A generator has exploded at UC Berkeley and the campus has been evacuated. Pictures from the scene show smoke and flames and witnesses are tweeting about seeing a 20 foot high fireball. One person has been taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

The House just voted 228 to 201 to keep the government open while delaying Obamacare's individual mandate and canceling insurance subsidies for members of Congress. Senate Democrats have promised to reject the bill within an hour. We're three hours away from shutdown.

From experience, I know having a suggestive adjective as a first name can lead to a lot of teasing, but at least I’m not Conor P. Fudge, the man accused of stealing ice cream and cakes from a Cold Stone Creamery store in Iowa City, Iowa. 25-year-old Fudge will never live down the fact that he was caught on camera stealing all sorts of ice cream, cakes, cash, and hopefully some mix-ins (the good mix-ins, not the gummy bears that freeze the second they hit the ice cream) from his former employer.

Last spring, after a ricin-tainted letter was sent to President Obama, the FBI arrested Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator and Prince super-fan from Mississippi, on suspicion of mailing the poison correspondence. But then a week later, charges against Curtis were dropped and soon another Mississippi musician was taken into custody, Tae Kwon Do instructor J. Everett Dutschke, who turned out to be Curtis's bitter rival. In the October issue of GQ, author/writer Wells Tower digs into the feud and the whole thing gets weirder—so so so much weirder.

A woman who attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of a speeding metro train escaped without a scratch after the train somehow passed harmlessly over her head.

It's no secret that Earth has got a lot of problems and, if you live here, you already know that I am talking about wasps. There are so many wasps here. Each one is a problem. According to recent reports out of China, 21 people have died as a result of wasp stings over the past three months in the province of Shaanxi alone. It might be time to just pack up our bags and return to the moons we came from. Might be time to turn Earth over to the wasps.

A little more than six hours away from a potential government shutdown, and one day before the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment begins, President Obama addressed the nation—and recalcitrant House Republicans—about the possibility that the U.S. government may partially close.

"I love Madonna to death, but she's never going to give me that damn baton. I'll probably turn into more of a Joni Mitchell," says Katy Perry, who apparently has never listened to Joni Mitchell or tried to pry anything from her cold, dead painter hands.

The remains of a woman who spent decades abusing animals were found inside her western Kentucky home earlier this month. Authorities believe the parts of her body not found had been consumed by her pet wolfdogs.

Early Monday morning, at about 3 a.m., two parachuters dressed in all black landed in Manhattan’s Financial District, near the Goldman Sachs building. But what were they doing, and where did they come from?

Another middle-aged writer (Elizabeth Wurtzel) is disappointed in the youth and the internet: "It does not make sense that Lena Dunham with her inexcusable thighs seems to be the only twentysomething success story in the world of high art and entertainment. That is just too crazy."

Lah dee da, look at you, Ms. Classy, sipping on some wine, right out of a wine glass. No pulls of Popov straight from the bottle for you! Only the best, when it comes to drinking. The fact is, ma'am, you are drunk. And no wonder. You have no idea how much you're drinking.

Last week, Pennsylvania's "premier haunted scream park" Shocktoberfest unveiled its newest — and nudest — attraction for the 2013 Halloween Season: "The Naked and Scared Challenge."

Today the New York Post published A GAME-CHANGING SCOOP concerning New York City’s mayoral race. It turns out the father of Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio, Warren Wilhem, committed suicide in 1979 after divorcing de Blasio’s mother and struggling with late-stage terminal cancer.

"How This Syrian Situation Reminds Me of High School" is just a great Thought Catalog headline.

A couple who stopped to have relations on railroad tracks in an effort "to spice up their sexual life" was subsequently run over by a train.

For 24 hours, one brave woman forced herself to watch, Clockwork Orange-style, something horrible: The Esquire Network, a cable channel named for an irritating men's magazine. What follows is her story.

Once upon a time not so long ago, there was an idea: that some things in this world should be able to exist free from the influence of money—that these things should be done because of their own intrinsic value. You would be forgiven for scoffing at the notion that this idea was ever taken seriously at all.

The so-called "pick-up pranks" that have permeated YouTube in recent months have been steadily pushing the envelope toward actual sex crime territory — but the latest such "gag" crosses that line with its balls hanging out.