Last night, Anderson Cooper spent an hour embarrassing eight 13-year-olds on national television. First in front of each other, and then in front of their parents. Regardless of whatever insight we were supposed to have gleaned from a bunch of pubescent tweeters, at the end of the night, there was really only one takeaway: Anderson Cooper is a narc.

A white marketing dude has lost his job after posting a Facebook photo with his coworker’s 3-year-old son, who is black, and joining his cool and fun friends in making racist jokes calling the boy “Sambo,” “slave,” and “Kunta Kinte,” among other things.

Today in an interview, Kanye West said that his most beloved and respected album—the sprawling 2010 monstrosity My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy—is not his best. Let’s once again celebrate Kanye for being right.

Is the cast of The Maze Runner cursed? Uh, yeah, I’d say so—just take a look at the evidence.

The other day, there was a mass shooting in the United States. The president said, entirely accurately:

This week, the long-anticipated, formerly disastrous Steve Jobs biopic will finally arrive in theaters, with Michael Fassbender in the the lead role. Remember when just last year, the movie’s writer had no idea who Michael Fassbender is?

Al-Jazeera America staffers have formally voted to unionize, after the company refused to voluntarily recognize their union request. Now the company is challenging the right of some employees to be in the union. Liberal media at work!

The Community College of Philadelphia is on lockdown Tuesday morning after a man with a gun was seen entering a campus building following an argument with a student.

Christopher Harper-Mercer, the gunman who shot nine people to death at an Oregon community college Thursday morning before killing himself, left behind a collection of predictably delusional notes in which he complained about not having a girlfriend, according to a law enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press.

If you opened a sealed can of water from the 1950s and drank it, what would happen? Would you die? Only one way to find out.

Did Joe Biden use his son’s death to prime the launch of a presidential campaign? Hell yes, reports The Politico.

This video, uploaded to YouTube Monday, stars an entitled young UConn student who wants some “fucking bacon jalapeño mac and cheese,” but these “fucking idiot” cafeteria workers won’t give it to him. Instead, they keep telling him he’s going to get expelled for bringing beer into Union Street Market. Whatever! This is America, man, and he’s 19. Like some “faggy cafeteria manager cafeteria manager cafeteria manager” can tell him what to do?

America is the world’s richest and most powerful country. That’s why our democratic election process is the envy of the lesser, more civilized world.

An 11-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges after he allegedly shot and killed a child because she wouldn’t let him pet her puppy.

“We are working on the presumption of a war crime,” Doctors Without Borders announced today, as the United States continued trying out new explanations for why an American AC-130 gunship targeted the group’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, for a deadly assault.

A Bronx mother accused of killing one newborn and under investigation for the mysterious death of another was so shy she would “smile and blush” when people looked at her, a classmate tells the New York Times.

As of this week, there are approximately 60 million people that have been displaced by conflict and mistreatment, a number that is far higher than that of a decade ago.

There’s an ancient Latin proverb that says, “The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.”

If our tenure on Earth is anything to judge by, humans are not very good planetary tenants. Now, with a (nearly) clean slate on Mars, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is already trying to prevent us from destroying a second planet.

Laurel Harper—the mother of gunman Chris Harper-Mercer who murdered nine people at Umpqua Community College last week—is not only an active and passionate gun owner, but an active and passionate fan of Donald Trump, according to a Yahoo Answers account uncovered by The New York Times.