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10-Year-Old Gives Birth in Spain

Maureen O'Connor · 11/02/10 01:35PM

Yikes. A 10-year-old girl in Jerez de la Frontera—a city in the Andalusia region of Spain—just gave birth, and authorities can't decide whether or not to let her family keep the baby.

The Most Covered Candidates of 2010

Jim Newell · 11/02/10 12:49PM

The Pew Center has released its tally of the most nationally covered candidates this election season, and guess who's No. 1? Some gal from Delaware who has magical powers. Maybe she used these powers to top this list?

Vince McMahon Shits on His Wife's Senate Opponent

Maureen O'Connor · 11/02/10 10:51AM

Last night's WWE Monday Night Raw included a vignette in which pro-wrestling don Vince McMahon awoke from a coma to discover his wife had wasted $50 million on a Senate campaign. It's funny because it's true!

Brooklyn Teens Shocked That Spike Lee Likes Money

Jeff Neumann · 11/02/10 05:07AM

A group of Brooklyn teens this summer took to the streets of Bed-Stuy to count billboards and posters that promote alcohol in their neighborhood. The most frequently spotted ad? "A Spike Lee Collaboration" with Absolut Vodka. How shocking!

Facebook CEO's Halloween Treat

Ryan Tate · 11/01/10 04:14PM

If you set aside Facebook's privacy tricks for a night — not hard when you're a kid in a bumble bee costume — the company's founder Mark Zuckerberg has some nice treats for you. Full-sized Snickers bars, in fact.

Does Fox News Have to Sue Some Republicans Now?

John Cook · 11/01/10 03:46PM

A group of right-wing conspiracists has produced a 25-minute phantasm of Obama-rage posing as a "documentary," and it's airing in battleground states. Will Fox News sue to keep them from using its clips, like it does against Democrats? Probably not!

Did Google Fire Its Servants?

Ryan Tate · 11/01/10 02:02PM

Good luck retaining employees now: We hear Google has ended a perk that provided free "runners" to handle basic chores like cooking, cleaning and errands.

College Kids Go Demonstrate at Anti-Gay Preacher's Church

Hamilton Nolan · 11/01/10 02:01PM

Let us now give praise to some college kids who did something clever and upstanding. Their school was plagued by a shouting, anti-gay preacher. The school couldn't legally kick him out. Solution? Students took their own message to his church.