Harriett Tubman, former slave, will finally replace Andrew Jackson on the $20. (NY Times) Rabbi declares medical marijuana kosher for passover!! (UPI) Police hunt in Ohio continues for thief of teeth whitening kits. (ABC) Flashing lights coming from a black hole collision? Possibly. (NBC) President Obama gives inspiring speech about the future generation on London. (The Guardian) […]

Prince died yesterday in his home state of Minnesota. No cause of death has been released. All we can say is, we don’t remember people being this sad when Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed a few years ago, and he was also a genius. (CNN) Because the fight for the Republican nomination is so divisive, the […]

Canada is about to get a lot more lit–legislation to legalize marijuana federally will be ready by 2017! What a nice post-4/20 piece of news. (CBC) A New York Congressman decided to get a little dramatic, saying he would “take cyanide” if Ted Cruz won the Republican presidential nomination. Loos like even his colleagues are pretty sure […]

Peter Liang, the NYPD officer convicted of second-degree manslaughter for killing the unarmed Akai Gurley, will not face any jail time. Instead, he he will face five years of probation and 800 hours of community service—provoking outrage from some quarters. (ABC News) The NY primaries were yesterday, in case you didn’t notice the ecstatic Bernie volunteers […]

After 17 years of sleep, hordes of cicadas will be emerging from the ground all over the Northeast. If you hail from Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Virginia, get ready for a noisy summer. (CNN) Rihanna and Leonardo diCaprio were photographed together at an after-party of the 2016 Coachella Music Festival on Saturday night. […]

A wildlife photographer has just captured two male lions getting it on. (Daily Mail) Ted Cruz got straight up ignored by his New York audience at the GOP Gala on Thursday. (NBC) Sarah Palin denied climate change again and said, “Bill Nye Is as Much a Scientist as I Am”… We say, “What.” (The Guardian) Beyoncé […]

Berniechella, a music festival in Old Town Coachella, California, has been scheduled to take place April 22 and 23. (CNN) Same sex penguin couple has been given the chance to build a life together. (Huffington Post) Visit any national park for free this week for National Park Week. (USA Today) North Carolinas new “bathroom law” presents complicated […]

Justin Bieber is making new art now, that is, he colored a scantily glad anime figure and posted a pic on Instagram. We wish we had that much concentration tbh. (Yahoo! Celebrity News) Microsoft sued the Justice Department over its excessive secrecy orders (i.e. when the government reads people’s emails and Microsoft can’t do anything). […]

The Bernie rally in Washington Square Park was as lit as we all knew it would be! Unfortunately, Bwog was too lazy to go all the way down to the park just to smoke a jay with Bernie… (CNN) Scientists found a 1,500-year-old mummy wearing shoes that resemble Adidas sneakers. Normcore is #forever. (IFL Science) […]

The Cage enters temporary retirement today, so today we honor housing, in all its senselessness. Brazen Brooklyn bank robbers drilled a hole into the ceiling of an HSBC bank, stealing more than $280,000 and content from safety deposit boxes—much like your lottery number stole all your chances of happiness for next year. (Pix 11) Scientists have […]

Brazil’s Congressional Committee voted in favor of a motion which proceed with a vote for or against impeaching President Dilma Rousseff. President Rousseff effectively leads a minority government and was placed in the midst of a corruption scandal and investigations over the past year or so. (The Guardian) CNN streamed a town hall event with […]

Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, the prime minister of Ukraine, announced his resignation yesterday, only two years after taking power. He’s allegedly stepping down because of disagreements with President Poroshenko, as well as various scandals and mistakes that lowered his regard in public opinion. (NY Times) Secretary of State John F. Kerry is currently visiting Hiroshima, Japan. […]

Jennifer Lawrence spoke to Harper’s Bazaar about a “new normal body type,” saying that we’re so used to underweight bodies that we deem normal ones “curvy.” (The Guardian) In the continuation of their hilarious responses to anti-LGBT legislation, Funny or Die has released a new video mocking Mississippi’s tourism. (Funny or Die) Despite the fact […]

First “dog café” opens in California, offering customers an opportunity to interact with adoptable dogs in the same style as popular cat cafés. (UPI) Kansas boy in serious condition after octopus removed from throat. (NBC) Stuffed dog carried to stratosphere by high-altitude balloon. (ABC) Despite its liberal policies on some issues, Colorado remains the only […]

Get ready to feel a little more mediocre than you already did: New York high school senior Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna is the second student from her school to be accepted to all eight Ivy League Schools. Oh, and she got into MIT. (CBS) John Stamos as a crazy French Chef? The upcoming production of The Little Mermaid at the Hollywood Bowl […]