Two videos were recently leaked of a teenage Justin Bieber using the word "nigger"—first as a joke, then in song. On Sunday Bieber apologized (this was before the second video aired). Page Six, however, is also reporting that there is additional footage that "explicitly shows this was more than just one regrettable joke."

Despite a long history as the only institution standing between working class Americans and industrialists' bootheels, unions have seen their influence waning for decades. Their new plan: collective bargaining for union members and non-union-members alike.

After trying for years to get his children's movie Fruitcake off the ground, John Waters says, "Maybe I've made my last movie. That's okay." He refuses to use Kickstarter because, "I'm not public begging." This seems wise.

Keeping Up With the Kardashians: Deep Space Nine stars Kendall and Kylie Jenner have been making talk show appearances all week to promote their new dystopian science fiction novel, Rebels: City of Indra. Wait a minute, Kendall "The Worst Reader, You Guys" Jenner wrote a dystopian science fiction novel?

This week, the Central African Republic banned text messaging. Prime minister Andre Nzapayeke said the move was made for "protection of the people" because the nation is "at war." After banning text messaging, the nation remains at war.

Ray Tomlinson's girlfriend died on a road trip from Arizona to Michigan. Believing he had 48 hours before he was legally required to report her death, he drove her decomposing corpse, along with his 93-year-old mother, the rest of the way home. He didn't take her body to the hospital, he told the Detroit Free Press, because he "cared too much for her."

BaneCat—the cat who was born in the dark, moulded by it—seemed like just a one-hit YouTube wonder, but speak of the devil, and he shall appear. BaneCat (a.k.a. Peanut) is back, and his trip to the vet is going to be painful. For the vet.

Regular readers of Gawker may have noticed that for much of the last four days the most popular story, according to the sidebar, is a post from February 2010 called "This is What Getting Your Vagina Vajazzled Looks Like."

It can be hard to wrap your head around just how rich some very rich people are. To help you with this, the real estate firm Redfin has calculated which cities various billionaires could purchase as their very own.

Amazon, known 'round these parts as the "Cthulhu of retail," saw its bad PR stretch got worse last night when Stephen Colbert took up the sword. Colbert's books are published by Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Hachette is the company currently struggling with Amazon over pricing. In a negotiating tactic straight out of a Coen brothers movie about rotund 1930s industrialists, Amazon is artificially delaying the shipment of Hachette books while driving a hard line.

Unfortunately, the tweet, taken from this Instagram, was deleted a few minutes after it went up. Too bad.

LeVar Burton has always been a big believer in the power of literacy. So, with the imminent return of his beloved kids' series Reading Rainbow, he's also debuting a new theme song about how books have allowed him to go anywhere and do anything. Literally. LeVar Burton is a living god.

Two things we learn about Tom Cruise from this game of "Face Breakers," where he and Jimmy Fallon throw footballs at glass frames with their faces etched onto them: Tom Cruise is pretty good at throwing footballs; Tom Cruise takes himself very seriously while throwing footballs. This is how you win games on late night talk shows.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is purely villainous as The Mountain, Game of Thrones' skull-crushing id, but he's a much gentler giant offscreen. When he's not dominating international strongman competitions, the 6'9" Björnsson finds time to dress up as the Hulk to terrify and delight little kids.

A dog, Gawker's best-known columnist, explores the mysteries of nature in today's column: "Trees are not sticks. It's important to remember that. Sticks can fit in your mouth." A dog maintains a Kinja blog here.

Goats have been an internet obsession since before one of them stole the show from Taylor Swift on her own song last year. This little kid is the latest contender for G.O.A.T.—just don't call him wimpy.

At least 34 people, 23 of them firefighters, were injured early Thursday morning during a five-alarm fire in Staten Island. The FDNY rescued 11 people, including six children; two other children escaped the blaze after their father threw them from one of the burning building's windows to neighbors below.

It just keeps going. Page Six is reporting that there's "15 to 20 more minutes" of Justin Bieber slinging racial slurs—that's in addition to the two clips that surfaced this week of a 14-or-15-year-old Biebs.

"What Peretti doesn't know about the 1960s creative advertising revolution would crash BuzzFeed's servers. Their lazy, base, uncreative listicle advertising has nothing to do with the Mad Men era." Copyranter profanely critiques his former employer's native advertising.

Three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were killed and two more were wounded during a shooting Wednesday evening in Moncton, New Brunswick. The gunman, identified by authorities as 24-year-old Justin Bourque, remains at large.