The Egyptian Health Ministry says there are now 638 people dead and nearly 4,000 injured following the nation's latest round of political clashes, according to the Associated Press.

A 67-year-old great-grandmother is the latest person to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment. During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Peggy Shannon, who works part time at San Diego's City Hall, said Filner once asked her “if she could go for eight hours straight.”

When I was a kid, my parents let me watch the great 1988 Hackman-Dafoe film Mississippi Burning at probably too young an age. For years afterward I was tormented by the thought that, like in the movie, there were Klansman somewhere who were stalking my interracial family and me and who would one day come to my house and kill us all (I was somewhat of a morbid child).

So much new love and sex is thriving in the four-person, two-couple pod profiled on Showtime’s reality series Polyamory: Married and Dating. Tonight’s Season 2 premiere is something of a cram session to catch us up: Kamala is dating her business partner Jason, who is 10 years her junior. Michael, Kamala’s husband, has been dating Rachel for a few months. This is his first lover outside of the pod, and Kamala is “pretty thrilled” about that. Their lovers, Jen and her husband Tahl, have been living with Michael and Kamala for about a year, nearly as long as Jen's been dating Jesse. Tahl’s new girlfriend is named Tziporah, whom Tahl describes as “my little Spanish gypsy, she’s just cute.” Tahl is also out this season as bisexual. “This is who I am. I’m a bisexual poly man,” he beams.

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This remarkable photo shows the moment just before Animal NY's Aymann Ismail was jumped by a group of spray paint-wielding Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators—an attack he wrote about in an equally exceptional article. (Just wait until the part where he calls his mother.)

It's being called "perhaps the single best segment" to ever air on The Colbert Report. And with good reason, because it probably is.

Here's the premise: Beloved abolitionist Harriet Tubman, while enslaved, turns the tables on her "massa" one night by graciously accepting his normally unwanted sexual advances in an effort to blackmail him and earn her freedom. What could go wrong with that bit of comedy?

Internet God Google's primary and secondary DNS servers are down. Are you having trouble accessing certain parts of the web? This is probably why. Let us explain.

Ellen Barry, relocating from Moscow to Delhi for the New York Times, bids farewell to Russia with an incredible account of the claqueurs, the secretive middle-aged gang that runs the professional-applause racket at the Bolshoi:

Lisa Robin Kelly, best known for playing Eric Forman's attractive and promiscuous older sister Laurie on That '70s Show, was found dead last night at a California rehab facility. She was 43.

Police in Wisconsin have arrested a middle-aged Wausau woman and charged her with several crimes in connection with two incidents involving men she reportedly held hostage in an effort to obtain sex.

In case you missed it, the woman who inspired Netflix's Orange is the New Black (and penned the titular book), wrote an argument against transferring the thousand women who are incarcerated at her former prison to other facilities across the country. Piper Kerman says this change will be equal to a "second sentence" for these women. The whole piece is worth reading.

A photograph of Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning wearing makeup and a blonde wig was released yesterday by the army as part of documentation related to Manning's trial. It's the first such photo of Manning, who is transgender.

An Indiana firefighter who moonlights as a youth pastor at a local Baptist church says he was handcuffed, manhandled, and threaten with a Taser by Evansville police officers — all because he waved hello.

Smithsonian researchers announced the discovery of a new species today—and it's not the usual slimy earth bug! This new species is a distractingly delightful mammal with stylish fur and an energetic attitude. It's called an olinguito and according to the Smithsonian researcher who discovered the creature, "it looks kind of like a fuzzball."

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It's been far too long since the last time Oprah Winfrey gave away a car to some rando, and the gratuitous gift-giver was starting to get the itch.