Toward the end of last Friday's manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, actress Zooey Deschanel suddenly found herself being named as a possible accomplice on live TV.

First, watch the video. All of it. Especially from about 2:00 on.

Park Ji Woo was born in North Korea and escaped with her mother when she was 9 years old. Today Park is 24 and studies English in New York City. Her column about life as a North Korean defector living in New York City appears on NKnews.org. Park will be joining Gawker at 3:30pm for a live chat here.

According to the National Enquirer, this is a photograph of House Speaker John Boehner's soon-to-be son-in-law, a Jamaican-born man named Dominic Lakhan. He does not look like someone you would imagine to be related to the leathery, weeping John Boehner, but that's the beauty of America.

In case you had any doubt that the campaign to rehabilitate George W. Bush's reputation was phony and corrupt, Lanny Davis has signed on.

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal learned that playing Tetris can help train both eyes to work together and fix lazy eyes.

When Anum Hussain heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, she immediately panicked, worried that the culprits would be like her. The 22-year-old Muslim was in the offices of Hubspot, the Cambridge marketing-software company she works for full-time. As her coworkers frantically rushed to call loved ones who'd been out watching the marathon that day, she was glued to the TV, fearing what she might learn about potential suspects. “My heart was beating fast, just praying that this person didn't turn out to be Muslim,” she recalled. “I knew that if they were, all hell was going to break loose.”

In interview footage that aired on this morning's Today Show alongside the highly anticipated first sit-down with former news anchor A.J. "Fucking Shit" Clemente, President Barack Obama talked about life at the White House, his wife's verbal mishaps, and disciplining his children.

Kudos to Thomas Friedman's upcoming "Next New World" conference for having the kind of diversity one would expect from something being billed as a "global forum." Some of the white guys wear glasses while some do not.

Yesterday, after receiving a link to a Google doc containing several college essays from accepted Columbia applicants (the doc has since been taken down), we pulled the best lines from each essay to create achingly, stunningly movingly powerful personal essays of our own, all guaranteed to get you into Columbia next fall. But maybe you don't want to go to Columbia. Maybe that was our dream for you and not your dream for yourself and instead, you'd rather bleed cardinal red and white like Avatar's Sigourney Weaver and Space's astronaut William Fisher. Maybe you'd rather attend Stanford University. Hey, no problem— we received an anonymous tip last night from someone claiming to have 100 or so Common App and Stanford Supplement essay for the Class of 2016.

The Army's clearly bored contingent of public affairs soldiers in Afghanistan would like to introduce you to Bagram Batman, the star of this strangely amusing series of safety PSAs that's DOD-sponsored... and taxpayer-funded.

Adam Paul Savader, the 21-year-old from Great Neck accused of internet extortion and cyberstalking 15 women by the FBI, also happens to have been Paul Ryan's "sole intern" during Mitt Romney's failed presidential bid.

Jimmy "the Rent Is Too Damn High" McMillan is running for mayor of New York City, and our friends over at Animal New York have produced a political anthem for his campaign. It convincingly and forcefully makes the case that the rent is too damn high.

This will most likely be the very last Harlem Shake video you will ever see, given that the erstwhile viral sensation has given way to much worse memes.

Five people are reported dead and one injured in a shooting last night in Manchester, Illinois. The shootings occurred at 4:30 a.m. local time. The Illinois State Police confirmed that the victims, at least one of whom is a child, were shot in a public housing complex.

An estimated 500 workers from various fast food restaurants and retail stores around Chicago went on strike this morning. The employees, from restaurants like McDonald’s and Subway and stores like Sears, Nike, and Victoria's Secret, are demanding an increase in the minimum wage—to $15—and for the ability to unionize.

A month ago, Tilda Swinton was sleeping in a box at MoMa, where she turned napping into a commentary on stardom as specimen.

Kim Han Sol, Kim Jong Il's Facebook-loving grandson, is reportedly 'missing' from his Bosnian prep school.

On Monday, Nevada's Senate kickstarted the state's journey down the road toward ultimately repealing a constitutional ban on gay marriage that was first approved by voters in the year 2000.

BREAKING: Newspaper reporting is the worst. For newspaper reporters.