"I used to shoot cocaine, heroin and ketamine. All together. Morning, night, 20 times a day." Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., now four years sober, can finally wear short sleeves.

"Well, it's clear we will not give him up, he can feel safe here. But what's next?" Vladmir Putin said this week about Edward Snowden in an interview G20 summit. The seating order for the G20 summit, which begins tomorrow, has been changed to keep Obama and Putin from having to acknowledge one another.

The TSA announced today that they will be accepting payments to give you back your basic rights in airports — if passengers pay to sign up for the TSA Precheck program, they can keep their shoes, belts and jackets on, leave laptops in their cases, and not have to remove liquids and gels from carry-ons.

Jenny "Kush" Friede, a prominent Denver medical marijuana activist, was killed this weekend after a drunk driver headed the wrong way down an Interstate slammed into her car.

The off-campus party house where a Naval Academy midshipman has alleged three football players gang raped her in 2012 was apparently called the "Black Pineapple," and was strictly prohibited by Navy rules.

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved a resolution allowing President Obama to use military force to intervene in Syria's civil war. The resolution passed by a vote of 10 to 7. The matter will now head to the full Senate for a debate and vote next week.

Geraldo Rivera's mustachioed, leathery, regret-and-pipe-tobacco scented seminude selfie has cost the newsman a speaking gig at Duquesne University.

Paul Attanasio is a well-respected Hollywood screenwriter.

Montana state prosecutors are appealing a judge's "illegal" ruling that sentenced a teacher to just 30 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old student, in part because the judge found the victim to be "older than her chronological age."

After British Airways lost his dad's luggage earlier this week, passenger Hasan Syed didn't get mad — he got creative.

The 30-something Tallahassee man behind GhettoTracker.com has taken down his vile crowd-sourcing experiment in travel guide segregation. Now, instead of a map that invites users to mark off "ghettos" in red, a message shows up saying: "This site is gone. It's not worth the trouble."

Today Gawker is pleased to present the first of a three-part serialization of the novel The Apple Store, by "@Seinfeld2000." @Seinfeld2000 is the online persona of an anonymous Seinfeld fanatic, created originally to spoof the hugely popular @SeinfeldToday Twitter account. Like @SeinfeldToday, @Seinfeld2000 imagines a world in which Seinfeld is still on the air today, placing the ’90s' favorite sitcom characters in contemporary situations. Unlike @SeinfeldToday, @Seinfeld2000 is very funny. The Apple Store is a deranged Seinfeld fanfic masterpiece.

On Wednesday, NY Mag's Daily Intel ran a short post titled “Media Elites Are Creating Twitter Accounts for Their Babies,” profiling the Twitter accounts of somewhat famous people’s babies and the terrible monster-parents who created them (accounts and babies). As you expect might from a piece about parents branding their babies with the searing hot irons of social media, it was often blindingly infuriating.

Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign just posted a longer video of the candidate’s shouting match with a Jewish voter in Borough Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday morning. Beginning around 3:46, the same man depicted arguing with Weiner in the earlier video says, “You’re a real scumbag” and later adds, “You’re married to an Arab,” referring to Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin. Within moments the men begin shouting at each other over the voter’s insult.

Don't hate-read the New York Times "Weddings and Celebrations" section without Wedding Crunchers, a new database that lets you search through 60,000 announcements from 1981 to 2013, and watch status symbols rise and fall, like a curtseying debutante, over time.

Maria Rodale, the CEO and chairman of publishing house Rodale, Inc., used to love and to support Barack Obama. She supported Barack Obama so deeply that she not only voted for him twice and attended his first inauguration, she also "paid a lot of money to have my picture taken" with him. And because of this fealty, she would like to have a word with him—or you, actually, Mr. President Barack Obama, since that's who she's addressing in this open letter published today the Huffington Post.

The anonymous Portland coward who last month went around threatening to publicly post the names of local voters who received governmental disability benefits is now doing the same to people who receive food stamps.

So an Alyssa Milano sex tape has finally leaked.

In England, the land of waking up as something you weren't the night before, there lives one 38-year-old Sarah Colwill, who suffered a major migraine and woke up sounding like she was doing a terrible, racist Chinese accent a little over three years ago. Last night BBC One ran a special on Colwill called The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese. Highlights of the TLC-worthy one-woman reality show (who says she feels like she's "stuck inside of some kinda weird social experiment") are above.

Aaryn Gries, the Big Brother house guest booted last week, can't be racist because she has a black friend, says her black friend. A classic defense just got more classic.