The Best Restaurant in New York Is: Grand Central's Campbell Apartment

Caity Weaver · 04/24/14 02:35PM

Rich: I always recall Grand Central Terminal fondly because it's old and feels that way, like an elderly neighbor who's going to give you a butterscotch candy without any threat of poison or violation. But the reality of it is that it's a diarrhea explosion of people and sounds and diarrhea smells.

Sarah Hedgecock · 04/24/14 02:29PM

Black smoke billows from burning tires at a checkpoint following an attack by Ukrainian troops outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin decried what he described as a "punitive operation." Image via Mika Velikovskiy/AP.

Watch a Bunch of News Anchors Struggle to Pronounce "Lupita Nyong'o"

Jay Hathaway · 04/24/14 12:20PM

People's Most Beautiful Person of 2014 is Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, unfortunately for news anchors around the U.S., who have no idea how to pronounce her last name. Jimmy Kimmel didn't even need to trick anyone to get this montage of stuttering local newsreaders.

Idaho Bigots Won't Let Elderly Gay Veteran Be Buried With Her Wife

Adam Weinstein · 04/24/14 12:00PM

Madelynn Taylor, 74, served six years in the Navy. Madelynn Taylor grew up with the woman she would eventually marry in Oregon, in 1995. Madelynn Taylor is welcome to be buried in the veterans' cemetery in Idaho, where she now lives. But not with her now-deceased spouse, thanks to an anti-gay state law.

The Dangerous 'Metal That Runs the World': Chat With Author Bill Carter

Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/14 11:45AM

Some years ago, journalist Bill Carter found arsenic in his family's garden. It was there because of local copper mines. That prompted him to delve into the hidden dangers of copper—"the metal that runs modern civilization." He will be here to answer your questions, below.

40 Sick Vets Died While Languishing on a "Secret" V.A. Waiting List

Adam Weinstein · 04/24/14 11:24AM

Administrators at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospital in Phoenix used an off-the-books paper system to hide a backlog of thousands of sick veterans who needed health care, and at least 40 vets died while waiting for the facility to take them.

Amazon and the Squeezing of the Middle Class

Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/14 10:53AM

Huffpo reporter Dave Jamieson wondered why so many of his Amazon Prime packages were being delivered not by UPS or Fedex, but by "independent" courier drivers. The answer says a lot about the dark side of our delivery-dependent future.