The Procrastinator’s Guide To iOS 9
iOS 9 came out this week, and you might want to put it on your phone, or figure out what the hell you get by installing this thing. This is a guide for those who care, but only barely.First of all,...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Gets Bernie Sanders All Riled Up on The Late Show
While tonight’s Late Show interview with Bernie Sanders was absent any of the respective tears or deep, deep discomfort that characterized Colbert’s two biggest moments so far (and at least compared to...
View ArticleSuspect Arrested in Arizona Freeway Shootings
On Friday, Arizona police arrested Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, at a Wal-Mart in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, in connection with four of a string of 11 seemingly-random freeway shootings that took...
View ArticleSaturday's Best Deals: iPad Mini 3, Cheap GoPro, $5 Magazines, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on...
View ArticleJessica Simpson Wasn't Drunk on HSN, 'Slurring is Just Part of Her Personality'
Last night Jessica Simpson tried to sell her clothing line on HSN and the results were, well, mixed. Many believed that Simpson was drunk, slurring her words and talking about her sister’s grey jeans....
View ArticleCalifornia Cops in Helicopter Shoot and Kill Robbery Suspect During...
After a 100-mph chase heading south on the northbound side of the 215 Freeway, Southern California police deputies fatally shot a man wanted on suspicion of a home-invasion robbery, BuzzFeed News...
View ArticleThe Gawker Review Weekend Reading List [9.19.15]
Wednesday night, before a national audience, presidential candidate and part-time comedian Jeb Bush—son of George H.W., brother to George W., and father to George P.—told a funny story. “There’s one...
View ArticleThe Caucasian's Guide To Black Barbecues
As interracial dating, integration, and cross-cultural friendships increase, many people find themselves attending events in which they are the minority, and have no frame of reference from which to...
View ArticleAlready, the Times is writing trend pieces about (haha) Generation Z: “The...
Already, the Times is writing trend pieces about (haha) Generation Z: “The fact that some are still in their post-toddler years, however, makes it difficult for marketers trying to distill their...
View ArticleThe Death and Short Life of Samuel Harrell
“There are a few things that people don’t know about my brother Samuel Harrell. He wasn’t just an inmate,” Cerissa Harrell tells a group of nearly 50 prepared to blockade the Dutchess County District...
View Article17,000 Refugees Stranded After Croatia Closes Its Borders
Since Wednesday, the New York Times reports, more than 17,000 refugees have entered Croatia, having been blocked from entering Hungary and sent on from Serbia. Now, as Croatia closes its borders with...
View Article500 Days of Kristin, Day 237: Kristin Was a Bridesmaid in a Wedding Last...
:)This has been 500 Days of Kristin.[Photo via Getty]
View ArticleExecution Window Set For Only Woman on Death Row in Georgia
A Georgia court set a seven-day execution window for the state’s only female death row inmate on Friday, the Associated Press reports. Kelly Renee Gissendaner’s death was postponed earlier this year...
View ArticleDeputy Clerk Claims Kim Davis Altered Marriage Licenses, Interfered With...
Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, continues to interfere with court orders.The Guardian reports that Rowan County deputy clerk, Brian Mason...
View ArticleVirgin Birth Snake Just Keeps Popping Out Baby Snakes—No Male Snakes...
For the second year in a row, the Washington Post reports, a watersnake in Missouri gave birth without having had any contact with any male snakes (for the last eight years). (Nice.)Researchers at the...
View Article"Get Off of My Goddarn Stage, Bitch": Patti LaBelle Has Fan Ejected From Concert
Patti LaBelle is up to her old tricks: screaming at people. Last night at a concert in Vancouver, an audience member the diva had presumably invited to come dance onstage began unbuttoning his shirt....
View ArticleGroup Targeting Planned Parenthood Cannot Plead Fifth, Must Turn Over Evidence
Yesterday, a U. S. District Court in Northern California ruled that the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the group that has released “sting” videos targeting Planned Parenthood, must turn over...
View ArticleCity Says Murdered Woman Should Have Known the "Risks" of Public Housing
In court papers filed on Thursday, city lawyers claim the family of a college student murdered in 2013 at an East Harlem housing project don’t deserve a settlement from the city because she should have...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins Absolutely Eviscerates the Texas Clock Kid on Twitter
Influential tweeter Richard Dawkins, whose intellectual rigor never ceases to amaze, makes the very good, necessary, and important point that, in claiming his reassembled clock as an “invention,” Ahmed...
View ArticleTrump to Young, Beautiful Teens: Follow Your Hearts
On Saturday night, Donald Trump appeared in the parking lot of Urbandale High School, in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, to speak to the teens gathered there before their fall homecoming dance. “Hello...
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