In a posh ballroom overlooking Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a hushed roomful of state and local elected officials from across the country gathered for a 9 a.m. Sunday session. It was the sort of weekend conference that routinely fills banquet rooms across the country, but it was remarkable for one…

Karl Lagerfeld died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 85, the New York Times reports. The German fashion designer had been hospitalized in January for undisclosed health issues, and the cause of death has not been disclosed.

A judge has agreed to reschedule Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial for June, a month after it was originally expected to begin.

Bernie Sanders is running for president for a second time, baby. In an email sent to supporters on Tuesday morning, the Vermont senator wrote:

As social media continues to eat us alive, marriage proposals are more over-the-top than ever. Whatever happened to just tossing a ring at someone between Russian Doll episodes and saying “You want to do this thing or what?”

A new trailer for the seventh and final season of Veep has dropped, so happy President’s Day to us. Truly, it’s got it all: Anti-vaxxers, a nice dig at your aunt who gets her news from Facebook, and the sentence, “I took a dump on the glass ceiling and I shaved my muff in the sink of the old boys’ club.”

In less than a week, we’ll be basking in yet another Oscars ceremony, this one with no host, fewer awards, and probably an exponential increase in disaster. To help you prepare for the schadenfreude, we’ve enlisted our beloved former Jezebel Managing Editor, Madeleine Davies, to walk us through the plot of every Best…

According to TMZ, Jussie Smollett’s case will go before a grand jury early next week.

Each time Netflix announces the cancellation of one of their Marvel series—Daredevil, Luke Cage, etc.—I shrug, say “Hm, interesting,” and return to marathoning Cheers. Today, I receive my comeuppance: Netflix is axing Jessica Jones.

21 Savage spoke to The New York Times about his arrest and subsequent release from ICE custody earlier this month, delving into his memories of his early childhood in London and arrival in the United States at age 7.