Representatives of Egypt's military—you know, the coup guys—claimed in weirdly public fashion over the weekend that they have hit upon a revolutionary breakthrough treatment for AIDS and Hepatitis C. But an embarrassed aide to Egypt's president is calling "bullshit."

On Tuesday, the desiccated ruin of the New York Observer published a bizarre, hilariously facile takedown of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, accusing him of using his office to wage politically motivated prosecutions.

Good news in the losing battle against America's obesity: a new report finds that, in the past decade, the obesity rate for kids aged two to five has plummeted by more than 40%. These toddlers are now the only Americans fit enough for military service.

North Dakota's most famous food critic is back: Writing for the Grand Forks Herald, Marilyn Hagerty has penned what might be the definitive review of the Ruby Tuesday on 32^nd Street in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Hagerty's verdict: It's pretty good.

A federal judge has declared the Texas law banning gay marriage unconstitutional, although a stay has been issued to keep the law in place for the time being.

In the past five years, agents of the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—tasked with cracking down on the illegal flow of guns in the U.S.—have had at least 45 of their own government-issued weapons lost or stolen, a new investigation reveals.

An Australian porn star wants to be the first in the world to accept payment in the form of a nearly-worthless digital currency named after a meme.

Two free bits of advice: 1) Don't make meth. 2) If you do, for whatever dumb reason, decide to make meth, don't do it while wearing a t-shirt inspired by Breaking Bad.

A couple of people, John Mayer and Katy Perry, will sure be monopolizing a lot of their friends' time in the coming weeks in manners that will be acceptable at first and then quickly become annoying ("No, I can't get a massage right now. I'm at work. I'm not being curt.") because they have reportedly just broken up after roughly two years of intermittent courting.

Yesterday's Twitter niche bombshell was the alleged unmasking of @gselevator, a hugely popular "parody" account that recently landed itself a very real book deal. The fact that the jokes didn't really originate inside Goldman won't stop the deal—but how the fact that some of them didn't really originate with @gselevator?

Page Six is reporting that Ronan Farrow, the freshly installed MSNBC host, has warned reporters who plan to attend an awards ceremony at Manhattan’s Princeton Club, where Farrow will be honored with the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism, not to inquire about his father, Woody Allen, or any other “personal” issues:

Monkeys: Terrible at filmmaking, great at extortion.

Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Miss., and former activist with the Republic of New Afrika, died yesterday at age 66.

What makes your state unique? Would you judge by how crappy it is? How much sex its residents are getting? Or perhaps a state's uniqueness can be nailed down to the music tastes of its Spotify listeners.

Two thousand JPMorgan employees will soon be moving into Brooklyn. Brooklyn just, uh, keeps getting cooler.

[Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus gather to await a food distribution from the United Nations Relief and Work Agency in January. Image via UNRWA Archives.]

No disrespect to people in foreign countries, but they are approximately the world's biggest suckers, when it comes to believing things about America. No, all Americans are not cowboys; we don't all own guns, and work at Disney Land; and we certainly don't make any good wine.

A Google Glass Explorer walked into a San Francisco punk loser bar, and everything went exactly how you'd expect.

Last night, Spike Lee delivered an impassioned, scathing critique of gentrification and how its changed Brooklyn, and New York City as a whole, for the worse.

After an hour of often-bizarre pleas from their salt-of-the-earth constituents Tuesday, four of Hernando County, Florida's five county commissioners donned their tinfoil thinking hats and decided to kill a plan that would have added fluoride to their drinking water.