"Thor 2" topped the weekend box office for the second straight weekend but the big surprise was a different sequel: "The Best Man Holiday" banked $30.5 million, most of which came from Gawker's Caity Weaver.

Liz Cheney stopped by Fox News today to talk about her opposition to gay marriage, an appearance that drew the ire of her gay, married younger sister Mary and her wife Heather Poe, who denounced Liz as "wrong — and on the wrong side of history."

Take cover, Midwest! Tornadoes have touched down across Illinois as storms cross through the entire region.

A Los Angeles school teacher has pleaded guilty to a series of heinous abuses against his students, including blindfolding them and feeding them cookies laced with his semen.

A drone malfunctioned and hit a Navy ship during a training exercise off the coast of Southern California this weekend. Two sailors were treated for minor burns, and the ship, which was carrying 300 people, is now being inspected for damage. A Navy spokesperson did not say whether the drone had malfunctioned before.

This week, two bodyguards who worked for Tom Brady and Gisele were convicted of attempted murder for firing at photographers who were trying to get shots of the couple's 2009 Costa Rican wedding.

A Boeing 737 has crashed in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board.

A mob carrying axes attacked a police station in China's Xinjiang province on Saturday, leaving eleven dead. Nine of the attackers were shot and killed, and two auxiliary police officers died of wounds.

A woman who drove more than 600 miles through the typhoon-stricken Philippines was able to rescue 27 members of her family and friends from Tacloban this week, where she found them living off of coconuts. Regina Sculley also managed to drop off water, rice, non-perishable food, and medicine for the remaining survivors.

Three schoolgirls who falsely accused a California physical education teacher of being a "perv" who touched them inappropriately now owe the man nearly $400,000 in a defamation judgement, and one of the young girls — an eleven-year-old described as the "ringleader" — is also on the hook for punitive damages.

Doris Lessing, the British author of several novels including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, has died at the age of 94. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

Before he was Walt, Bryan Cranston played Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. And before Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle, there was Newhart.

Following another confirmed case of meningitis on campus this week, the FDA has urged Princeton University to offer a drug that hasn't even been approved for use in the United States yet.

A Texas man who killed his children's 16-year-old babysitter to prevent her from testifying that he had raped her was sentenced to death today. Texas, one of at 32 states facing a shortage of death penalty drugs, was recently sued for its Department of Criminal Justice's drug acquisition tactics.

A few weeks ago, New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer zipped up a "pinch" of "herb" and four marijuana cookies into his backpack and brazenly carried his stash down Eighth Avenue and on to the subway to prove a point about New York's Stop and Frisk law.

[A Typhoon Haiyan survivor cooks dinner in front of his damaged home in the village of Marabut, Samar Island, Philippines, on Friday evening. Photo by David Guttenfelder via AP.]

Bloomberg News is clearing house in the wake of a series of embarrassing leaks that revealed the would-be news agency killed stories to win the favor of the Chinese government.

Ah, the Bolshoi. Where the applause may be fake, but the drama's always real. And this month it's also been very public.

A California man trying to walk over the Mexican border with two-and-a-half pounds of meth taped to his body got busted early this morning after a Customs officer noticed he was "too friendly," and searched him.