Today marked the third anniversary of the Arizona political rally shooting that left six dead and Gabrielle Giffords with a gunshot wound to the head, and to celebrate being alive, the former US Representative went skydiving.

[It's so hot in Brazil right now that zookeepers in Rio de Janeiro are preparing special meat popsicles for the animals. Meanwhile, thanks to the polar vortex, many Americans are themselves turning into meat popsicles. Image by Silvia Izquierdo via AP]

Several Delta flight attendants testified against Ralph Lauren's niece Jenny today, describing a drunken expletive-laden rampage that culminated in an emergency landing — all because Lauren's seat wouldn't recline properly.

New York magazine has (finally) published a long excerpt of Gabriel Sherman’s Roger Ailes biography, The Loudest Voice in the Room. It’s from one of the more recent chapters—the book spans the Fox father’s entire career—and collects, among other stories, our 2011 report revealing that Ailes spied on several reporters at the Putnam County News & Recorder, the upstate New York newspaper he purchased in 2008. But it’s not just disgruntled newspaper employees (or gay activists) that Ailes irrationally fears.

A disgruntled baker took shit-flinging to a near-literal level when she retaliated against a client by providing her engagement party with a poo-shaped cake topped with the words "eat shit."

If, as a Kentucky state legislator, you "accidentally" discharge your Ruger .380 semiauto handgun in the capitol just before the governor gives a speech there, you can react a few different ways. "Oops, I'm sorry" seems good. "I'm an idiot" is better. Rep. Leslie Combs went with "It happens."

In a development that can only be described as shocking as well as startling, a proposed Noah's Ark Theme Park in Kentucky is having some financing problems. Do we have an investment idea for you!

The "towering figures" of American public intellectualism are "all white men," the Politico's Dylan Byers explains, in an attempt to dig out of the mess he made by dismissing the notion of Melissa Harris-Perry as a top public intellectual. And writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, who diagnosed racism in the episode, are "lazy."

On Tuesday, America's neighbor that they have to play with even though she always smells like cigarette smoke and one time she set a bug on fire so they don't have to let her in their room but they do have to play with her out back for a few minutes because the moms are talking, Lindsay Lohan, posted a pair of tweets informing the world that her laptop had been stolen from the Shanghai airport and offering a reward for anyone who retrieved and returned it.

Would you pay $42,000 to have cybersex with this woman over webcam? Or, rather, did you?

Aliens. Spacealiens. No such thing. How theyd fought it out, cosmic mysteries reduced to raw shouting in the uncaring morning. Her leaving in wrath and now returning, straight into the bedroom without him. Rustling and thumps.

On Wednesday, the Insane Clown Posse filed its lawsuit—which they announced last fall— against the FBI, who the clown duo says has caused "significant harm" to its fans, known as Juggalos, by classifying them as a "a loosely-organized hybrid gang."

An investigation published this morning by Mother Jones shows that Reddit licensed gun-sellers on its forums to hawk a notorious run of AR-15 assault rifles with the company's logo, while the website was owned by media giant Condé Nast.

Forget East-West, North-South, rich-poor: The new main division in Earth's population is an ever-growing rift between the frightfully obese and the frightfully hungry, experts say.

The past does not become the past until we look at the old pictures in the present. Only then do we realize how weird everything was, especially in the shoddy 1980s, right when we thought The Future had arrived, what with the music videos and personal computers and scrambled soft-porn movies delivered directly to our parents' house via cable. America's only perfect website, Internet K-Hole (which has occasional/ridiculous nudity) is a functioning time machine. Use it.

To poke fun at the random nudity of his HBO show, True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard got randomly naked and posed for a photo while sitting on a toilet in the middle of Antarctica.

Uber is a luxury car service that sells increased convenience for a high price. It may be seen as a symptom of a wealthy lifestyle which rubs many people the wrong way. So what should you do if you don't like Uber? You should not use Uber.

Here are two notable essays about outing in the wake of the latest Aaron Schock gay allegations. One, by HuffPost Gay Voices' Michaelangelo Signorile, is very smart. The other, by Time Ideas' Brandon Ambrosino, is not. You decide what you want to read.

There are worse ways to go, but there are not many: An Oklahoma man died on Tuesday after his stepson allegedly gave him an "atomic wedgie" so severe that the man suffocated inside his own underwear.

You better be camera-ready when you meet with Roger Ailes. Yesterday we learned that the Fox News president offered to pay a CNBC producer for on-demand sex—one of the more lurid revelations of Gabriel Sherman’s upcoming Ailes biography. But in Ailes’s first act of defense, a...respectful interview and photo shoot published by The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday morning, he unwittingly supplied photographic evidence of his infamous paranoia.