Who Would Win if Real Seahawks Played Football Against Real Patriots?
For whatever reason, Americans prefer the Super Bowl to involve men playing football under the names of various animals and soldiers, and not the actual soldiers and animals themselves. Which is why...
View ArticleBruce Jenner Is "Transitioning into a Woman," People and TMZ Report
According a source close to his family, Bruce Jenner is transitioning from male to female, People reports. TMZ reports that Jenner began the process more than a year ago."Bruce is transitioning to a...
View ArticleThe Gawker Review Weekend Reading List [1.31.15]
To summarize: Brooklyn continued its transformation into a refuge for the one percent. Rafael Nadal was upset and Novak Djokovic advanced to the Australian Open final. Marshawn Lynch Marshawn Lynched....
View ArticleUnable to Score Lethal Injection Drugs, Ohio Postpones All Executions
After a botched execution left a condemned man writhing and gasping for air, Ohio announced this month that it would be returning to an earlier, sodium thiopental-based lethal injection formula. Now...
View ArticleNYC to Pay $3.9 Million to Family of Unarmed Teen Killed by Cop
The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed teenager shot and killed in his grandmother's bathroom by an NYPD officer in February 2012, has agreed to a $3.9 million settlement in their wrongful death...
View ArticleBobbi Kristina, Daughter of Whitney Houston, Found Unconscious in Tub
Bobbi Kristina Brown—the 21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown—was rushed to the hospital on Saturday after she was discovered "unresponsive" in a bathtub, CBS reports. According to...
View ArticleSeven-Alarm Fire Burning in Williamsburg
More than 200 FDNY firefighters have been fighting what is now a six-alarm fire at a warehouse in Williamsburg since early this morning, The New York Times reports. More than 200 firefighters are...
View ArticleCops Detain "Person of Interest" Linked to Body Found in Suitcase
According to SFGate, police have detained a man previously identified as a "person of interest" in connection with a suitcase stuffed with dismembered body parts found in San Francisco.Earlier this...
View ArticleAirstrikes Drive ISIS from Kobani, Leave City in Ruins
A pair of Islamic State fighters attributed the militant group's recent withdrawal from Kobani to U.S.-led airstrikes, The Guardian reports. ISIS threatened to overrun the Syrian border-city as...
View ArticleAnything to Avoid the Pain
Late last year my cousin went missing. For weeks he was simply just gone. His cell phone was off and any attempt at tracking him was futile. If there were ever a time that I wanted Liam Neeson's...
View ArticleISIS Beheads Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto in New Video
After a proposed prisoner swap failed to materialize this week, ISIS released a gruesome video on Saturday purporting to show the beheading of captured Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The new video...
View ArticleOne Dog Has a Ball and the Other Dog Wants the Ball
Sometimes, if you are a dog, you are the dog with the ball. Usually, however, you are not. When there are two dogs and one ball, only one dog can have the ball. And there is nothing you can do to...
View ArticleSource: Bobbi Kristina Brown in Medically Induced Coma
According to "a source close to the family," Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was placed in a medically induced coma on Saturday after being found...
View ArticleBoko Haram Repelled in Week's Second Assault on Major Nigerian City
Boko Haram's second attempt to take the major northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in a week was defeated Sunday, leaving an estimated hundreds of fighters and around a dozen civilians dead, the...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake Announces He's Pregnant
Saturday night, Justin Timberlake announced via Instagram that he and an unnamed, seemingly Caucasian torso (maybe his wife's?) are expecting a child."Thank you EVERYONE for the Bday wishes!" wrote...
View ArticleEgypt Deports One of Three Convicted Al Jazeera Journalists
Peter Greste, one of three Al Jazeera journalists convicted last summer of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast false news, has been released from prison and deported, the Associated...
View ArticleThree-Year-Old Shoots Dad, Pregnant Mom with Handgun in NM Motel Room
A toddler accidentally shot his father and his eight-months-pregnant mother in an Albuquerque motel room on Saturday, the Albuquerque Journal reports. According to the paper, both parents are expected...
View ArticleStudent Suspended for Alleged Possession of One Ring to Rule Them All
Fourth-grader Aiden Stewart was suspended Friday for bringing what he claimed was the One Ring, forged by Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom, to school, the Odessa American reports. Stewart told a...
View ArticleImagine Chris Christie Falling Out of a Chair, Forever
Want a picture of the future? Imagine Chris Christie in a Philadelphia radio station last June. Then imagine a human butt falling out of a chair.Now imagine them both, forever. In our world, there can...
View ArticleVideo: Cop Pulls Gun on Teens Reportedly Having Snowball Fight
A new video appears to show a New Rochelle police officer pulling his gun on a group of black teens who had reportedly been having a snowball fight. "Don't fucking move, guys," the officer tells them,...
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