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Chrissy Teigen Posts, Removes John Legend Throat-Grabbing Video

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend shocked her Instagram followers by posting a video on Christmas in which he grabbed her throat in an apparent prank. The supermodel, 28, begins to say “Merry Christmas” in the video, which has now been removed from her account, before her husband, 34, reaches in. Chrissy then pretends to look distressed as she asks for “help” … The pair went on to play-fight, but perhaps after receiving some worried responses from fans, she decided to remove the video from her Instagram. Chrissy Teigen , who married John in Italy this year, is no stranger to having no filter on social media. Remember her “vagina raspberry” video? No? Well, a seemingly-tipsy Chrissy could be seen blowing a raspberry into the crotch of fellow Sports Illustrated stunner Brooklyn Decker in that one. Check it out after the jump … Vagina Raspberry By Chrissy Teigen

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Rob Kardashian: Does He Have a Secret Son?

With Kim Kardashian garnering all the parental family headlines this year, a new report suggests that this reality star may have something in common with her brother. Yes, readers, Rob Kardashian could be a father! During a recent gathering, Star Magazine sources say Rob told friends that a teddy bear sitting on his best was “for his son.” And this isn’t the first time Rob has made such a reference. In May, he deleted the following message on Instagram, but not before it got burned in to the Internet forever: “Shout to to God … Shout out Mom, shout out to my son’s mom cuz she been holding me down since high school n shout out to my son Robert the Third. lol” The tabloid says “no one” in the family will discuss the possibility that Rob may have a child, but that these rumors have been around for awhile. The son would be the result of a fling with a woman in Miami four years ago and, if he exists, would make Rob the THIRD Kardashian member to have a kid out of wedlock (joining Kim and Kourtney Kardashian ). Kris Jenner, meanwhile, has supposedly tried to keep the chatter at bay. “Any time it’s even mentioned, Kris changes the subject,” alleges a family insider. “For whatever reason, Kris is fearful that Rob being a father could hurt the [Kardashian] brand.”

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Knockout Game Player Charged With Hate Crime, Sparks Racial Debate

Conrad Barrett was arrested Thursday and charged under federal hate crimes law, which defines a hate crime as “motivated by enmity or animus against a protected class.” The FBI also lists anti-white crimes as hate crimes, but the fact that he was charged for playing the “knockout game” and assaulting a black man has sparked controversy. Conrad Alvin Barrett Arrested For Knockout Game The knockout game , in which an assailant tries to knock out a random bystander with a single punch, has garnered national attention in recent months. It is unclear whether the “game” has become more popular or whether the Internet has simply allowed for isolated incidents to be broadcast more widely. The majority of the reported knockout game incidents, however, have involved black men targeting white victims and none triggered federal involvement. The fact that the Justice Department elected to step in now, when a black man was the victim, has critics saying the government is using the hate-crime statute unevenly. Donald Green, a political scientist at Columbia University in New York, says: “The reason why you have black perpetrators and white victims being prosecuted asymmetrically hinges on what evidence there is about why they’re doing what they’re doing.” “If suspects call the victim racial names, and one of the other witnesses testifies to that effect, it would be prosecutable as a hate crime.” That last part could be the key here. According to the federal affidavit, the government appears to be preparing a case along those lines in Texas. Federal prosecutors say Barrett planned the November 24 attack, which he filmed with his cellphone. He approached “G.C.”, an elderly black man. “How’s it going, man?” Barrett said, then punched the stunned victim so brutally hard that G.C.’s jaw was broken in two places and he lost three teeth. Barrett then allegedly cried “knockout!” and ran. He was caught after he told the tale at a bar, where an off-duty cop was present. Federal prosecutors argue that the attack was motivated by racial animus. Police found videos in which Barrett allegedly used racial epithets and at one point said that black people “haven’t fully experienced the blessing of evolution.” In another video from the day of the assault uncovered in the investigation, Barrett says, “If I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?” A single hate crime charge carries a maximum of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Still, some conservative bloggers see racial hypocrisy at work. “This case shows how warped law enforcement has gotten as a result of hate crime legislation,” writes Rick Moran on the American Thinker blog. “No matter who is in charge, the law will always be selectively enforced. It makes a mockery of the notion of equal justice under the law.” Hate crime charges have been brought by New York State this year against one black suspect accused of playing the knockout game (a Jewish man was hurt). For his part, Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston, is not convinced that knockout game attacks are growing. Or that it’s even a game. He argues in an upcoming journal article that racially fueled knockout attacks are in the news is because they’ve actually become rarer than in the past. Knockout Game Video Knockout Game Therefore, they’re more notable than in the 1990s, when far more reports of so-called “ thrill hate crimes ” – think white teenagers beating up homeless men – were reported. “These knockout attacks are usually interracial, but not every interracial crime is a hate crime,” Levin says, drawing what he feels is an important distinction. “This is a thrill hate crime because typically young people who go out looking for someone to bash or assault, the act doesn’t necessarily require some triggering episode in wider society.” According to FBI hate crime statistics, 22 percent of the 3,297 reported racially motivated hate crimes in 2012 were anti-white, while 66 percent were anti-black. The Justice Department insisted on Thursday in response to the controversy that it does not discriminate in how it makes decisions on hate crime charges.

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WATCH: The Most Hilarious News Bloopers of 2013

His may have been the most famous newscast snafu of the year, but AJ Clemente was far from the only journalist who made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2013. There was the young woman who got hit in the face by a baseball. And the reporter who smacked by a golf club. As well as the one run into by a football player. There was the anchor who dropped an F Bomb on the air in Detroit, and the one whose tongue was a twat. So sit back, watch and take solace. Wherever you are, whatever occupation you hold down, everyone messes up sometimes. And some folks do it a lot more publicly than others… News Bloopers: The Best of 2013

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