With air travel during the holidays a notorious nightmare, one airlines decided to lift their passengers' spirits by surprising them with an unexpected Christmas present.

Total US household wealth has reached $77.3 trillion, a $20 trillion increase in five years. That's about a quarter million dollars for every person in America. But, you know, not.

A 17-year-old girl has reportedly suffered horrific injuries as a result of injecting the infamous flesh-eating drug krokodil directly into her genitals.

He cut the Iraqi army off and killed it. Then he killed it again. He's such a friend of Israel, he speaks Yiddish. Too bad Colin Powell—American general, war hawk, moderate Republican hero—is a bolshevik Euro-loving universal health care-wanting pinko.

We're all adults here. Which is why, unless you have children, you should not have a Christmas tree.

Winter is a dark, bleak time, cold and barren like an apartment without a Christmas tree.

Only two of every three new Ph.D recipients in 2012 had a job commitment when they finished their degrees.

Good news for you hardcore genealogy enthusiasts: scientists have almost completely reconstructed the oldest DNA yet found in a humanlike species.

Roger Ailes’ secrets command a heavy price. Last week, the New York Times reported that Fox News had reached an out-of-court settlement with Brian Lewis, the former Ailes aide who was abruptly fired in late July. A Fox News executive with knowledge of the negotiations told Gawker that Lewis was paid approximately $8 million in hush money.

A Washington woman had to laugh to keep from losing her mind after a TSA agent in St. Louis threatened to call the cops over a tiny toy gun that belonged to her sock monkey.

The Guardian has voted Edward Snowden its person of the year, beating out Pope Francis. Meanwhile, Snowden's ex-colleagues have the sads a lot more these days. But one look at your email will probably cheer them up.

The Snuggle House was supposed to be a nice place where nice people could drop in for "therapeutic cuddling" at $60 an hour "in a non-sexual way." But it all went sideways, because clearly, you didn't deserve The Snuggle House, America.

It's a story as old as love itself: Boy meets girl; boy accidentally shoots girl after mistaking her for a deer while high on drugs; girl falls in love with boy.

Lee Siegel, noted cultural critic and sock puppet, is in his mid-50s. What luck! By fate of birth, when he was younger, pop culture's sexy side was "perfectly calibrated" and "morally potent." Sadly, as Lee Siegel has aged, the songs on the radio have become "coarse" and "vulgar."

To make sure everyone buys everyone the best gifts ever, this year Gawker has divided the universe of potential gift recipients into readers of our Gawker Media brother and sister sites. Previously: Kotaku Reader Gift Guide.

A Festivus pole made of discarded PBR cans will be erected in Florida's Capitol rotunda in a concession to atheists who were angry at the presence of a nativity scene in the same location.

From the people who brought you the 9/11 "True Faces of Evil" coloring book, the "Occupy" coloring book, the "Hip-Hop Gangsta Rap Coloring Book," and the Rolling Stone Dzhokhar Tsarnaev parody cover coloring page.

A man who was fed up with his girlfriend's incessant Christmas shopping responded to her request for one more look around a mall shoe store by leaping seven floors to his death.

Darwin the Ikea monkey has finally settled into his new home, reports the Toronto Star. And no, it's not furnished with umlaut-happy furniture.

A gold medal won by sprinter Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics—a symbolic victory in the heart of Nazi Germany—has been bought by hard-partying billionaire Clinton pal Ron Burkle. What a, uh, fitting steward of this proud legacy.