An Occupy Wall Street activist faces up to seven years in prison after she was convicted of assaulting an NYPD officer during a protest at Zuccotti Park in March 2012.

Look, this whole "nerdprom" problem is very simple: All you self-loathing/self-obsessed D.C. media people who go to and/or talk about the White House Correspondents Dinner are not, technically speaking, "nerds." You are "tools."

People say the fire is good. I do not want to be that one who says the fire is not good. You know that one: Fire is so stupid and worthless, he says, I don't even use fire. I eat my meat raw, and I certainly don't have time to stare into flames.

If there's one thing Mark "Chris" Sevier loves, it's jerking off. If there's another, it's filing lawsuits. The man who sued Apple because it sold him a computer that allowed him to get addicted to porn is now getting involved in Florida's gay marriage debate by demanding he be allowed to marry that same porn-infested computer.

We periodically run letters from death row inmates. Today we bring you a letter from Greg Esparza, who is awaiting execution on Ohio's death row.

Authorities say a faulty carabiner is to blame for yesterday's circus accident in Providence. Nine people were injured—several seriously—after the apparatus broke during the circus's "hair hang" act, causing a group of acrobats to fall more than 25 feet.

Breaking news! Noted homophobe Kirk Cameron has admitted that married people pose a far bigger threat to marriage than gays (most of whom still can't get married) or any "redefining" of marriage.

Last week, Gawker reported that, in the summer of 2013, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events, Fox News executives had retaliated against star anchor Shepard Smith because he had voiced his desire to come out as gay. Fox News called the report “100% false and a complete fabrication,” and pointed out—directly and through cooperative reporters—what it thought were discrepancies in our account.

In all the furor over Tal Fortgang—the privileged white Princeton freshman who wrote so passionately about how he's not a privileged white guy—no one, not even the New York Times, noted that his post was made possible by a conservative group that bankrolls and grooms college kids for right-wing leadership.

A resurgence of polio in Pakistan, Syria, and Cameroon has prompted the World Health Organization to declare an international health emergency.

A University of Central Arkansas senior spent his final moments taking shelter in a bathroom, sending a goodbye text to his mother as a tornado bore down on his home last week.

Last night, 60 Minutes aired a report on how BP is trying to get out of a contract that has forced the oil giant to pay billions in reparations stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, even to people who weren't directly affected by the disaster. The funny thing is that BP has no one to blame but itself.

After spending over 17 years in prison for killing his temporary roommate over a drug debt, o.g. Club Kid Michael Alig is a free man. He left the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, NY, earlier today on a conditional release.

A Missouri man convicted of robbery in 2000 wasn't sent to prison until a clerical error was discovered in 2013, on the day his sentence would have ended. On Monday, a judge ordered him set free.

I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of Morning After, Gawker's new television-discussion sub-blog, helmed by Jacob Clifton of Television Without Pity.

Wisconsin Republicans voted down a proposal at their annual convention Monday that would have affirmed the state's "sovereign right" to secede from the United States. Now they can all go back to being the party of Lincoln, right?

The NYPD has confirmed that the body of missing Columbia student Jiwon Lee was found Saturday in the Hudson River.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is one of the loudest voices of the Republican Party’s Benghazi conspiracy faction. According to Joe Hagan of New York magazine, Graham’s commitment to circulating rumors about the incident prompted 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan to consult the senator on what really happened during the September 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. It didn’t go so well.

Coin-operated video games were banned in Marshfield, Mass., back in 1982, during the golden age of arcades. Now, three decades after the peak of Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Dig Dug, the town has voted to allow video games back into local businesses.

Great news, small-town Christian zealots! A 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court holds today that you may now dominate your town's political process to the point of insisting that one pray before council meetings without fearing that you've run afoul of the Establishment clause.