Following this morning's decision by the Supreme Court to deny appeals to seven same-sex marriage cases, couples in Virginia have flocked to state courthouses for impromptu weddings. Yvonne Landis, who with her partner of 23 years, Melodie Mayo, were the first couple in Virginia to apply for a same-sex marriage license today, told the Washington Post, "I'm just really excited. We always said we are waiting for Virginia. We wanted it to be legal here."

A couple who had been taking a romantic hot air balloon ride over the Southern California shores on Sunday ended their journey with a leisurely swim after their airborne vessel came crashing into the Pacific Ocean.

Powerhouse Arena, a Brooklyn bookstore-slash-events space, is hosting a party tonight for Thug Kitchen, the duo behind the website and cookbook of the same name that has been accused of trafficking in a version of blackface.

Titan, a company that controls the ad space on 5,000 phone booths around New York City, quietly installed bluetooth beacons capable of automatically tracking and serving ads to nearby smartphones on hundreds of its Manhattan booths, BuzzFeed reported early this morning. Now, in the wake of BuzzFeed's report, City Hall has asked that the devices be removed.

A teacher at Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation in East Harlem, apparently bored out of his mind at a staff-wide "town hall" meeting last week, jokingly texted his wife, "Call in a bomb threat"—so she did, missing her husband's second text with the most essential bit of info: "Haha." Come on, man.

A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola patient in Madrid last month has tested positive for the deadly disease, according to the BBC. If subsequent tests are confirmed, the woman, whose name has not been released, would be the first person to contract the virus outside of Africa.

The second round of Gawker's America's Ugliest Accent tournament kicks off right now. Who's worse: Boston or Chicago? Which is uglier, Philadelphia or Pittsburgh? Vote here!

What do people enjoy about Lena Dunham and her television program Girls? Is it Dunham's wry sensibility? Is it the way it offers another of popular culture's periodic windows on Contemporary Youth, under certain conditions of class and geography?

The South Sydney Rabbitohs, a rugby team partially owned by Russell Crowe, won the Australian National Rugby League championship yesterday, its first victory in 43 years. "It's all about the bunnies down here," said a Channel Nine reporter, live at the scene. Wrong. It was all about one fan's swinging dick.

Emory University's Alpha Epsilon Pi brothers found swastikas spray-painted on their house during the last hours of Yom Kippur this weekend. It's not clear who was responsible for the anti-Semitic vandalism, but some students on Facebook have suggested other students may be to blame.

"I'm sorry, I'm losing my mind," Tommy Wiseau said to me seconds after I shook his hand in the lobby of the Four Points Sheraton in SoHo two Sundays ago. That was more believable than most things he would go on to tell me that afternoon.

Brisbane police believe an Australian chef murdered his girlfriend, then chopped up her body and cooked it on his stove before committing suicide by cutting his own throat.

Noted racist and anti-Semite John Galliano has officially come back to fashion. Maison Martin Margiela, the couture label that designed Kanye West's Yeezus tour wardrobe, confirmed today that Galliano will be its new creative director. Kanye himself first announced the news on Twitter.

Former adorable little peanut Raven-Symoné discussed her unorthodox coming out on last night's Oprah: Where Are They Now? by invoking an increasingly common refrain: "I don't label myself."

In a somewhat surprising move, the Supreme Court this morning issued orders denying appeals in all seven of the same-sex marriage cases before it. They made no comment in the order as to why they were denying certiorari.

Where do you have to be born to say that you're from a given city and not be lying? Back in August, prompted by a New Republic article called "Don't Say You're From the City If You're Really From the 'Burbs," we asked you—Gawker readers—to tell us the real borders of some of America's largest cities. Here are your answers.

In this segment from the most recent Last Week Tonight, John Oliver is pissed that the police have a legal mechanism by which they can seize your money for essentially no reason, and then use it for whatever they want, with virtually no limitations.

The female experiment collaged into existence from God's aspirational Pinterest board, Blake Lively, has reached another milestone on her languid, golden journey toward inevitable death: She is pregnant.

As Ebola outbreak continues to ravage countries in West Africa, health officials in Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths in a single day. Over the weekend, the Guardian reported that five new people are being infected with Ebola every hour in the country.

In keeping with the honored tradition started by David After the Dentist, 17-year-old Cody Lanphere's mother recorded him at his loopiest while driving home from having his wisdom teeth removed. His eyes swell with tears as he asks, "Where is Beyoncé? She told—she told me she'd be here. She lied to me! She lied to me, mommy."