Mark Gorton is a prominent financier and a respected entrepreneur. He founded the music sharing site Limewire, and he runs Tower Research, a famed high-frequency trading firm. Gorton also believes that the "ruthless" secret cabal that assassinated JFK and planned 9/11 could be coming to kill his family.

The Atlanta Falcons' plan for a new stadium calls for $200 million in public money, and "for demolishing the city's first black Baptist church, and turning the street named after [Martin Luther] King into a dead-end for stadium VIP parking."

When Zach Braff asked the internet for money to produce his follow-up to Garden State (Motto: It will change your life™), he somehow didn't get the same excited reaction as, say, the Veronica Mars reboot.

It's not exactly a secret that street crime is an issue in Brazil (enjoy the World Cup!). For instance, take this video, in which a woman's necklace is ripped off her body while she gives an interview to a Rio news program about the epidemic of people being robbed on the street.

As Florida's rubber-stamp GOP Legislature burns through its wingnut agenda faster than the shards of a 10mm Black Talon slug through a thug's internal organs, the nation's leader in gun-nuttery stands poised to pass a bevy of new laws to liberate handcannon culture from the pistol-prudes.

Here's one way to lose your job and be banned from doing that job elsewhere in your city: turn down a threesome with your boss and her boyfriend. That is the story of Carisa Gaylardo, as she tells it in a lawsuit she filed in Manhattan Supreme Court this week.

Rich: Let's talk about sex, Caity.

Vaccinate your kids. Vaccinate your kids. Vaccinate your kids. Seriously, for the love of all that was touched by Jove and is holy in this world, vaccinate your kids.

It's tough being Whole Foods. Competing fancy grocery chains threaten from one side. Big box stores selling organic food threaten from the other side. "All natural" food will thrive in the most unnatural environments.

Today is the 235th birthday of William Hazlitt, the combative English essayist and journalist, who once wrote an entire essay on the pleasures of hating things. We have a sense you might like it.

An Orlando-area man faces prison for attacking his roommate with a butter knife because he mistook the man for Jesus, and now the accused man has asked a judge to furnish him with a defense attorney who—like him—doesn't believe in God.

Indonesian soldiers train their weapons at an airplane piloted by Heinz Peier of Switzerland after it was intercepted by jet fighters and forced to land at Soewondo Air Base in North Sumatra on Thursday. Peier was on a flight from Colombo to Singapore when he entered Indonesian airspace illegally, an Air Force official said. Image via Binsar Bakkara/AP.

Unions and employers in France have come to an agreement that employees will no longer check their work-related email outside of work hours. The deal—which is legally binding—upholds the spirit of the 35-hour work week that France implemented in 1999.

The kids. Who knows why they do what they do? Like these young cops and government bureaucrats in downtown Bangkok who've decided to start some gangs. Mexican gangs. With cholo clothes and tats and bikes and throwin' signs and shit. Goodness, IT'S A TREND:

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch says Fox News “absolutely saved” the Republican Party by giving “voice and hope to people who didn’t like all that liberal championing thrown at them on CNN.”

Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as host of The Late Show. CBS announced the decision Wednesday afternoon in a press release, less than a week after Letterman's announcement that he will retire in 2015.

This bizarre GIF of Emma Watson revealing that she's actually Sofia Vergara in a rubber Emma suit has basically swallowed the internet whole this morning. But what the fuck did we just watch? Don't worry, there's an explanation. Kind of.

A Florida woman with a heart condition reportedly died last month because she couldn't afford her medication, since her $9,000 income didn't qualify her for Medicaid. Gov. Rick Scott has refused federal Obamacare funding that would expand Medicaid coverage in the state.

No one contests that just over a year ago South African Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius fired four shots at a bathroom door and killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. The only question left is whether or not Pistorius meant to do it.

Most military bigwigs might beg Congress not to reduce their troops' pay. But they're not the Marines' top enlisted man, who told a Senate panel to slash away Wednesday. His Marines could care less, he said, because they just "want to know into whose neck do we put a boot next."