Let’s watch “Top Gun” instead: Despite attempts by the Church of Scientology to divert attention from it, an HBO documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” has been seen by more than 5.5 million people since its debut two weeks ago.
And those numbers double when you count the 5.5 million thetans, the ancient alien beings that Scientologists say inhabit human bodies, who also watched the documentary.
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You choose: Oreo or M&M: Protests that sought a $15-an-hour wage for fast-food workers were staged across the country and expanded to include other minimum-wage workers.
Moved by the demonstrations, McDonald’s, which recently raised its workers’ salaries $1 an hour above the local minimum wage, said it would further sweeten the deal: a free small McFlurry.
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Couldn’t afford the stamps? A man hoping to deliver letters to Congress on campaign finance corruption landed his small one-person gyrocopter on the White House lawn.
Alert Secret Service agents grabbed the man and took him with them on their way to the bar.
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