In his first interview, Peter Rodger told ABC News' Barbara Walters that he was shocked to learn that his son, Elliot, had killed six people and wounded 13 others in Isla Vista., Calif last month. "We didn't see this coming at all," Rodger said, adding that prior to the rampage he didn't think his son "could hurt a flea."
After Ernest Baker's essay about interracial relationships, "The Reality of Dating White Women When You're Black," ran on Gawker earlier this month we received hundreds of comments and emails objecting to, agreeing with, or otherwise responding to Baker. This week, we're publishing some of those responses as part of a conversation about race and relationships.
The Supreme Court has also, in a long and complicated decision, narrowed the President's power to appoint officials while the Senate is in formal recess. The court is unanimous in the result, but Justice Scalia filed a blistering concurrence almost as long as Justice Breyer's main opinion in the matter.
John Huppenthal, the Republican public schools chief in Arizona, announced yesterday that he will not quit in the face of controversy over his once-anonymous blog comments. Under the usernames Falcon9 and Thucydides, Huppenthal suggested, among other things, that Spanish language should be outlawed in the United States.
After a long legal battle, sodas larger than 16 ounces are free, once and for all, to roam the streets of New York City without fear of persecution.
Man, Supreme Courting has really taken its toll on Roberts. Unless...
A hungry young bear fell through a skylight into a kid's birthday party on Wednesday and ate all the cupcakes. This happened in Alaska, obviously.
"My mom's cat was dying," a woman in a white blouse dotted with holographic silver sequins explains. ("I live in a community of healers," she told me earlier, in the same breezy, dismissive manner one might use to say in Queens.) "Couldn't eat. Had lost half her fur. And he saved her life."
In the middle of a Nancy Grace interview last night, Charles Bothuell learned that his 12-year-old son, who had been missing since surreptitiously leaving his family's house on Father's Day, was found alive in the basement.
