A school bus driver in Minnesota was fired last week after leading kids in Christian prayers while driving. George Nathaniel, 49, a bus driver for the Burnsville School District had already been reassigned and given a warning due to his repeated praying, but that didn’t stop him from continuing to exercise what he believes is his “freedom of speech.”

In a fantastic piece at The Atlantic, Derek Thompson uses U.S. Bureau of Labor data to highlight how the labor market is more stratified by race than you might imagine. According to the BLS, whites, on average, earn higher wages and face lower unemployment, while blacks and Latinos cluster in lower-paying jobs.

[A three-month-old Sumatran tiger cub named “Bandar” is understandably pissed after being dunked in the tiger exhibit moat for a “swim reliability test” at the National Zoo in Washington on Wednesday. Poor poor Bandar. Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta via AP]

Vice President Joe Biden tried calling Marty Walsh to congratulate him for winning the Boston mayor’s race. Except Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh. “Marty, you did it, you son of a gun,” Biden declared to a man who is not the mayor-elect of Boston.

Less than two months after Charlotte police shot and killed an unarmed man who was trying to find help after having a car accident, a woman is dead in Michigan under similar circumstances, shot in the head while reportedly searching for assistance late Friday night.

Bouncy-haired singer Ariana Grande—whom you may know from her hit single "The Way," or because the teens in your life are always sending Keeks about her to Facerange on their Blueberries®—seems like her life would be all catchy hooks, and bubblegum sunsets, and buying a new pair of earrings that you love. And it probably is! But, as she recently told Complex magazine, it's also full of demons from hell who constantly terrorize her and wreak havoc on her vulnerable psyche.

This video is being called "the worst hit-and-run attempt ever," and with good reason.

Though it would seem impossible, scientists have discovered a previously unknown body part: a third boob. No, it's a knee ligament. Disappointing, to be honest.

A convicted child rapist was sentenced to ten years in prison last week after he bragged to his girlfriend about raping children and later attempted to rape the woman's daughter.

[Illuminated portraits of North Korea's late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il glow amid the dark buildings of central Pyongyang before dawn yesterday. Photo by David Guttenfelder via AP]

With the exception of the erosion of personal privacy and the growth of an ultra-powerful unaccountable economic elite over the course of several decades which we didn't notice because football was on, you can't put too much past Americans. Those Cocoa Puffs... are they natural? Don't try to fool us!

Ross Ulbricht, alleged founder of the online drug market Silk Road, appeared briefly in court today for the first time since being transferred to New York City. According to Forbes' Andy Greenberg, he didn't say much, but his lawyer Joshua Dratel told reporters that Ulbricht wasn't Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonym used by the drug lord behind Silk Road "The evidence can't establish that he is who they say he is, or that he's done what they say he's done."

Last night, in a close race, Boston City Council member John Connolly lost his bid for mayor. But to his credit, he commemorated his defeat in the most Boston way possible: Getting into a public fight with his son's hockey coach. Whose name is Sully.

The U.S. Postal Service "has experienced a net loss of about $41 billion since 2007." LOL?

An Idaho high school girls basketball coach says she was fired for posting a vacation photo on her personal Facebook page showing her fiancé grabbing her right breast.

Here is some straight up bullshit: some scientist who like "playing god" are trying to improve on one of God's Greatest Creations—the incredible edible egg. NEWS FLASH, eggheads: it ain't gonna happen.

[First Lady Michelle Obama joins students for a Bollywood Dance Clinic in the White House. Photo by Chuck Kennedy via The White House Flickr]

After a group of bros tried to raise money for breast cancer research by going around and motorboating random women, many wondered when the world might see a reverse campaign featuring women cupping men's testicles to raise money for prostate cancer research.

According to a report from Swiss scientists, Yasser Arafat's remains contained 18 times the normal levels of polonium-210, adding to already widespread-speculation that the former Palestinian leader was assassinated. The scientists said they were "83 percent" sure Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive metal.