’ bodies were purposefully left on stone platforms high at the top of a volcano so that they could be struck by lightning....

It was previously assumed that early hunters only killed woolly mammoths if they were already injured. The discovery of these resourceful traps firmly challenges that idea. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and HistoryThese colossal remains were discovered in pits that measured about 82 feet in diameter. Officials in Tultepec outside Mexico City say the first woolly mammoth traps built by humans have been discovered. According to BBC, these 15,000-year-old contraptions held the remains of at least 14 mammoths — including 800 bones — making this quite a remarkable find....

Big game hunters shoot an estimated 50,000 rare animals a year in Africa. What sort of person does this, how do they do it, and why? Twitter/Peter Lombard Big game hunting is serious business in Africa. Each year, at least 18,500 hunters from wealthy countries make a kind of pilgrimage to sub-Saharan Africa with the purpose of tracking down one (or several) of the continent’s rarest and most majestic animals and shooting them dead for sport....