This past Friday, 23-year-old Paul Ciancia walked into Los Angeles International Airport's Terminal 3 and used his legally-purchased assault rifle to kill one TSA agent and wound two others. Before the shooting, Ciancia made “the conscious decision to try to kill” TSA employees in order to "instill fear in their traitorous minds," according to a letter found in his possession. But where would anyone get the idea that TSA employees are worthless, rights-violating, traitorous federal agents that should be stopped?

The principal of an Arizona elementary school is being accused of bullying a student after threatening the boy with expulsion over "highly disturbing" drawings that turned out to be Halloween costume ideas.

After complaints from Henry Blodget, Balthazar owner Keith McNally said he would fire all his restaurant's bathroom attendants. Now, McNally says that all of them "will immediately be given another job in my company."

A teenager who successfully sold her virginity to the highest bidder through an online auction site has been given the go-ahead by police to seal the deal.

Good day, subjects. Justin Bieber is the "Lead Investor" on a "teen-focused social network," and I am the Queen of France.

Yes, macadamia nuts are poisonous to your dog, and your dog will die from eating them. But is it not more cruel to deny your dog macadamia nuts?

NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt is trying to get on his Comcast bosses' good side by picking on GE. But didn't NBC make most of its best shows while GE owned it?

We get tips. Lots of them. Sometimes Gawker features editor Tom Scocca responds to them. These conversations are memorialized here in an occasional feature we call Tom Tips Back. In a special treat, today's correspondence was initiated by Tom himself, in a Tip directed at Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank. Last week, after the vindication of Gawker's initial reporting on the existence of a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, Cruickshank wrote that the revelation was the result of "work of a scale and seriousness that can only be undertaken successfully by what is now called 'the mainstream media,'" and that unnamed "others lack the resources, the experience and the credibility to call a senior official to account."

An urban legend joined forces with a recurring nightmare and the worst case scenario to permanently traumatize a young mother who found dozens of the world's most venomous spiders crawling all over the banana she was preparing to consume.

Tomorrow, New Yorkers will vote on whether or not to allow "as many as seven Las Vegas-style casinos" to be built in New York. Supporters say it's a great way to raise money for schools. Wrong.

Halloween: The one time a year when it's practically mandatory to scare the crap out of little children.

Rolling Stone recently asked Eminem about the anti-gay content in his newish "Rap God," song. In it, the decidedly mortal man says "faggot," "fag," and "Little gay looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face looking boy." He's not homophobic, though—he's just being Marshall. Here is the excerpt from the interview, which was conducted for an upcoming cover story:

Under Armour, the sports-gear supplier of choice for people who feel Nike just isn't crass or hideous enough, is helping the Northwestern University football team pay tribute to the country's war casualties by dressing the players in a special flag-patterned uniform smeared with fake blood. If you buy one for yourself, Under Armour will donate a whole $7.49 to the Wounded Warrior Project.

According to research by political scientist Benjamin Radcliff, "higher levels of social programs produce a happier population... The 'nanny state' works."

Terrifying gas station surveillance footage captured the exact moment that a Georgia man accidentally set his wife on fire while playing with a cigarette lighter near his truck's gas tank.

Patti LaBelle was the guest on last night's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter. She regularly furrowed her brow at Oprah's questions, often answering them with a side-eye and a "What!" It was, in short, everything you'd want it to be. Moreover, it was everything, period.

Why is the tech press so bad? Maybe because some of its leading lights openly trade coverage for favors.

"Bubble" is just "babble"—plus u. Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! High! High! High! High!

This image was published yesterday on the website for Egypt's el-Watan newspaper, which has close ties to the military that ousted former president Mohamed Morsi. The photo is actually a still from an undated video and is believed to be the first image of Morsi since his imprisonment began. His trial began today but was quickly postponed until January.