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    Sebastian Murdock

    Sebastian Murdock

    Senior Reporter, HuffPost

  • Supreme Court Allows Sandy Hook Parents' Lawsuit Against Gun-Maker Remington To Move Forward

    Remington manufactured the AR-15-style rifle used to kill 20 children and six adults in the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting.

  • Alex Jones Can't Stop Losing Court Battles Against Sandy Hook Parents

    Judges have ruled against the Infowars host multiple times over the last three months and he's on his seventh lawyer.

  • NYPD Brags About Weed Bust That Business Owner Says Is Just Hemp

    Vermont police had cleared the shipment as legal, Oren Levy of Green Angel CBD said.

  • Donald Trump Has Chosen His Own Political Survival Over Gun Control Measures

    The president has made it clear that his priority is getting reelected, even if it means more Americans getting slaughtered by guns.

  • Chef, Trump Critic José Andrés To Throw First Pitch Of Game 5 With Trump Watching

    If the World Series between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals goes to Game 5, Andrés will pitch with the president in attendance.

  • Government Watchdogs Blast DOJ's Reasoning To Withhold Whistleblower Complaint

    The OLC opinion “creates a chilling effect on effective oversight and is wrong as a matter of law and policy,” the letter says.

  • Families To Roof: 'I Forgive You, And Have Mercy On Your Soul'

    Dylann Roof heard his charges -- nine counts of murder -- at his first court appearance in South Carolina on Friday afternoon. Roof, the lead suspect in Wednesday's mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, made his appearance remotely, dressed in striped inmates' garb and flanked by two officers. On the screen, he wore a stoic expression as he looked out over the bond hearing.

  • ‘Rat Cop' Joe Crystal Shunned From Baltimore Police Department After Reporting Officer Brutality

    Former Detective Joe Crystal sat at a back table in Martin’s West Ballroom last Thursday, scanning the room filled with police officers for any friends he still had left. Under glowing chandeliers, more than 500 law enforcement officials and their families mingled prior to an awards ceremony honoring Baltimore’s finest. Crystal, 34, was one of the people up for an award, though few had expected him to show.

  • NYPD Shoots Man Suspected In Hammer Attacks Around Manhattan

    A man suspected in at least two hammer attacks around Manhattan was shot by New York police on Wednesday around 10:15 a.m. local time. A spokesperson for the NYPD confirmed to The Huffington Post that there was an officer-involved shooting at Eighth Avenue and 37th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

  • Meatloaf At Rikers Island Jail Tests Positive For Rat Poison: Report

    Meatloaf served to inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex has tested positive for rat poison at a New Jersey lab, according to a lab report obtained by the New York Daily News. A sample was submitted for testing after attorney Joanna Squillace filed a lawsuit in March on behalf of 22 inmates who say they fell ill after eating meatloaf containing mysterious blue and green specks, Pix 11 reports. New Jersey lab EMSL Analytical found that those odd specks contained Brodifacoum, a compound commonly used as a rat poison, the Daily News reported.

  • Violence At Rikers Island Jail Leaves 7 Guards Injured

    A brawl among more than a dozen inmates at a New York City jail plagued by violence has left seven correctional officers injured. On Friday morning, 14 inmates began fighting in a classroom at Rikers Island, a facility dogged by complaints of mistreatment of inmates. Jail officials quickly ended the fight after using "chemical agents" on the inmates, Department of Corrections Public Information Officer Jack Ryan told The Huffington Post.

  • WATCH: We Ride Bull As Good As We Sling It!

    This ain't our first rodeo. On Wednesday, the Weird News team took a trip to Johnny Utah's in New York City to ride their most fearsome creature -- a mechanical bull. The event was a prelude to the Professional Bull Riders' upcoming three-day championship at Madison Square Garden this weekend, where cowboys will ride real-life bulls and buck their way into the history books.

  • LOOK: Giant Mutant Rats On The Prowl At Nightmare: New York

    Blood, bodies, and butchers: all signs of our favorite time of year. The Weird News team took a field trip to Nightmare: New York Thursday night, where we screamed (and cried) a lot. The haunted house is marking its 11th season this year by showcasing some of the urban legends and mythology surrounding the city.

  • Eric Frein's Neighbors: 'We're Prisoners In Our Own Homes'

    Jill Nobles is a single mother living in the backwoods of Pennsylvania, seven miles from the home of alleged cop killer Eric Frein. Less than two weeks ago, she felt safe -- now she clutches her pepper spray when she leaves the house, unsure if cops will block off her route back when she returns at night. It has been almost eight days since Frein, 31, allegedly ambushed two Pennsylvania state troopers at the police barracks near his home, killing one of them.

  • Developer CEO Larry Glazer Dies In Plane Crash Near Jamaica

    The Rochester-based real estate mogul who died in a plane crash Friday was known in his community as an innovator who reinvigorated the city's development scene. Larry Glazer -- who died alongside his wife, Jane, on a trip from New York to Florida -- was the CEO of Buckingham Properties, a Rochester, New York real estate company which owns buildings including Midtown Tower and Xerox Square, the Rochester City Newspaper reported in July. "The City of Rochester has lost two heroes," Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren wrote in an email to The Huffington Post.

  • NYC Man Decapitates Self In Broad Daylight

    A man killed himself Monday morning in the middle of a Bronx, New York street by beheading himself, the NY Daily News reports.

  • You Cannot Unsee The Air Sex World Championships (NSFW VIDEO)

    The 6th-annual Air Sex World Championships reached its climax in New York City Thursday, when a handful of New York’s biggest libidos drank enough beer to get on stage and simulate sex. The nationwide tour -- which we’ve covered for years -- features a “sport” that’s a lot like air guitar, if you replace guitars with your imaginary friend’s air-privates and comedy. HuffPost videographers Oliver Noble and Ben Craw erected video evidence of New York’s night moves above, and we should warn you, it’s extremely NSFW and profoundly hilarious.

  • Cop In Ferguson To Protestors: 'I Will F**king Kill You' (VIDEO)

    UPDATE 9:26 P.M.: Police Chief Aaron Jimenez has confirmed with The Huffington Post that the officer making threats in videos shot by protestors is Lieutenant Ray Albers. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. Two separate videos uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday show the officer pointing a rifle at protestors.

  • Police: Julissa Romero Alive And Accounted For, Despite Hoax (UPDATED)

    UPDATE: Aug. 5, 1:20 p.m. -- Salinas Police announced that Julissa Romero, a 12-year-old California girl reported missing, is in fact alive and accounted for, and that the coordinates of her body previously posted online were a hoax. Multiple requests for comment from the Salinas Police Department were not returned. Previously: Police in California are investigating an anonymous online post claiming to show the coordinates to a missing girl's corpse.

  • Bicyclist's GoPro Captures Frightening Armed Robbery (WATCH)

    GoPro cameras are famous for capturing unbelievable events and a video recently posted to YouTube by a bicyclist in South Africa is no exception. First, all you see in the YouTube video is bicyclist Malcolm Fox enjoying a scenic ride in Somerset West, a town in the Western Cape. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.