A U.S. air marshal was removed from a plane and arrested on Thursday for allegedly using his cell phone to take upskirt pictures of at least one woman on board the flight.

It is 2013 and people are still offended by the animated Fox TV show The Simpsons. This week, Governmentattic.org obtained an archive of indecency complaints about the Simpsons to the FCC from 2010-2013, via Freedom of Information Act request, . They are pretty amazing. (There's also an archive of South Park complaints [pdf] but people getting upset about The Simpsons is much funnier.)

New York is filled with scamps and scoundrels, perverts and pranksters, so when Brooklyn-via-Denver musician Travis Egedy, also known as Pictureplane, discovered a poster taped to a subway wall with a pinch of weed attached, he had to wonder: Could this gift be for real? And more importantly, should he smoke it?

Did you know that Spain leads the world in cocaine use? Or that Mongolia leads the world in Velociraptor bones? Or that Cameroon leads the world in killer lakes?

Ted Cruz, the Tea Party Texas Senator and self-styled populist Superman, is just a common man. Except for how he apparently omitted from required financial disclosure reports his connection to a Jamaican private equity firm he founded with his college roommate in 1998, since which his initial $6,000 investment turned into a tidy $100,000. Other than that, though: Just a regular Joe!

A Somalia-born Norwegian national is now considered a suspect in the Kenyan mall attack last month that left dozens dead.

The state of Texas has been the subject of multiple lawsuits over its insistence on killing state prisoners with heat stroke as they sit in jails without air conditioning. It turns out that Texas would not even subject actual swine to the same conditions.

Windsor city officials were sent scrambling for the red phone this week after a local news station alerted them to a bushy, 10-foot-tall penis that popped up overnight along the waterfront.

David Petraeus, the retired Army general, disgraced CIA director, and embattled CUNY professor, recently started teaching at USC in Los Angeles, where he will lecture about international relations and mentor student-veterans and Trojans participating in ROTC.

On Friday, the Duchess of Cambridge participated in a military training exercise designed to prepare Britain for an air assault by balls. [Image via AP]

A former Walmart employee says he fired from his job this week after defending himself against an assault in the store's parking lot.

Longtime New York Daily News gossip columnists Rush and Molloy have a new book coming out about their years in the gossip industry. It names names throughout—but at least one old scandal stayed a blind item.

Toyota announced yesterday that it's recalling 870,000 cars, in part because spiders are setting off their airbags.

When local news anchors around the country learned that Mike Myers and his wife Kelly Tisdale were expecting their second baby, they all had the exact same reaction.

Sex-obsessed tabloid hatred columnist Andrea Peyser calls for banning books in her column today. Good to see you back in the game, Andrea.

Let's say you had $7 million to spend on a sex museum. Would you make it look like... this?

A trio Boy Scout leaders in Utah claim they were merely performing a "civic service" when they decided to destroy a unique rock formation that had been overlooking Goblin Valley State Park for the past 20 million years.

Charles Krauthammer is a conservative columnist with a permanent sourpuss etched into his self-impressed face. He is not a sports columnist, okay? Yet he has managed, quite impressively, to come up with the single most inane solution yet for the "Washington Redskins" name controversy.

In an interview with the New York Times, Edward Snowden said Russian and Chinese officials did not have access to the classified documents he took while working as an NSA contractor. The files were never taken to Russia, Snowden said, because “because it wouldn’t serve the public interest;” instead, Snowden said he gave all copies of the files to the journalists that met him in Hong Kong.

A Florida high school student who posed for a selfie while his pregnant teacher was experiencing contractions behind him found viral fame this week after his photo was retweeted over 20,000 times.