Eavesdropping In: Target Sues Gay Rights Group, Mafia Makes New Members Drop Trou For Initiation

by Mara Siegler · March 25, 2011

    Japanese officials fear that one of the reactor cores of the Fukushima nuclear facility may have been breached. [AP]

    A Dutch radio buff monitoring and tweeting military communications has discovered that Libya flights by an Air Force cargo plane configured to broadcast psy-ops message have been going by the call sign "Sheen." [Gawker]

    Target is suing a gay-rights group to get its members to stop demonstrating outside its stores in San Diego County. [AP]

    A plan spearheaded by Madonna to build a $15 million school for impoverished girls in Malawi has been officially scrapped amid charges that the people running the project on her behalf squandered million. [NYT]

    The Mafia added a new twist to its initiation ceremony for wiseguy wannabes, a turncoat mobster revealed — if you wanna get your “button,” you’ve gotta get naked. [NYP]