A judge has ordered Macy’s to immediately quit detaining and fining people suspected of shoplifting. A class action lawsuit claims that Macy’s detained at least two women suspected of shoplifting in holding cells for hours in the basement of the chain’s flagship in New York. Both women were forced to pay the store…
Former London Mayor and human haystack blown askew by heavy winds Boris Johnson faked everybody out real good this week. He campaigned fiercely for the historically bad idea known as Brexit and then, when it was achieved, abruptly announced that he didn’t want to run the country and figure out how to implement it…
A man who tried to cover two women in poop on New York’s Upper East Side has been caught. That being said, I’m still out of this city.
Carla Bruni, the French singer and former First Lady, knows that marriage is hard. Monogamy is tough. Life intervenes. In that effortless French fashion, though, she has tips for keeping things both spicy and faithful: jokingly but very publicly threaten to mutilate the shit out of your husband if he ever steps out on…
The presidential election isn’t the only nightmare awaiting us in November. Welcome to Congressional Cacophony, a new feature on The Slot about House and Senate races that really, really matter. Suggestions? Pitches? Email us.
A man on Manhattan’s Upper East Side attempted to shove a bag of poop down a woman’s shorts on Monday. I can’t live here anymore, bye.
A recent poll suggests that some Americans like Clinton, some like Trump, and some like the idea of a giant ball of dust and ice destroying us all where we stand. As the kids say: Me af.
AmeriCorps, the federally funded program that sends members to work in nonprofit, community service-oriented jobs, is shutting down a training program for healthcare workers over an abortion controversy. In April, an investigation found that six AmeriCorps members offered emotional support to New York women during…
Police are still investigating the motives of Christy Sheats, the Houston-area woman who fatally shot her two daughters over the weekend. New reports say that Sheats and her husband were having marital issues before the shooting, and that she drew a gun during a family meeting, telling her husband “This is about…
In an incident that vividly recalls that one time I told myself thigh-high tights were a very good idea and would definitely stay up, Nike is facing criticism over a dress it specially designed for tennis players. The “Premier Slam” resembles nothing so much as an athletic nightgown, and it does not stay down or keep…
A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against Rolling Stone by three members of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity implicated in the debunked and retracted gang rape story published by the magazine in November 2014. The judge ruled that while the story might have portrayed the fraternity in a negative…
Donald Trump, an eggroll to which someone has wastefully glued a hairpiece, gave a speech on trade and economic policy today in front of trash. Just a backdrop of a big mountain of trash. What metaphor?
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling safeguarding abortion rights was a major victory, finding that Texas was imposing a substantial and undue burden on both abortion providers and people seeking safe and legal abortion care. And what better way to celebrate than a winky tweet about all the people you’re gonna go jizz into?
A bunch of “white nationalists” who recently had a bloody confrontation in Sacramento with anti-fascist groups are going to the RNC. The Traditionalist Worker Party are pledging to head to Cleveland to protect Trump supporters from “leftist thugs.”
A federal judge has ruled against a Mississippi law that would have allowed court clerks to cite their religious beliefs to refuse to issue marriage licenses or perform marriage ceremonies to same-sex couples. The “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” was widely cited as one of the…
Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who is supporting Donald Trump, who is good buddies with human rights nightmare Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and who signed an insanely draconian anti-immigrant bill into law, is sick of people suggesting that Republicans are racist. Oh?
Suki Kim, a journalist who risked imprisonment and possibly her life to go undercover in North Korea, has written a piece for the New Republic about how her book was received. The publisher insisted it be soft-marketed as a “memoir,” while reviewers condescendingly called her “deceptive” for “betraying” the students…
Racist shock jock Anthony Cumia, who assaulted his girlfriend in an attack, the aftermath of which she broadcast live on Periscope, pleaded guilty last week to third-degree assault and criminal obstruction of breathing. If Cumia completes rehab and and a batterers intervention program, the charges will be reduced and…
A Canadian couple convicted of medical neglect for letting their toddler son die of meningitis have been sentenced to a few months in jail each. David and Collet Stephan were convicted in April of “failing to provide the necessaries of life” to their son Ezekiel, who was 19 months old when he died in 2012. The…
A Tennessee woman in the middle of having a home security system installed because she was afraid of a violent, abusive ex-boyfriend subsequently confirmed her own reasoning by discovering him under her bed. After seeing Tony Joe Gunter lying in wait, the woman shot him in the foot while shouting at the security…
