Former President George H.W. Bush was taken to a Houston hospital by ambulance Tuesday night after experiencing "shortness of breath," the Associated Press reports.

On Tuesday, The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates illuminated one of the key disadvantages of the white public intellectual: "You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously."

As of Tuesday evening, over 200 independent theaters have agreed to screen The Interview on Christmas Day, Variety reports. Before America's biggest theater chains dropped the movie, Sony planned to show the film at around 3,000 locations.

I freaking promise you that whatever debate over current events you get trapped in this holiday season will not be as bad as a reply-all chain argument about the Gaza Strip, featuring Russell Simmons, sent to Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Ryan Seacrest. And I can promise you that because I have seen one.

Is there no end to the injustices faced by professional reverse-racism victim Rush Limbaugh? The latest offense: A six-word private email from Amy Pascal suggesting Idris Elba should play James Bond.

A new report from Reuters details an ongoing problem within the New York Police Department: off-duty black cops are often targets of racial profiling by white NYPD officers.

Before traveling to Kiev, Ukraine in late October to attend the Molodist International Film Festival with my documentary Mala Mala, which focuses on transgender cultures in Puerto Rico and their fight for civil rights, several close friends and family members pleaded with me not to go. "So, you have a death wish?" a friend asked me. "You know, there's a war over there," another said.

Staten Island-based congressman Michael Grimm pled guilty to federal tax evasion today. He was indicted earlier this year on 20 counts, including on charges of fraud, federal tax evasion, and perjury.

A Southwest Airlines flight collided with an American Airlines plane at LaGuardia this morning, clipping off a chunk of one of the Southwest plane's wings.

The United States Census Bureau announced today that the State of New York, which had been the nation's third most populous state, has now slipped to fourth place, behind Florida. In the 12 months ending July 1, 2014, the Sunshine State gained 293,000 new inhabitants, while New York added a meager 51,000.

Earlier this month, after a grand jury in Staten Island declined to prosecute the cop who placed an unarmed Staten Island father named Eric Garner in a chokehold, Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared on ABC’s This Week, where he mentioned having “the talk” with his 17-year-old son Dante when he was little.

The Food and Drug Administration is lifting its 31-year ban on blood donation from men who sleep with men. But don't get all excited and gay about it, gays.

Vincent Chase, you mad dog. You're making the movie? You made the movie. We made the movie, bro. For everyone who has been waiting, here is the trailer for the forthcoming Entourage movie, directed by Doug Ellin. We made the movie.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, a former gay porn actor also known as the "Canadian Cannibal" was convicted of first-degree murder today for the 2012 killing of Concordia University exchange student Jun Lin. Magnotta killed, dismembered, and mailed parts of Lin's body to political offices in Ottawa and two schools in Vancouver.

A familiar lament that crosses career lines during the holidays is the human desire for ample time off from work, better schedule flexibility, and pay for hours spent on the job but off the clock. Whether you've been given a free week to enjoy your family this winter or you're working through into 2015, here's a reminder that teachers' daily schedules appear impossible to maintain for anyone other than superhumans with body doubles.

Sony Pictures has reportedly authorized a limited release of The Interview on Christmas Day. The Plaza Theater in Atlanta and an Alamo Drafthouse theaters in Texas have both announced plans to show the film.

Here is a nightmare before Christmas: Love magazine's video of 19-year-old Kendall Jenner robotically dancing in her underwear with her mother and manager, the newly-divorced Kris Jenner. Both wear reindeer antlers and a disturbing lack of rhythm.

Rich: I can't believe we woke up at 6:30 in the morning to experience a live commercial for FAO Schwarz.

Below is a clever video that edits together Sarah Koenig's own words for a meta critique of the divisive, just-wrapped podcast Serial. To summarize: "I don't know. We don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Kind of like I don't know. Maybe, I've never really—I don't know. I have no idea. Who knows."

Lauren Singer is the most ecologically conscientious person I have ever read about. She tells New York magazine's Daily Intel that all the trash she's produced in the past two years fits in one 16-ounce Mason jar. She carries her garbage glass around with her everywhere, just in case she needs to dispose of something that cannot be recycled or composted. (Or not. See update below.)