Yesterday we got to meet 3-year-old Grayson Clamp, a deaf toddler who recently heard the sound of his dad's voice for the very first time thanks to the miracle of modern science.

A snake expert who dedicated his life to helping people overcome their fear of snakes died this week after being bitten by a viper during a snake demonstration.

Way back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of "Journolist," a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal! Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for the full archives. Well, we got (some of) them. Here they are.

Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay."

A hardcore helicopter parent has raised the mothering bar to brave new heights after she was caught taking a high school exam while disguised as her daughter.

Encrypting your email to keep it from prying eyes? As far as the NSA is concerned you're no different from a criminal.

In an acknowledged "departure from normal policy," the FBI issued a statement denying that journalist Michael Hastings was under investigation—contrary to what Hastings had apparently been telling friends before his sudden death.

The anti-government protests in Brazil continue to grow as over one million people in at least 80 cities took to the streets on Thursday. Dozens of injuries were reported and a protester was killed in Sao Paulo, reportedly by an angry driver.

Bad news for all the Kaidence Donda West fake Twitter accounts: According to TMZ, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West named their daughter...North West. Really.

The six jurors selected for George Zimmerman's second degree murder trial are all women. Five of the six are white. The trial starts next week.

All this to get a look at David Beckham, who'd come to a Shanghai university for a demonstration match with the school's soccer team. Thankfully, only seven people were injured, according to the Associated Press.

“Sheep-eating” plants are not only a thing that exist; they've crossed the Atlantic from their native South America and are growing in the United Kingdom, where the first one bloomed on Thursday.

Instagram's new video feature has already reached its logical conclusion: Twerkforthegram, which promises six twerk out videos "every couple hours." Does this count as ratchet? We're still not sure.

Interior designer Micky Hurley and graphic designer Malu Custer Edwards are the Chilean power couple accused of keeping their nanny in "slave-like conditions" on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Last week, the New York Post reported that Hurley and Edwards, both members of Chile's aristocratic elite, are in the midst of a lawsuit filed by Felicitas del Carmen Villanueva Garnica, a 50-year-old nanny who says the duo paid her about $2 an hour for her labor and let their children beat her.

Here's a story. In 2004, I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covering television. In January of that year, I began looking into a story about political donations made by reporters, editors, anchors, executives and other employees at media companies.

A Florida teen foiled his own attempt to steal a car at gunpoint when he realized he didn't know how to drive a vehicle with standard transmission.

Thirdhand smoke will fuck you up just like secondhand smoke.

And I mean that literally: Besides employee names, this interoffice birthday card contains all of six words.

An unexpected ring on my doorbell awoke me early one Sunday morning and I stumbled bleary-eyed to my front door and was greeted by a tall, strapping, sunglasses-wearing sheriff with an incongruously chipper expression clutching a sheath of papers.

Today marked an annual ceremony called Ladies Day, when Royalty and their hangers-on gather to ostensibly attend a horse race in the small town of Ascot in England. The exclusive Royal Enclosure also requires attendees to adhere to particular fashion requirements, which prompt the question: Dear England, what the fuck is on your head?