Looks Like Beyoncé and Blue Celebrated Take Your Daughter to Twerk Day

Caity Weaver · 03/07/14 12:47PM

This adorable, confusingly sexy video of Beyoncé apparently chatting on stage with her daughter Blue Ivy during a dress rehearsal for her Grammy performance of "Drunk in Love" leaked online sometime earlier today. Sample dialogue: "Surfboard! Hi mommy!"

James O'Keefe Employs a Convicted Felon

Liz Farkas and Matthew Phelan · 03/07/14 12:30PM

Investigative prankster James O'Keefe III has made himself famous by bringing out the apparent seamy side of liberals' most trusted institutions. Through Project Veritas, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2010 to capitalize on and continue his hidden-camera attacks on ACORN and Planned Parenthood, O'Keefe has produced sting videos suggesting criminal or antisocial tendencies among staffers at NPR and in Medicaid offices, and most recently among Obamacare navigators.

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/07/14 10:55AM

[A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel "Ochakov" from the Black Sea shore of western Crimea on Thursday. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters. Image via Darko Vojinovic/AP.]

Newsweek Editor-in-Chief: We Stand by Our Bitcoin Story

J.K. Trotter · 03/06/14 11:15PM

Newsweek isn’t backing down. Hours after publishing Leah McGrath Goodman’s 4,5oo-word profile of a 64-year-old Temple City engineer named Dorian S. Nakamoto—who, Goodman claims, is the long-mysterious inventor of Bitcoin—the magazine faced a cascade of evidence contradicting the ambitious cover story of its freshly revived print edition. Nevertheless, its editor-in-chief tells Gawker that the publication stands by the story.

A Mystical Spree of Decapitations In Brooklyn

Justin Charity · 03/06/14 10:12PM

Obama's America. A man can't even walk his Boston Terrier through Prospect Park without tripping over a severed goat head. And then a few afternoons later, a young mother strolls with her two-year-old son through a neighboring park, only to shriek and stumble upon two ceremoniously decapitated rooster skulls, sacrificed on a clay plate.

J.K. Trotter · 03/06/14 07:58PM

Temple City resident Dorian S. Nakamoto—identified by Newsweek as the long-unknown inventor of Bitcoin—told the Associated Press that “he had never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago.”

Pizza Patriots: Day One at CPAC

Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/06/14 07:37PM

The first thing you notice about CPAC, the conservative answer to Comic Con, are the lines.

Massachusetts Set To Ban Public Upskirt Photography

Justin Charity · 03/06/14 07:22PM

The Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill to ban snooping of genitalia in public spaces, aka "upskirting." This follows the Supreme Judicial Court's ruling on Wednesday that Michael Robertson, charged in 2010 for snap-shooting two MBTA passengers' panties, may not have violated the state's current "Peeping Tom" laws.