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.
The 52-year-old former schoolbus driver accused of holding and abusing three women in his Cleveland home, will face four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, police announced Wednesday afternoon. Castro's two brothers, Pedro and Onil, have not been charged at this time.
He is the neighbor who helped save three women and apparently a child from living in captivity in brutal conditions in Cleveland. He also gave a couple interviews that led the Internet to turn him into a meme. Now it turns out that Ramsey has a few convictions to his name.
Outside a Phoenix courthouse Wednesday afternoon, America watched the final stage of one of the more interesting mysteries we've seen in recent television history: Why doesn't Nancy Grace just walk over to be interviewed by Ashleigh Banfield?
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.
Senator Tom Coburn withdrew a proposed amendment making government agencies report on the number of firearms and amount of ammunition they possess. Why he introduced it in the first place is a much more interesting question, so we asked his people.
It's never a good sign when a cellphone company lowers the price of a cellphone so soon after its release, which makes the new, very low $0.99 price of HTC's so-called Facebook phone so very foreboding.
This we know for sure: Silvio Berlusconi is still guilty of tax fraud. But the former three-time Italian prime minister and long-time media baron may never see the inside of a jail cell, on account of being a wealthy political fat cat, and also because he's really old.
Here's the trailer for the Paul Greengrass-directed, Hanks-starring take on the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates. See how he stacks up against the real captain — and the made-for-the-movies original story.
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.
Voters in Ohio and New York made their own decisions on fracking. Expect more; one of the biggest environmental fights in America is increasingly happening at the country's lowest political level.
Here's the perfect website to fix what ills you, real-estate-wise. Schadenfreude, we have you.
Perhaps the biggest enduring mystery of the Cleveland kidnapping case centers on the circumstances behind Amanda Berry's pregnancy and childbirth while in captivity. Well, today we got more chilling answers as Berry and another captive returned home.
The Obama administration is "on the verge of" signing off on a proposal from the FBI that would make it easier for the agency's to intercept online communications. Please allow us to offer a tip that may help you avoid the Feds' steely gaze.
U.S. News & World Report on natural gas-powered cars, The New York Times on the future of nuclear energy in Japan, Grist on the hidden history of spills in the Gulf of Mexico, Business Insider on how to make money off the fear of climate change, and Nature on the threat of Beijing's air quality.
A Pew poll released Wednesday offers some interesting insights: Democrats are bored with Democrats, independents blame Republicans, and Republicans hate everyone — but a closer look at the data may reveal why Congressional Republicans are tracking higher than Democrats on some of the key issues of the day.
A Yale biologist has managed to prove that players like Nate Robinson are "on fire" for a reason. But do actual sports teams really care about the phenomenon of heating up for a few games? The MLB and the NHL would say no — and so would Derrick Rose.
Since the video for "The Next Day" debuted overnight, reports have emerged that YouTube has pulled the clip because it "violated YouTube's Terms of Service." There's been no official word, but many are assuming Bowie took things a little too far with his playing on religious symbolism this time around.
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.
A co-author of the already controversial new Heritage Foundation study — the one that claims to show immigration reform will cost the U.S. $6.3 trillion dollars — wrote in 2009 that the government should grant immigrants visas based on IQ. And of course his idea that Latinos won't assimilate because they're doomed to low IQs for generations is offensive. But more importantly, his idea is wrong.
Would you count Edward Norton, James Franco, Zach Galifianakis and the Lonely Island guys among your favorite people? It's your lucky day! Because the Lonely Island troupe just premiered a new video and song inside a "Between Two Ferns" sketch that also stars James Franco.
In Iron Man 3 Robert Downey Jr. (a.k.a. Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man) may have defeated the Mandarin, saved the president, and reunited with Pepper Potts, but perhaps his upcoming battle—the one that will lead to future adventures—will be the most interesting. Yes, Downey is facing off with executives from Marvel.
It's still relatively unclear whether the Assad regime broke the Syrian Internet — even if nobody else, even "terrorists," really could — but after a 19-and-a-half-hour near complete shutdown across Syria, service started coming back today, according to multiple analytics firms.
