Tony Blair is not having an affair with Wendi Murdoch, his spokesman tells The Hollywood Reporter. Is not. Who knows about last year, though?

After being arrested in connection to a homicide in Alabama, Jose Martinez confessed to killing a man on the edge of a wooded area last March. Then he confessed to twenty-nine more murders as he detailed his life as an enforcer for Mexican drug cartels.

A plane has crashed into a hangar at Chino Airport in San Bernardino County, California.

After Tuesday's last-minute rendition of the National Anthem at the NBA Finals on Tuesday, 11-year-old Sebastien De La Cruz was the subject of a torrent of racist social media. This morning, he perfectly shut up the haters.

The NSA has been relentlessly hacking both Chinese officials and citizens for years, says Edward Snowden, the NSA-contractor turned whistleblower who has taken refuge in Hong Kong.

Severe thunderstorms, as well as tornadoes, are now bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic and South, bringing 70 mph winds to just outside of downtown Atlanta. Earlier, a tornado touched down outside of Washington, D.C..

It hasn't been a very good week for Congressional offspring.

America adores Sandra Bullock. No matter how many bombs she lobs at our box offices, no matter how many hitchhikers she drops bloodied and bruised on our dusty country roads, no matter how many Canadian dimes she plops in our tip jars, America adores her. For her next trick, Sandra Bullock will be get drunk and scream at a 9-year-old orphan that nobody loves her. America's going to adore it.

It started as a joke, but a Wendy's in Canada eventually began selling the nine-patty monstrosity known as the "T-rex" burger for real.

An internal government memo leaked to the New York Times today confirmed what some had speculated about for months: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the nation's civil war.

A Republican congressman from Texas who is an ardent defender of the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act found himself inadvertently supporting gay rights at an LGBT event after he entered the wrong door.

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 tipster just emailed us to say that his girlfriend Stephanie was walking around Sue Bierman Park in San Francisco's Financial District today and happened across a creepy-masked busker who looked strangely familiar.

Anthony Weiner sounds like not a great boss: "In 2005, he became so irritated with a staff member that he threw a salad against the wall ... Another time, arguing with an aide, Mr. Weiner threw his BlackBerry against a wall, then blamed the aide for the broken phone."

We can and will stipulate first of all that Tao Lin is an overbearing self-publicist with a literary career attached, and that he is given to extremely irritating poses. This, however, tells us nothing about whether or not Tao Lin, as a novelist, has any artistic merit; there have been, historically, plenty of serious and important writers among the ranks of overbearing self-publicists, and plenty of frivolous and unimportant ones. If famewhoring ruined Truman Capote, it is probably an equal and opposite truth that a lack of famewhoring prevented some meritorious writer of the same era from ever coming to the public's notice enough for him or her to be ruined. So although publicity has been generally understood to be the defining feature of Tao Lin, we will set it aside.

For those of you who are not devout followers of the British higher education blogosphere, allow us to bring you up to speed: UK professors are strongly opposed to the rude idea of students expressing opinions about UK professors.

In the wake of the news that Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce against Wendi Deng, people seem to be entering the above-referenced search terms into Google. Presumably, they're just trying to look up a column Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff wrote last year in the Guardian, headlined "Tony Blair and the Murdochs: A Family Affair," which includes this passage:

Little Jaxson Denno was fully expecting to hang out with The Invincible Iron Man when his mom told him Tony Stark was shooting a movie in his neck of the woods.

Internet thinkfluencer and Wikipreneur Nimrod Kamer recently delivered a highly disruptive TED Talk on his plans to pivot the Wiki space into a monetizable platform. Solution'd!

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