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News: Mid-Term Elections, Emmys, Michael Sam, The ‘Knee Defender’

August 26, 2014 by Sean Mandell

Alex RoadBerlin's first openly gay mayor will resign by the end of the year.

RoadHappy Birthday, Alexander Skarsgard!

RoadIsrael and Hamas agree to long term cease-fire. 

RoadScorcese film Shutter Island being developed into HBO series.

RoadRepublicans now have a 67% chance at winning back the Senate according to the NY Times' midterm calculus.

RoadA red carpet round-up from last night's Emmys.

RoadInside the event, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston re-created a Seinfeld era make out session.

Jimmy RoadAnd Jimmy Kimmel wore rainbow suspenders in honor of Mork from Ork.

RoadJudges knew this year's Rose of Tralee winner, Maria Walsh, was gay prior to her publicly coming out: "Rose festival managing director Anthony O’Gara said the organisers were '100% delighted with her' as Rose and the fact that she was gay was neither here nor there. Asked on Radio Kerry if the judges were aware she was gay, Mr O’Gara answered: 'I would think they were, but I certainly didn’t go there with them — they’re very astute people.' He said Maria, 27, was openly gay, but the judges were no more interested in her sexuality than he was and it would not be their business to question it one way or the other."

RoadMormon woman excommunicated for promoting the ordination of women priests: "I was excommunicated for stating a fact, which is that men and women are not equal in our Church."

RoadCould virtual reality games be so real they could scare you to death? "‘When the commercial version [of Occulus] comes out, somebody is going to scare somebody to death – somebody with a heart condition or something like that. It is going to happen. Absolutely.’"

RoadAmazon has sold fewer Fire phones than Jack White sold vinyl records.

RoadAlleged audio of Michael Brown shooting released.

RoadNYT faces backlash after front-page piece on Michael Brown refers to the slain teenager as "no angel".

FatherBall RoadFormer Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is now living with a Catholic priest who was arrested in 2010 for having sex in a parking lot.

RoadNBC News reports that an American citizen has been killed while fighting for ISIS: "Douglas McAuthur McCain, of San Diego, California, was killed over the weekend fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), according to the Free Syrian Army. Photos of McCain's passport and of his body — which feature a distinctive neck tattoo — have been seen by NBC News. According to an activist linked to the Free Syrian Army who also saw the body and travel document, McCain was among three foreign jihadis fighting with ISIS who died during the battle. The State Department was not immediately able to comment on the report."

RoadMeanwhile, ISIS is reportedly demanding $6.6 million for the release of 26-year-old American woman who was captured in Syria while serving as a humanitarian relief worker. 

RoadIs Michael Sam going to be cut before the season officially starts?

RoadUnited Airlines flight forced to land after passengers get into fight over 'knee defender' device that prevents people from being able to recline their seat-backs.

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