State-run Russian TV station Channel One has canceled their live broadcast of tonight's Oscars ceremony in favor of the ongoing coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The network "considers the live broadcasting of the Oscar ceremony for five hours to be inappropriate" as the regional conflict develops.

Eating breakfast on a wharf overlooking the Pacific Ocean is probably amazing unless a huge wave literally crashes through the restaurant you're in, soaking you completely and washing your breakfast away.

The sweeping, over-the-top intro music to The West Wing was like a drug: get one taste of the rousing timpani and you knew that your fix of political intrigue wasn't far from reach. Though The West Wing is dead and gone, House of Cards has deftly taken its place as a favorite of government wannabes everywhere. This Sunday morning mashup of the two intro sequences, courtesy of Wayne Wolfe, should be enough to beckon a few presidential tears to spill forth onto your tie.

Authorities are attributing yesterday's brutal knife attack in southern China to separatists from the country's far west region of Xinjiang. The updated death toll is 33, including four attackers who were shot dead by police. 143 were injured, and at least five other attackers are being sought.

Late Saturday night, acting president of the Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, ordered the country's armed forces to full readiness in response to aggression from Russia, whose parliament voted unanimously in favor of troop deployment yesterday after covertly entering the Crimean peninsula.

A snowstorm in Colorado yesterday caused a string of accidents on I-25 in Denver involving 104 cars. 1 person died and 30 others were hospitalized in what is the latest in a string of massive accidents this winter.

Alain Resnais, who was known for his prominence in the French New Wave movement in the 60s, and for an extensive 50-film career, has died at 91. He was surrounded by his family in Paris.

With the Russian parliament unanimously approving Vladimir Putin's request to send troops into mainland Ukraine, the American government made another overture this afternoon urging Russia to reconsider its strategy.

This Sunday's Academy Awards will be a grand array of blowhards, backpatting, and Jennifer Lawrence .gifs, but it will also be the scene of a contentious, bitter protest. Visual effects artists who brought more Smaug to Smaug and more feathers to Tonto, refuse to move to British Columbia and they are ready to tell you why.

Being a meme more or less sucks, especially if you aren't making any money off of your fleeting internet celebrity. That all goes double if your meme stems from a mugshot, like in the case of Meagan Simmons, who this week filed suit against a mugshot website for using her famous booking photo in ads.

Your dad in the 90s. Your dad in his den with a bag of chocolate-covered pretzels. Your dad when he met your mom at Club Ipanema in 1971. Like a choose-your-own-adventure edition of staying #ontrend, fashion is now easier than ever. Just take a page from pa's lookbook—casual, unfussy, and now replete with swaths of porny chest hair.

Rob Ford is more celebrity than mayor at this point, which seems just fine by him. This weekend, Toronto's most famous ex-crackhead will hit Los Angeles for a few of his most high-profile appearances ever: the Academy Awards and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

At the Kunming train station in China's Yunnan province, 27 people have been killed and 109 are injured after a group of men wielding knives went on a rampage this evening.

My first morning in Bed-Stuy was the most amazing morning of my life. I sat on the stoop and watched as the neighborhood stretched and yawned. The sun peeked over the brownstones, as weed smoke wafted through the air like the smell of breakfast bacon. Rastas swaggered up the block, their hair stuffed into stockings, crowned high on their heads. Little boys in blue pants and untucked white shirts, chased little girls in princess dresses down the sidewalk, laughing. Their mothers strutted behind them, shouldering heavy purses and gripping tight to bibles. A shirtless man banged at something underneath his car.

Television news in the internet age may exist solely so field reporters can put themselves into harms way in order to emphasize the danger of inclement weather. Enter NBC's Miguel Almaguer, who had to be rescued yesterday from a mudslide east of Los Angeles.

Bruce Springsteen was in Auckland, New Zealand yesterday, which is also the home definitely-a-teen-and-not-secretly-much-older idol Lorde. In her honor, the Boss performed a growling cover of her Grammy-winning single "Royals." If you pay too close of attention he kinda sounds like an SNL parody of Bruce Springsteen covering modern pop songs.

After effectively taking control over the contested Crimean peninsula off the coast of the Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin formally submitted a request to send Russian troops to the mainland. His request has swiftly been approved by the Federation Council.

Right now, as you read these words, hundreds of thousands of people are celebrating a victory over Pokémon Red/Blue. Not individually, each holding a GameBoy loaded with an eighteen-year-old game cartridge.

At the end of this month, four major baby trafficking rings were busted by authorities in Beijing and Jiangsu, rescuing 382 babies and arresting 1,094 people involved.