Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson loves a two-dot ellipse. He favors the whiskey emoji, although he drinks tequila. To treat himself, he’ll fire up a Netflix documentary on his laptop and order a delivery platter of sushi, which he invariably calls “soosh.” Sometimes he might instead crush a plate of banana chocolate chip…

First Lady Melania Trump mistook Australia’s former foreign minister for the foreign minister’s wife, according to Julie Bishop, the former foreign minister who says it happened to her. Oops!

The New York Post wants us to know that “Bad Mom” Facebook groups are a phenomenon that exist in the world. These are “no filter” zones where “the conversations sound more like locker-room talk than school drop-off chatter” and women “share a lot more than meat-loaf recipes or the latest Dr. Phil parenting tips,” the P…

Kelly Catlin, an Olympic track cyclist who competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was found dead in her California home on Friday. Her father told reporters she died by suicide. She was 23 years old.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is many things: a blowhard, a fear-mongering racist, an overgrown frat boy with a giant, empty head. He is also, apparently, the type of man who goes onto shock jock radio programs to talk about how hot it is to imagine 14-year-old girls sexually experimenting with each other. Carlson is a…

A Pennsylvania man says he found a videotape that appears to show R. Kelly sexually abusing underage girls. Gloria Allred, who is representing the man, says she is not “100 percent certain” the man in the video is indeed Kelly, but if it is, the singer could face additional charges.

At a South by Southwest panel on March 9, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim said the network learned something after paying Megyn Kelly $69 million to stop talking in front of their cameras, though what he thinks they learned is not immediately clear.

A woman who jumped a barrier at an Arizona zoo in order to get a selfie with a jaguar was attacked when the animal clawed her through a fence.

Another news cycle, another giant-ass celebrity engagement ring posted to Instagram.

A high school senior chose to sit out the Colorado state wrestling championships in order to avoid sparring with two opponents who ended up becoming the first female wrestlers to ever place in the tournament.

Thanks to pediatric vaccination programs, Oregon hadn’t had a case of childhood tetanus in 30 years. That changed in 2017, when an unvaccinated 6-year-old boy spent weeks in the ICU and amassed an $800,000 medical bill after contracting the infection, according to a recent case study by the CDC.

In recent years, a spate of news stories about people flying with unusual support animals has made the topic seem like a problem. I would like to posit a solution: flights that are nothing but support animals, people who need them, and people who enjoy them.

The Maryland Court of Appeals reinstated Adnan Syed’s conviction on March 8, meaning that he will not get the opportunity to try his case again.

The attorney who represented R. Kelly in 2008 when he was acquitted in a child pornography case says he definitely did it that time but thinks he’s probably innocent of these new sexual abuse charges.

A Chicago grand jury has indicted Empire star Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.

Diane von Furstenberg made the wrap dress a thing, has some of the best cheekbones in the game, and fucked Richard Gere.

On International Women’s Day, women around the world are engaging in mass protests, strikes, and other collective actions meant to draw attention to their labor—both waged and unwaged, in care work, inside and outside the home. In the United States this year, the rallies and walk-outs have a particular resonance: the…