Over the course of under three weeks, the casino resort town of Atlantic City, N.J. will see its city lose three iconic casinos and over 8,000 jobs, leaving a quarter of the town's casino workforce unemployed.

[Rescuers enter the El Comal gold and silver mine in Bonanza, Nicaragua, where a landslide trapped approximately 29 miners Friday. Rescuers were able to make contact with around 20 of the trapped miners, who have reportedly requested food and water. Image by Esteban Felix via AP]

Cee-Lo Green avoided a potential jail sentence today by pleading no contest to charges that he slipped a female companion MDMA on a date last year, allegedly leading her to wake up next to him with no memory of what happened the night before.

Slate’s resident neoconservative Reihan Salam thinks so!

Back before Bryan Cranston was winning Emmys and making out with Julia Louis Dreyfus, he was hawking hemorrhoid cream. Brad Pitt once tried his hardest to make eating Pringles look like a sexy, fun thing to do. Now you can watch those auspicious debuts and more in this "Before They Were Famous" supercut.

People reports that newlywed actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will spend their honeymoon in Malta shooting "an intimate, character-driven" drama. Here is People's one sentence-description of the plot of that drama:

"It's almost the weekend," you're probably thinking to yourself. You're so excited. But not as excited as this fucking bubble-loving pitbull.

A Kentucky jail inmate is under investigation for murder after he allegedly shared his contraband drug-soaked underwear with a cellmate, who died of a methadone overdose.

"Do the twist." Would that it were so easy. "Do the twist," says the recording. The simulacrum of sound. Deaf dumb and blind. A real human would know that you can't twist very well. Look at you.

A decade or so ago, the NYPD copped to having a so-called "Hip-Hop Police" force that kept tabs on all the rich and famous black men just itching to commit all types of heinous crimes in New York City. That force still reportedly exists, but now it keeps its eye on people like Drake and Chris Brown.

For the first few seconds, this is a perfectly pleasant vacation video. A woman in sunglasses waves to the camera—hi dad!— and describes the absolutely beautiful San Francisco beach on which she stands. Then, something white and gooey shoots down the frame.

There's a graph that's been going around this week, showing how Americans have gotten more foul-mouthed over the past quarter-century or so:

Ray Albers, the St. Ann police officer who pointed an assault rifle at Ferguson livestreamers and told them he would "fucking kill" them, resigned this week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

When Texas Gov. Rick Perry sent National Guard soldiers to the Mexico border to much fanfare earlier this summer, he couldn't say how long they'd be there. It turns out he also couldn't pay them: At least 50 soldiers haven't seen a paycheck and are getting sustenance and vehicle fuel from a local food bank.

Vapshot, the "refreshing new way" of enjoying alcohol by not actually drinking it, is such a ridiculous idea that Stephen Colbert couldn't make it through a bit about how "safe" it is without completely cracking up.

Two teens were arrested by police early Thursday morning defacing the 114-year-old Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil War Memorial Monument in Manhattan's Upper West Side. The teens, the New York Post reports, spray painted "doodles, tag names, crude happy and sad faces" on the monument. Also: boobs.

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul discussed the strange circumstances under which he came into the world—with his mom, alone, delivering him prematurely on her bathroom floor.

In Zurich, prostitutes and strip clubs are seeing declines in business, now that "Bankers really have to show who the client was, why they spent the money and was it really necessary." Once again, banking regulations hurt the little guy.

Chelsea Clinton is leaving NBC News, where she was reportedly paid $600,000 to produce segments like “Chelsea Clinton reflects on Judy Blume’s impact on her childhood” and “Chelsea Clinton admires vegetarian stands taken by Stella, Linda McCartney.” She will be missed.

The two-year-old responsible for the most adorable ice bucket challenge video yet has finally been brought to justice for her egregious cussing.