Two kittens, so tiny and new that their umbilical cords were still attached, are recovering at the Humane Society after they were accidentally sealed in a box and shipped more than 120 miles by truck.

In the name of dignity, the University of South Florida has issued a notice to graduates asking them to refrain from selfies and other teen-like behavior, including strolling(?), while picking up their diplomas.

Interesting little tidbit for all good liberals to chew over: a list of the U.S. cities with the very worst income inequality includes an inordinate number of university towns.

Police train their fire hose at protesters as the latter try to force their way closer to the U.S. Embassy for a rally against next week's visit of President Obama on Wednesday in Manila. Image via Bullit Marquez/AP.

Last night, the New School’s Center for Communication held a panel about gossip reporting—or, more precisely, ethical gossip reporting. “Despite the temptations and stereotypes,” flyers posted around the university’s Greenwich Village campus read, “you CAN write a gossip column with integrity!”

And on the 18th day, explanatory journalism provided us all with "Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine." Whew! Thank goodness that's settled. Wait, there's no explainer card for "Why isn't that 'Palestine-Israel?'"

Four Hasidic Jews have been arrested for attacking a 22-year-old gay man in Williamsburg last December.

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the infamous hacker and troll, has already come forward with his first move after being released from prison: He's starting a hedge fund. It will be called "TRO LLC."

This guy duped Judge Judy with a made-up story about killing a cat and lived to tell about it. "If nothing else, the stonewashed, wide-leg, boot-cut jeans that [Judy] was wearing under her gown when she walked out really intimidated me."

Oprah's ex-stepmother, Barbara Winfrey, claims that Oprah has forced her out of the home she shared with Oprah's dad, Vernon. She's retaliating by dishing all kinds of dirt in a two-part Daily Mail interview, of which part two is entirely devoted to weirdness of the Oprah-Stedman Graham-Gayle King triumvirate.

Last Friday, the Obama administration quietly announced that it would be delaying making a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until at least after the midterm elections. Pipeline advocates called the decision "shameful," "irresponsible," and "gutless." They're right!

Wednesday afternoon, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a new gun law that, among other things, will allow Georgians to legally carry firearms into churches, schools, airport common areas, bars, courtrooms, and government buildings.

An account of a 1968 poets' brawl by Charles Simic at the NYRB today just goes to show that even great artists like to do a little hair-pulling from time to time: "As soon as the fight started, Allen Ginsberg went down on his knees and began chanting some Buddhist prayer for peace and harmony among all living creatures."

The technicality is that he ate it.

A district judge in Kansas just granted Chelsea Manning's request to formally change her name to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning from Bradley Edward Manning. The ruling will force the Army to change the Wikileaks source's name on official records, though she'll still likely be kept in a men's prison unit.

Drake knows he's only going to live once, and he's not going to do it with fuzz on his pants. Drizzy multitasked by working the lint roller while watching his Toronto Raptors beat the Brooklyn Nets last night at the Air Canada Centre.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a lot of fun in Australia on Wednesday, lightly placing their fingers on records under the close supervision of a professional disc jockey. After being reassured several times they had not been party to criminal conduct, the royal couple likely returned to their hotel and made real wild, freaky love until 4 p.m., when it was time to dress for their next event.

NYMag.com, formerly the online home of New York Magazine, has been replaced with a "coming soon" placeholder page of the kind you usually see on squatted domain names. Network Solutions: If New York magazine no longer wants it, Gawker Media is prepared to pay up to $25 for the domain name NYMag.com. Please contact me at max@gawker.com.

A SWAT team descended on a Long Island home Tuesday in response to a Skype call claiming, "I just killed my mother and I might shoot more people." But the person making the call hadn't killed anyone—he was just a hoaxster who was salty about a teenager beating him at Call of Duty.

Four Americans, all of them Muslims, are suing the FBI, charging that the agency unfairly placed them on its "No-Fly List," and tried to use that as leverage to turn them into informers.