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A sawed-off rifle and bloody knife were recovered as detectives continued to question "John Doe Duffel Bag" in connection with the slayings of three Middle Eastern Brooklyn shopkeepers, a police official told ABC News.

Cellphone video just released by prosecutors offers a chilling view into the mind of Jared Cano, a Florida teenager who in 2011 was charged with plotting to kill teachers and students with bombs at his Tampa high school.

PETA has called for a boycott of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" after claims that 27 animals were killed during production in New Zealand.

News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch caused controversy on Twitter (yet again), when he complained about how the "Jewish-owned" press is covering the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Jay Penske's Penske Media Group will reportedly lay off 20 to 25 employees from Variety magazine, which it purchased last month from Reed Elsevier.

Facebook and other socia media sites keep our information after we die. Legal experts like Jason Mazzone, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, thinks that should change.

"In Our Mothers' House," a children's book by Patricia Polacco, has caused controversy in Utah's Davis School District, where a library has pulled the book from its shelves.

Coinciding with its "Pillar of Defense" operation, the Israeli Defense Force has unleashed a Twitter campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Exotic dancers allegedly performed lap dances on teenagers at a boy’s surprise 16th birthday party in an upstate New York village.

Google's transparency report shows government requests for user data are on the rise, but they're watching you themselves.

Anthony Bourdain, the former host of "No Reservations," is in a public fight with the Travel Channel over a product-placement segment that made him appear to endorse Cadillac.

Last week, Name It. Change It., a project of the Women's Media Center, called out the Huffington Post for sexist media coverage. The criticism was dismissed by Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards.

Do box-office numbers mean anything? In the Columbia Journalism Review, media journalist Edward Jay Epstein challenged conventional wisdom that being No. 1 means a movie is a hit.

Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal is said to be laying off 450 - 500 employees, including staffers at Universal Studios, USA, NBC News and G4.

News reports on the mushrooming scandal surrounding Gen. David Petraeus, the former CIA director, reveal frequent instances of misspellings. Name-related errors are actually among the most common mistakes in the news business.

A Tulsa man was arrested after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked four-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol "induced stupor."

George Entwistle, the BBC's former director general, was offered a $700,000 payout after he resigned in the wake of two child sex-abuse scandals, one involving Jimmy Savile.

Lawmakers in Germany, France and Italy are considering measures that would force Google to pay newspaper publishers for including their content in its search results.

The British publisher Macmillan Education announced this week that its dictionary will no longer be available in print. Encyclopaedia Britannica made a similar announcement in March.

The final night of the election between president Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was the most tweeted-about political event in U.S. history, according to Twitter.

The Fox News Channel seemed all-too-willing to call the election for President Obama, a sign of how vital cable programming is to Murdoch's News Corp.

Anheuser-Busch has asked Paramount Pictures to obscure the Budweiser logo in Denzel Washington's "Flight." The movie centers on a drunken pilot.

A Pakistani girl was allegedly killed by her parents after she disgraced the family by looking at a boy.

A helicopter with two officers on board crashed late Saturday night, just miles from downtown Atlanta. It was flying low to enable the officers to conduct a thorough search for a missing boy, according to Atlanta Police Chief George Turner.

When Rick Green, Des Moines Register editor, blogged that a conversation with President Barack Obama was off-the-record, the White House gave in.

"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" star Alana Thompson had a meltdown on a talk show last week, renewing calls for TLC to end the show.

BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins reports that, Breitbart.com, the namesake website of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, has fallen into a state of disorganization.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is denying reports that its latest fair-skinned princess, Sofia the First, is meant to be Hispanic.