Authorities in Broward County, Florida, are investigating the death of a man who won a local reptile store's bug-eating contest, which required contestants to eat dozens of live insects and worms for the chance to take home a python.

Steve Harvey took the weirdest break from being a sanctimonious blowhard when he had some kids from Toddlers & Tiaras (and their parents) on his talk show today and handled everyone gently. He spoke to everyone without admonishing them, had little Kayla recreate her Shirley Temple crumping (I'll never tire of reminding people that I saw her do that live), and then asked her and her fellow undersized beauty queen Elizabeth to show him how to wave and to do "pretty feet."

Riding high on the latest Pew poll numbers which put him in the lead by 4 points among likely voters, Mitt Romney turned down a request from Nickelodeon to appear in its quadrennial "Kids Pick the President" special.

Are you happy now, America? Donald Trump will be live-tweeting the presidential debates.

Today, New York Times staffers staged the golf clap of protests when about 300 staffers essentially took a smoke break at the same time. Now This News reports the walk out lasted about 10 minutes, which is understandable because oh my god why is it so cold in New York today?

For millennia, humans have wondered what happens after we die. Finally, we have a definitive answer: this week, in an exclusive cover story, Newsweek reveals that "Heaven Is Real." And it sounds suspiciously like a DMT trip as described on internet drug forums.

Fifty years ago, black man James Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi after a lengthy legal battle with school administrators and state politicians. The governor of Mississippi himself, Ross Barnett, chastised President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy's support of Meredith as "evil and illegal forces of tyranny." Thousands of soldiers were deployed to ensure Meredith's safe entry onto campus, which led to a riot that killed two and injured hundreds. In the end, despite all the anger and violence, Meredith entered classes at Ole Miss and graduated in 1963 with a degree in political science.

You're a frustrated "conceptual artist." You have invented an "-ism" and named the movement after the color of pee: Yellowism. You even drafted a completely incoherent manifesto about your movement that sounds like @Horse_ebooks waxing philosophical about urinary tract infections:

Mitt Romney surprised a bunch of schoolchildren in Fairfield, Virginia, today by making an unexpected pit stop at their elementary school.

Oh hey, here's a picture of Jennifer Aniston rocking a zillion-carat engagement ring that her fiance, Justin Theroux, "gave" her. Though I assume Aniston bought the ring herself six years ago and stashed it in a safety deposit box until the day she finally found a man who could properly pull off being dressed like a 1930s fighter pilot. This is a big rock. A huge rock. A very expensive, obnoxious, stupid fucking rock.

NY prosecutors want to classify street gang crime as "terrorism," even though the gang is not Middle Eastern. Odd.

In the past, when a father had something to say to his son—Today you are 6. Happy Birthday, for instance—he would enlist the help of a trained card-writing professional, because it was not deemed prudent for a man to address a child directly until that boy had reached adulthood and developed his own fully formed opinions. (Daughters were addressed on their wedding day; a solemn "Goodbye, young lady.")

Following a spate of hit-and-runs allegedly perpetrated by celebrity drivers (well, two celebrity drivers to be exact), Ben Affleck has stepped up to show he fellow reckless celebs how to handle a minor vehicular skirmish.

An "old school, old time gangster" with dozens of priors over the course of 30 years was arrested last week in Santa Ana, California, and charged with false imprisonment and child annoyance after he allegedly attempted to abduct a ten-year-old boy.

Dear Honorable leader Kim Jong Un inspires glory among all of his well-fed and athletic socialist subjects simply by triumphantly touring his happy nation, joyously soaking in the pleasant aroma of the world's best flowers, and never, ever eating those flowers, because of the aforementioned well-fed status of the North Korean people. The overstuffed smiling citizens of the DPRK demand that a machine lathe be awarded all outstanding heroic accolades and awards!

John "Lloyd Dobler" Cusack and Peter "In Your Eyes" Gabriel were briefly reunited last night at the Hollywood Bowl when the former joined the latter on stage... to give him a boombox.

A highlight of the upcoming DJ-Kicks mix (out Nov. 13) by New York dance-music revivalists Hercules and Love Affair, "Release Me," finds Hercules mastermind Andy Butler binging on a variety of retro sources in an otherwise '90s-house focused context. Says Butler of his new track and its vougishly dispassionate singer:

Back in September, we thought Prefix magazine's freelancer rates of $6 per day were about as bad as it could get in a desiccated media landscape where writers are exploited like the railroad workers of old. Today, a company out of Portland, Oregon, is making Prefix's rates look downright extravagant.

Mitt Romney just finished delivering a speech called "The Mantle of Leadership" at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. It was billed by his campaign as a major foreign policy speech.

A high school in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia region has put in place a ban on homework in order to help relieve some of the pressure put on students following the extension of the school day by several hours.