Dick pics are everywhere, and nobody knows what to do about them. Sometimes they’re a joke, like the photos snapped by a bored Subway worker in Ohio, who put his phallus on a footlong and was fired for it. Sometimes they’re amorous, like those allegedly exchanged between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and then obtained Read more about WIRED Takes a Good Hard Look at Dick Pics[…]
Pete Alonso knows how to step up to the plate — on and off the field. The animated Mets slugger has delighted the Amazin’s usually downtrodden fans this season by already breaking the team’s rookie home run record, winning the midseason Home Run Derby, and bringing a sense of youth and fun to the now-surging Read more about Mets star Pete Alonso’s secret passions: cooking, hunting and red meat[…]
Victims of child sex abuse in New York who had been waiting decades to bring their cases to court finally had their chance on Wednesday. The state’s long-awaited Child Victims Act went into effect at midnight Wednesday, prompting an immediate flood of electronically filed New York State Supreme Court lawsuits — the majority of which Read more about Child Victims Act takes effect with many lawsuits targeting Catholic Church[…]
BALTIMORE — An animal rights group has filed a federal complaint against Johns Hopkins University researchers over a lab experiment in which nine dogs had to be euthanized after spinal surgeries. The Baltimore Sun reports that Stop Animal Exploitation Now wants the US Agriculture Department to impose fines of $10,000 per animal under the Animal Read more about Animal rights complaint details dog deaths at Johns Hopkins[…]
Michael Reed, the chairman and CEO of New Media Investment Group, hit the road Tuesday to convince investors that they should stay the course as he tries to merge New Media’s Gatehouse Media with USA Today owner Gannett Corp. The merger, announced Aug. 5, has gotten off to a rocky start, including opposition from private Read more about New Media-Gannett duo hit the road to sell merger to investors[…]
A 14-year-old girl vacationing with her family at Glacier National Park in Montana was killed Monday when rocks came tumbling down on their moving vehicle. The family, from Utah, were riding on Going-to-the-Sun Road when a number of rocks rained down from the mountain and onto their vehicle at about 7 p.m., according to a Read more about 14-year-old girl killed by falling rocks in Glacier National Park[…]
The parents of a 2-year old girl who died after suffocating between the drawers of a toppled dresser have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Walmart. Destiny Russell says she found daughter Lorelei Lyons “pinned between the drawers of the subject dresser” when she went to check on her sleeping child in August 15, 2017, according Read more about Family sues Walmart after dresser falls and suffocates toddler[…]
This weekend, something peculiar visited the Arctic, a mere 300 miles from the North Pole: lightning. It's peculiar because thunderstorms are typically a warm weather phenomenon, in which the Sun heats air, which rises and condenses into water droplets. At the same time, cooler air pulls downward in the “deep convective cloud,” and all that Read more about Why Lightning Strikes in an Arctic Gone Bizarro[…]
As a magician, Penn Jillette has made a career out of always having something up his sleeve. But turning out tricks for a living has also given him a reservoir of something else fun to pull out at parties: stories. While answering questions from Twitter for WIRED's latest Magic Support video, the celebrity magician shared Read more about Penn Jillette Performed a Séance at a Steven Spielberg Party[…]
Anyone who visited the dormant Twitch channel of Fortnite legend Ninja this weekend may have gotten a lot more than they bargained for. The page, it turns out, was directing users to a livestream of hardcore porn on Sunday instead of videogame battles. Ninja, also known as Tyler Blevins, understandably wasn't happy to learn his Read more about This Is How Porn Ended Up on Ninja’s Zombie Twitch Channel[…]