Wikipedia deleted its "Antoinette Tuff" article, instead merging the woman who talked a would-be shooter out of mass murder into an entry about her school district. One of the swaying arguments in favor of deleting her individual post? "No one died here." [via HuffPo]

The first Atlantic hurricane of the season is coming.

YouTube pranksters have long flirted with the fine line between poor taste and out-right crime (some doing a better job of it than others), but two prank videos released in succession this week seem to have hopped over the fence and left that fine line far behind.

Five years ago this week, the storied Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers collapsed, heralding the true onslaught of the Great Recession. Has the system been "fixed" since then?

In the middle of the European Renaissance, these fantastic skeleton gods were being constructed in the bowels of Europe's Catholic churches. Los Angeles art historian and photographer Paul Koudounaris found these secret saints in catacombs and storage bins across the old Holy Roman Empire.

Daily News owner and aging billionaire Mort Zuckerman was having a bit too much fun in East Hampton, New York on August 11 when he rammed his Lexus into single mom and store manager Charlene F. Peele’s parked Ford sedan, all but destroying the vehicle. Zuckerman, while claiming to have left his business card at the scene, shortly left the crash site—a violation of state law. Worse, according the New York Post’s Jeane Macintosh, Zuck’s insurance company is refusing to pay for the total cost of the damange, sticking Peele with $4,000 to pay on a car she can’t drive. The East Hampton Star describes the crash:

Last week, Jeffrey Babbitt was randomly attacked in Union Square, allegedly for being white. Yesterday, the 62-year-old from Sheepshead Bay died in Bellevue Hospital.

Angered to the breaking point by the use of cellphones during a movie screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, one movie blogger decided to file a formal complaint with the local police.

A real-life kaiju, albeit a rather small one, was captured off the coast of Massachusetts last week in what is surely a sign of bigger monsters to come.

Not long ago, Barack Obama opined, for some reason, that law school should be two years rather than three. Law schools disagree! Law professors disagree! Who does agree? Actual law school graduates.

In a new poll, American historians gave Barack Obama's presidency a grade of "B-." What grade would you give Barack Obama's presidency? Everyone wants to hear your opinion.

A new season is dawning, and with it, a new craving in America's soul. A craving for sustenance. A new kind of sustenance. Or, more accurately, a "comically large quantity of McDonald's food items" kind of sustenance.

Jason Mortensen has been through a lot over the last six years — surgeries, recoveries, surgeries again — and his loving wife has been by his side through all of it.

At the crossroads of disturbing and adorable lies the YouTube video "kid finds mums dildo."

The U.S. war in Syria is off! Or, at the very least, seriously delayed, now that the Syrian government has reportedly accepted a Russian proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control.

On MSNBC's Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner gave his final television interview before tomorrow's Democratic primary—maybe, given his shrinking support, his final television interview as a politician ever—and it was quite a way to go out.

As many suspected, the "Worst Twerk Fail EVER" video is a fake. Jimmy Kimmel, who had a hand in its making, confirmed it tonight on his show.

Country singer Vince Gill, due to the fact that he is divorced and remarried, was the target of Westboro Baptist Church protestors on Sunday at his concert at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo.

According to The Miami Herald, the Pentagon has been allowing the International Committee of the Red Cross to take pictures of Guantanamo Bay detainees for their families since 2009. Citing Geneva Conventions, the defense department has refused to release identifying photos of those detained but the Herald contacted family members and attorneys to compile this collection of identifiable—and humanized—portraits of prisoners.