After serving almost 22 years in prison for a triple murder they did not commit, two Brooklyn men, Antonio Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson, were released this week after exonerating DNA evidence was found.

An Air Force transport jet departing from Germany has been diverted due to an "in-flight incident" and will land soon in Massachusetts, The Boston Globe is reporting. Emergency crews are on standby awaiting the landing and are prepared for an unconfirmed depressurization in the plane's cabin.

Since the start of the Olympic Games in Sochi yesterday, at least 14 people have been arrested across Russia for staging — or attempting to stage, or perhaps even thinking about staging — protests of Russia's anti-gay laws.

Back in October, Lauren Patterson, a 24-year-old British teacher working in Doha, Qatar was reported missing. Despite being badly burned, a body found soon thereafter in the desert was identified as Patterson through DNA testing. Two Qatari men, who have not been named, are standing trial for the murder after having been identified by a friend of Patterson's as the last to see her alive.

The salon sat at the bottom floor of the developing world’s version of a gated community— a five star hotel. The hotel was precariously perched, hosting an army of foreigners working on war, while staying in business under a regime denying war crimes. As a Tamil-Sri-Lankan-American I am neither entirely foreign, nor comfortably local.

A CEO committing suicide is not an entirely unusual event, but the case of Colorado executive Richard M. Talley is particularly startling. Earlier this week, Talley killed himself in his home by firing seven or eight shots into his torso and head with a nail gun.

For anyone who thought that the liberalizing perspective of Pope Francis had settled the matter of acceptance of same-sex couples in the Catholic Church, a story from Missouri this week serves as a disappointing rejoinder. Carol Parker and her partner Josephine Martin, both longstanding members of the Saint Columban Catholic Church in Chillicothe, say that they were denied communion by their priest at the funeral for Parker's own mother.

Dylan Farrow has met Woody Allen's strongly worded denial of her story of sex abuse at his hands with an equally aggressive response, as provided to The Hollywood Reporter.

American Sage Kotsenburg won Sochi's first gold medal in men's slopestyle snowboarding. More impressive is that he made it out in one piece.

Here's one bathroom in the Olympic village in Sochi that we can be fairly certain was not being spied on by the Russian government. U.S. men's bobsledder Johnny Quinn tweeted out the picture of the aftermath of his run in with the bathroom door early this morning.

Friday night, the New York Times published Woody Allen's response to his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow's open letter, in which she detailed her sexual assault allegations against Allen. In the response, Allen denied abusing Farrow, blaming the ordeal on the fallout from his "acrimonious breakup" with her mother, Mia.

Clint Eastwood saved the life of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament's CEO on Wednesday night, the Carmel Pine Cone reports today. "Clint came up behind me, and he knew exactly what to do," said CEO Steve John. "He did the Heimlich maneuver, and he lifted me right off the ground. He's strong! The cheese popped out, and I was fine."

Watching the Olympics? We went through the good, the bad, and the amazing parts of the Opening Ceremony so you don't have to.

The owner of an Oklahoma restaurant is under fire after a customer claimed he was discriminated against because he's disabled. Gary's Chicaros' owner, Gary James, didn't make things much better when he gave an interview to a local news station: "I've been in business 44 years, I think I can spot a freak or a faggot," he told KFOR.

Who in their right minds would rob an orchestra concert master in broad daylight, take his rare multi-million-dollar violin, and make off in a getaway minivan through the streets of Milwaukee? A local barber and gun licensee named Universal Knowledge Allah, that's who.

One of the multiple women who've accused Bill Cosby of drug-aided sexual assault affirms her account of the incident to Newsweek: "It never works out, unless you're bleeding and there's DNA and an eyewitness. I was 19 and he was the king of the world, so how was it going to work?"

A Tennessee couple is pleading not guilty to murder charges after, police say, they forced their daughter to "to drink about 2.4 liters of fluid, including several 12-ounce cans of grape soda, in a span of one to two hours," causing her to die.

Let's say your job is to make fun of David Brooks. Not your whole job, God forbid. Part of it, though. People expect you to make fun of David Brooks, and they ask you to do it, and you have been doing it for years, because the smugness and wrongness of David Brooks has seemed like an inexhaustible resource.

Here's a highlight from this morning's Opening Ceremony in Sochi: The Russian Police Choir covering Daft Punk's "Get Lucky." It's even better—and more bizarre—than their original performance of the song, which went viral last year.