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Not only does the 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python caught by Jason Leon this month weighing 128 pounds beat the state record in Florida, but the story of how he brought down the female snake is pretty impressive as well. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Leon was driving in a rural area of Miami-Dade County with a passenger when they spotted just three feet of the snake sticking out alongside the road. While many would have kept driving upon seeing the massive ...

“The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.”

A new video has surfaced showing the evolution of the Moore, Oklahoma, tornado from a small funnel cloud into a roaring F4 twister. The video, which was posted to Reddit, shows a man capturing it all from a parking lot as the storm rages by. But it’s not just the images the convey the full impact: the video also captures the sound of the roaring wind that accompanied the storm. Here’s the evolution in pictures: You can watch it unfold below (be sure to click the HD button in the bottom right)...

• Some children reportedly drowned below school• Local reporter gets choked up describing scene• More children feared dead • 145 hospitalized, many of them children

“Houses are leveled.”

Targets.

“Our whole house is gone. Everything but where we were is gone.”

Oh no.

“There’s houses in the air here.”

“…there was no foreknowledge of when this happened.”

A video shot over the weekend is getting some attention for several reasons: It shows a man clinging to the hood of a moving, white pickup truck. The man asks a woman in another car to call the police. Why? Because he says the truck driver hit him and so he jumped on the hood. The woman in the other car who says she will call the police for him has an unusually calm voice. (Image: YouTube screenshot) All of it adds up to a story that needs a bit of explanation, but first here’s the video of t...

“I don’t want our core customers to see people who aren’t as hot as them wearing our clothing.”

“I’m in a daze.”

“I’m very pleased to announce this morning that the era of CSCOPE lesson plans has come to an end.”

“Very nice to have the Media Matters talking points recited…”

“You can train a bee…”

“I saw all the trees waving, and that’s when I grabbed everyone and got into two closets”

“People have no trust that their government is being impartial”

…your heart had to go out.

“This is a business where you have to tell the truth, and that did not happen here”

“I’m simply asking a question.”

CCTV camera in Colombia captured a brazen midday mugging at a Bogota bus station, the U.K. Telegraph reports, but that’s only one aspect of a pretty shocking video. After the apparent thief struggles with a female traveler for her phone, he makes a run for it and promptly gets hit by a bus. In yet another startling twist, video shows the woman who had been robbed just minutes prior going to help the beleaguered alleged criminal. The identities of the individuals have not been released, but it...

“I get paid to spoil dreams”

“He was hitting hikers…I saw hikers just go everywhere”

“How many members of your family have been accidentally shot by other members of your family?”

“The greatest Olympian of all time isn’t hanging up his swimsuit, after all”

“The Washington echo chamber.”

HBO TheBlaze’s S.E. Cupp battled liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on the gun issue Friday, arguing against gun restrictions and schooling him on basic statistics, on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Cupp, contending with boos from the “Real Time” audience, said the problem with a gun registry is that “it treats law-abiding citizens as if they are guilty until proven innocent.” She went on, “The problem with background checks, five-day waiting periods, they assume that I have criminal intent ...

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

Associated Press. FAIRFIELD, Conn. (TheBlaze/AP) — Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday’s evening rush hour, injuring about 50 people, authorities said. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says a total of 60 people have been taken to hospitals with injuries from a collision between two New York-area commuter trains. The governor said from the scene of the accident Friday night that most people were not seriously hurt but five were critically injured, i...

Chaos.

“It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we’ve ever seen before.”

“I believe that, uh, we talked about that, yes.”

“They’re making me eat my lunch away from everybody else …”

“…even assigning a potentially offensive book like “Lolita,” could now be construed as harassment.”

“I owe her my life.”

Starting at 10pm ET on Saturday nights, TheBlaze TV is loaded laughter from back-to-back comedy shows — “The Wonderful World of Stu” (WWOS) followed by “The B.S. of A.” Ahead of this week’s show, we grabbed one of the segments from WWOS to give you a little taste. What did we choose? Considering the news of the week, we thought Stu’s rendition of a Jay Carney press conference was quite relevant. Stu seems to have a particular appreciation for President Obama’s press secretary. Image: White Ho...

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., questions ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, as they testify during a hearing at the House Ways and Means Committee on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013. Credit: AP Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) hammered outgoing IRS interim head Steven Miller on Friday, demanding to know w...

Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Credit: AP The targeting of conservatives by the IRS was “intolerable” but simply the result of agents trying to be more “efficient” and wasn’t an act of partisanship, fired acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller testified to Congress on Frida...

“Remember, chlorine and other disinfectants don’t kill germs instantly.”

“…I’ve got a change of suit but I don’t know about… our prime minister,”

…than 80 percent of the group are verbally abused or bullied at school.

The Horror. The Horror.

“…this administration has a record on transparency that outdoes any previous administrations.”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

“It’s indescribable”