Gayle King sat down with R. Kelly in his first interview since he was charged with sexual abuse last month, with the two-part segments scheduled to air starting Wednesday. While I am uncertain why any interview had to happen in the first place, the snippets made available by CBS This Morning are simultaneously…

Donald Trump has committed a number of unconscionable acts during his two-year reign of terror, which can make it hard to keep up with his more pedestrian ethics violations—like granting his daughter, Ivanka, and her windsock of a husband security clearances despite his top advisers telling him not to.

Tamera Mowry is still not over the delicacy that is her sister Tia’s breast milk, and has made it sound so appealing that even I, a total stranger and not a member of the Mowry family, would like to give it a chug.

Tuesday? Cry time with a brand new union contract.

In Philadelphia, people like to recycle. Together, all 1.6 million of us generate about 400 tons of recyclable material each day. But since last fall, roughly half of the bottles and cans my neighbors and I have placed dutifully curbside in our blue bins every week haven’t made their way to a sorting facility. They’ve…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released 12 of 16 babies detained at a rural detention center in rural Texas after three immigration advocacy groups filed a complaint with Congress and the Department of Homeland Security, asking them to “intervene immediately” and release “these families from custody.”…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been dating her boyfriend for almost four years now and apparently her mother wants to know why they don’t just get married already. “I hope they get married soon,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez told the Daily Mail. MoooOOOooommmmm.

All of Luke Perry’s obituaries have the word heartthrob right there in the headline. It’s a weird word, fusing a noun and a verb with two stuttering little Ts bridging the space between thing and action. It’s our hearts Perry caused to throb, but he’s the one who was the heartthrob. He’s the thing that moves us to…

On Tuesday, the people of the Des Moines, Iowa metro area are headed to the polls to vote on whether to raise the sales tax in their neighborhoods by a penny. The vote, if approved in the six individual neighborhoods voting, would help offset property taxes and fund various quality-of-life initiatives. Supporters of…

Doing nothing—or anything, depending how you see it—is now a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.

After years and years and years and years and years and years, episodes and episodes and episodes and episodes of Jersey Shore, episodes in which Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola found herself in an intense, miserable, unhealthy on-again, off-again relationship with her disturbingly muscled castmate Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, she…

LK Bennett, a Kate Middleton fave, is preparing to file for administration, which basically Britain’s version of a bankruptcy. What went wrong for the brand, whose sleek, relatively affordably priced Sledge heels basically epitomize the modern self-presentation of the royal family?

There’s an old adage that says the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But this quote is woefully outdated. The true certainties in life are death, taxes, and Fashion Nova selling some wild shit. Today’s example: These assless, crotchless flare pants.

A new law signed late last year aims to help states investigate the causes of high rates of maternal mortality in this country—and today the New York Times makes the case for a critical look at the United States’s C-section rate. “Although cardiovascular problems account for the highest percentage of maternal deaths,…

Considering that TripAdvisor is the largest travel review site in the world, one would hope that, by now, the company would have a strong policy for responding to allegations of sexual assault and rape at businesses reviewed on its website. Instead, according to a report in the Guardian, this is how they responded to…

Cleanliness is next to godliness, and in the imaginations of racists, it is also next to whiteness—the next best thing or maybe even the same thing. In its absence, so the racist lie goes, you will find everyone else: black people, brown people, immigrants of all shades, groups of marginalized people. Dirty. Filthy.