According to one A-list wedding planner, tabloid magazines are now flying camera drones over celebrity weddings: “At one event I did recently in the Hamptons, one came in over the water... To the world of celebrities, that is horrible. What do you do: Shoot them down?” Hey, why not!

I was 14, just starting high school at an all-boys public school in the Bronx, when I began to feel a strong physical attraction to other boys. I was quiet and observant, and I didn’t yet know if I should, or could, act on those emotions.

According to documents provided to the New York Times and ProPublica by Edward Snowden, AT&T and the NSA have maintained for decades a “highly collaborative” relationship that has facilitated the government agency’s ability to spy on enormous quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States.

“The Iowa State Fair won’t allow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to give kids free rides on his helicopter on fairgrounds, but the real estate developer has secured a nearby location. The helicopter will take off from a parking lot outside the fair.”

The death toll at the Chinese port of Tianjin, rocked earlier this week by a series of devastating explosions, has risen to 104, the Associated Press reports, including 21 firefighters. An unknown number of firefighters remain missing.

The Guardian reports that St. Louis County police are investigating Officer Todd J. Bakula after he made a Facebook post bragging about his “annual Michael Brown bonus,” an apparent reference to extra income earned while working during protests in Ferguson this week.

On Saturday, the Italian navy rescued some 320 migrants from an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya. At least 40 other migrants died in the boat’s hold, apparently killed by fuel fumes, the Associated Press reports.

Michigan state rep. Cindy Gamrat on Friday held her first press conference since being caught in an affair with her fellow representative, Todd Courser—despite Courser’s incredibly bizarre attempt to cover it up by implicating himself in a gay sex scandal. Gamrat announced that, pending the results of an investigation, she will not resign.

SoulCycle—ever heard of it? It’s a dark, neon hellscape where Charlize Theron routinely terrorizes Tia Mowry—I assume for sport—but it’s also more than that. It’s a place where rich people of all shapes and sizes can spend large sums of money to exercise their bodies and their aggression, often at the same time.

For more than four decades, the television show Sesame Street has existed to teach children lessons. Today’s lesson is that people without disposable household income are in an inferior position and should be happy to receive secondhand goods.

A terrifying and cold-blooded demonstration took place today in Cape Cod and trust me when I tell you, this killer shark knew exactly what kind of bloody message he, or maybe she, was sending to wealthy Massachusetts residents: “I’m gonna fucking eat you.”

Gay couple David Moore and David Ermold, who documented the Rowan County Clerk’s refusal to grant them a marriage license last month in a viral YouTube video last month, returned to the Kentucky office yesterday and were once again denied a marriage license. This shit is still happening. It’s not over.

This month marks the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that ravaged New Orleans leaving 1,833 of its citizens dead. There are a lot of reasonable emotions to feel in response to this particular tragedy—sadness, grief, and anger, to name a few. How about envy? Sure, I guess—so says one brave Chicago Tribune op-ed writer who isn’t afraid to present herself as a potential sociopath in her quest to expose Chicago’s inadequacies.

The Republican presidential primary campaign is, to a large extent, a convention of white male fantasy enthusiasts. You say you can double economic growth, with magic? Well I can... triple it!

“Do you have anything you want to say?” I asked Dylan Thomas on a recent sunny afternoon. We were having lunch together at New York City’s famed White Horse Tavern, and I had ordered a cheeseburger. Nothing for Dylan Thomas, however. (He is a ghost.)

An old cat—can you imagine? Little glasses. Sitting in a chair while he reads a book. You see him in a bar having a drink by himself and it makes you sad for a minute, rudely—probably he isn’t even sad. Congratulations to Corduroy, the oldest living cat.

Last week, the popular Christian vlogging couple Sam and Nia posted what’s become their second most viral video ever: a pregnancy announcement where—twist—Sam “surprised” his wife Nia with her own positive pregnancy test after stealing some of her urine from the toilet. The video has garnered 13 million views and counting, despite the tearful update that came just three days later: Nia miscarried.

This month and next, millions of American youths are going to do something that most of us never have to again: Step into a classroom, and write down the most tortured prose that their hormone- and flakka-addled brains can manage. So in the spirit of solidarity and self-loathing, let’s relive those angsty days of our youth—together.

TLC is trying to make lemonade out of 19 Kids and Counting’s Josh Duggar revealing he molested his little sisters as a teen. Although leaving the Duggars on the air would have been terrible PR, featuring Jill and Jessa Duggar—two of Josh’s victims—in a documentary special about child sex abuse strikes the perfect balance between acknowledging the problem and milking a big, troubled TV family for publicity.

Forty soldiers in Army Ranger training were hospitalized on Wednesday after they were struck by lightning. “The students were learning lightning protection protocols at the time of the incident.”