"If a raging hurricane were to strike New York City, it could suck up sharks and other sea creatures — triggering a Sharkicane, a horrifying real-life twist on the campy hit flick 'Sharknado.'"

In an interview with the Associated Press on Sunday, Glenn Greenwald said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has “blueprints” that explain how the NSA operates. Greenwald described the documents as "basically the instruction manual for how the NSA is built,” and said they are detailed enough to allow readers to evade or possibly duplicate NSA surveillance techniques.

From the streets of New York to the freeways of Los Angeles, thousands of protestors across the country marched peacefully yesterday, protesting George Zimmerman's acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin and demanding justice.

While most Americans were out drinking, barbecuing, and setting off fireworks on July Fourth, more than a dozen employees at an Italian restaurant in Florida were finding out they'd all been fired, via a text message from their boss.

Proving once again that moviegoers will ignore terrible reviews, Grown Ups 2 made $42.5 million at the box office this weekend. That wasn't enough, though, to top Despicable Me 2, which stayed at number one with $44.7 million. Pacific Rim was third, with $38.3 million.

A 35-year-old Israeli man was rushed to the hospital on Friday after a snake suddenly emerged from the toilet he was sitting on and bit the man's penis.

The trial of Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre — a former Goldman Sachs trader who is accused of intentionally selling bad investments and making up terrible nicknames for himself — begins tomorrow.

A Brazilian man was killed earlier this month when a cow crashed through the roof of his home, crushing him.

The Justice Department just announced that federal prosecutors are looking into the Trayvon Martin shooting to see if criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman are appropriate. Although the DOJ opened an investigation into Martin's death last year, the agency stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.

Wal-Mart is threatening to walk away from at least three planned sites in the District of Columbia after DC lawmakers voted to require the megastore and other large nonunion retailers to provide workers with a mimimum "living wage" of $12.50 an hour.

A high school teacher in Westchester County, NY was arrested Friday for alleged rape, the same day he was supposed to be getting married.

Making the rounds in the days leading up to the Zimmerman verdict was the story of Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman now serving up to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot in the area of her abusive husband, who was in her home against her wishes.

More than 85 percent of British gang members have an antisocial personality disorder, according to a recent study from England's National Institute for Health Research/Guy Ritchie.

JK Rowling was outed this morning as Robert Galbraith, the pseudonym credited as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling, a well-regarded mystery novel released in April.

Protestors have set up a giant inflatable rat outside of Anthony Weiner's Park Avenue South apartment building to show their displeasure with his proposed plan to eliminate the parent-coordinator position in public schools. Weiner says he doesn't mind the protest, but thinks it's "diminishing the value of the rat."

If the restrictive Texas abortion law passed on Friday survives legal challenges, health experts are worried that low-income women may turn to Mexico for "abortion pills".

Canadian actor Cory Monteith, best known for his role as Finn Hudson on Fox's Glee, was found dead this morning in his hotel room in Vancouver of an apparent drug overdose.

George Zimmerman's brother, Robert, appeared on CNN this evening to discuss with Piers Morgan what the Zimmerman family has gone through after George Zimmerman killed (but did not murder) 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Flashback: The day Rep. Bobby Rush got kicked off the floor of the House of Representatives for wearing a hoodie in honor of Trayvon Martin.

Tonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy serves as a Rorschach test for the American public. For conservatives, it’s a triumph of permissive gun laws and a victory over the liberal media, which had been unfairly rooting for the dead kid all along. For liberals, it's a tragic and glaring example of the gaps that plague our criminal justice system. For people of color, it’s a vivid reminder that we must always be deferential to white people, or face the very real chance of getting killed.