A Gronking to Remember, the first book in Lacey Noonan’s erotic novel series about Patriots tight end and white Shrek Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski, arrived in January to thrill a nation hopped up on playoff football and Fifty Shades of Grey. But it did not thrill one couple, whose engagement photo was featured on its cover, next to Gronk’s approving, possibly horny smile.

The death toll in Nepal from last weekend’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake has exceeded 4,000 people, a number expected to rise as local authorities continue to comb through the remote regions surrounding the country’s capital of Kathmandu. But also lost in the indiscriminate destructive powers of the quake were irreplaceable pieces of Nepal’s cultural history, some dating back several centuries.

I was at a stoplight in front of Frederick Douglass High School and directly across from Mondawmin Mall. It was exactly 3 p.m. The mall was on lockdown. There were police helicopters flying overhead. The riot police were already at the bus stop on the other side of the mall, turning buses that transport the students away, not allowing students to board.They were waiting for the kids. As I sat at the intersection of Gwynns Falls, I saw several police cars arriving at the scene. I saw the armored police vehicle arrive. Those kids were set up, they were treated like criminals before the first brick was thrown.

Two days after Baltimorean Freddie Gray died from a broken spine suffered in police custody, the FBI sent this alert to local law enforcement, warning cops against “cyber attacks” by “hacktivists.”

At a press conference this afternoon, President Obama addressed the protests and riots in Baltimore, noting both the “a slow rolling crisis” of black men being killed by police officers and the “criminal” behavior of looters last night.

Earlier this month, Walmart suddenly and mysteriously closed five stores in four different states, citing “plumbing problems” as the reason for the six-month closure. The company’s advice to the thousands of employees it had just laid off? Don’t stress, avoid chocolate.

Freddie Gray died in the hospital a week after he was arrested by Baltimore police.

At the request of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is sending 150 New Jersey State Police officers to Baltimore today for an “initial term” of 72 hours.

Everyone’s favorite CNN anchor interviewed Maryland governor Larry Hogan and Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake late last night. The contentious 11-minute interview, during which Lemon repeatedly asked the two about their responses to yesterday’s protests and riots, did not end well.

Freddie Gray was born August 16, 1989, and died April 19, 2015. Yesterday, his family laid him to rest.

Last night, a short video emerged that purportedly showed a Baltimore mom slapping and berating her son after spotting him on TV at yesterday’s riots. The Associated Press has now published a longer, clearer version video which shows the full motherly assault.

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in yet another bind. If state lawmakers do not agree to fund the remainder of the MTA’s five-year capital plan, the deadline for which is coming up in June, there may be a need to increase fares and tolls by 15 percent in order to make ends meet.

The Supreme Court will hear opening statements Tuesday in Obergefell v. Hodges, a historic case that will decide whether same-sex marriage is a constitution right.

As Baltimore braces itself for a second day of potentially violent protests, volunteers gathered this morning at North and Pennsylvania Avenues—the epicenter of yesterday’s protests—to clean up the destruction from the rioting and looting at a CVS and other neighborhood businesses.

The death toll from the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal now stands at more than 4,400, with more than 8,000 injured. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said the number of dead could surpass 10,000 when rescue efforts are done.

The Italian woman who was being evicted by the Italian American Museum has won two more months to find a place to live, the New York Times reports. While Adele Sarno and her lawyers will look for another place in Little Italy, if nowhere is affordable, she will relocate to Wisconsin or Staten Island.

Violence tore through a large swath of western Baltimore Monday night, punctuating the week of protests and funeral for Freddie Gray—who died April 19 from a spinal injury he suffered while in police custody—with rioting, fires, and looting.

What’s the best venue for your self-righteous, nativist ravings? If you answered “my 6-year-old’s school concert, of course,” then congratulations, fuckwit, everyone hates you.

Six people were shot and two died after gunmen opened fire on mourners leaving a funeral in Brooklyn Monday night, the New York Daily News reports. According to witnesses, as many as 15 shots were fired from a silver SUV into the crowd gathered outside Emmanuel Church of God in East Flatbush.

A freight train passing through New Orleans was no match for a powerful storm in what was at once a potentially dangerous accident and also a terrific metaphor for a country song.