Donald Trump, Hater Of Hackers, Hacked Once Again

Melissa Cronin · 10/05/15 07:11PM

If you have lain your head atop a soft 400-thread-count pillowcase at a Trump hotel in the past year, your credit card number was probably stolen. According to the Trump Hotel Collection, the credit and debit card numbers of customers who visited one of seven different Trump hotels between May 2014 and June 2015 may have been stolen by hackers.

Here's That Anti-Semitic Joke Joe Biden Tried to Keep Off the Record

Gabrielle Bluestone · 10/05/15 02:52PM

In 1974, Joe Biden gave a very good, extremely horny interview to Kitty Kelley. Just about the only thing that didn’t make it into the article, which ran in Washingtonian Magazine, was a mysterious anti-semitic joke Biden made to another senator. You’d think a joke that uncouth would be funny—but sadly, you thought wrong.

Mega-Popular 13-Year-Old YouTube Star Mysteriously Dead

Sam Biddle · 10/05/15 02:00PM

For the past five years, an anonymous mother and father duo in Arnold, Maryland have obsessively documented their three young children for millions of YouTube fans. Last Thursday, one of them died at 13, and no one knows why.

ATM Fees Are Like Whoa

Hamilton Nolan · 10/05/15 01:50PM

ATM fees now are very, very, very expensive. Very expensive.

FBI Warns Philly-Area Universities About "Beta Rebellion" Threat on 4chan

Jay Hathaway · 10/05/15 12:45PM

“Out of an abundance of caution” after the mass shooting that killed nine last week at an Oregon community college, the FBI’s Philadelphia field office has warned Philly-area universities about a threatening post made over the weekend on that crucible and/or cesspit of internet culture, 4chan.

Former Clinton Aide Lied About Use of Personal Email Account for State Department Business

J.K. Trotter · 10/05/15 11:50AM

Former Hillary Clinton advisor Philippe Reines has emphatically maintained that—unlike his longtime boss—he never used a personal email account to conduct official State Department business. In fact, when Gawker reported earlier this year that Reines was known to use his private email account to communicate with reporters in his role as Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary of state, he replied with a colorful, forceful, and highly specific denial in which he attacked several reporters for even raising the question.

"Yes, I Drank the Goat's Blood," Says Florida's Pagan, Libertarian, "Genius-Level" Senate Candidate

Jay Hathaway · 10/05/15 11:00AM

Augustus Sol Invictus, Floridian former lawyer and current Libertarian candidate for Senate, once described himself as “of genius intellect,” “God’s gift to humankind where the English language is concerned,” and “everything you ever wanted to be.” Critics describe him as “a self-proclaimed fascist” and “absolute insanity.” One time, he killed a goat and drank its blood.

North Korea Releases NYU Student After Six Months of Detention

Gabrielle Bluestone · 10/05/15 08:30AM

Today North Korea freed a 21-year-old New York University student it arrested last May in what it’s calling a “humanitarian” measure and what everyone else is calling a “political” move to strengthen relations with South Korea.

Republican Candidates Compete For Racist Hick Demographic

Hamilton Nolan · 10/05/15 08:04AM

The real ideological battle in the Republican primary will not be over taxes, or foreign policy, or immigration. Rather, it is a contest to find who will capture the valuable “Racist Hick Football Fan” demographic.