A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that more than 50 images of America's most-wanted terrorist will remain confidential — apparently because America's morbid, jingoistic fascination with the dead-body images, or conspiracy theories about them, aren't worth putting American lives at risk.
"The people of Moore should know that their country will remain on the ground -- for them, beside them -- for as long as it takes," President Obama said today. From helping Oklahomans reunite with their pets to turning dorms into housing for the newly-homeless, here's how everyone is pitching in to help the town of Moore, Okla.
Nearly four months ago Oklahoma Senators Tom Coburn and James Inhofe voted against H.R.152, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act that eventually sent $50.5 billion in relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy. And in the flurry of last night's devastation in Moore, Okla. it was impossible not to forget that fact.
Today in viral videos: Jack Black gives us (and New Zealand) his version of meteorology, the 2-year-old David Beckham, and one greedy ostrich.
It's that time of year, where college graduates are heading off into the world and everyone from Arianna Huffington to President Obama are tasked with the job to inspire them to fix our broken world.
Murders of gay men like 32-year-old Mark Carson over the weekend aren't supposed to happen in Manhattan's West Village, a birthplace for gay rights and is one of the places that everyone, especially gay men and women, is supposed to feel safe. Tonight's march to where Carson was shot in the face and called a faggot is the community's first step in healing.
The most-talked about person during last night's Billboard Music Awards wasn't a performance or musical artist—it was the fan who was on the receiving end of a Miguel stage-dive gone horribly wrong. It seems like she survived.
Mother nature isn't going to give the Midwest a chance to breathe today: after a pack of tornadoes tore through the region on Sunday, the National Weather Service warned of more severe weather on the way this week, with Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas expected to take the next round of brutal thunderstorms and possible tornadoes.
The Financial Times became the latest news agency to fall prey to the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group which has claimed the social media scalps of the AP, The Onion, the BBC, and NPR, perhaps signaling that news outlets should be more like The Onion and come clean about how they're getting hacked.
Amtrak, America's much-maligned railroad service, have given rail passengers a gift: upgraded WiFi on its very expensive Acela trains and will upgrade the rest of its trains by summer. But even the revamped Internet access won't be good enough to stream Netflix — and because we're brats, we'll still find this unacceptable.
"Kai the hitchhiker," a homeless YouTube star famous for telling people how he "smashed" someone over the head with a hatchet, had been parlaying his Internet fame into an endless wave of couch-surfing at fans' apartments. But now he's charged with murder, and, well, that complicates things.
Today in viral videos, The Office gets a Six Feet Under sendoff, Diddy goes Downton, and possibly the only time that quadruplets can be delightful.
Sorry, Internet: Your new favorite painting isn't quite as golden as its bare-breasted Golden Girl of a subject.
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly wrote a note claiming responsibility for the attacks on the marathon one month ago — and stating that he and his brother were motivated by a desire for Muslim retribution for the U.S. role in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dabs, wax, earwax, honey, honey oil, shatter—whatever you want to call Butane Hash Oil, it's how people are getting stronger, faster, more expensive, and arguably more dangerous THC highs. All the talk also reminds us how far out of the wake-and-bake loop we are. Here's what you need to know about them:
Today in viral videos: Isabella Rossellini is a weird mom, The Simpsons get a Robot Chicken remix, Daft Punk by way of goat, and four lovely minutes of animals sneezing.
With a $70 million donation for a new arts academy, it sounds like Dre and his Beats partner Jimmy Iovine are building a hub for the entertainment world, a kind of mini-undergrad version of Stanford, that overwhelming birthplace of tech geniuses and startup gurus — for anyone who thinks they can beat Spotify at its own game.
North Korea's state-run news agency announced on Wednesday that its mysterious American captive, Kenneth Bae, has begun his 15-year sentence at a "special prison," which has Korea watchers scratching their heads. And if Pyongyang is trying to parlay Bae's imprisonment into political gain after all, it's a pretty spectacular move.
After gamely donning Google's face computer on Capitol Hill this morning, Bachmann has already suffered the same aesthetic fate as those so-called "Glassholes" before her: Even a politician who's somewhat famous for her stare can't make the glasses of the future look any less weird.
Richard Swanson, a 42-year-old embarking on what was supposed to be an inspirational, life-changing adventure, had his journey abruptly brought to its end on an Oregon highway Tuesday night in a depressing, life-ending accident made all the more grisly because it was caught on his digital tracker.
In a historic vote early Monday evening, the Minnesota State Senate voted 37-30 to pass same-sex marriage, setting the stage for Governor Mark Dayton to sign the law heading into a big summer for the movement nationwide — including the first legal same-sex marriages in the state. Here's a look at the next steps.
Today in viral videos: ways to upset that New Yorker you love to hate, a supercut for every "noooooooooo" in Hollywood history, and some very fancy cats.
If you're already afraid of humans in the same room as you, here's how to responsibly freak out on the viral news — about the SARS cousin, the Chinese bird flu, and now wild polio in Somalia — before it goes viral in the wrong way.
Are you ready for the best and worst of the Boston bombing's amateur photo-hunting all over again? Because there are already striking similarities in surveillance video and photos released bey NOPD Monday morning — and at least one pair of sneakers that should give you pause about jumping to conclusions.
Here's one early way to tell how serious Hillary Clinton is about running for president in 2016: She's treading lightly with her and her husband's public support of Anthony Weiner in his run for mayor ahead of this September's primary. And if you believe Page Six, Hillary and Bill won't be supporting Weiner at all.
