Let's, for one minute, forget that Kanye West is a platinum-selling, chart-topping music artist who has released six highly regarded solo albums in the last decade (to say nothing of his recording broship with Jay Z, production work on various rap and R&B albums, and outsized influence on popular culture). I want to talk about Kanye West, Fashion Designer of Dope Shit™. I've previously considered Kanye's multitudes and his import as a public figure on Gawker—he's "helped to unsettle this idea of how a black man should act or talk or love when others are watching"—but the New York Fashion Week debut of Yeezy Season 1, his first Adidas Originals collection, warrants examination once again, of both the designs and the designer.

Last Wednesday, the day after three Muslim college students were killed in Chapel Hill, N.C, a student at the University of Texas-Arlington told police a man followed her to campus in his truck and pointed a gun at her before driving away. On Facebook, she worried he may have singled her out because she's Muslim.

In footage being used as evidence in an excessive force lawsuit against the St. Louis Police Department, an officer can be seen warning a group of at least seven cops arresting a suspect that a car's dashcam was on and recording them before the footage cuts out for more than two minutes.

A CSX train carrying crude oil burst into flames this afternoon after derailing in Fayette County, West Virginia. One rail car careened into a nearby house, setting it on fire, and at least one other crashed into the Kanawha River.

We recently asked our readers to share their tales of hooking up with their college professors—a project inspired by Harvard’s recent ban on student-professor relationships. And, well, our readers delivered. Without further comment, here are their 10 best submissions. You can read the rest in the comments here. Missed the original post? Share your own story below.

Maryland Rep. Andy Harris—apparently taking a break from his usual efforts to undo the will of voters he doesn't even represent—continued his reign of awfulness last week when he spent the afternoon creepily winking at his mom on CSPAN.

What do you think the most successful industry in America has been in the past 100 years? A hint: it's home to the most successful company of the past 50 years.

A troubling bit of phone footage showing a man interrupting a couple while they fucked against a subway escalator has gone viral after someone uploaded it to LiveLeak. It would be one thing to disturb two adults in the midst of mad, passionate rutting, but the shocking reveal comes when the woman stands up, pants around her ankles, and we see ... a baby.

A California teenager died early Monday morning after losing a game of Russian Roulette to himself in his family's basement.

Egypt launched airstrikes against ISIS-controlled territories in Libya on Monday, just hours after the Islamist group posted video of 21 kidnapped Egyptian Christians apparently being beheaded.

Even in the deep dark depths of the Great Magazine Die-Off a half-decade ago, struggling print magazines did not get so desperate as to breezily stick ads on the cover of their struggling print editions. Hey, times have changed.

After giving her 15-year-old daughter a driving lesson in the parking lot of a Las Vegas middle school last Thursday night, Tammy Meyers nearly hit another car on their drive home. That car apparently followed them home, police say, where one passenger opened fire, hitting Meyers in the head. Meyers, 44, died at University Medical Center Saturday after her family took her off life support.

All the passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Portland this weekend had to be removed when a scorpion casually scuttled down the aisle and stung a passenger.

New York's preeminent fashion week scalper sees selling tickets to invite-only shows as "good samaritan work." He's in his late 20s, says he's a Wall Street consultant by day, and describes himself as a liaison who helps connect friends—mostly underpaid fashion insiders—with outsiders eager to attend the closed-to-the-public events.

The ancient and honorable rivalry between the TKE and Pi Kappa Alpha frats at the University of Georgia escalated early Sunday morning when someone in the TKE house decided to settle things like a gentleman and fired a warning shot from a semi-automatic handgun into the cold, stupid Athens night.

Police in Denmark have arrested two people wanted in connection to Saturday's shooting spree in Copenhagen that left two people dead and five officers wounded. The two men are accused of helping hide the gunman and dispose of a weapon.

This weekend an American college student answered the eternal question—"I wonder if it's worth it to pay money to get close enough to a bull that he could gore my sphincter?"—with a firm no.

Over the last three years, South Carolina prison officials have brought more than 400 disciplinary cases against inmates for "social networking," the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports. Penalties in such cases are exorbitant, including time in solitary confinement as well as deprivation of visitation and telephone privileges.

This week, a Mississippi grand jury indicted Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger for felony assault on a vulnerable adult after he allegedly struck a mentally disabled black man and yelled, "Run, nigger, run."