A Canadian Mayor Resigns...
Can you guess which one? If you think it's the one embroiled in a violent crack cocaine scandal, you are wrong.
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A few hundred of the thousands of Miami Heat ticket-holders who chose to leave American Airlines Arena during the final minute of the fourth quarter of Game Six of the NBA Finals were punished by the sports gods when they tried, desperately, drunkenly, to get back in for the Heat's shocking comeback and overtime win to keep the season alive.
Can you guess which one? If you think it's the one embroiled in a violent crack cocaine scandal, you are wrong.
The former government contractor who leaked National Security Agency documents that turned the world's digital privacy expectations upside-down appears to be keeping up with his plan to seek asylum in Iceland, with an assist from Wikileaks, of course. And the Icelandic government tells The Atlantic Wire that won't be easy.
A suspicious package brought operations at CBS's Washington office to a standstill just before lunchtime on Tuesday. The building was evacuated for about an hour while police investigated the scene.
Community's new/old showrunner feels really bad about the terrible things he said about the season he wasn't in charge of because, you know, he got fired, and he's sorry because he didn't think about other people first, which doesn't make a lot of sense considering pretty much the entire TV world listens to the drip of his every word.
Vulnerable Canadian rapper/crooner Drake like to talk about girls, like, a lot — the ones he had, he has, or he will have — so it's surprising when he says in his new GQ cover story that Will Smith, the noted physicist, recently blew his mind with a new theory about love.
Vice told Charlie Rose that its "basketball diplomacy" trip included what would be an extremely exclusive interview with the Mein Kampf-loving, now almost actually diplomatic North Korean leader. But it didn't make the cut of Friday's Dennis Rodman-starring season finale. Which makes little to no sense — which, when you think about it, is kind of the Vice way.
TV's most famous new/old showrunner has finally weighed in with the review of the show's fourth season that the thousands of fans of NBC's cult favorite have been waiting for — and, well, let's just say Harmon got more and more graphic as his podcast continued. There is Bill Murray involved.
It's been ten years since his decade-defining Comedy Central show debuted. It's been eight years since he famously turned down $50 million to continue his television career. Then he disappeared, popping up only occasionally to remind he's still alive. But Dave Chapelle may finally be coming back to the people he left so abruptly all those years ago. Does he still have it?
Netflix is already conquering the adult couch-potato market, so it's only natural that the streaming giant's original programming would eventually target your children — and early Monday morning came a new deal with DreamWorks Animation to produce hours and hours of new shows to air exclusively online.
So a Canadian mayor was arrested Monday and, no, it was not the one you expect. Montreal's mayor was taken from his home early this morning, and it's making us ask a very serious question: what is going on with Canadian mayors lately?
On Sunday night, a commercial during Game 3 of the NBA finals between the Miami Heat and the victorious San Antonio Spurs announced Jay-Z has a new album coming out July 4, called Magna Carta Holy Grail, and that Samsung was prominently involved somehow. In rap, where selling out is both embraced and hated in equal measure, this put the Internet on edge.
Are you a student in New York using prescription performance enhancing drugs like Adderall or Ritalin to finish your work in a timely manner? Well, let's hope you've got a rock solid diagnosis because Sen. Chuck Schumer wants to crack down on "academic doping."
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Superman can leap over buildings in a single bound and melt glaciers with his gaze, but he still has to call Batman to open this darn pickle jar.
Sen. Marco Rubio said the Senate's bipartisan immigration bill is ready to go as written, for the most part, except for a few minor changes that are needed during an interview on ABC's This Week.
Sometimes being the Pope takes you to strange places and requires you to bless strange things. Like Sunday, for instance, when Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley Davidson motorcycles and their riders visiting the Vatican for the bike's 110th anniversary.
An exchange between Rep. Jerrold Nadler and FBI director Robert Mueller is coming under some scrutiny after a reporter claimed it concretely proves that NSA analysts can listen to domestic phone calls without a warrant.
North Korea is through with belching and boasting about its nuclear program to the world's major powers. They've hit a breaking point, apparently, because now they want to talk.
Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Hassan Rohani, a moderate cleric, being declared the victor in the country's Presidential elections on Saturday. Rohani earned more than 50 percent of the vote, avoiding a run-off, and defeating the five conservative candidates who are more in line with the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The tension between Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods reached a rocky impasse at the start of this weekend's U.S. Open when the two shook hands before teeing off. But the spectators at Merion are letting Garcia know they haven't forgotten his racially questionable joke.
As the world digests the news that Kanye West is officially a father, more complete, coherent thoughts about his new (leaked) album have emerged on these here Internets. Yes, critics have weighed in on Yeezus already and they mostly like what they hear.
There was a classified meeting for Senators wanting to learn more about the National Security Agency's PRISM program from the top security officials, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA chief Keith Alexander, but attendance was sparse.
There's been a lot of mystery surrounding how, exactly, the National Security Agency's top secret PRISM program actually works. And now, thanks to a new report from the Associated Press, we have the biggest and broadest understanding of how our government is spying on foreign operatives, and on Americans, and really the entire Internet.
In 2005, New England Patriots owner "gave" his Super Bowl ring to Russian president Vladimir Putin as a gift. Except, the exchange wasn't copacetic. How would you react if Vladimir Putin put on your ring, said "I can kill someone with this ring," before leaving with three goons on his tail?
Facebook became the first tech company implicated in the PRISM scandal to release a complete view of data requests received from U.S. authorities — secret PRISM requests and all — but Google and Twitter were quick to voice their displeasure with Facebook's apparent privacy triumph.
