The New York City Opera, which is on the verge of completely shutting down due to lack of funding, is making a last-ditch effort to keep itself alive by reaching out to high-profile donors and even launching its own Kickstarter. It's also possibly reaching out to a very prominent crook.

Israel is claiming that on Sept. 11, Israeli authorities arrested an Iranian-born spy who was carrying photographs of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv.

Meet Miracle Milly, a 3.8-inch tall Puerto Rican Chihuahua, who is now officially the world's smallest dog. She fits on top of an iPhone and casually hangs with Paul Giamatti.

When you hear about people eating at a nice restaurant every night, you might return to your half-frozen Hot Pocket in resentment and disgust. But if that person is 103-year-old Harry Rosen, it kinda just warms your heart.

There's a cool new drug in America that will mess you up something awful. Ask your mom to hook you up with some "Krokodil" and don't forget the Oxycontin chaser. Everybody's having more fun, even super-old ex-president George "H.W." Bush, who not only went to a gay wedding but was also the legal witness to the marriage. Chris Christie, the GOP's only moderate, defiled this very recent memory of Bush 41 by trying to block legal gay marriage in New Jersey. Another politician took a picture of his dick and got caught, but this happened in England so who cares. More bad shows appeared on broadcast television, people found a way to involve sandwiches in their relationship problems, and a wild bear went to a bar because that's where the booze is kept. What did you do?

Last night, suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in northern Nigeria, killing as many as 50 sleeping students. Northeastern Nigeria is currently in a military state of emergency against the Boko Haram militants, who forbid Western education and have killed more than 1,700 people over the past three years.

A Brazilian reporter trying to interview Brazil's Supreme Court President, Joaquim Barbosa, was arrested for trespassing after she allegedly entered a Yale Law School building on Thursday.

Passport need renewing? Psyched for that totally amazing weekend you have lined up in Yellowstone? Well, John Boehner has some bad news for you: Unless the Senate agrees to delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (AKA ObamaKillsUCare) for an entire year, House Republicans will most likely let the government shut down on October 1st. Fun!

A legendary poker player who once turned $50 into $40 million over a three-year streak was arrested this week for allegedly marking cards at a casino in Lakeside, CA.

She's your pusherman — in that, she mostly gets pushed around in a stroller. A 3-year-old girl was found with 14 bags of marijuana in her backpack at a Manhattan daycare center.

In a report based on another set of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, journalists James Risen and Laura Poitras detail how the NSA has created vast social networks for U.S. citizens through spying on emails, phone calls, and possibly cellular phone call locations.

A. At a conference called "Making Language Arts More Relevant," I sit listening to the keynote speaker talk to us about how high school graduates don’t know how to capitalize the first words of sentences. This woman is the director of human resources at a cybersecurity firm located near the high school where I teach. She is talking to us about what successful job candidates’ reading and writing looks like. We sit at our tables, listening.

Inadequate radio communication was to blame for the deaths of 19 Arizona firefighters in June, according to an Arizona State Forestry Division investigation.

A pastor in Louisiana was shot and killed "as he was preaching" during a nighttime revival service last night.

Authorities are trying to figure out who, how, and why, after a contractor running cable through JFK's Terminal One discovered a Mac-11 subcompact machine gun hidden in the ceiling of an unsecured maintenance closet this week.

A grand jury indicted Shayanna Jenkins — girlfriend of accused murderer and former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez — yesterday on a perjury charge. Jenkins, who has a young child with Hernandez, faces up to two-and-a-half years.

That's quite an ante, Vice Admiral Giardina.

A team of alleged mercenaries composed of former American, German, and Polish snipers and soldiers was arrested this week after DEA informants successfully hired the team to provide a variety of security, surveillance, and assassination work.

After the Supreme Court decision that essentially nullified the Voting Rights Act this summer, Southern states have begun passing a series of laws that will look to crack down on voter fraud. And by voter fraud, they mean young and minority people voting.

Jake Bakkila, the artist who revealed himself as the real human behind the widely-beloved "spam" account @Horse_ebooks earlier this week, only to be confronted with accusations that he had manipulated and misled a journalist—to the point of "gaslighting"—who had uncovered a component of his project, says that "[t]he blame is 100% mine, I was wrong, and I'm sorry."