NBC Drops the Hammer on Brian Williams | BY Lloyd Grove | The network completes the public humiliation of its top news anchor after his inflated tales of derring-do, in a move that suggests it has uncovered more damning information. | | | HSBC Got Away With Buying Cocaine Plane | BY Michael Daly | While the Justice Department was busy prosecuting American HSBC customers for tax evasion, it has taken no action against the bank for nearly five years. | | | Jon Stewart's Daily Show Farewell | BY Tim Teeman | On Tuesday night's show, announcing his abdication from the host's chair, an emotional Stewart said he knew in his heart it was time to quit. | | | Kansas's Big Gay Rollback | BY Jay Michaelson | Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's mean-spirited revocation of employment protection for LGBT people is but the latest Hail Mary from a Christian conservative camp that knows it has lost. | | | | Silicon Valley's Sex Workers Are Broke | BY Samantha Allen | An FBI crackdown and skyrocketing rents in San Francisco are forcing the city's sex workers to either take on more work (some of them even drive for Uber during the day) or leave. | | | '50 Shades of Grey' Is Campy, Silly Fun | BY Marlow Stern | The movie adaptation of the BDSM-themed bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey is mildly sexy and totally ridiculous. Or exactly what you expect it to be. | | | U.S. Won't Investigate Hostage's Death | BY Shane Harris and Nancy A. Youssef | U.S. officials confirmed that the 26-year-old American aid worker is deceased but say there's no evidence a Jordanian airstrike killed her, as the terrorists claim—and the Pentagon won't look into how she died. | | | | |
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