Karen Tumulty on Mark Sanford's comeback, Aisha Harris on the reaction to Charles Ramsey, Jill Lawrence on Terry McAuliffe's trouble with women, Maureen Dowd on sexual assault in the military, and Brentin Mock on how the Sierra Club embraced immigration reform.
Today in celebrity gossip: Gwyneth has private gate issues in Los Angeles, Wills and Kate get a new housekeeper, and Justin Bieber may be in some legal trouble.
Google may or may not introduce a new design for Google Maps at a conference next week, when the company will publicly discuss about "the future of Google Maps." But people are definitely complaining about the rumored design getting passed around the web today. Here's how.
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 number of crimes committed with firearms has dropped significantly since the early 1990s. The data also offers both advocates and opponents of expanded gun measures fodder for their arguments, and rationalization for their votes.
The combination of Sanford's sex scandal and his opponent's relationship to a funny person wan't enough to overcome the fact that South Carolina's first congressional district is very Republican. The lesson, maybe even for Anthony Weiner: Don't have a sex scandal in a swing district. Just look at the math.
The trailer for Lee Daniels' The Butler confirms that Oprah Winfrey is returning to the big screen (in non-cameo, non-voiceover form) for the first time since starring opposite of Danny Glover in 1998's Beloved. The trailer also features some of the strangest casting of U.S. presidents in recent memory.
A container ship lost control and took out the massive concrete and glass control tower overlooking Genoa, Italy's busiest port, on Tuesday evening, killing three people while another four were taken to the hospital for treatment and a few more are still missing.
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.
On last night's Daily Show, Stewart wondered about all the reports that said that Christie underwent lap-band surgery just to run for president. "Can't a guy get healthy, without the prognosticators?" Stewart wondered. But Stewart requires some other skills in a 2016 candidate.
All-out nuclear war isn't something Americans worry about too much these days, which is good because the people in charge of fighting that war have apparently been doing a lousy job lately.
Police in Europe rounded up 31 people in three countries on Wednesday and recovered most of the $50 million in diamonds stolen from the Brussels Airport earlier this year, proving once again that most daring and outlandish crimes are the hardest to get away with.
Stephen Hawking is known for a lot of things — theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, general relativity — but being an an activist for peace in the Middle East is hardly one of them. Not any more!
The case of the three women held captive for a decade in Cleveland reaches a new level of absurdity with a Tuesday night report detailing the many warning signs that police appear to have ignored.
The Associated Press and CNN have both called the special election for South Carolina's first congressional district for Mark Sanford, the once-disgraced former governor who's proven that even redemption has partisan leanings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first time ever on Tuesday. However, despite the record-breaking nature of the even, Wall Street seems sort of unimpressed.
California's Public Utilities Commission is recommending that PG&E be fined $2.25 billion for the 2010 natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion that killed ten people in San Bruno, California. If it holds, it will be one of the largest in history.
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.
Today in show business news: TNT is now in the Michael Bay business, Andrew Garfield books a prestigious role, and another movie musical is in the works.
Lawyers for James Holmes have finally entered an official plea in the case: they're going going to mount a "not guilty by reason of insanity" defense, The Denver Post reports.
Delaware legalized gay marriage Tuesday afternoon, making it the 11th state to do so, and only days after Rhode Island did the same. Here's our updated GIF map showing that the pro-gay marriage wave has a long way to go to undo two anti-gay marriage waves ushered in by Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Did the Assad regime just shut down Syrian online access again? For several hours on Thursday — beginning around 3 p.m. Eastern time, or 10 p.m. in Damascus — Internet traffic in the warring country ground to an almost complete halt, just like it did in November when the government blacked out web usage to stymy opposition maneuvers.
Harvard was only the beginning. Eight months after allegations of widespread cheating rocked the Ivy League university, another cheating scandal emerged on Tuesday afternoon at an affiliate college of Columbia University.
A federal proposal to have information about joining unions added to the collection of posters in your company breakroom was rejected by a court on Tuesday. In short: The government can't threaten to punish a business for deciding to keep its mouth shut.
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