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“It’s a good day for Craigslist! The Department of Homeland Security just raided Rentboy.com, putting an end to one of the best ways for escorts and clients to find each other online.”

Breaking news from New York City’s NBC affiliate: Federal agents raided the Manhattan headquarters of RentBoy.com as part of a money laundering and state prostitution investigation Tuesday, law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York. Seven people, including a high-ranking executive, were arrested as part of the RentBoy.com raid at the offices on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, the sources …

The hackers who last week shoved Ashley Madison into the global headlines have yet another big reveal. Gizmodo reports: The revelation is buried in what hackers say is 30-gigabytes of [Ashley Madison CEO Neil] Biderman’s emails. One of those emails is from Ashley Madison’s founding CTO, Raja Bhatia, who claims to have hacked Nerve.com’s then-new dating website. Security expert Brian …

Two Canadian law firms have filed a joint class action suit against Ashley Madison “on behalf of all Canadians.” From the New York Post: “They are outraged that AshleyMadison.com failed to protect its users’ information,” said attorney Ted Charney, who filed the suit last Thursday. “In many cases, the users paid an additional fee for the Web site to remove …

Philly.com reports: “Either you buy these or I take your car, ’cause it’s unregistered.” Officer Matthew Zagursky didn’t mince words Thursday when he flashed tickets to the Hero Thrill Show, a fundraiser that supports the families of fallen officers and firefighters, to two men after pulling them over. And yesterday, hours after a recording of that exchange went viral, Commissioner …

Thanks to weeks of relentless front page outrage by New York City’s tabloids, both Gov. Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio have vowed to chase out the dozens of painted topless women who work Times Square for tips. Gothamist reports: “I believe this activity is illegal,” he [Cuomo] said, speaking to NY1. “I believe it is infringing on legitimate businesses. I …

Following up on last week’s British survey, YouGov has released a poll taken in the United States in which 31% of those 18-29 say they are not 100% heterosexual.  From the latest report: Younger Americans are noticeably less likely than their elders to put themselves in a firm category. While 80% of all Americans say that they are completely heterosexual …

CNN reports: The report on the police investigation into a deadly four-car accident involving Caitlyn Jenner is being turned over to a prosecutor and could lead to a misdemeanor manslaughter charge against the reality television star, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective said Thursday. “Jenner’s case is going to go to the district attorney next week to see if it …

Gothamist weighs in: A few months ago, President Obama implored the media and entertainment outlets to stop making prison rape jokes, due to the fact that rape, in or out of prison, is a horribly insensitive thing to make light of. But not if you’re an editor at the NY Post, where they think it’s hilarious to advocate prison rape …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: A video on YouTube shows what appears to be lightning striking a Delta Air Lines plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The video, according to YouTube, was shot by a man who identified himself as Jack Perkins. “While filming the line of planes all stacked up during a ground hold in Atlanta on 8/18/15,” he wrote …

From Fox News then to TLC then to the Sportsman Channel then to her recently aborted web show, Sarah Palin’s television career has spiraled down to smaller and smaller audiences. Now she’s signed a deal to guest host for a show on a far-right cable channel you’ve likely never heard about, the One America News Network, which claims to be …

Hackers have followed through on their threat and posted user data from millions of Ashley Madison accounts. Wired reports: A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the …

TIME Magazine reports: The first drug to treat a lack of female sexual desire has been approved by federal authorities. The drug flibanserin, which has been coined “female Viagra,” was approved Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug is intended to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD)—a persistent lack of libido—in premenopausal women. The agency had …

Rosie O’Donnell took to Twitter this afternoon to ask for help in finding her 17 year-old daughter, Chelsea. She has also posted a message on her personal site: Nyack, New York police authorities have been looking for her in the Rockland County area since Sunday, August 16. She was last seen Tuesday, August 11. She was wearing a black sweatshirt …

A Florida gun shop which recently declared itself to be “Muslim-free” is auctioning off a Confederate flag painting by George Zimmerman. TMZ has the story: George Zimmerman is unloading a bunch of paintings that illustrate his take on the Confederate Flag controversy — and he’s even offering a bonus prize to one lucky art collector. Zimmerman is teaming up with …

Thai media reports that at least 27 people were killed and more than 100 were injured by a bomb that exploded in busy downtown Bangkok today. The bomb was placed inside a historic Hindu shrine popular with Chinese tourists. More from the New York Times: The police discovered at least two additional unexploded bombs inside the shrine and said other …

Mass transit is snarled in the San Francisco area at this writing after a 4.0 magnitude earthquake centered near Oakland struck during the early morning commute. ABC News reports: The quake had a depth of about 3.3 miles and struck on the Hayward Fault, which also saw a 4.0-magnitude earthquake on July 21 in Fremont. Several small aftershocks were reported …

On September 9th Queen Elizabeth will break the record held by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, and become Britain’s longest-ruling monarch. Via Yahoo News: Elizabeth only became queen due to a quirk of history after her uncle Edward VIII abdicated because of his love for American divorcee Wallis Simpson and the crown passed to her father George VI when she was …

Stroll through Times Square on any warm day and you’ll encounter two dozen or more topless women who will pose for photographs, sometimes as male companions stand at the ready should any tourist not fork over the demanded $10 or $20 tip. Such performance art, as it is reluctantly classified by the city, is completely legal and officials say they …