Two kittens, living out an urban/feline version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, took a Subway Adventure earlier today and caused the MTA to halt subways on the B and Q lines for an hour.

Today, a right wing think tank ran a full page Wall Street Journal ad implying that a rise in the minimum wage would cause fast food workers to be replaced by robots. The prospect of robo-dystopia did not deter the hundreds of chanting protesters who bent the corner of Broadway and Nassau at 11:15 this morning.

Cory Booker, the attention-loving Democratic mayor of Newark who is currently running for U.S. Senate, has repeatedly claimed he befriended a drug dealer named “T-Bone” when he first moved to Newark in 1995. Up until 2008, he told this story fairly often, wrenching the hearts of interviewers and audiences. But according to Eliana Johnson at National Review, “T-Bone” is almost certainly not a real person. Rutgers University history professor Clement Price, Johnson writes,

A new leak from former security contractor Edward Snowden, published in the Washington Post, reveals the "black budget"—the money spent on the U.S. government's intelligence-gathering operations—for 2013. And it's colossal: A total of $52.6 billion, covering the CIA, the NSA and lesser-known agencies like the National Reconnaissance Office.

The white guy was looking up at the TV in a rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike. Onscreen, the news was showing John Lewis speaking at the anniversary of the March on Washington. "I am not going to stand by and let the Supreme Court take the right to vote away from us," Lewis said. The white guy in the rest stop glared at the TV, then looked around the dining space. What's he TALKING about? he asked his family or the air, the world around him. He was seething; he wanted to be heard. He HAS the right to vote.

Lots of people are pissed at Miley Cyrus for her VMA performance, and each person seems to have their own special reason. But one of these people, Steve Chmelar, has a reason that may be the most special of all.

A New Jersey court ruled yesterday that a person knowingly texting a driver could be held legally responsible should the driver end up being involved in a crash.

Nearly a decade after Central Perk burned to the ground, trapping all of the Friends inside it, David Schwimmer continues to be the lamest character in everyone's lives.

"I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils … I make my own medicines; I don't get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants."—Actress Shailene Woodley.

It's happened before, but this time a bank not only sent repo men to foreclose on the wrong house — they sent repo men to foreclose on the wrong house in the wrong town.

On Sunday, the Lord’s day, Miley Cyrus crawled out of a big teddy bear (that had eaten her, I guess?) and pitched around the stage of a multi-purpose indoor Brooklyn arena in what another century might have labeled “the latter stages of female hysteria.” She licked her mouth a lot. She knocked her butt, clad in rubber underpants, into the crotch of a married man 16 years her senior. It was her dad’s birthday.

When the owner of a Buddy's Small Lots in Wayne, New Jersey, received a call from police that her store had been broken into, she immediately feared the worst.

If women are so much more likely than men to be "depressed," then how come men are always getting in fights and killing people and killing themselves and hollering, more than women? Spoiler: it's because men, too, are depressed.

Was an overstuffed, defective Walmart shopping bag to blame for Lynette Freis' death? Considering the strange way in which she met her demise, it might as well have been.

As U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon awaits a report from weapons inspectors about last week's alleged chemical attack on civilians in Damascus, the U.S. is playing down expectations for a "smoking gun" connecting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the attack—and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is facing fierce opposition to intervention in parliament.

Hard to believe this plan went awry: In an misguided attempt to smuggle drugs inside, a Washington man fired an arrow wrapped with a bag of weed and an unidentified substance at the second floor screen of the Whatcom County jail's recreation area on Tuesday morning. The man, of course, missed his target, and the arrow landed on the prison's roof, where it was quickly discovered.

The giant hellfire burning through Yosemite National Park continues to spread; by Wednesday morning the Rim Fire had grown to 187,500 acres, roughly the size of New York City. The fire is devastating, of course, but as the above video shows, it's also sort of beautiful, at least when captured with time-lapse photography.

Amid widespread calls for his resignation, Yellowstone County District Judge G. Todd Baugh apologized Wednesday for saying a 14-year-old rape victim was “older than her chronological age” and was “as much in control of the situation” as her attacker.