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"Aunt From Hell" and Nephew Went on Today to Show They've Got No Hard Feelings
Jennifer Connell, the woman who briefly looked like a monster to the world because she sued her nephew for breaking her wrist by jumping into her arms for a hug, went on the Today show this morning to...
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Science: Women Can't Handle the Stress of Jobs We Make Women Do
Women: a liability to the smooth functioning of the patriarchal labor system? I didn’t say it—science did.A new study of thousands of workers all over the world found that women—and hey, we love em,...
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"Life's Too Short to Be Sad...EVER": A Sparkly Sleepover Party With YouTube's...
In our digital age, there are increasingly more ways for young women to become famous. Perhaps the fastest growing exposure industry is YouTube, where content creators in their early twenties cosplay...
View ArticlePresident Obama just announced that he’s abandoned his plan to withdraw most...
President Obama just announced that he’s abandoned his plan to withdraw most U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2017. At least 9,800 troops will remain in the country through next year, after which the...
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Doomsday Group Posts FAQ to Explain Why the World Didn’t End on Time
There have been a lot of End-of-Days-to-be over the years. Y2K. Wayne Bent’s Day of Judgement. The Mayan Apocalypse. The Blood Moon Prophecy. All of which have come and gone without leaving Earth the...
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Leaked Documents: Bystanders Killed By Drones Automatically Become "Enemies"
The Intercept has obtained a new cache of top secret documents detailing how the U.S. government hunts and kills suspected terrorists from the sky. It reveals a sprawling, labyrinthine machine for...
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Another GOP Rep Says Benghazi Committee Was "Designed to Go After" Hillary...
Before vanishing in a puff of smoke a week ago, Republic House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy asserted that the House’s select committee on Benghazi had been very successful ... in damaging Hillary...
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Confirmed: FBI's Data on Police Killings Is Pretty Much Useless
How many Americans do you think were killed by police in, let’s say, 2012? You don’t know? Neither do I, and neither does anyone else—including the FBI.That’s not to say that the feds don’t try to keep...
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Details of Dennis Hastert's Alleged Sexual Misconduct May Stay Buried Forever...
J. Dennis Hastert—the former House speaker who allegedly spent several million dollars paying off a male teenage victim—has reportedly agreed to a plea deal which would effectively bury the details of...
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Today's Best Deals: Seiko Watches, Gear VR, August Smart Lock, 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...
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Prosecutors Say "Terrorism Expert" Was Actually Just an Expert at Conning Fox...
According to reports, a “former CIA agent” who frequently talked national security on Fox News was actually just an extremely talented con man with a penchant for scamming Fox News producers and...
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Specter Detector: A Night Spent Haunting the Ghosts of New York’s Algonquin...
Why do people go to hotels? Travel. Romance. Simultaneous construction on their first home and their summer home. And finally: To stay up all night in order to liveblog a ghost hunt on Gawker.com. Join...
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Double Suicide Bomb Attack Kills Dozens at Nigerian Mosque: Report
Witnesses say a double suicide bomb attack killed dozens inside a mosque in Maiduguri, reports The Guardian. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the report mentions that Boko...
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U.S. Tank Enters Bombed Out Afghan Hospital, Possibly Damaging Evidence of...
When an American tank forced its way onto the grounds the Kunduz trauma hospital in Afghanistan destroyed in an airstrike earlier this month on Thursday, The Guardian reports, it may have destroyed...
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Facebook Heartthrob on Electronic Monitoring Allegedly Abducts, Rapes, and...
A 20-year-old Ohio man already on electronic monitoring for a previous conviction for abduction-related charges allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl to his home, where he kept her against her will and...
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Nevada Regulators Rule Daily Fantasy Is Gambling, Order Sites To Shut Down In...
The Nevada Gaming Control Board offered perhaps the most significant rebuke of daily fantasy sports operators today in a month full of them, finding that daily fantasy sports constitutes gambling. The...
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Target Store Accidentally Plays Porn Audio Over PA System
Customers shopping at a Target located in Campbell, California were shocked when audio from a porno began playing over the store’s loudspeakers. Gina Young, a woman who was shopping in the store with...
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Attorney for Mother Charged in Church Killing Implies Dead Son Might Have...
The New York Times has an extensive piece documenting the various, conflicting accounts of the beating death of Lucas Leonard at the cultish Word of Life church in Chadwicks, New York, on...
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Bernie Sanders Declines Price-Gouging Pill Racketeer's Paltry Donation
Everyone’s favorite just-this-side-of-legal drug kingpin Martin Shkreli is very upset with Bernie Sanders after the presidential candidate declined a $2,700 donation Shkreli made in September and gave...
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