Today, the New York Times Real Estate section fills us in on "whisper listings" — listings so rare, so expensive, so downright sexy, that they are only whispered about. Wealthy sellers don't even bother to list their apartment, instead just relying on a shadowy network of "well-connected" agents to find a buyer through word-of-mouth.

A newly released document, obtained by journalist Eric Schlosser, details that a nuclear bomb 260 times as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima almost detonated in North Carolina, when a B-52 bomber crashed in 1961.

A group of gunmen charged into a mall in Nairobi on Saturday, firing indiscriminately and killing at least 20, according to CNN.

Sir Stuffington is a cat pirate. As legend has it, he sailed the high seas in search of buried catnip treasure, conquered doggy islands, and raided mouse villages. He lost his right eye in a swordfight with a flock of mutated seagulls and broke his jaw in battle with a sea monster. In fact, he was one of the most feared feline plunderers in kitty-pirate history—until one fateful night, when his lady love's captors spayed and neutered her, and the distraught Sir Stuffington got so drunk he crashed his ship.

General David Petraeus' rocky first days as a lecturer at the City University of New York only got rockier this week. Six CUNY student were arrested on Tuesday while protesting outside Macaulay Honors College, where Petraeus holds his classes. Now their supporters are saying that police unnecessarily roughed the students up during their arrest, and video footage seems to support that claim.

Even if you were unwilling to battle it out in line or pay a homeless person to stand in line for you, you can still have an iPhone 5s right now if you're ready to pay through the nose: New iPhones are currently on Cragislist for $2,000.

A police department in Ohio is examining the circumstances that led one of their officers to handcuff three family members including a 14-year-old boy and hold them on the ground at stun-gunpoint during a routine traffic stop.

If you're unlucky enough to be in Times Square, you'll surely leap at the chance to publicly register your displeasure with capitalism.

The playboys at Google claim they have "no relationship" with the NASA folks who let them use federal facilities—but why then are NASA functionaries trying to score free plane rides—for Tom Brokaw, natch—from Google?

There are many misconceptions about so-called “Cat People”: that they are awkward, unmarried loners; that they are fur-covered abominations born of the profane union between man and cat; that they are completely insane. Actually, these are just conceptions. These are all true.

On the left: Mitt Romney, tweeting in July about grandchild "#22." On the right: Romney, today, welcoming his "22nd grandchild." Does the adopted one not count, or something?

The recent New York Times profile of Melvin Van Peebles finds the 81-year-old filmmaker tired, probably from exuberant sex the night before. The Times is too demure to tell you that, but you can read it between the lines:

Though Tina Brown is leaving, The Daily Beast itself will be funded for at least another year, according to a Daily Beast story that trumpets the site's triumphs so loudly that it's impossible to miss the undertones of desperation.

Put some clothes on.

A good way to routinely bum yourself out is to set "Google News" as your Internet home page. But last night, something magical happened on that usual grid of gloom: The top stories were good news: Pope Francis and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the elderly men recently chosen to lead their respective communities, had again made headlines for words of kindness and reconciliation.

The "monster Super Typhoon" is coming (to Hong Kong).

Mild-mannered Atlanta dad Blake Wilson was toy shopping with his four children one day when he stumbled upon a Batman mask that instantly transformed him into the superparent BatDad.

Big Brother bigot Aaryn Gries says she is not a racist and that she didn't realize her racist jokes were offensive because "no one had expressed that I was taken that way." Then she voiced them on TV and...plunk plunk plunk plunk (the more you know).

Yesterday morning—while you were surely doing something productive like your daily calisthenics—a couple of crooks pulled off an unusual heist: they stole $8,000 in bras.