Tensions are high right now with India following the arrest of their consulate's acting head, who was handcuffed over visa fraud charges as she dropped her daughter off at a Manhattan school.

A Harvard sophomore didn't want to take his finals exams yesterday, so he shut down the school by emailing bomb threats to Harvard police.

Police are saying that a Reno gunman shot and wounded four people at the Renown Regional Medical Center before committing suicide earlier this afternoon.

It was 10:24 p.m. on a Saturday night, and KSN's weekend news anchor Justin Kraemer just wanted to get the fuck out of there. So he told his coworkers as much. While still on the air. With a hot mic.

A bill to ban credit checks in the hiring process was introduced today by Elizabeth Warren and six Senate colleagues. Over 40 other groups also back the bill, which has plenty of support and even mirrors a similar bill introduced in the House two years ago.

Bad news for Canada's most famous person: Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star reporter who Rob Ford accused of being a pedophile during a recent interview, has rejected the Toronto mayor's apology and is proceeding with a defamation lawsuit.

60 Minutes, CBS News’ hour-long Sunday newsmagazine, had a good run during its 45 year history, during which its target cohort had kids and retired to Florida. But as the last month indicates—Benghazi! Amazon drones! NSA!—it’s time for the glossy production to clean house. Or, more likely, die.

I hate to be "that guy linking to some infographic," but here is a great infographic showing just how minuscule your salary is in relation to America's top earners, and why that Communist Manifesto book sold so many copies, despite mixed reviews.

While performing her hit song "Roar" at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes on Saturday, Katy Perry suffered a devastating lip-sync malfunction.

Following yesterday's post about a SantaCon Santa who was allegedly caught by a filmmaker having his North Pole publicly waxed by a naughty little elf, Gawker received an "urgent" email from a man claiming to be Santa's lawyer.

"Are malls becoming extinct?" I'll say! And becoming, and becoming, and becoming...

He evaded a stiff criminal penalty, but the 16-year-old Texan who drunkenly plowed his truck into a crowd, killing four people, may have just cost his family their life's fortune in civil court.

A copywriter collapsed and died over the weekend shortly after tweeting about working for over 30 hours straight.

Amazon is the future of retail in America. Like its biggest competitors, it is not unionized. But that could change soon.

Miley Cyrus appropriated Santa's lap as her own personal crotch-warmer at the Jingle Ball on Friday at New York's Madison Square Garden (see above), but she was a no-show at the Jingle Ball Boston show on Saturday night, thanks to inclement weather. That didn't stop the radio station from hosting the festival, Kiss 108, from claiming that she was there throughout the night, though.

Ashford University's for-profit, mostly online b-school has officially relaunched as the Forbes School of Business®, with "guest lectures from Forbes contributors." Coincidentally, the Gawker Journalism School is in session. Enroll now by signing up for a free Kinja account.

For some reason, the former CEO of the company that owns Farmville was invited to the White House to talk about Healthcare.gov. (By "some reason" I mean probably because he donated a ton of money to Democratic causes.)

Harold Camping, the infamous evangelical minister and doomsayer who used millions of his followers' dollars to promote a doomsday vision that failed to come to pass, has finally met his maker at the age of 92.

What do Mark Zuckerberg, Ralph Lauren, Lloyd Bankfein, and Sheldon Adelson have in common? They're bazillionaires who'd like to stay that way. Here's how they do it.

A lawyer tried an experiment with the NYPD: How long would it take him, a white guy in a suit, to get arrested for tagging a government building in plain view of numerous cops? A long time, it turns out. He walked free for days before finally turning himself in. Justice.