Oprah Winfrey's once-derided channel OWN is pulling itself out of the financial hole. It's a good thing, because OWN has a commitment to insane programming.

It was just another Friday night in the young life of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim — until he was shot nine times by a police officer for brandishing a small knife inside an empty streetcar.

A trailer for Ben Stiller's upcoming movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has arrived and it looks great. Great enough, at least, to forgive it for being one of too many trailers to feature a folk band enthusiastically shouting "hey!"

Bradley Manning, the Army private who leaked confidential State Department cables to Wikileaks, has been found not guilty of "aiding the enemy," and guilty on 15 of the 20 other contested charges against him.

We'll give you one guess who's on the new Vanity Fair cover. ONE GUESS. [Ghost Monthly.]

With fast-food workers around the country striking for better pay, a new study finds that McDonald's could double all of its employees' wages and benefits—including the CEO's—and the cost of a Big Mac would only increase by 68 cents. The Dollar Menu would increase to $1.17.

In this five-minute video essay, filmmaker Ernie Park compares two different versions of a 1953 film: one edited for Hollywood audiences and one for Italian filmgoers. By comparing two different versions of the same footage, the video essay comes across like a think piece on how seemingly cosmetic changes can affect meaning, tone, and content in movies.

An Arkansas man paralyzed from the waist down told police he awoke Monday morning to a "burning pain," only to find his dog chewing on a ball. His ball, that is.

Do several high profile incidents over the past decade mean that there is a "sinister trend" of sexual abuse by college music professors? (No.)

Anthony Weiner's latest sexting paramour Sydney Leathers has certainly come a long way since telling The Daily Mail a few days ago that she "didn't want the attention" that came with the story's exposure, and certainly wasn't "looking to make money off it."

When the violence, strife, and cold-blooded realpolitik world of international relations starts to get you down, take heart in this truth: no matter where you go— from Kansas City to Kabul— college kids will be angry, shouty, and dumb.

New information that has surfaced in the aftermath of investigative reporter Shea Allen's termination "without cause" is casting much needed sunshine on the events leading up to her controversial dismissal.

As a standard part of hiring new workers, lots of businesses run background checks on applicants using the FBI's criminal databases. But those databases have serious problems.

After successfully campaigning to have old school author Jane Austen appear on the UK's ten-pound bill, Caroline Criado-Perez has been swamped with death threats and rape threats on Twitter. She reports seeing "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours," describing the reaction as having "stumbled into a nest of men who coordinate attacks on women." The advocate has responded by retweeting the threats, which include promises of violent action, demeaning remarks, and plans to find her.

Here's a straightforward question the New York Daily News' Denis Hamill asked New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner: "There is no one you are sexting now?" Here's Weiner's complete, totally unstraightforward answer:

Babies who are breastfed are smarter later in life, because, scientists say, nothing is smarter than sucking on some tittayyyyyssssss.

It's pretty self-evident that pornography sex is quite different from real-world sex.

At least 15 people went missing after a series of explosions Monday night at a propane gas plant in Tavares, Florida. A Lake County Sheriff's Office spokesman initially said “a lot” of people were believed to have been killed, but all 15 missing workers were eventually found alive, though seven were injured.

The New York Times is reporting that Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch's soon-to-be third ex-wife, has hired a new divorce attorney, signaling a potentially messy battle over the couples' prenuptial agreement, their two postnuptial agreements, and the custody of their two daughters.