Max Read · 06/06/13 07:03AM

Salaheddin Barhoum and Yassine Zaimi, the Boston-area runners whose faces were slapped on the front page of the New York Post as possible terrorists by possible pig-fucking racist Col Allan, are suing the paper for libel, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy.

Taylor Berman · 06/05/13 09:57PM

CNN released a video of Michelle Obama responding to a heckler last night. The initial confrontation is only on audio, but later there's shaky cell-phone footage of the First Lady walking off-stage before the crowd convinces her to return.

Here's What Daft Punk Look Like Without Their Helmets

Rich Juzwiak · 06/05/13 07:28PM

Earlier today, electronic music duo the Knocks posted a picture of far more famous electronic duo Daft Punk playing beer pong at the office of their record label, Columbia. Daft Punk are also known as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, and also robots since they are almost never photographed without their trademark helmets.

Here Is a Helicopter You Can Control with Your Brain

Cord Jefferson · 06/05/13 07:07PM

University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor Bin He has been working on a brain-computer interface that allows people to steer robots with their thoughts. In the video above, young students manipulate a flying machine right, left, up, and down using only their minds (e.g. think about making a fist with your right hand to make it turn right).

Taylor Berman · 06/05/13 06:51PM

According to NBC News, the CIA didn't always know who it was targeting with its drone strikes in Pakistan. Roughly 25 percent of those killed over a 14-month period were listed as “other militants,” meaning the CIA wasn't sure how the person killed was affiliated with terrorist organizations, if they were at all.

Ethan Hawke Was Pretty Great on Reddit Today

Leah Beckmann · 06/05/13 05:11PM

If you haven't already seen this little bit of detritus floating around the internet today, Ethan Hawke did a Reddit AMA this morning and was so freaking charming everyone's heads fell off and rolled away (so be careful reading this because YOUR head could be next). There to promote his new movies, Before Midnight and The Purge, Hawke handled his first Reddit experience like a real Estella in Paris (very sexual, distrusting of men).

Cord Jefferson · 06/05/13 04:56PM

Baba Shetty, CEO of NewsBeast since September 2012, today left the company, which is reportedly in the midst of trying to offload Newsweek. Tina Brown broke the news in a memo, which also revealed that Rhona Murphy would be the interim CEO.

Nitasha Tiku · 06/05/13 04:50PM

Kerry Lauerman, editor-in-chief of Salon.com, is now a startup bro, just like everyone else. After 13 years, he's leaving Salon to join a "content and commerce" site, incubated by Lerer Ventures, the venture capital firm launched by Huffington Post cofounder Ken Lerer.

'Surprising' New Facts About Roger Ailes Were Published Two Years Ago

Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/13 04:33PM

Bloomberg View columnist and longtime Newsweek man Jonathan Alter has a new book coming out that includes details about jowly shithead Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News. Politico's media reporter Dylan Byers writes that excerpts from the book show that Alter "reveals a number of surprising facts about the Fox News chief that, taken together, make him out to appear extraordinarily paranoid." Yes, Roger Ailes is paranoid. But Alter didn't "reveal" anything new at all.

Maggie Lange · 06/05/13 03:40PM

Someone compiled all of the audience "Oooohs" in Saved by the Bell and it sounds like a roller coaster of teen group-think hysteria.

This Is the 84-Year-Old Woman Who Won the $590 Million Lottery Jackpot

Cord Jefferson · 06/05/13 03:25PM

Octogenarian Gloria Mackenzie, a resident of Zephyrhills, Florida, came forward today to claim last month's $590 million Powerball jackpot, the largest in the lottery game's history. Mackenzie wisely opted out of participating in a press conference, but Florida lottery officials read a statement from her in which she wrote that she bought her winning ticket after "another lottery ticket buyer was very kind enough to let me go ahead of her on the supermarket line."