Rogelio Andaverde of Edinburg, Texas, was home alone with his wife Tuesday night when two masked men forced their way in and abducted him at gunpoint.

New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio answered a bunch of questions on Reddit pertaining to his son’s hair, a Montana biking trip, and the best pizza in New York: Di Fara Pizzeria in Midwood. (De Blasio also clarified his positions on various municipal policies.)

Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today for predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson, or "God particle." Which is... what, exactly?

An undercover NYPD officer has been arrested in connection with last week's motorcycle rampage. The officer, one of at least two undercover cops who participated in the ride, was reportedly caught on video attacking Alexian Lien's SUV last Sunday. He will likely be charged with criminal mischief.

While politicians argue incessantly around President Obama's healthcare system overhaul, one thing gets frequently lost in the din: Does Obamacare actually improve America's healthcare system.

For about a year, the brothers of Dartmouth College’s Beta Alpha Omega—the straight-laced fraternity that famously hosted Rick Perry after a Republican debate in October 2011—have corresponded about house debauchery, fraternity rituals, and other key topics using Google Groups, apparently to avoid using Dartmouth’s own servers (and the eyes of college administrators).

In a shutdown statement followed by a press conference this afternoon, President Obama said much of the same things about America's government standstill that he's been saying since last week: This is a situation caused by a handful of recalcitrant GOP jackasses who are unwilling to talk reasonably about how to end this mess. It is impossible to overstate this fact.

Researchers have found a gene that can predict how much emotional ups and downs may affect someone's marriage. The gene is called "[Joke]."

Last night, Sex Box premiered on Channel 4 in England, apparently confusing a bunch of Twitter users in the process. That's weird because the premise is simple: A couple enters a room in a box onstage and has sex while a panel of sex experts (including the U.S.'s own Dan Savage) discusses sex amongst each other. When the disheveled, blissful couple emerges, they join the conversation for a perfectly cringey interrogation. Supposedly, having sex before such a talk opens people up (emotionally, that is). Also, this is a show and shows need a gimmick.

It took an average of 14 years for the top 17 tech companies to add women to their boards of directors—and that's only if you discount four in that group that still have all-male boards.

Having had his fill of Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) trying to mislead his Monday night viewers with bogus claims about Obamacare and the cooked-up reasons for why Republicans refuse to bring a clean continuing resolution up for a vote, Anderson Cooper to make good on his promise to "keep them honest."

Lawmakers in Europe have voted to ban menthol cigarettes, but have rejected a proposal to heavily regulate "E-cigarettes." This development further cements the vast gulf between the cool, dangerous, retro smoking choices of the past, and today's ridiculous techno-vaping nerd trend.

It all started last Tuesday when LA model Piper Kennedy "reluctantly" gave her phone number to a very insistent barista named Brody.

Police found a duct-taped human leg in the East River in Queens yesterday afternoon. Maybe it’s related to the Adidas-clad severed foot found last summer off the coast of New Jersey?

The New York Times opinion section is adding more than two dozen international contributing columnists, from Kenya to Iran. Thomas Friedman will ask each of them to drive him around in a cab.

In a speech this morning at the Association for a Better New York, Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota outlined a bold plan to prevent what he perceives as a (very) recent rise in crime.

A 20-year-old woman at the center of a viral video capturing a bizarre lovers' spat between herself, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's "other woman" was arrested after an eyewitness phoned the police to report the public humiliation.

Today's new Brooklyn Banksy piece is in Greenpoint, and reportedly already "a little scuffed up."

Unfortunately, Shane MacGowan's longtime friend and bandmate, Philip Chevron, is not. The Pogues' guitarist died today, after multiple bouts with cancer. He was 56.

America seems to be locked in a permanent back-and-forth with the world's other developed nations: we call them "poor and weak," and they call us "uneducated and, frankly, dumb." Also, "fat." Well, we may be fat, but look out world: we're much smarter than the Italians!