[Fog engulfed much of New York City this morning. What did it look like out your window? Photo via @nymetwowx/Twitter.]

A photojournalist was at the right place at the right time to capture the worst possible outcome for a woman standing on the beach during a thunderstorm.

A new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science argues that healthy old people aren't mentally enfeebled after all. They perform slowly on tests because they have more accumulated knowledge to sort through than glib and ignorant young people do. Heartening news for those of us in middle age, something something something.

The greatest virtue of science is that it uses irrefutable facts, data, and evidence to force us to accept the harsh truths that we, flawed humanity, may wish to ignore. Like the fact that children are—scientifically speaking—small bundles of misery.

Last night was perhaps a career low point for Chris Christie: During his appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Bruce Springsteen mocked the New Jersey governor's bridge scandal with a parody performance of "Born to Run."

After CNN aired the latest segment of its ongoing "Gone to Pot" series on marijuana legalization in Colorado, many were quick to note that anchor and correspondent Randi Kaye looked more like an active partaker than merely a passive witness to history (skip to 4:30 if you're short on time).

If you had January 15th in the "When Will the First Male GOP Congressional Candidate Make News in 2014 For Having Said Something Stupid About Rape?" office pool, you can go ahead and collect now.

Since at least 2008, the NSA has used a secret channel of radio waves transmitted from covertly installed computer hardware to monitor about 100,000 computers around the world, allowing the spy agency access to the computers even if they aren't connected to the internet.

An elephant that attacked a car in a South African safari park in December, piercing a British schoolteacher with its tusks in the process, was put down by the park for behaving aggressively.

A Queens McDonalds is at war with a group of elderly Korean men armed with canes, walkers and wheelchairs who they say will sit for hours in the restaurant sharing one $1.39 order of french fries.

Searching for information related to reproductive rights on the WiFi networks at Au Bon Pain restaurants in Manhattan can currently yield error messages that warn, "This website is categorized as Abortion and is blocked." GLAAD's website is also blocked for "sexual orientation."

A New Jersey woman watched her husband bleed out from a gunshot wound for nearly half an hour, according to 911 calls from the fatal Short Hills mall carjacking released this week.

[French President Francois Hollande held a press conference earlier today after a policy speech. But most of the questions were about his personal life — his alleged affair with actress Julie Gayet, and his live-in girlfriend, journalist Valérie Trierweiler, who was hospitalized after the news came out. Image by Christophe Ena via AP.]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was a passenger in a police vehicle that struck and injured a sixty-year-old woman earlier today.

Over the last six years, penis pumps have cost Medicare approximately $172 million — at around double the device's retail cost. Authorities have not offered an explanation for the inflated prices.

Late night talk show host Conan O'Brien took to Twitter this afternoon to officially address a claim that he fathered an illegitimate son with a 30 Rock employee some 20 years ago.

A U.S. district judge has ruled Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. But same-sex couples can't head to the courthouse just yet, as the ruling is on hold pending appeals.

Sure, this is an obvious promotion for a horror movie when you're watching it safely at home. But would it scare the hell out of me if I just randomly saw it in the street? Yes, of course.

If you like the homicide cop reality show The First 48, you'll love this wholesale indictment of the police work it depicts. "In Miami...at least 15 men have walked free of murder charges spawned under the program's glare."

Dozens of gay men in Nigeria reportedly have been arrested under the country's new Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, which sentences people to jail for 14 years for being married to a person of the same sex, and 10 years for belonging to gay-oriented groups. This is disgusting.