Not news: James O'Keefe has a new gotcha video that stings such important Hollywood luminaries as Ed Begley Jr. Also not news: James O'Keefe's new gotcha video is deceitfully edited bullshit.

Caity: What we learned yesterday is that no one should ever go to the Statue of Liberty under any circumstances.

I am super-happy that Tom Green is back. I'm glad he has a ball, and a talk show, and a parrot, apparently. He seems like a great guy. And funny! He was my generation's Tosh. But "Freddy Got Fingered" is indefensible.

The t-shirt brand, Rap Shirts For White People, is exactly what you'd expect: bros flexing their privilege via the appropriation of popular rap lyrics. That's right, now you can wear your entitlement proudly! But as James Harris, writing for Complex, explains, it's not all jokes:

Actor Michael Jace, best known for his role as Julien Lowe on the The Shield, has been formally charged with one count of murder in the shooting death of his wife. If convicted, Jace, who's being held on $2 million bail, faces 50 years to life in state prison.

A few weeks ago, in the middle of a rhetorical battle he was already very clearly winning, The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates published a long, lovely piece called "The Blue Period: An Origin Story." In it, he remarked that "historians are heartbreakers." I thought of that remark last night when he published a long, long piece, "The Case For Reparations," that is clearly the result of that sort of heartbreak, too.

Oh no. So remember when our Best Friend Forever, Jennifer Lawrence, told us how she got, like, crazy drunk at Madonna's Oscars after-party and puked in front of Miley Cyrus? Miley is reportedly now denying the story. Could it be that even Jennifer Lawrence exaggerates stories to make herself sound cooler than she actually is?

Subprime loans. Remember those? The high-interest loans to people with bad credit that successfully brought down the entire economy when banks started handing them out too freely during the housing boom. They're back! With a new class of recipients.

Three matadors were gored in succession on Wednesday at a major event of Spain's bullfighting season. Fearing more bovine revenge, organizers canceled the remaining fights.

An employee of burger chain Red Robin worked for several months with a contagious case of Hepatitis A, exposing as many as 5,000 people who passed through a Springfield, Missouri location to the infection.

Look well upon the chart above these words. This proves that we're all hypocrites, or unable to control our political destinies, or both.

Parents at a Vancouver, Wash. elementary school are up in arms over a third grade teacher who allegedly made students pay in Monopoly money to use the bathroom. Two students told their parents they wet their pants because they couldn't afford a trip to go pee.

Court documents filed Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office in their case against accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev included the note he wrote while hiding from police in a family's boat.

This week, Mother Jones senior editor Daniel Schulman published Sons of Wichita, the definitive history of the billionaire political influencers Charles and David Koch, their family, and their empire. And he's here now to answer your questions.

A Seattle man has been arrested for conducting a campaign of bomb threats against himself and the financial services company where he worked, in what appears to be an elaborate attempt to get extra days off.

A water main broke on Houston Street this morning, flooding the Manhattan thoroughfare near Katz's Deli. Firefighters have responded to the scene and are working to pump water from the famous deli's basement. Adjust your commute accordingly.

A dog, Gawker's bravest essayist, returns this week with a never-before-told tale of struggle. "There was a time, not long ago, when I came to face an obstacle in my life," he shares. "Not an obstacle like when you walk on one side of a small tree only to find that the leash on your neck is connected to a hand on the other side of the small tree, thereby making forward progress impossible; an obstacle more like 'something scary.'"

The United States armed forces have a sexual assault problem. As in: How does a service member avoid sexual assault charges? Fortunately, Military Times' legal advice columnist has you covered: If you can claim you got mixed signals, you can beat the rap.

Twenty-four years after two men impersonating law enforcement boosted 13 masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the FBI confirms that the artwork has been seen and that the persons of interest in the case all have ties to organized crime.

The principal of a Catholic school has apologized to parents for putting a photo of Oscar host and world's famousest lesbian Ellen DeGeneres on an invitation to an Oscars-themed eighth grade graduation dance.