Did you know that in the state of New York, you’re technically allowed to carry up to 25 grams of pot on your person without fear of arrest, and have been for almost 40 years? No? That’s probably because—in New York City, at least—cops will usually lock you up for it anyway.

Ashley Terrill was in hiding the first time I heard her voice, splitting time between her Los Angeles home and a $600-a-night room at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Terrill had locked her laptop and phone in a secret vault, and would only contact me on disposable phones—all because, she claimed, the estranged co-founder of Tinder was trying to destroy her. And that fear was mutual.

This weekend Donald Trump described personally witnessing “thousands and thousands” of people in New Jersey cheering as the towers came down on 9/11. Cue New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who is not going to stand for that, unless it helps him with voters—does anyone know if it will help him with voters?

Amidst the horror of the Bataclan concert hall attack last Friday, one kid apparently managed to survive by hiding under the lead singer of the Eagles of Death Metal’s leather jacket.

To Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Jefferson is more than just the man on the $10 bill.

A gentle “roast” of Vice boss Shane Smith last week by friends such as the head of HBO and Johnny Knoxville reportedly turned out to be one big “lovefest.” (Gawker was initially invited to cover this event, and then disinvited, for some reason.)

Here is a video of someone passed out, on a subway platform, in Crown Heights, into whose lap a rat appears to have crawled, only to take a “selfie.” I hate this video and it makes me want to die.

Were you just saying to yourself how the world could really use more insane rhetoric on the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis? Weh-heh-hell, here comes Alabama Republican Representative Mo Brooks, courtesy of The Hill, with all the heat you can handle!

More than a dozen people have been hospitalized after gunfire erupted at Bunny Friend Park in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward on Sunday night, The Guardian reports. Police officers had just arrived to break up a large crowd.

Bad news, person who is seriously delinquent on payment of many tens of thousands of dollars in debt to the IRS: the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 says you might not be able to take that epic vacation to faraway lands for a while, reports the Washington Post.

“Marty Adams, a senior assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said enforcing regulations in wealthy areas was more difficult than in poorer ones. ‘For a lot of people, accountants or landscapers pay the water bill, and they don’t even see it.’” You don’t say.

In March, a federal lawsuit alleges, a Rikers Island correction officer raped a female prisoner on a bus, while another guard watched.

Early on Saturday morning, Reuters reports, in northern Myanmar, where some of the world’s most desirable jade is produced, a mountain of mining debris gave way, triggering a landslide. More than 100 people were missing on Sunday, and 97 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage.

At the intersection of runaway corporate greed, the cold-blooded profiteering of pharmaceutical companies, and the generations-old, self-inflicted, crippling regulatory impotence of the U.S. government, the pending inversion of Phizer is dancing a little jig in a leprechaun costume and taking a steaming dump on the American flag.

In a series of tweets on Saturday, Al Roker shared an experience he had just had with an apparently racist cab driver, against whom the broadcast weatherman filed a complaint for declining to pick him up because of the color of his skin.

Twice this weekend, Donald Trump claimed to have watched as, immediately following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, thousands of Arabs and Arab-Americans across the Hudson River, in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheered as the Twin Towers collapsed.

Sad news out of San Diego today. Nola, the adorable old rhino living at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, has died, reports the Los Angeles Times. There are now three Northern White Rhinos left in the whole world.

Perpetual embarrassment Donald Trump can look almost thoughtful next to his rock-solid, occasionally violent base of racist voters. Except, of course, when he doesn’t. Like this afternoon, for instance, when Donald Trump tweeted out a patently false, race-baiting image just one day after his supporters tried to beat the shit out of a Black Lives Matter protestor.

As Brussels is besieged by officials sweeping the city for a suspect connected to the recent attacks in Paris, police have made a cautionary request: stop posting to social media.

Over the years, Kristin Cavallari has opened up about her life to magazines like American Baby, CosmoGIRL!, and Dear Doctor (the premier periodical for dental professionals). But perhaps the most revealing interview was Kristin’s with Line magazine last year.