Kevin Spacey is currently starring as legendary attorney Clarence Darrow at London's Old Vic Theatre, and, although he's played the role at that same theatre before (in Inherit the Wind), his performance in Clarence Darrow is especially challenging because he's doing it in the round. The last thing he needs is some asshole's ringtone messing it up for him.

Early Friday morning, police arrested 24-year-old Justin Bourque, the man accused of killing three police officers and wounding two others in New Brunswick, Canada earlier this week. His arrest came after a 30-hour lockdown of the Moncton neighborhood where the shooting occurred Wednesday evening.

North Korea announced on Friday that it has detained an American citizen who entered the country in April on a tourist visa.

Nicolas Cage is an American treasure and the target of this Nicolas Cage-themed prank should consider themselves lucky.

New York's Penn Station has reportedly been evacuated after a suspicious package was found near the tracks Thursday evening. Update 11 PM: Penn Station has reopened without incident.

The lead vocalist of Staind stopped a show this weekend to yell at a group of audience members he saw molesting a teenaged girl.

An internet date took a dramatically tragic turn last month in Morocco when a man, under the mistaken impression his date had just dropped dead, tried to dispose of her body.

Multiple people were left wounded after a shooting this afternoon at Seattle Pacific University. The Seattle Police Department warned that they are dealing with conflicting reports, but confirmed at least three people were injured. Update: At least one victim was pronounced dead at a Seattle hospital.

Back in April, Harvard University confirmed that two of the three alleged human-skin books in its libraries were not, in fact, bound in the flesh of dead people. But, about that third book...

General Motors, reeling from millions of recalls and an ensuing scandal, fired 15 employees today. That's just two more than the number of people killed by a defect in the company's cars. In announcing the firings, CEO Mary Barra refused to name those who were axed. That is where you come in.

Jet magazine, which has been around since 1951, has printed its last issue. It's becoming an app now. Damn, the future is weird.

After Stanford University officials condemned sexist emails sent by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel during his time at school, Stanford students who have long protested the university's weak policies on sexual violence are making a more aggressive push to reform "the Rape Culture here at Stanford," as one current student described it to Gawker. The initiative gained momentum this afternoon, with a campus rally led by rape survivor Leah Sharon Francis from the class of 2014.

There are 16,000 ranchers who graze their cattle on federal land. Of those, 459 owe grazing fees to the government. One rancher's late grazing fees are greater than the fees of the other 458 combined. Guess who?

A worker at a Target in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina discovered a loaded handgun resting on top of a superhero Playskool box in the store's toy aisle on Friday night.

Drummer Brad Kuehner of Alabama rock band band Atticus Avenue recently worked some extra practice time into his schedule by giving his toddler son, Max, a "drum beatin'," using his back as an improvised drum kit.

A very important clarification, from the political world: when Pennsylvania State Sen. Scott Wagner compared labor unions to Hitler and Vladimir Putin, he wasn't actually comparing them. Okay? Can we clear this up?

Two reports released today reveal new details about the dealings of the capture and release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban forces. The first report, from the New York Times, states that Bergdahl walked away from designated areas on military bases twice—once in Afghanistan, and once in California—before disappearing in June 2009.

Caity: I probably go to the Armani store seventy to eighty times a week, but this was my first trip to the restaurant.

There is an image going around Twitter today that purports to be some new Kanye West-related... something. It features Michelangelo's David under the phrase "Kanye West's New Testament." West is reportedly working on his new album, but a source in Kanye's camp has told Gawker what seems obvious: this thing is fake.

Nepalese students hug trees during a mass tree hugging on World Environment Day on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, on Thursday. More than 2,000 people gathered in the country's capital in a bid to set a world record for the largest-ever tree hug. Image via Niranjan Shrestha/AP.