According to sources who spoke with the New York Post, former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell is not fucking around when it comes to winning a bid for the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Instead of making a convincing argument for his city, he's allegedly dragging New York City, his loud upstairs neighbor, through the mud.

The Hollywood Reporter's fawning new profile of CBS boss Les Moonves—one of the media's most overpaid CEOs—reminds us that his daughter Sara is an editor at Vogue, and you're not.

Algerian militants linked to ISIS beheaded a 55-year-old French hiker they abducted on Sunday to protest France's military campaign against ISIS in Iraq. In a gruesome video posted online, militants called the beheading a "blood message to the French government."

A noodle vendor in the Shaanxi province of China has been detained after police discovered that he'd been lacing his noodles with powdered poppy, a move that kept his customers coming back for more.

A decade from now, you will look back on the crowded, expensive, unforgiving urban landscape of New York City today and wish that life was still so cheap and spacious.

The Charlotte Observer reports the bizarre story of a man who drove cross-country this June to confess to murdering a woman and dumping her body in a river in 1997. Matthew Gibson, 55, was driven to confess after he got texts and calls from Walmart about prescriptions for Anita Townshed. He thought Townshed was the woman he killed.

The ongoing celebrity nude hacking scandal has raised a number of questions, but as more and more nudes of famous women get leaked, one is beginning to rise above the noise: Where the hell are the dicks?

Harvard's endowment grew 15.4% last year and now stands at $36.4 billion. Harvard remains very rich. If you give money to Harvard rather than to a better charity, you are an asshole.

KSTU reports nearly a dozen girls were made to sit against a wall before being turned away from their school's homecoming dance over the weekend after school officials deemed various aspects of their dresses inappropriate.

Sarah Hyland, star of ABC sitcom Modern Family, has filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, claiming that he was physically and verbally abusive to her and once threatened to set her house on fire.

Swedish traveler Elin Nordlander spotted these two koalas—an old couple? rivalrous siblings? competing males?—honking and nipping at each other during a trip to Australia. “Two Koalas having an argument, supercute!” Nordlander wrote.

In a now-deleted Forbes column that was published yesterday afternoon, contributor Bill Frezza brought victim-blaming all the way back around to suggest that "drunk female guests" who get raped at fraternity parties are actually the "threat." Yep, "Drunk Female Guests Are the Gravest Threat to Fraternities" is the headline that made it on to the site.

Australian police shot an 18-year-old boy dead after he stabbed two cops last night. The teen, Abdul Numan Haider, brought an ISIS flag to the mall last week and was a "known terror suspect." This comes just one week after cops thwarted an ISIS plot to publicly behead a random Australian.

Read the name: Barracks. Hussein. Obama. That should have been enough to tell us never to allow this man to be Commander in Chief. But you elected him, America, and here is what you get: a disgusting display of high-handedness (literally!!) to our men and women in uniform.

This week, the Philadelphia District Attorney's office identified three people who will be charged with crimes in the anti-gay beating that took place in Center City September 11. This morning, all three turned themselves in to police.

U.S.-led coalition forces launched more airstrikes against ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq late Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, according to CNN. Four targets were reportedly struck in Iraq, and two were hit in Syria.

An NYPD officer was filmed violently throwing a pregnant woman to ground early Saturday morning. Sandra Amezquita, who is five months pregnant, reportedly suffered vaginal bleeding after the incident, and her arms and stomach remain bruised.

India has nailed its first foray into interplanetary travel. Wednesday morning local time, scientists announced that their Mangalyaan – Hindi for "Mars Craft" – had entered Mars orbit after completing the 400-million-mile arc to Mars it began last November. It will now set about collecting imagery and data that might shed light on the still mysterious red planet.

WikiLeaks source Private Chelsea Manning has sued U.S. Defense Secrety Chuck Hagel and her military jailers over their failure to provide the necessary– and once assured–medical treatment for her gender dysmorphia.

Yikes–looks like prison is taking quite a toll on reformed-wig addict Phil Spector. The latest batch of head shots to come out of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation find the notoriously vain producer rapidly-balding and increasingly Gollum-like.