On Thursday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on prescription drug prices. The committee has obtained more than 300,000 pages of documents from Turing Pharmaceuticals and Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Both have been accused of jacking up the price of necessary drugs (of which they were the sole supplier). Representative Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking member, released two memos on Tuesday highlighting the most illuminating emails, public relations strategy outlines, and corporate projections.

Last night in Iowa, Ted Cruz’s campaign circulated a rumor about Ben Carson quitting his campaign. The rumor turned out to be untrue, and Carson’s staff is using it to explain their poor showing in the caucus. Below, you can read the fateful email that directed Cruz volunteers to turn confused Carson supporters into defectors.

Here is a clip from a 1999 film called My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding Reception, in which, according to IMDB, “The bride’s ex-boyfriend is a member of the band, a collection of musical misfits, at an Italian-Jewish wedding.” Also, Bernie Sanders plays a rabbi.

Eduardo Cornejo, a 10-year veteran of the NYPD, was fired last month for failing a random drug test. He was also, however, being investigated by the FBI and the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau for running a prostitution ring out of various area motels. On Tuesday, Cornejo was charged with transporting women in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution (a federal offense).

Death and Taxes points us to this clip, from a 2013 episode of Wendy Williams’ show, “Wendy,” in which Donald Trump takes yet another opportunity to hint that he maybe sort of finds his daughter sexually attractive.

On Monday morning, 16-year-old Savion Lewallen was stabbed while trying to rob, with four others, 19-year-old Khari Noerdlinger, in Edgewater, New Jersey, NBC New York reports. Noerdlinger’s mother is Rachel Noerdlinger, former chief of staff to First Lady Chirlane McCray.

Last fall, Harper’s publisher and CEO John R. MacArthur promoted Christopher Cox, then serving as deputy editor of the 165-year-old literary and political magazine, to editor-in-chief. But this past Friday, less than three months into Cox’s tenure, MacArthur abruptly changed his mind. “I can confirm that I have been terminated from Harper’s Magazine because of editorial differences with the publisher,” Cox wrote in an email to Gawker on Tuesday. “I’m not prepared to say more than that at this time.”

You hear that? It’s the sound of 582 billion dollar bills falling down an infinitely deep hole, as narrated by your Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter. Yes, his name’s Ash. And yes, he’s going to spend a couple billion defending outer space from ISIS.

Ted Cruz, Iowa caucus winner and current GOP frontrunner, has been hitting border control hard throughout the course of his campaign. And now, thanks to EXCLUSIVE photographs that you can only get here on Gawker.com, we may have our very first glimpse at a President Cruz’s border defense policy.

The first new case of Zika, the mosquito-born virus that shrinks babies’ brains, was just reported in the U.S. It was transmitted, health officials say, through sex.

In a new interview with Momtastic.com, a blog about moms fantastic, Kristin Cavallari revealed something new about herself. When asked, “What’s something about you that would surprise others if they knew it?”, she responded:

In corporate America, the most persistent refuge of outright charlatanism is “branding.” The only thing more offensive to honesty than a “rebranding” campaign is a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign.

A sampling of headlines analyzing the results of last night’s Democratic caucus in Iowa:

Last January, the board of elections in the tiny Catskills village of Bloomingburg, New York, attempted to cancel the voting registrations of 160 Hasidic residents, claiming that they needed to provide more proof of residency to vote. Ten of those residents filed a federal lawsuit against the board claiming voter discrimination, and today, the Sullivan County Board of Elections settled for $575,000.

The Intercept disclosed today that a former reporter for the national-security focused website fabricated quotes and invented sources for a number of stories published last year. According to a post published on Tuesday afternoon by editor-in-chief Betsy Reed, that reporter, Juan Thompson, went so far as to register fake email addresses, including one in Reed’s own name, to deceive his editors about the extent of his fabrications:

Ben Carson’s sinking campaign hit another low point last night when the famed surgeon finished fourth in the Iowa caucus, a good 14 points behind Marco Rubio in what appears to now be a three-person race for the Republican nomination. The Carson camp has so far offered one reason for his poor showing: a quick-spreading rumor started by Ted Cruz that Carson was dropping out of the race.

In Washington today, the leaders of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps told Congress that it’s time for all American women to register for the draft. Must we begin to fret?

Rancher and outspoken racist Cliven Bundy earned notoriety in 2014 for starting a large, armed standoff against the federal government because he was angry about his cows. This week, he’s urging the rural radicals once commanded by his son to continue their armed occupation of a remote wildlife refuge in Harney County, Oregon.

There is nothing more American than pizza, a dish we stole from another culture, claimed as our own, and have argued about ever since. It’s deeply American in other ways, too; fatty, mostly cheap, and occasionally exceptional. So of course, it’s a clear favorite when it comes time for our presidential candidates to feed their hungry, freedom-loving staffers.

Hillary Clinton eked out a narrow victory over Bernie Sanders last night in the Iowa caucuses, which has led to a lot of punditry. There’s one branch of that punditry that I think ought to be examined a bit more rigorously before it spreads. Here’s Ezra Klein, last night: