California has become the first state in the country to outright ban the sale, donation, and manufacture of fur products.

A white male officer with the Fort Worth Police Department in Texas is on administrative leave after shooting and killing a 28-year-old black woman in her own home early Saturday morning.

I must have missed this news back in August, but the upcoming Disney+ streaming service is planning to air a Lizzie McGuire reboot. I previously had no plans to get Disney+, but now that I know this, I may have to reconsider. This is how they get you.

I have never actually seen the original 1967 Dr. Dolittle, starring Rex Harrison as the eponymous zoolingualist, but I vaguely recall both reading the 1920 children’s book The Story of Doctor Dolittle and seeing the 1998 Eddie Murphy film, so I suppose I am an expert. With that in mind, I am not entirely sure the…

As the cattle industry becomes increasingly terrified by America’s newfound discovery that plants actually taste pretty good, their newest strategy to keep the nation dripping with meat sweat is a smear campaign against veggie burgers. To fight that battle, the beef industry has enlisted the help of a lobbyist famous…

The L.A. Kings have covered a Taylor Swift banner hanging in the Staples Center in an effort to extricate the team from the grips of a dark and powerful curse.

Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill, which is expected to be released on October 15, appears to be so stuffed with stories of powerful men doing absolutely atrocious things that the narratives have become inextricably intertwined.

As someone who has just turned watch-all-television-with-subtitles-years-old, I have also recently discovered that movies, which I was once able to hear very clearly, have become simultaneously uncomfortably loud and full of inaudible mumbling. But according to Hugh Grant, it is not just my aging ears hearing a…

Last weekend, my colleague Rebecca Fishbein correctly postulated that Simone Biles might be the greatest athlete of all time. A week later and Biles now has enough gold medals to prove she is absolutely the greatest gymnast of all time, just in case there were lingering doubts.

For everyone who said corpulence was a male bear’s game, feast your eyes on Holly, who has been named Alaska’s best fat bear.

Apparently so much hazing is happening at Ohio University that the school has suspended all its fraternities along with five other student organizations.

Call me simple, but I always assumed it was the job of a public safety director to figure out ways to prevent people from dying rather than to explain away deaths by saying some people are asking for it, though it is entirely possible I misunderstand the role. In St. Louis, Missouri, where 13 children have been…

Mariah Carey gets a lot of shit for being a diva (though not from me, as I absolutely love it), but three decades of battling suits for control over one’s own career probably necessitates being very demanding without being overly concerned about how those demands are being perceived.

Oscar-nominated actor Naomie Harris says that when she was just starting out a very famous male actor groped her at an audition while a director and casting director looked on and did nothing.

Cry Time closes out a bad week. Long live Splinter.