Great news if you love novelty pastries, long lines, and mouse shit: Dominique Ansel Bakery, maker of the Cronut, reopened Tuesday morning, just four days after the New York Department of Health shut it down because of a "severe mouse infestation."

When Connecticut defeated Kentucky to win the NCAA basketball championship last night, Wildcats fan Tyler Austin Black's UK "2014 Nati9nal Champions" tattoo suddenly made him a national laughingstock. But he's keeping it anyway.

Communist lawmakers fight with members of the right-wing Svoboda Party during a meeting of Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, on Tuesday. Image via Vladimir Strumkovsky/AP.

All along the Southeast, major rainstorms and flooding have caused people to be rescued from the roofs of their homes and abandon their cars, leaving two dead in Mississippi and Alabama.

In a yearly industry ranking of U.S. airlines, high-flying iPad simulacrum Virgin Airlines stole the top spot for the second year in a row, due to its baggage handling and capability to show up mostly on time. Its unfettered access to hot new tracks and complimentary "welcome cocktails" was not counted.

Ah, yes. The future. It is a time where your bones will still break but silkworms will have your back. If the thought of piecing together your brittle skeleton with metal plates is unappealing, scientists are developing "silk screws" as an easier, stronger alternative.

[A high school student in Bladensburg, MD today cannot even believe his fucking eyes that President Obama is within grasping distance. Photo via AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais]

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced a state of public health emergency as heroin and opiate overdoses rise. The announcement called for a ban on the new drug Zohdyro, an opiate painkiller ten times stronger than Vicodin. In response, Zogenix, the drug's maker, has filed a federal lawsuit.

The challenge, should you have the gumption to accept it, is to take all your forthcoming mid-air cocktails without the tangy garnish of a fresh lime. Several airlines are soon to nix them from their inflight service.

This month, powerful baby Prince George performs his first official royal duty—an inspection of British penal colonies and their outlying areas—as he and his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, spend three weeks traveling across Australia and New Zealand. During this time, Gawker.com will publish a selection of entries from his minder Kate Middleton's travel journals.

I do not have the scientific expertise to offer a worthwhile opinion on the practice of "fracking." All I know is: whatever you do, do not worry about all the earthquakes it is causing!

The X Factor of porn is, uh, coming, and Duke University porn starlet Belle Knox has signed on to host.

Rep. Vance McAllister, a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana who made his Baptist faith a central focus of his campaign for Congress, has been making out in the dark with a staffer who was not his wife, according to surveillance video released today.

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Last night wasn't just the premiere of Game of Thrones/another Sunday where you stop to consider that you will have to go to work until you're 70 years old. It was also one of the most insane nights in the history of WrestleMania, a.k.a wrestling's Super Bowl.

"Knitted boyfriend substitutes are 'hot' stuff." Frankly we're getting a little worried about Andrea Peyser.

Who says journalism degrees are useless? If not for Russell Clayton and his doctoral research at the University of Missouri's j-school, we might have only guessed at the fact that your inability to stop tweeting leads your spouse to, uh, "favorite" someone else's handle.

Rwandans light candles of remembrance and listen to religious speeches and music at a ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday. Thousands of Rwandans packed the country's main sports stadium to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of a devastating 100-day genocide. Image via Ben Curtis/AP.

Today the Supreme Court turned down the opportunity to rule on a case about same-sex wedding photography that fulfills every nightmare religious conservatives in America have about our new era of gay rights. The state of New Mexico had ruled that if you are in the wedding-photography business, you must be willing to take photographs of weddings involving same-sex couples—even if your own religion opposes such weddings.