The "Godfather of House Music" Frankie Knuckles has passed away today at age 59, as confirmed by fellow Chicago house artists DJ Deeon and Paul Johnson.

According to a preliminary report on the deadly March 12th East Harlem explosion, the National Transportation Safety Board found "small gas leaks below the pavement" while testing an 127-year-old iron gas-main running underneath the site.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius claims the "Between Two Ferns" episode Barack Obama did with Zach Galifianakis is the reason for a "bump" in Obamacare enrollment.

An extremely lucky couple from Portsmouth, Virginia won the lottery three times in just one month.

In a bizarre story posted today on Buzzfeed and the personal Tumblr of music writer Bill Werde comes a story of two probably insane trolls that were actually taken seriously.

As part of the investigation into the 13 deaths due to defects in General Motors cars, the House committee on energy and commerce found that the company was aware of the dangerous defects as early as 2001. By 2007, at least four fatal crashes and 29 complaints due to ignition issues were on file.

On Sunday, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote a column on Brooklyn and its on-screen portrayal in recent years, from Girls to Saturday Night Fever. With a title like "Whose Brooklyn Is It, Anyway?" it was bound to irk at least a few people, but Scott made sure to piss off the one Brooklynite you don't want to piss off: Spike Lee.

On Monday, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray signed a bill which will decriminalize possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. If caught with such possession, you will only be fined $25 and it will be considered a civil offense.

You don't have to know anything about Ukranian Premier League soccer to appreciate the scary situation that went down in a match between Dnipro and Dynamo Kiev, in which a defender literally saved the opposing team captain's life.

Silver wolverine Animorph and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper appeared today on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, The Howard Stern Show, to address his feud with Alec Baldwin over the aging actor’s penchant for calling people “queens” and, yes, “cocksucking fags.”

Maria Flor Rios holds her son Giovanni Gonzales as they stand in line with others waiting to sign up for health care insurance at the business office of Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Monday. Image via LM Otero/AP.

"What is about Jewish people that make (sic) them prosper financially?" asks conservative televangelist and hoverer-near-death Pat Robertson. His answer? Jews don't fix their cars or mow their lawns, which leaves them more time for their primary occupation: Polishing diamonds.

A private massage in a Las Vegas hotel room turned into a crime investigation when a $35,000 Rolex disappeared. As tends to happen in these cases, the watch was later found inside the masseuse's vagina.

I Married A Guy Three Months After Meeting Him On A Dating Site. Here's What I've Learned: "Upon my suggestion, my husband and I wrote a 'date report' to each other after our first date which allowed us to know exactly how we felt about the date and each other." (Thought Catalog, yes.)

Pippa Middleton's hella embarrassing dork family released an official portrait over the weekend to celebrate the UK-specific holiday of "Mother's Day (UK)." The public neither sought out nor sought to avoid this picture. Just turned around and there it was. A can of soup you don't remember putting in your cart. OK, fine.

Two weeks ago, it was reported that Flight 370's final words to Malaysian air control were "all right, good night," spoken by the plane's co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid. As it turns out—just like nearly every other report about the plane—that wasn't the case.

Cosmos is a hit, again. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a pop science star. Thanks to him, kids dream about expanding human knowledge of the phenomenal universe. Now: Where's a liberal arts rockstar to make people care about human culture that much?

Naked men. Naked women. Naked dogs. All together, on the internet, fucking one another. As a parent, you know that your teen has probably watched thousands of hours of online M-F-Dog porn. But have you talked to them about it yet?

Now that Facebook owns the virtual reality platform Oculus Rift, gamers who were once excited about the future of VR have turned cynical about what Mark Zuckerberg and company might do to make the experience more "social. How bad can it really be, though?

Scott Lively is an anti-gay activist who's credited for fanning the flames of homophobic hatred in African countries like Uganda, a place where it is now extremely dangerous to be gay. He has equated homosexuality to pedophilia (as bigots do), and wrote a book called The Pink Swastika, in which he and co-writer Kevin E. Abrams state, "homosexuals [are] the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities." He is running for governor of Massachusetts. He is a clown. When people take him seriously, he is a powerful clown and that is unfortunate (and potentially devastating), but let's not let that distract from the fact that he is indeed a clown.