Hours after Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in Texas, three lawmakers proposed an even stricter regulation: No abortions to be performed after a fetal heartbeat can be detected—which usually happens around the six-week mark.

A routine response to an accident in Delaware Wednesday morning turned into an intense police chase across state lines when a 23-year-old suspect fled the scene, first in a car, then on a stolen bicycle, and, finally, with a swim across a bay.

While some people might appreciate finding a pre-packed bowl in their fast food bag, others, like the parents of a four-year-old child, might not be so thrilled. The latter was the case Tuesday night, when a Michigan family discovered a pot-filled pipe in their toddler's Burger King Kids Meal box.

A New Mexico man is hoping to identify the jogger who he says has pooped next to his home at least four times since April. “This is malicious fecal distribution,” the man said.

Sgt. Sean Murphy, the Massachusetts State Police tactical photographer who took the just-published photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture, has been relieved of duty. The announcement was made just hours after Murphy provided Boston Magazine with hundreds of photos from the manhunt.

A shirtless man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after witnesses saw him attach a .45-caliber handgun to his belt near a Secret Service police booth outside the White House. Upon being taken into custody, the man, Christopher Briggs, reportedly told officers he was "was only going to fire a couple of shots if no one confronted me."

Dozens of people gathered Tuesday outside the Towne East Square mall in Wichita to protest the arrest of a black man who was charged with criminal trespassing for walking around the mall in a black hoodie with a sign around his neck that read "If I don’t stand for something then I will fall for anything #RIPTrayvon Martin."

In response to the Rolling Stone cover featuring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Instagram selfie, Boston magazine has published a number of incredible of photos from behind the scenes of the manhunt that captured the accused Boston bomber, taken by Sgt. Sean Murphy, a Massachusetts State Police tactical photographer.

Looking to send her nerdy son off to Harvard in style, this helicopter parent to end all helicopter parents has taken to Craigslist's "casual encounters" section to seek a young woman who can help claim the "socially awkward" boy's virginity, and turn him into a "cool college kid."

On last night's second-season, Watch and Sniff premiere of TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, the Thompson-Shannon family was alerted of a run-over hog. They chased it down, hacked it up and prepared, and prepared in a dish alternately referred to as "chunky pork and beans" and "hoof and beans."

Gawker has obtained audio of an alleged Kanye West erratically justifying his interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards ("Because I wrote my ['Run This Town'] verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé"), ranting about not being asked to perform at the ceremony over Pink, and claiming that his mother, Donda West, "died for this fame shit."

The City of Boston is very unhappy with Rolling Stone's decision to feature Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its August 1 cover, so unhappy that a long list of New England-tied retailers have refused to stock the issue. As of today, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's former college, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, has joined the boycott.

Michelle Obama dragged her daughters, Malia, 15, and Sasha, 12, out for a visit with her friend Mrs. Carter in Chicago last night, even though Mrs. Carter only ever wants to talk about mortgages and interest rates and mulch and Sasha and Malia would rather spend their time snapchatting pix of their dog to their friends.

Fox's two biggest animation properties are burying the hatchet and teaming up for a crossover episode set to debut next year.

Here is a portrait of Al Roker, America's weatherman, on Twitter: He follows lots of media folks and news organizations (and @BrunoMars), as well as two Twitter accounts that appear to tweet exclusively in Japanese. He recently surpassed 200,000 followers, which was important to him. Most of tweets can be classified in three discrete categories:

In the past week we've run quite a few true stories from Wal-Mart workers— stories that have scared the hell out of Wal-Mart itself, with good reason. We haven't requested more stories, but our mailbox is still overflowing. Here are more tales of life in retail purgatory.

Capt. Bronson had been away from home for nearly nine months, six of which were spent serving in Afghanistan, when he received word that he will be returning to his family three weeks early.

As you may recall, roughly six weeks ago we succeeded in raising $200,000 from readers in an effort to purchase and publish a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. I'm disappointed to announce definitively that the money won't be going to purchase and publish a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. (For an explanation as to why, go here.) Instead, we are pursuing the Plan B we laid out when we began the project: donating the funds to Canadian organizations that address the fallout from substance abuse.

"I heard a rumor that Matt Damon was in Rabat, filming a movie called The Green Zone."