Shepard Smith, the new director of Fox News’ breaking news operation, is by far the channel’s most lovable anchor—a cuddly-if-irascible antidote to his demagoguing colleagues. Like most people on television, however, he’s a lot less nice in person. Especially to waitresses.

The global economy is like a boiling pot of water— full of bubbles. Or you might say it's like a glass of soda—full of bubbles. Starting small, inflating, and finally bursting—bubbles. Where will he next economic bubble"pop up," ha? Perhaps in a land far, far away.

It is at once the most ridiculed and most misunderstood lawsuit in American history.

Authorities in Florida say a Port Richey woman suffered a serious gunshot wound after she was struck by a bullet that was fired by a man who had just committed suicide across the street.

A police officer lost his job after a bloody confrontation with a squirrel at the Dollar General store in Mountain City, Tennessee last month.

Having learned what happens when giant babies are elected to govern the United States, Americans are very disgusted with their government. They like the Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and Obamacare and Prescription Drug Benefits, but they don't like democracy, which is a pretty weird way to run a country.

"Actually, I'm sober," are three words that came out of Jenna Jameson's mouth yesterday after her disastrous, reportedly truncated Good Day New York appearance. She said that during her guest spot on Sirius XM's After O&A Live, claiming that she's been sober for seven years (besides beer). The trainwreck-cum-book tour continues.

If there was one good thing to come out of our sister site Deadspin's sad, incoherent, and deeply embarrassing ranking of "foods of the states," it was this: A dozen local news anchors saying "horrifying diarrhea sludge" over and over again.

Apple is about to announce a new iPad right now and the only blog in the world whose liveblog is worth reading is Gizmodo, whose account is located here.

Not to spoil the ending, but, let's just say, given that this video was uploaded yesterday, and yesterday was Monday, it's fairly safe to assume that this cat does actually hate Mondays.

Hedge funds are privately controlled and notoriously secretive investment firms with billions of dollars in assets. Here's a document listing all of the income, salaries, and spending for one hedge fund over several years.

Some PR people have declared today to be "Snark Free Day." Well then, fuck you sincerely.

Governor Chris Christie's decision to allow same-sex marriages to proceed in New Jersey wasn't the only come from behind victory for gays this week.

This morning, MSNBC confused Kimye with a video of woman sleepwalking into a subway track, a condition we here at Gawker Media call a "chyron fail."

The ludicrous petition to have gore-metal cretins GWAR perform at the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show now has 44,000-plus signatures. Only worth endorsing if the MVP is fake-murdered on a giant wheel of knives.

A new report predicts that Wall Street's profits in the second half of the year will be only half as much as they were in the first half of the year. Not to worry—they're still doing okay.

Having watched one too many teen comedies, a pair of high school students from Glastonbury, Connecticut, decided to take advantage of their parents' weekend-long absence to throw a party, figuring they would easily weasel out of any hi-jinks that might ensue should their parents return home early.

The Supreme Court is set to review the case of Freddie Lee Hall, a mentally retarded man in Florida who was sentenced to death for participating in a rape, robbery, and two murders. They tackle two main questions: How high an IQ should be necessary for capital punishment? And is IQ measurement even precise enough to be used in cases like this?

The self-styled pickup artists who went around motorboating women with the ostensible goal of raising money for breast cancer research had their $7,000 donation rejected by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the bros are blaming the "haters."

British groom-to-be Neil McCardle was in charge of booking the venue for his wedding last April. He forgot. Rather than admitting the mistake to his fiancée, he did the reasonable thing instead: He waited until the morning of the wedding and then called in a bomb threat to the venue.