The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing two companies— BMW and Dollar General— alleging that their use of criminal background checks for employees violated the Civil Rights Act. Are criminal background checks, honestly, worth a shit?

Millennials these days are so busy fiddling with their technological gadgets and maintaining their #personalbrands, they have basically forgotten how to read like grown-ups. The youth of today are eschewing realism and historical fiction in favor of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi novels. As part of NPR's month-long look at the media consumed by today's youth, they examine what these modern reading habits means for today's reading children.

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old whose leak of NSA documents revealed important details about the surveillance agency's mammoth online data-mining operation, resurfaced for the first time since his self-unmasking this weekend, telling a Hong Kong paper "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."

Neko Case has a new record coming out and she made a trailer for it and here it is and you should buy her record and hopefully now she'll drop those losers at Jalopnik and start hanging out with us.

The newspaper industry's been dying for years. Anyone who launches a new local newspaper—and hires several journalists in the process—is a hero of journalism. Even if he's a con artist.

The Dunkin' Donuts employee who patiently endured the racist tirade of a singularly bad customer will be recognized for his superhuman grace under fire.

The first half of the teaser trailer for Diana, the biopic about the Princess of Wales, avoids showing Diana's face entirely. There are high angles, over the shoulder angles, and shots that cut off just below the Princess's ear. After an inexplicable pan of a living room, lots of crowds assembled en masse, and crouching paparazzi, we finally see the visage of Naomi Watts, peering out below a blonde coiffure. Some warnings: she's doesn't look much like Princess Diana, the music is offensively melodramatic, and there is a terrifying final shot of false eyelashes.

After writing two (2) columns about his daughter's college roommate, Thomas Friedman follows up with a column today that consists largely of quotes from a week-old David Simon essay. Thomas Friedman is no longer even trying.

That already pretty weird thing between Will Smith and his son Jaden got a hell of a lot weirder during a recent interview on Thai TV.

For the first time since 2005, George W. Bush's approval rating is higher than his disapproval rating. We like you best as a retiree, George.

From the "Videos That Will Give You Nightmares" department: KLAS in Las Vegas has obtained tape of family court marshals illegally arresting a woman accusing one of them of sexual assault—as the presiding officer ignores her pleas for help or explanation.

M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for She's All That. Let me just repeat that wondrous revelation: M. Night Shyamalan once sat down, presumably in a chair, and wrote the script to the 1990s teen sex comedy She's All That. Let's try it in an offhanded way: M. Night Shyamalan, the mind behind the 1999 exercise in frivolity She's All That, wrote the script for that movie. Add it to the chart!

After a day and a night of violent clashes, Turkish police managed to force anti-government protestors out of Istanbul's central Taksim Square, leaving behind only the remnants of protestors' barricades and the lingering smell of tear gas.

A truck driver from Delaware is suing the doctor that gave him a penile implant four years ago because the surgery allegedly left the driver with an erection that lasted for eight straight months.

For once, IKEA is in the news for something other than a poop or horse meat scandal: Eight years ago, Shirley Stewart and Berkely “Rashid” Smith met in the framing department of a New Jersey IKEA. When Smith proposed earlier this year, the couple decided to tie the knot in the same store, in the same section.

Ron Paul on NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "I'm worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile.”

As Missouri-resident Lynn Marie Herzog found out Sunday, it's not the best idea to threaten children playing in your neighborhood with a chainsaw while wearing a ski mask.

Before he took the stage to give his salutatorian speech at the Bell County Expo in Belton, Texas, on Thursday, Mitch Anderson had never told anyone he is gay. That had changed by Anderson's third paragraph, when, after extolling the merits of "learning how to love and celebrate yourself," he broke the news unequivocally: "I feel the moment has arrived for me to be publically true to my personal identity," he said. "So now, I can say, I’m gay."

In 2002, Craig David asked the world "What's your flava? Tell me what's you flava (aaah)." Now Ben & Jerry's is performing similar research, asking the question in a less smooth and infinitely more confusing way.

The New York Daily News reports that the ice cream company has just launched a new "City Churned" campaign, which will culminate in the creation of city-specific flavors for New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C.

For the first time since 2005, more Americans have a favorable view of George W. Bush than an unfavorable one. The change in opinion probably has something to do with his masterful paintings.