Early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, perpetrating the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen, his father explained the next day, had repeatedly been angered by the sight of two men kissing. But according to witnesses, Mateen was also a regular at the club and exchanged messages with at least one gay man on a gay dating app.

Available for $13.50 for one day only, though not at the Trump Tower Grill as he claims.

Ted Cruz today was apparently unable to get through a thirty-minute rant about what a liar Donald Trump is without telling a lie of his own. If it wasn’t a lie, then it was either a very bad mistake, or a demonstration of intimate knowledge of Donald Trump’s penis—no real way to say.

On Tuesday, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics announced that it had chosen Seth Agata, a former aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, as its new director. Agata is the third consecutive JCOPE director with close ties to the governor whose government it is supposed to hold accountable.

This week, Ted Cruz participated in an US Weekly “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me” survey befitting his distinguished status as a presidential candidate. It’s no secret Cruz is a bit of a weird guy—he brags about knowing the Princess Bride by heart and terrorizes his wife by randomly breaking into song—but the facts he just revealed about his eating habits are, frankly, disgusting.

Ben Carson finally explained what’s keeping him in the presidential race: It’s money.

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—On Friday, the last full day before the South Carolina Republican primary, most of the candidates—including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich—hosted rallies in the Charleston area. Their messages ranged from the overtly religious to the outright insane, but their audiences were astoundingly similar.

Justice Antonin Scalia was taking a free vacation at the exclusive Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas when he was found dead inside a guest room Saturday. The trip, the Washington Post reports, was a gift from the ranch’s owner, who just last year obtained a favorable result from the Supreme Court.

A strange report out of Zimbabwe, where a United States-registered cargo plane has been grounded after officials discovered onboard a dead body dripping blood and thousands of dollars in cash.

Donald Trump: why do people want him to be president? This is a question the media is still trying to figure out, and to that end CNN convened a focus group in Connecticut to hear directly from die hard Trump supporters themselves, and damn did one lady really deliver.

The heirs of notorious gangster Meyer Lansky want to be compensated for the seizing of Lansky’s Havana casino by revolutionary forces in 1959. “Cuba owes my family money,” says the grandson of the racketeer who helped prop up the dictator whose corruption drove Cubans to revolution.

The city of Spokane, Washington, has opened an investigation into whether Rachel Dolezal, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, lied about her race when she identified herself as African-American on her application to serve on the citizen police ombudsman commission, thereby violating the city’s code of ethics.

When a Michigan reverend wasn’t espousing virulently antigay rhetoric, he was cruising for guys to top and make out with—according, at least, to his Grindr profile, which was recently uncovered by Queerty.

What our fragile economy needs is a white-hot IPO of a famous but mundane consumer food brand! Well it is our lucky day, fellow unfortunate members of the US economy: mediocre donuts are here to save us—again!