One year before he killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary, Adam Lanza reportedly called an Oregon radio station and compared a chimpanzee that ripped a woman's face off to a "teenage mall shooter."

Jack Gleeson is not a king — he just plays one on TV. In reality, the 21-year-old Irish actor best known for his role as King Joffrey Baratheon on HBO's Game of Thrones despises worship, particularly of the celebrity variety.

People seem to be upset about the fact that this Giant Food Stores ad in DC targeting Howard University students features a white person, but hey, cut em some slack. DC is different now. [via Washington Biz Journal]

This is something you don't see everyday: Country star Trace Adkins reportedly fought his own celebrity impersonator on a cruise ship on Monday.

Call Israelis "the strongest democrats in the Middle East." Call them complex and fractious. Call them militarized tools with racist streaks who expand their territory at the expense of peoples they consider inferior. Only don't call them Nazis, because they will totally throw you in jail!

The first ever union vote at an Amazon facility in America is in: workers in Delaware voted 21 to 6 against joining a machinist's union. For unions, these types of votes are often hard to win. Amazon remains union free, for now.

Expanding a limited 2003 ban, the Justice Department will soon prohibit federal agents from profiling suspects based on national origin, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The Bush administration's ban applied only to race, allowing federal agents to specifically target Muslims in terrorism cases and Latinos for immigration investigations.

According to the New York Times, the anonymous buyer of the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, a $142.4 million Francis Bacon triptych called "Three Studies of Lucien Freud," was actually Elaine Wynn, the ex-wife of casino developer and known Picasso destroyer Steve Wynn.

State inspectors say that Freedom Industries, the chemical company that poisoned the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians last week, has been improperly storing the same chemicals at a second site.

[A doctor tends to Canadian tennis player Frank Dancevic, who hallucinated the animated character Snoopy before collapsing during the 108 degree temperatures at the Australian Open in Melbourne. Temperatures have been hitting record highs all around Australia. Image by Aijaz Rahi via AP.]

Cops say that two Ohio men who called 911 to report being robbed (by a group of teenagers, as they all practiced medieval sword fighting in a Taco Bell parking lot) forgot to mention that they were actually selling the teenagers weed at the time.

Former New York assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak, facing accusations of gross sexual harassment, resigned this weekend, acknowledging that although he engaged in "mutual banter and exchanges" that were "inappropriate in the workplace," it didn't rise to the level of sexual harassment.

Apple today agreed to refund at least $32.5 million to the miserable parents of children who were able to make in-app charges without their parents' knowledge. The announcement is part of a settlement with the FTC, which also requires Apple to obtain express consent for all in-app purchases by the end of March.

Angry Birds is a running feature in which we take a look at the ruffled feathers in the latest Twitter flaps. Today's: newsletter proprietor Rusty Foster and Guardian editor Heidi Moore, fighting over the ownership of ideas, the giving of credit, and the provenance of the tab-based feature.

Some people already know this; this is for the people who do not. I had been eating leftover pizza for decades before it occurred to me.

The National Labor Relations Board today charged that Walmart "illegally fired, disciplined or threatened more than 60 employees in 14 states" who were participating in strikes, protests, and other legal activities. I dunno, that seems out of character.

This pet dog from Maryland went missing in Maine during nine days and nights of insanely cold weather, and it was only rescued after it was hit by a car that nearly killed it. How's your January going?

If they ever made a porn parody of Sophie's Choice, big bust legend Elizabeth Starr would be a shoo-in for the lead role.

Almost missed this: A leading immigration opponent says Hispanics will cause "the unmaking of America" by voting Democratic, inviting jihadist attacks, destroying "social cohesion," yadda yadda yadda. No biggie, he's just testified to Congress on immigration a few times.

"Money shouldn't be your objective," says a man with a $28 million salary.