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The USPS will end first-class mail service this summer after 150 years in a cost-saving maneuver. The move to cut Saturdays will be announced today.

The switch from six days a week to five only affects first-class mail; packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail will still get delivered.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) says the move will save the struggling US Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year alone, about $2 billion a year.

The Postal Service has lost $41 billion over the past six years as more and more Americans turned to private shippers, email, and online banking.

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The headline above and video below speak for themselves.

A guy dressed as a zebra attempted to flee a Japanese zoo in an earthquake preparedness drill designed to train employees for such a situation. Good times.

Japan Zoo Escape Drill

Taking full precautions so that no animals go missing in an earthquake, Tokyo's Tama Zoo came up with an elaborate (and unintentionally funny drill).

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Nancy Gonzalez, a federal prison guard was charged Tuesday with having an illegal affair with Ronell Wilson, a notorious convicted cop killer.

She later became pregnant with his child.

Gonzalez, 29, was arrested on charges she intentionally engaged in a sex act with Wilson while working at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.

She became pregnant in June.

Gonzalez appeared in court Tuesday, visibly with child and crying with her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She was released on $150,000 bond.

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Patrick Leach, the 27-year-old son of the woman behind Barney & Friends, has been charged with attempted murder.

A representative for the Los Angeles County District Attorney confirmed to TMZ that Leach was arraigned yesterday, following an arrest last month for allegedly shooting a Malibu resident in the chest - and then running from the scene.

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Congratulations, Lindsay Lohan. You are no longer the worst-mannered criminal to ever appear in court.

In the following video, we see Penelope Soto, an 18-year old in Florida who was arrested on drug possession charges.

After laughing her way through a few questions and treating the judge like an irritating parent, the teenager was slapped with a $10,000 fine.

And then after flipping His Honor her finger and cursing him off? The punishment grew even worse from there...

Teen Gives Judge the Finger

The Death Star, undoubtedly a worthwhile undertaking but not on the Obama administration's radar, is now on Kickstarter if you want to help build one.

A recent White House Death Star petition was denied, citing Obama's “we don’t blow up planets” political stance and the potential fiscal nightmare.

Now, a new Kickstarter project wants to pick up those plans, using an open source design effort and trying to raise funding to help make it happen.

A LOT of funding.

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Lynsi Torres, 30, is the President of In-N-Out Burger.

She's also the youngest female billionaire in the U.S.

According to a new Bloomberg report, Lynsi Torres does not have a college degree or formal management training, but the proof is in the pudding.

Or in her case, her business' amazing hamburgers.

Seriously ... you gotta try 'em if you haven't.

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A Russian graduate student named Lesya Toumaniantz has allowed her boyfriend - a controversial artist named Rouslan Toumaniantz - to tattoo his name across her face.

Making this even more of an unusual move? The pair had known each other for 24 hours when the ink went down!

"It's a symbol of our eternal devotion. I'd like him to tattoo every inch of my body," Toumaniantz said on Facebook, adding that she plans to marry her very new beau.

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Here they go again. North Korea has released an online video depicting New York City under an apparent missile attack (set to "We Are the World" no less).

The bizarre three-minute video was released by Uriminzokkiri, which distributes "news" and propaganda from North Korea’s state-run media:

North Korea Missile Video

It features a young man in a dream sequence, aboard a North Korean space shuttle launched by the same type of rocket the rogue state tested in December.

A major city, presumably New York, draped in a U.S. flag, is then shown to the tune of “We are the World,” the global charity single recorded in 1985.

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Hyping his state as the "best place to do business," Florida Governor Rock Scott unveiled a new logo yesterday alongside Secretary of Commerce Gray Swoope.

But not all residents are excited about one aspect of the new branding.

Citing the necktie that comprises the letter "I," many have expressed disdain over what they determine to be a biased toward men.

"Perhaps they should add a tag line: 'Florida is the perfect climate for business if you're a man,'" Beth Leytham, a Tampa-based public relations executive, wrote in an email to The Tampa Tribune.

What do you think? Should Florida have not included a necktie? Gone with both a tie and high heels somehow? Sound off below: Is this logo sexist?