This seven-minute video of Russian heroin addicts, dressed in high fashion clothes, discussing their hopes and dreams and other profoundly normal topics is either exploitative, or a deeply moving exploration of humanity. Worth watching either way. [Vimeo]

Being a good reporter often means pissing off the very person you're attempting to interview—you try to keep it civil, but sometimes, the situation spirals out of your control. When an establishment menace in a festive outfit attempted to silence a New Hampshire TV journalist last night, he handled it like a pro.

A cook at a Valrico, Fla. Chili's was fired from his job after he posted pictures of himself posing shirtless in the restaurant's kitchen to Facebook with the title "Sexy Cooks Of Chili's."

Comedian Jenny Slate has brought back her most famous character, the adorably earnest little Marcel the Shell (With Shoes On) for a surprise third installment of his YouTube series. Slate's also-very-funny husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp, returns as Marcel's unseen, but very understanding interviewer.

Ever so slowly, a consensus that the minimum wage must be raised significantly is taking hold in America. But one group of workers could still be left behind: tipped workers, who, a new study says, are even more impoverished than minimum wage-earners.

The upcoming season of The Comeback will dive further into the wormhole of meta-television as an HBO show about an HBO show. Per this first extended look at the second season of the brilliant Lisa Kudrow/Michael Patrick King faux reality series, Kudrow's Valerie Cherish is cast in an HBO series called Seeing Red, written by her former Room and Bored adversary Paulie G (Lance Barber) about their relationship.

After Sean Hannity canceled Russell Brand's scheduled appearance on his show, Brand showed up to Fox News anyway, to film an episode of his web show The Trews. As he was standing outside the building, laying into Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for perpetuating Islamophobia, he ended up in a confrontation with security—all caught on camera.

Bodhi, a Shiba Inu you might have seen dressed in J. Crew gingham on a photo you scrolled past and smiled at on Tumblr, is another dog forced to live his life as a meme. He enjoys only the meager restitution of being a dog and his owners? They make about $15,000 a month off him, Fast Company writes in a new profile, which is about $15,000 more than you make from just having a dog.

The British royal family confirmed Monday that the chilling sequel to 2013's "Royal Baby" is scheduled to hit Britain in April of next year. Also Kate Middleton still can't stop throwing up. It's worth it, though, for her beautiful family.

An internet hoax from 2013 is making the rounds again today, convincing people that the world's most notorious street artist, Banksy, has been arrested and unmasked. Don't worry, he hasn't.

Last week saw the stock market take its worst plunge in years, prompting fears that—after several years of uninterrupted good times—the economy may be ready to falter once again. Why the new fear on Wall Street? Could the reason be... imaginary bullshit?

"What I found most unusual and possibly scary was the way she was able to so fully inhabit, a year later, the mind-set she'd had the week of the crime." New York has a long, well-reported piece on Kelli Stapleton, the woman who tried to kill herself and her autistic daughter, in this week's issue.

The U.S. military relies on local interpreters in Afghanistan to do important, possibly life-saving things like translating warnings about IEDs. And, in return, the Afghan translators get targets on their backs and the chance to live in fear of the day NATO pulls out and insurgents capture and behead them. John Oliver broke down this not-so-sweet deal on the most recent Last Week Tonight.

They say a "diva is a female version of a hustla, of a hustla, of a of a hustla." That's applicable here in that Kim Kardashian is a DIVA who hustles diet pill companies and milkshake purveyors for $1 million per endorsement, according to "secret business emails" obtained by Radar.

Last night, Jay Leno received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, as colleagues praised his work ethic and generosity, and called him "one of the nicest guys in the business." If only he was fucking funny.

While the official word is that comedy legend Joan Rivers died of complications from throat surgery—namely, oxygen deprivation that led to irreparable brain damage—we'll never know exactly how she died, because her daughter Melissa Rivers asked doctors not to perform an autopsy.

Kobani, where tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes, endured some of its "fiercest fighting in days" over the weekend as the battle between regional Kurds and ISIS forces extends into its fourth week. In what's been described as a crucial symbolic measure, the U.S. dropped 27 bundles of supplies to support the Syrian Kurds fighting the Islamic State militants.

A Tennessee state senator got himself arrested three times in one month, allegedly committing an array of crimes that leaves one wondering when he had any time to legislate.

Tony Mendez, Dave Letterman's long-time cue card guy, got fired this week when he assaulted the Emmy-nominated staff writer he had been arguing with.

An Indiana man who confessed to murdering a woman at a Motel 6 led police to the bodies of at least three other women this weekend.