Not all those photos you're seeing of burning cities and pitched urban battles are from Kiev. Even as the near-apocalyptic imagery of Ukraine's violent protests have captured the top of the news, Venezuelan cities have gone from dangerous to "warzone" overnight. Here's what you need to know.

In Washington, Mitch McConnell is a power broker. In Kentucky, where the senator faces a tough re-election slog, he's just the big-government sonofabitch that made life tougher for hardscrabble locals trying to make a living by breeding animals to rip each other to death for sport.

The Arizona Senate voted in favor of a measure that would allow business owners the right to refuse gays service based on religious beliefs. "This bill is not about discrimination," Sen. Steve Yarbrough said. "It's about preventing discrimination against people who are clearly living out their faith." Related.

I have no clue who this pizza delivery guy is. I have no clue why he didn't just take the stairs. I do know that he just nailed a perfect three-story pizza toss, and then walked into the sunset (after getting paid).

Walmart today gave financial analysts a "weaker than expected" forecast for the coming year, saying that macroeconomic pressures would keep its profits low in the coming year. Another thing working against Walmart: its own employees despise it. Here's one example.

[Emma Eliasson of Sweden kneels on the ice after Team Sweden's 4-3 loss to Switzerland in the women's bronze medal ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday. Image via Julio Cortez/AP.]

Did it sound a bit grand, a bit too ambitious, a bit too too when the 19-year-old mother now known as the Craigslist Killer claimed last weekend that she was a Satanic serial murderer with dozens of victims across North America? Yeah, that seems to be the emerging consensus....now.

For many people, curling is the most confusing Olympic sport. Luckily, here's Sir David Attenborough, the famous British maker of nature documentaries, to explain with some voiceover commentary. Sort of.

Legislators in the Palmetto State are attempting to yank funding from two public higher education institutions as political revenge for the schools' use of "books on homosexuality" in their campus orientations for new incoming students.

A woman who teaches at a South Florida public charter school has been arrested for forcing one of her 10-year-old students to clean out a dirty urinal with his bare hands.

This woman thought she was getting her picture taken. Turns out she was getting proposed to, and her picture was getting taken, creating the world's most adorable GIF.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, which two years ago closed a school for lack of funds, is paying to build an enormous new wing on its archbishop's vacation home, with "an indoor exercise pool, three fireplaces and an elevator." Jesus wept.

Not even a police officer will stop a white guy trying to break into a car—but if a black guy tries he'll be in handcuffs in minutes.

As many as 35 people were killed in new clashes between police and anti-government protestors in Kiev, Ukraine, hours after a truce had calmed the bloodiest week in the city since the fall of the Soviet empire.

Now, what you hear is not a test: this is NBC News' Brian Williams and Lester Holt, rapping the classic old-school hip-hop track "Rapper's Delight," originally by the Sugarhill gang.

DJ Fresh Prince Charles, meteorologist to the stars, showed off a new talent today when he joined the royal Saudi family to perform the Ardah, a traditional sword dance.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman's will was filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court this morning, and his last wish was for his 10-year-old son to be raised somewhere with culture.

A video of Jonah Hill and Maroon 5 performing a song about handjobs has been making the rounds, apparently from before Hill made Superbad. And while the clip all together is super bad, the song turns out to be so bad that it's kind of good.

A three-year-old just became Arizona's youngest Mensa member after she memorized world geography and taught herself Spanish.

[Venezuelan beauty queen Genesis Carmona was fatally shot today during an anti-government protest in Valencia. The 22-year-old was killed when unknown gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on the crowd of protestors. Image by Diario Notitarde and Mauricio Centeno via AP.]