How’s this for some good news? All 12 boys, aged 13-16, and their soccer coach Ekkapol Chantawong have been safely rescued from the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand after being trapped for 18 days. They entered the cave on June 23rd when the 2.5 mile passageway was dry—a flash flood filled the mountainous Chiang…
The Kushner Cos., the company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s special big boy advisor and son-in-law, is honestly so happy that the federal government has chosen to subpoena it for information about whether or not it filed false documents about real estate holdings in New York City, thank you so…
Blogging often feels like emotional abuse masked as news, but every once in a while, the benevolent gods at Vulture send me to you with a golden scroll, and HERE IT IS: CARDI B IS HAVING A CARDI BABY!!!! I was supposed to be writing you a Dirt Bag gossip round-up right now, but I’m not tainting this.
Ali Wong and Randall Park are doing what I’ve been asking them to do for the past year and change—they’re making a romantic comedy for Netflix and I honestly can not wait.
Not long after last November’s wildfires killed 14 people and destroyed “more than 2400 structures” in the Great Smokey Mountains region of Tennessee, Dolly Parton came to the rescue of her neighbors in Sevier County by launching the My People Fund. The fund quickly raised upwards of $9 million for area families whose…
Oh good! Health secretary Tom Price has offered a comforting endorsement of the GOP’s plan to replace Obamacare. Take heart, for he believes “firmly” that “nobody will be worse off financially” under the new—bleak—provisions.
Here’s some very nice news: Ilhan Omar, Democrat and former refugee, made history as the first Somali-American Muslim woman to win a state House race in Minnesota.
I have some good news for all of you, and it’s not that today is Friday (which it is, and which is technically good news). No, the good news I have to share this lovely day is so much better than the mere fact that the weekend is upon us.
After a unanimous vote by the French senate, supermarkets in France are now legally banned from tossing unsold food; instead, owners are required to donate all un-purchased munchies to a charity or food bank.
Misty Copeland has been promoted to principal dancer by the American Ballet Theater, becoming the company’s first black female principal in its 75-year history. Hell yes.
This is excellent: L7’s original lineup reunited for the first time in 18 years, playing a sold-out show at the Echo in L.A. According to Pitchfork, the bulk of the setlist was from 1992’s Bricks Are Heavy, the best grunge album ever written. Finally, this wave of ‘90s nostalgia bring us something awesome.
Fans pining for the comedy stylings of Tina Fey were delighted this week to hear that Fey would be returning (probably not as an actor) to TV with a Cheers-like comedy set on Fire Island. That, as it turns out, is just Part One of the good news. Part Deux is that there’s a second Tina Fey project coming down the…
When you're a pro-lady consumer of news who's attempting to process the world's crappiness on a daily basis, it's easy to find yourself oscillate between feeling like an invertebrate puddle of exhaustion and despair. But today? Not only did today's news not suck, it epically didn't suck. So take a deep breath and…
Isn't it bizarre that not particularly long ago a whole bunch of women just assumed they'd grow up to be housewives? Wives! Just in a house! Wifing around! ALL THE TIME. This isn't news, I know, it's just what women of a certain class did. For years and years and years and years and years and years, the expectation…
Arizona's dumb bill that would have given employers the right to peek into their female employees' medical records to make sure a strumpet wasn't using contraception in a way contrary to her boss's moral beliefs is dead after being voted down in the state Senate. But now's not the time for opponents of the bill to…
A freak accident that left a 75-year-old woman trapped outside in a canvas chair overnight has a happy ending thanks to the newspaper carrier). Last month Evelyn Rogers of Liberty Hill, Texas pulled a piece of plastic on the chair she was sitting in on her patio and it collapsed, trapping her in the aluminum frame.…
Remember Happy Feet, the Emperor penguin who was found sick and lost after eating sand on a New Zealand beach? Good news: after surgery and rehabilitation, he's been released back into the wild and is headed home to Antarctica. Scientists don't know much about releasing Emperor penguins into the wild, but they do …
"Governor Malloy said, "This is good public policy and specifically, good public health." He added: "Why would you want to eat food from a sick restaurant cook? Or have your children taken care of by a sick day care worker? The simple answer is - you wouldn't. And now, you won't have to."
This morning Jezebel pushed live a little (but very hard-won) update to our code that most folks probably won't even notice. But for more dedicated readers and those with older web browsers, these changes should help to soothe at least some of the wounds inflicted by the redesign.
Thanks to to activists, private donors, and public grants, the LAPD has tested all 6,132 unexamined rape kits in its storage freezers. So far, new identifications number in "the dozens"; some of the 1,000 matches were already convicted.
