Ben Affleck was banned from playing blackjack at the Hard Rock casino in Las Vegas for counting cards, claim sources at multiple outlets.

On the morning of the White House Correspondents Dinner, NJ Governor Chris Christie did the normal fancy dinner prep: shave, shower, colonoscopy. His procedure went well! And he felt no pain.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced that she will not be speaking at Rutgers University's commencement after students and faculty protested. The protests surrounded Rice's involvement in the Iraq War.

On Friday's Tonight Show, Kevin Spacey sang Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" with Jimmy Fallon's barbershop quartet, The Ragtime Gals. They did a great job.

Unlike the situation aboard, say, a lost plane, the death rate on a sinking ferry varies considerably from disaster to disaster.

V. Stiviano, the woman who recorded her conversations with former NBA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, sat down for an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters yesterday and revealed that she doesn't believe Sterling to be a racist, and that she considers herself to be Sterling's "silly rabbit."

Washington University in St. Louis has announced that a petting zoo bear that bit several students has been determined not to pose a rabies threat. The students won't need treatment, and the bear, who was originally slated to be euthanized and tested, will be spared.

There are a lot of tough jobs in journalism. Like last Friday, when Antonio Castelan of News 3 Las Vegas ventured out to the Bundy Ranch to interview the old racist cowman himself, Cliven Bundy, and ended up getting interrogated by a right-wing radio host and 30 of his biggest friends.

Firefighters in Chatham, Mass., performed a tiny rescue of a tiny horse caught in a tiny sinkhole early Friday morning, Boston CBS affiliate WBZ reports.

Imagine your younger self. Your previous consciousness. Occupy your own younger mind. What does it desire? More to the point, what does it need? Does it need candy? Yep.

Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski were on the Today Show this morning to discuss Kentucky Derby fashion and, man, did Johnny look incredible.

The first U.S. case of Middle East respiratory syndrome—MERS—has been confirmed in Indiana. The virus has killed 102 of the 339 people who have contracted it in Saudi Arabia, where the bulk of cases have been reported.

New York City firefighters emerge from a hatch in the sidewalk after evacuating passengers from an F express subway train that derailed in Queens on Friday. Image via Julie Jacobson/AP.

A wealthy amusement-ride magnate and his partner returned home to their stately manse outside Orlando Wednesday night and were robbed by a trio of men who invaded the house dressed as ninjas.

At least 31 people died in Odessa, Ukraine this evening after a building was set on fire during clashes between Ukrainian government supporters and pro-Russian protesters.

It is Amazon week here on Gawker.com. In the past two days, we've brought you stories from workers at Amazon's warehouses and corporate offices. Today, we bring you the stories of three different insiders: positive, negative, and nasty.

As hard as it is to believe, no one had ever uttered the phrase "sucks balls" on the Late Show until Louis C.K. did it last night, while describing his feelings about Letterman leaving the show.

NBC is seeking a dismissal of George Zimmerman's defamation suit against the network arising from its selective editing of his call to police the night he shot Trayvon Martin. NBC argues Zimmerman can't prove they did it falsely and maliciously. Actually proven: Everyone is horrible.

An Oregon ad agency is pretty steamed that comedian John Oliver, whose job description includes skewering ridiculous things, skewered one of their ridiculous things.

Byron Smith waited in his basement with energy bars and bottled water. When the boy and girl snuck into his house, he stood his ground. Fired. Again. And again. Over their bodies. Over her screams. Then he delivered a five-minute vigilante tirade over the corpses. We know this, because he recorded it all: