Elizabeth Comeau (formerly Elizabeth Carr), America's first test-tube baby, just gave birth to her very own baby, which she got "the normal way," ahem. Comeau's never suffered any negative health effects, except growing up to be a journalist. [Boston Globe]
If you like irresponsible fun with realistic firearms and tales of tasteful drawings of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg engaged in lascivious activities, then this interview is for you.
Just when you thought it was safe to go to Central Park with a basket of cheese and things like that, whoa, stop. Crime in Central Park is skyrocketing more than anywhere else. Are you in terrible danger? (Probably).
[Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, unfeeling Patrician jerks, film Gawker's latest favorite movie "Friends With Benefits" in Times Square last night. Image: Splash]
Poor Caroline Giuliani. Arrested for stealing makeup from Sephora on the Upper East Side on Wednesday, she was obviously the victim of inept police work because she was handcuffed. Handcuffed! The daughter of "America's Mayor" deserves better than that.
The Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association — besides fighting over 400 teacher layoffs in the school district — is locked in a legal fight to reinstate taxpayer funded Viagra, which would cost nearly $1 million. Or jobs for about 25 teachers.
[Tourists in front of Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral argue over whose idea it was to vacation in Russia as the country burns and smoke from raging wildfires blankets the capital. Image via AP]
Magnus Saethre, "Old Man Mike," is a 97-year-old WW2 veteran who pays $63.29 per month for his one bedroom Sunset Park, Brooklyn apartment. So, naturally, his landlord is trying to kick him out "for the [benefit] of the building's tenants."
Wyclef Jean formally announced that he's running for president of Haiti tonight on an episode of Larry King Live that was—for some soon-to-be regretted reason—hosted by buffoon Wolf Blitzer. Here are the most mishap-filled moments from the hour.
[Doves fly past the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima during the 65th anniversary ceremony of the city's August 6, 1945 atomic bombing. Click through for an animated map of nuclear bomb detonations between 1945 and 1998. Pic via AP.]
Marketing research firm Civic Science was forced to recalibrate its survey scoring system after finding that "millennials"—children born between the late 1970s and early 2000s—don't feel particularly strongly about anything. Not true! Want to know what millennials hate?
Google, because it can, calculated the number of books in the world, and came up with a number: 129,864,880. If you read one a day, you could finish in 356,000 years. So, you know, better get started.
It's only the second episode of the season and already there is a ton of drunken drama on the Jersey Shore. Not surprisingly, it can all be traced back to one source: Angelina. Boozy fisticuffs from tonight's episode inside.
Working from his custom-built home computer, Japanese engineer Shigeru Kondo used American programmer Alexander Yee's software y-cruncher to calculate pi to 5 trillion decimal places, a new record. Kondo's wife and mother, when told, expressed "no particular feelings." How... irrational!
Bravo's latest celebration of maternal materialism , The Real Housewives of DC, has arrived, and notorious party crasher and Whoopi Goldberg nemesis Michaele Salahi has good company in Cat, a Brit fresh to the DC scene who offends everyone always.
Eva Mendes stopped by Chelsea Lately and the two got onto the topic of men. This led to Chelsea commenting on how she appreciates Eva's "super hot" looks and "ambitious" personality. Eva got excited that she had Chelsea's approval.
Lopez Tonight had the ultra-promoting Will Ferrell on tonight to talk The Other Guys, and Will got candid about the lines he's had to cross for the sake of being insanely hilarious. Boulder sacks included.