Iowa teen Levi Null, 13, struggles with Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD. He's always been picked on, but recently the bullies began ramping up their behavior: they started making videos of Null at school—some of them videos of his involuntary movements caused by Asperger's—and then posting them online with school computers.

Sure, McDonald's employees might be starving and in need of vacation, but will that stop Americans from getting excited about Mickey D's new "build-your-own-burgers" option?

Warning: This post contains a video of a deer being shot which some may find disturbing.

Friday's daylong "Batkid" event, which found people around world rushing to support the staged heroics of a 5-year-old boy with leukemia, turned out to be a tremendous success. Miles Scott got to live his dream, and even President Obama got involved. Turning Scott's wish into a reality did not come without a price tag, however: San Francisco, the backdrop for Batkid's makeshift Gotham City, spent $105,000 in public funds to better host the affair, and now the Make-a-Wish Foundation is raising private funds in an effort to pay back the city.

Homeless veteran Jim Wolf, star of the timelapse makeover viral hit, was arrested on Sunday at a Burger King in Grand Rapids, Mich. Wolf pled guilty to charges of trespassing and creating a disturbance. He will serve 20 days in jail.

[Oprah Winfrey and former President Bill Clinton were two of the 16 recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony on Wednesday. The award is the nation's highest civilian honor. Photo by Evan Vucci via AP]

Two Russian teens give new meaning to the term "trust fall" by engaging in a tandem bungee jump, minus one safety harness.

New York's ultra-wealthy elite sure are going to miss departing Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. After taking a meeting with Henry Kissinger on Monday, Kelly was later feted by Tina Brown at a dinner with Jeff Zucker, Cynthia McFadden, financier Don Marron, and Richard "Gag Reflex" Cohen, among other rich people.

We live in a strange world. Thanks to the internet's multifaceted infostream, time, formerly arrow-straight, has wrapped around itself like a Hot Wheels track which now, unfortunately, has sent the miniature muscle car of history careening back to the 80s.

The mayor of a mile-high town in Utah will keep his job for another two years after "forgetting" to inform residents that it was time to hold municipal elections.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark—most probably the greenish corpses hanging from all the lampposts, leaking purge fluids onto the smart little cobblestones as chaos and terror rule the nation following the revelation that the Danish royal family is composed of demons.

On Tuesday night, Scott Greer Bybee, the 26-year-old son of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee, fatally shot himself at a Mormon temple in east Las Vegas.

A woman who sold her virginity through an auction site for $780,000 but was unable to consummate the transaction has decided to put herself back on the market — literally.

"Call me Gabe Day, and not Gabe Day-Lewis/ Cause if you're trying to call me out I'm bout to Gabe Day Lose It/ Bitch, I know what my name is/ And shit I know what fame is/ Judging someone for their dad is just as bad as being racist." Your move, Chet Haze. [Noisey]

Half a year after his death, country crooner George Jones finally got a tombstone, and it is fucking Nashville epic. And for once, he had no trouble making it to the opening.

Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) just wanted to celebrate his state's big MLS victory. But MLS fans just wanted him to go away.

A new ACLU report estimates that more than 17,000 juveniles in America have been held in solitary confinement, and concludes, unequivocally, "Solitary confinement and isolation are not safe for children."

This is quite possibly the most satisfying YouTube prank of all time.

McDonald's has dispensed a whole mess of poor advice to its underpaid employees in recent months — get a second job, sign up for food stamps — but this latest Holiday haul may be its Grinchiest yet.

Bad news for anyone planning their holiday vacation in North Korea (and there are some!) The U.S. State Department has warned U.S. citizens from traveling to North Korea, amid reports that an 85-year-old man has been detained by North Korea.