"Don't touch," a guard warned, seconds before a 51-year-old Miami artist picked up an Ai Weiwei vase worth a million dollars and smashed it to pieces on the ground.

Wisconsin Governor and potential 2016 GOP contender Scott Walker hit a small snag today: Over 25,000 pages of emails, released by a state court, that were collected during an investigation into whether Walker aides conducted political activity on the government’s dime. One of the emails, first spotted by BuzzFeed’s Evan McMorris-Santoro, contains a message titled, appropriately, “THE NIGHTMARE.”

"A lot of you do not like me after my latest article 'Congratulations, You've Vaccinated Your Child And Now They're Retarded.'" Thought Catalog discusses public health.

Everybody who comments is a very specific kind of commenter, but which one are you? Take this weird quiz to find out.

"Drunk in Love" it ain't — Beyoncé performed her pop-leaning "XO" single at tonight's BRIT Awards in London. Mostly, she stood still and sang, matching the song's energy. Really, the most exciting part of the act was the warning that ran before it: "This performance contains flashing images." Still, she sounded great and looked like a vase, so that's something.

You’ve probably read BuzzFeed’s long profile of Donald Trump, in which political reporter McKay Coppins explains the absurdity of the businessman’s political aspirations and the “yes-men” who enable them (one of whom Trump quickly fired). Even if you haven’t read it, the editors of Breitbart.com sure have.

Retired Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin is not known for being sane. Famed as the Bush-era general who put a divine crusading spin on the Iraq War, Boykin is now a leader of the religious right who wants you to know Jesus loves the Second Amendment, literally, and wants to kill shit.

An Indonesian employee on a Holland America cruise ship was arrested over the weekend for allegedly raping a shipboard guest in her stateroom, then attempting to kill her by tossing her over the side and into the briny deep.

Hot Pockets, a brand of garbage available in your grocer's freezer until this week's recall, apparently has many fans who share their love for the diseased-meat snacks on Twitter. But how many of these pre-recall Hot Pockets tweets ended in death?

If someone had told you 25 years ago that Vanilla Ice would end up in a Kraft Macaroni & Cheese ad, MC Serch would end up with a talk show, and old school hip hop pioneers would end up broke, would you have believed it? Probably.

With a Diet Coke.

A 17-year-old Georgia JROTC student was fatally shot in his home last Friday by a law enforcement officer who mistook his Nintendo video game controller for a weapon, according to a lawyer for the boy's family.

Have you ever wondered whether your state's population is objectively better than those chumps up in North Dakota? We're one step closer to finding the answer, thanks to the folks at Nerve.

Last week, in probable violation of several medical privacy laws, the Harvard Crimson's weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes, published its inventory of the university's "15 Hottest Freshmen."

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Wendy Davis' Republican opponent in the Lone Star State's gubernatorial race, is campaigning with Ted "Obama is a subhuman mongrel" Nugent. So, yeah: Go Wendy Davis, go.

We would never deign to call an Olympic sport "easy." Eating muffins is easy. Sports at least require some motion. But if you, the average non-Olympic athlete, really needed to make the Olympic team in a pinch, you would clearly choose bobsled as your "sport."

And you thought Pizza Hut couldn't get any more questionable. One of the chain's West Virginia outposts was shut down recently after surveillance camera footage showed a district manager peeing into a dishroom sink.

No, this isn't a Bloomberg joke.

Did you know that the Washington Post reprints health and science press releases, verbatim? A spokesperson for the paper says the Post will stop doing that, right away.