Forty-one people—including as many as seven Americans—have been taken hostage in Algeria after a terrorist attack.

Backwards clothes pioneers Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith — better known to older Millennials as kid rap outfit Kris Kross — have announced plans to reunite, bringing us all perilously close to '90s nostalgia singularity.

Megan Fox is a cuckoo clock rooster crowing "Wack-a-doodle-doo" at the midnight moon, and still the primary focus of her new Esquire profile is that Megan Fox is pretty.

Puns: glaring character flaw, or merry carrying case for guffaws? Pun-scuss (like "discuss" but a pun).

A few minutes ago, President Obama announced a $500 million package, synthesized from suggestions put forth by Vice President Joe Biden's task force on gun control, aimed at curbing gun violence in the U.S. in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. The President called on Congress to take action in a number of ways, including:

With all due respect to Taylor Swift and her uncanny proclivity for boiling down every meaningful interaction between two human being to a money-making break-up song, her ability to coat her throwaway anthems in a patina of real-life emotions experienced by someone who's actually been wronged leave much to be desired.

Gawker is now hiring Editorial Fellows for our New York office.

In case any unimportant "regular" college students were operating under the delusion that your university's boilerplate about how "Academics Come First" was actually a meaningful statement of values, it is now possible to quantify financially just how much more important athletes are than you, the unathletic plebeian.

The phrase "honesty is the best policy" probably wasn't coined by someone trying to land a job on Wall Street.

In case Twitter hasn't told you, it's very cold in Los Angeles right now. Well, 50 degrees, otherwise known as summer in Milwaukee. But our taco-eating, trail-running bretheren are sensitive, okay?

On the Late Show with David Letterman last night, smart-mouthed superstar Jennifer Lawrence explained her controversial acceptance speech for Best Actress - Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical for Silver Linings Playbook at Sunday's Golden Globes. "What does it say? I beat Meryl," is how she opened her speech, and she explained to Letterman that she was referencing the 1996 revenge comedy The First Wives Club. She didn't mention, though, that she was also referencing the truth, because she did, in fact, beat Meryl Streep, who was nominated for Hope Springs.

"Hello, This is Dog" gets a very necessary 21st century update thanks to Ali Wasel, who found a canine buddy for her wire fox terrier Gaytor to chat with on Skype.

Daniel Edelman, who founded one of the world's most powerful PR firms, died yesterday at the age of 92.

Matt Drudge, the Offer Nissim superfan who runs the link aggregator of record for black-on-white crime and Michelle Obama's eating habits, is in Washington, D.C., today, for some reason, where he is observing the weather:

When Australian Matt Corby posted a photo of his newly acquired Subway sandwich to the Subway Facebook page demanding to know why the so-called "footlong" was only 11 inches long, he most likely didn't intend to become the poster boy for sandwich injustice.

Last week, John McPhee published a lengthy piece on The Structure of Nonfiction Writing in The New Yorker. The collective eye-glaze of readers upon hearing that news could cover all the world's donuts. We're happy to report, though, that McPhee has surprised us.

Several European supermarket chains have been forced to pull certain beef products off their shelves after they were found to contain tangible amounts of horse meat.

"What's wrong with these people?" Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough wondered this morning about this new NRA ad, in which a sneering narrator asks "Are the president's kids more important than yours? Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their schools?" before pointedly referring, in the style of Ernst Blofeld, to a certain Mr. Obama. Well, Joe, here's the thing: the NRA is the armed wing of a quasi-religious movement of self-obsessed paranoid racists whose gun fetishism is founded on pathological fear of minorities and an abiding belief in ongoing societal collapse, and this ad is a pretty accurate statement of its institutional thought process. So, I guess, what's wrong with these people is that they're idiots.

Late yesterday, the White House announced that it was raising the threshold of signatures needed to elicit a response through its "We the People" petition site to 100,000.

The House of Representatives passed the $50.7 billion bill for Hurricane Sandy victims, ten weeks after the storm hit.