Today in viral videos: Jimmy Kimmel shows you why you should be even meaner to celebrities, an undeniable karaoke duo, and a pomeranian who is ready for the weekend.
Fertile lovers a plus, gills a must and relocation fees included — only other Mangarahara cichlids or Ptychochromis Insolitus, need apply.
There is no headstone. The family is at a kind of relative peace with a traditional Muslim burial — an "an inter-faith coalition" has answered the call — and the city of Boston, too, with a body gone and a death certificate released and now maybe even this triple murder. But Tamerlan Tsarnaev's final resting place is traditional by no other means: This is a dead terrorism suspect's gravesite, and there may be dancing.
Unlock your doors, take off the foil hats, and stop worrying about the White House—everything science fiction movies have taught you about alien invasions is wrong. Except, of course, if the only thing you know about aliens is E.T., then everything you know is right: Aliens aren't going to plop down on Earth and blow us into smithereens, sciencee says a Finnish economist swears.
SARS's cousin, novel coronavirus, has appeared in France without warning. Even more puzzling: the new case appears to have been transmitted to and by a French man returning home from Dubai, where no cases of the disease have even been reported.
Today in viral videos: sometimes Russian dash cams (and Russians) will make you feel better about life, Kristen Wiig is prepping her SNL comeback, and the forbidden love between an owl and a dog.
The House convened yet another hearing on Thursday, this time with some of the smartest space people in the country, to check in and see if they've found us a new planet to live on. And we're still a ways away from life on Earth 2, but the first thing the scientists need is a gigantic telescope.
The NYPD has released video of eight New York Knicks fans wanted in connection with a potential hate crime outside Madison Square Garden. And that kind of attack against a gay couple, by a bunch of straight guys in Carmelo Anthony jerseys outside an NBA playoff game, is exactly what pro sports leagues have been worried about — even before the official embrace of Collins.
He's in the ground at an undisclosed location, police confirmed Thursday. But considering the existing threats, Tsarnaev's burial plot was destined to become a destination for angry American protesters, so it's probably best that nobody ever finds out — and it's likely that nobody ever will.
This week, an emotional young traffic officer named Ri-Kyong Sim was honored at a military ceremony with the North Korean equivalent of the Medal of Valor — for what, nobody on the outside is exactly sure, but the best guess is that she may have inadvertently saved Kim Jong-un's life.
Today in viral videos: John Krasinski proves there is life beyond The Office, a Thai pile driver, and all the grammar mistakes you've ever made.
Here's a disturbing sign of how truly puzzling the up-and-down weather has been in Wisconsin this year: On Tuesday, when Madison residents enjoyed temperatures that hit 78 degrees, a number of calls filtered into the 911 system with reports of dead people in the grass. Also known as, you know, sunbathers.
During an emotional day on the witness stand that otherwise went pretty much as expected, Gregory Hicks got more or less forced into a corner. He suggested that the late ambassador would have told him about the Innocence of Muslims video and a protest, even though it was one of the last phone calls of his life. But maybe that's what happens when you keep travelling down the same rabbit hole in Congress.
A Houston woman discovered a giant African land snail in her garden—a slimy horror of a creature that is as disgusting as it is deadly.
On Tuesday, President Obama met with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea at the White House, which the Yonhap News agency and every pretty much every news outlet on Earth reported. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Yonhap — South Korea's worldwide leader in news — had any photos. So, you know, why not fake a handshake between two world leaders?
The latest round of Capitol Hill hearings picking apart the U.S. response to the attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September has arrived. There will be big things, apparently. There will be surprises. There will definitely be whistleblowers. And there might be a lot more to come after that. But first, here's an in-depth look at the day ahead.
In 2004, Sylvia Browne told the mother of one of the women kidnapped in Cleveland that her daughter was dead. Louwana Miller believed the talk-show psyhcic, and now she'll never know that her daughter, Amanda Berry, was found alive Monday night: Berry's mother died two years after Browne foretold the future incorrectly... again.
In meetings with the South Korean president Tuesday, President Obama surely asked about Kenneth Bae, the 44-year-old American sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean gulag. Here's a question worth asking: Now that it appears Bae was using his China-based tour agency as an undercover pipeline to sneak Christian followers into atheist North Korea, is it going to be even harder to get him out? Because Dennis Rodman's basketball diplomacy really isn't helping.
The way the nation met 33-year-old MBTA Transit Police officer Richard Donohue was violent, fast, and scary: He was exchanging fire with the Tsarnaev brothers, the story went, and he took a gun shot to his right thigh from the Boston bombing suspects, which almost killed him. Now comes a more complete picture.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been dead for two and a half weeks, but his family is still having problems figuring out what to do with his body, and not just because this is Boston and Boston is strong: A complex web of potential protests, social media-fueled burial outsourcing, and legal technicalities are making sure the late marathon bombing suspect begins his final rest in anything but peace.
Today in viral videos: evidence from the streets of London that the Dame can do no wrong, a dog that will never give up, and the seven-month-old water skier who reminds us that the world is in good hands.
The league's roster of outspoken gay rights supporters has been depleted, and just when the NFL appears to need them most: Football is preparing for its own Jason Collins moment, a week after the first major American team sport athlete came out. But were these less prominent voices released because of their loud voices on the NFL's big gay issues, or because they weren't good enough? And will the real Pro Bowlers please stand up?
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