Two window washers were trapped near the top of the 46-story Hearst Tower — the architectural marvel of midtown Manhattan and currently home to a lot of awe-struck fashion magazine editors — after their scaffolding broke in half Wednesday afternoon. Emergency responders worked from the roof and inside the building save their lives.
The trial for notorious Boston criminal mastermind James "Whitey" Bulger started Wednesday with his attorneys admitting in opening statements the gangster made millions of dollars through gambling and drugs and paid off corrupt law enforcement officials, but they argued Bulger was never an informant for the FBI.
For a certain set on Twitter, there is only one story that matters right now: the redemption of InkBoy, an anonymous trust-fund kid who blew his fortune way too early and is now working for a landscaping and maintenance company for the summer in the Hamptons. Herein, some encouragement.
The man who has been labeled an American "traitor" on the lam apparently hasn't even left the Chinese city from which he shared America's spying secrets, despite vanishing the day after his tell-all interview went public — and despite the reporters and investigators on the tail of a leaker and his lady. One local Hong Kong paper tracked him down, and there appears to be another tell-all on the way.
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder refused to give up his beloved team's name despite a lawsuit and letters from 10 members of Congress. But now it appears he's bringing in the "pollster"/spin-doctor/Republican Batman to examine what, exactly, everyone thinks about what everyone else thinks is most racist name in football.
An upscale men's magazine decided to praise their favorite magazine editors' work, declaring boldly a "New Golden Age" on its cover. Except there's one small diversity problem: all the editors basking in this new golden age are white dudes.
In a letter to to the attorney general and the FBI director, the head lawyer for the world's leading information crawler has asked the U.S. government for permission to publish the number of top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests it receives from the nation's spy agencies and beyond each year. It represented a shot across the bow from Silicon Valley, or at least an attempt to soften the blow of a startling week of NSA leaks. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg and his top lawyer are speaking out, too, and Microsoft followed suit.
What does the Times have on Weiner that they aren't ready to tell the rest of the world yet? Probably the first extensive interviews with the women he sexted since Weiner's soft landing back on the political scene — a mid-campaign bombshell if there ever was one — but one accidental push of a button on the Times website has everyone waiting for the true return of the scandal.
Far from your average record-release event, this was an "instantaneous" gathering of West's invite-only inner circle. (Which, really, was still plenty of people.) Here's everything we learned, gleaned from the few reports to trickle out late last night and throughout the morning.
Now that we know all the specs about Microsoft and Sony's new video-game-and-lots-of-other-stuff consoles, it's time to settle this war before it gets any uglier: Which system is better when they're put side-by-side in an early test of living-room supremacy? Let's break it down.
On the third month of the year 2013, the world rejoiced: The New York Jets had released Tim Tebow, and finally — rejoice! — tabloid Tebow-mania was over. But, lo and behold, the evil genius of Bill Belichick just made everyone care about the Christian quarterback from Florida once more.
The workout clothing giant's instantly notorious see-through bottoms have been replaced on shelves, but that apparently wasn't enough to save CEO Christine Day from the rare national athletic-gear controversy and her "bend over" test comments amidst it.
Edward Snowden is the most sought-after leaker of national security secrets on Earth right now, but it appears that nobody has any idea where he actually is. The 29-year-old former defense contractor has gone AWOL, and the chase is on, for sleuths both real and amateur.
We're a week away from having the potential album of the summer come out and, apparently, it's not even finished yet. Kanye West's albums still wasn't completed as of last week because he was reworking new songs, ones he sang last night during his Governor's Ball performance.
A new report from the International Energy Agency says global temperatures will rise twice as fast as projected if countries don't act to slash their admissions soon.
What happens next with the man responsible for leaking a trove of National Security Agency documents to the Guardian rests in the hands of two countries who could decide to send him back to the U.S. with express shipping, or to keep him as a global bargaining chip.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we've always wondered what a country-wide Royal Rumble match would look like. So The Purge seems interesting, at least.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein revealed she's open to holding public hearing about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs during an appearance on ABC's This Week, while everyone else gave their initial opinions on the blockbuster scoops.
The Guardian has revealed the identity of the man who leaked information about the NSA's surveillance programs, PRISM and Boundless Informant. Meet Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old defense contractor employee who's worked for the NSA for four years.
Popular mapping-app Waze has been a hot commodity in the tech world recently, fetching offers from Facebook and Apple along the $1 billion range. But it appears Google won the bidding war, for a cool $1.3 billion, according to a report from Israeli media.
John Malkovich is character actor. He's a natural when it comes to switching roles. So when Malkovich found himself standing in front of a man bleeding profusely from his neck, he did what he does best. He switched into a new role: lifesaver.
All of Katie Couric's best friends left for CNN, so it would make sense if she followed them to cable's problem child. And, according to a new report in the New York Post, she might be joining the poop cruise crew of news fairly soon.
The most important pieces of the Veronica Mars inner circle are in place: the whole gang is going to be back together when that Kickstarter-funded film starts filming in nine days. Veronica's former boyfriends, best friends, and her always-reliable gumshoe dad are all on board for the movie.
The Guardian's James Ball released a new slide from the PRISM presentation that he thinks proves the NSA has unfettered access to these servers. He still doesn't prove anything definitively, though.
Everyone, meet the National Security Agency's Boundless Informant. It's the pretty tool designed to help staffers get an overview of the data collected by the agency that comes complete with its own Frequently Asked Questions guide. How or if it includes data collected under FISA is unclear.
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