You may have read about Katie (19) and Arin (17) last year, when the fascinating story of their romance went viral. They are both transgender (Katie's male-to-female, Arin's female-to-male) and they met in a transgender equality group meeting. Though their backstory, both separately and together is unique, their present relationship appears to be conventional (they are, after all, a man and a woman in love).

In addition to getting passing grades in all their subjects and maintaining a good attendance record, students of one school district in Oregon will be required to meet a third requirement if they wish to graduate high school: Get into college.

Protestors just threw a lot of money on the floor of Senate Hart building, for... some reason. Three were arrested. Photo by Jared Gilmour.

Today's new Banksy NYC piece is in East New York, and it's already being chiseled out of the wall.

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who kidnapped three young women and kept them captive in his basement for ten years, might have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, according to a report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

A pair of adorable Alaskan Malamutes mimic the crawling of a bouncy baby boy in a video so overpoweringly cute it may well crash every last one of the Internet's global servers, plunging humanity into an Age of Darkness so bleak, the only thing keeping hope alive will be the memory, passed down from generation to generation, of that video with the two dogs crawling next to a baby.

Last month we reported on a quasi-exclusive event called The Influencers Dinner, hosted by thirty-something New Yorker Jon Levy, where self-assessed Influential People attempt to Influence each other, over dinner. “As a reminder,” Levy’s “concierge” warned invitees, “a journalist from the New York Times will be present and covering the event for the Sunday Style section.” And just look at what the paper published today (on Thursday, not Sunday):

There's little doubt that Amazon is the future of retailing. Its CEO, Jeff Bezos, is one of the most admired and scrutinized businessmen in the world. How did he build the company into what it is today? By being a penny-pinching ballbuster.

Laina Morris is best known around the Internet as "Overly Attached Girlfriend," but, as she herself proves in this video, that title was already claimed by Taylor Swift long before Morris ever became a meme.

In a week that saw the release of a Miley Cyrus album called Bangerz and a new Justin Bieber slow jam, the wackest bit of pop culture ended up coming from Toddlers & Tiaras. Last night's episode profiled the Hollywood Stars pageant circuit's Hip-Hop Pageant, which elicited tone deaf results at best. Here is the pageant director T&Tsplaining hip-hop: "It's about the bling, the swag, being fierce, and being a diva." If I'm not mistaken that's a quote ripped right from the Sugarhill Gang's songbook.

Finally: A website that takes the guess work out of drunk-dialing members of Congress — by drunk-dialing a member of Congress for you.

From Reddit via Alex Fitzpatrick, "the absolute saddest shutdown photo you will see."

This was bound to happen one way or another, but that doesn't make it any easier: 5Pointz, a huge, empty warehouse building in Queens that's long been a magnet for the world's best graffiti artists, will be demolished to make way for condos. Insta-commemorative 5Pointz photo gallery below.

With his wife's birthday coming up in a hurry, Dan Konkel had to come up with something special, and fast.

In this wide world of ours, cultural practices are as diverse as colors in the rainbow. Only the ignorant imperialists believe that they are equipped to judge unfamiliar foreign cultures. Still, we feel comfortable in saying: Chinese couples, do not wear matching outfits. There is no happy ending to this story.

When the BBC referred to Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev as the "Pre-Determined President," they weren't kidding around.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was briefly kidnapped Thursday morning from his luxury hotel in Tripoli by dozens of armed militia members. The abduction, which lasted about nine hours, was reportedly in retaliation for last week's American-led capture of an alleged al Qaeda member in Tripoli.

We've all been there: You've had way too much apple. And poutine. And cheesestring. And pickle chips. And peanut butter and raisins. Ugh. And chocolate thingies. And more chocolate thingis. And gummies.

Good news for the long-suffering food shoppers of Newark: a Whole Foods is coming to town. The bad news: the store will be located in Newark.

With Jimmy Kimmel milking the ratings cow over his "feud" with Kanye West, the other Jimmy was forced to find a guest whose on-stage theatrics would match Yeezy's off-stage braggadocio.