Just hours after Brian Holbrook's 3-year-old son fatally shot himself with a gun that was improperly stored inside a bedroom closet, the Michigan dad took to his Facebook page to affirm his continued support for guns.

Wesley Warren Jr.'s ball sac was about the size of a dolphin's head. It made him into something of a viral star. He appeared on shows like TLC's Strange Sex, and was interviewed for articles claiming he enjoyed the fame resulting from his scrotal lymphedema. He waddled everywhere with an upside down hoodie between his legs and sometimes used his scrotum as a mobile table, off which he'd eat food. He lived with this condition for about five years, which he blames on the healthcare system.

Nick Selby, Mechanical Engineering Class of '15, delivers an "epic welcome speech" to incoming students at Georgia Tech's annual Freshman Convocation, complete with epic theme music, epic rhetoric, and epic approving grin from Georgia Tech provost Rafael Bras.

Walter White's coordinates from Breaking Bad last Sunday are adorably meta. Maybe the show will end happily after all!

A year ago, cottonheaded Washington Post heartthrob Richard Cohen wrote a column on the contentious issue of "stop and frisk" that took no position whatsoever. That column was absolutely worthless. Amazingly, his writing on the issue has gotten worse since then.

A business student who was a week away from completing a seven-week internship at Bank of America was found dead in his dorm late last week after reportedly working until 6 AM three days in a row.

Elmore Leonard, the crime and western author called "the closest thing America has to a national writer," passed away this morning of complications from a stroke he suffered in July. His longtime researcher Gregg Sutter announced the death on Facebook.

Newly released testimony from the trauma surgeon who treated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reveal that the Boston Marathon bomber incurred gruesome injuries, including a skull fracture and multiple gunshot wounds.

The U.S. has reportedly cut all aid to Egypt, but hasn't yet publicly declared the military removal of democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi a coup—even as the new government continues its crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, to the point of arresting its 70-year-old leader Mohamed Badie.

Up until just a few moments ago, Ted Cruz was the worst thing a Texan could be —Canadian.

After this summer's massive protests against spending choices by the once-popular government, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has passed a law that will reserve all of Brazil's oil royalties for healthcare and education.

Loudmouth Maine Governor Paul LePage told a crowd gathered at a GOP fundraiser last week that President Obama "hates white people," according to two state lawmakers who where there.

Writing in response to yesterday's detainment of David Miranda, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, revealed that UK security officials had destroyed hard drives at The Guardian's office at some point in the past month.

Dick Van Dyke just escaped death after his Jaguar caught fire in Los Angeles. Are sports cars finally in league with ottomans? Can anything kill Dick Van Dyke?

A judge in West Virginia repeatedly tried to frame the husband of his secretary for various crimes, after his secretary broke off an affair with the judge, according to a federal investigation.

Magazine conglomerate Condé Nast, which was slapped with a lawsuit in June for paying interns less than a dollar per hour, has decided to stop paying interns altogether. Zero. Several recent Conde interns told the Who Pays Interns Tumblr, which documents the internship wages at media companies, that their employer has stopped dispensing any kind of stipend (Previously, interns received $550 per semester.)

Today's Staunton News Leader, a Gannett newspaper based in Virginia, came with a little surprise for the children. In a "Kid's Corner" sidebar buried in the weather section, the caption accompanying a Crayoned drawing included the word "fucking." As in: If you’re a fucking idiot, it can be fun to refer to your draft site as “the war room.” Wait, what?

Gawker is once again hiring Editorial Fellows for our New York office.

As gun violence continues to plague Chicago, the Chicago Tribune presents its series "Chicago Under the Gun." The project, which pairs up Tribune crime reporters with photographers and videographers, offers small but heartbreaking and important slice-of-life glimpses into some of the city's shootings.