"From 2008 to 2011, only 17% of court-ordered claims for back pay and labor law penalties were collected" by low-wage workers in California. Almost everyone got screwed by the boss.

Jimmy Kimmel sent his intrepid Lie Witness News crew to the streets outside the Staples Center where Justin Bieber was performing to see just how blindly his fans will follow him.

One day after announcing he was calling another special session of the Texas Legislature in order to try and pass a stringent abortion bill, Governor Rick Perry decided to publicly attack Wendy Davis, the state senator who successfully filibustered the bill for 13 hours on Tuesday.

According to CNN, Rachel Jeantel—the friend Trayvon Martin was speaking to on the phone before he was killed—is a star (witness, at least). When asked by George Zimmerman's defense if Trayvon could have been lying about his location, she answered:

A Texas teen has been jailed since late March for what his father says was just a dumb joke he posted on Facebook.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with using weapons of mass destruction and killing four people in the April bombing of the Boston Marathon.

Last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras was so packed with hilarious/stupid moments that I couldn't even focus on one family — the clip reel above spans the entire episode, wherein we met 2-year-old Khloe (named after the Kardashian, communicates solely in banshee wail), 4-year-old Brooklyn (aggressively flatulent, flings cats), and 6-year-old Ma'Leeh (her mother hates her). Actual spoken sentences included, "Don't let the cat eat the catfish — is that cannibalism?" and, "You look like a gypsy prostitute" (Brooklyn's mother laughed as she said both). The word "supreme" was used as a verb on multiple occasions. Ma'Leeh's mom called her a "god dang diva." Predictably, everyone had a really hard time wrapping their heads around the concept of Indian culture. That concept was kind of trolling in the first place.

The Guardian continues to expose the extent to which we are all beautiful tropical fish swimming in the electronic aquarium of the NSA's surveillance systems. According to a top-secret report by the NSA's inspector general obtained by the Guardian (presumably from Ed Snowden) the Obama Administration continued a Bush-era program that collected U.S. email records in bulk.

In the wake of April's horrific garment factory collapse, in which 1,129 people died, the Obama administration plans on suspending trade benefits to Bangladesh, raising duties on goods like tobacco, plastics and some textiles.

The Friedrich Aquarium at the San Antonio Zoo welcomed four new turtles last week, but one of them was definitely not like the others.

Throughout America, the housing market has recovered so well from its collapse five years ago that we're already talking about the next collapse. This has been great news for current homeowners. But for poor people who would prefer not to be homeless, times are only getting harder.

Don't go to art school.

The roommate of a Washington man accused of strangling his girlfriend and then trying to dispose of her body in a plastic tub full of acid says the alleged murder was inspired by an episode of AMC's Breaking Bad — the suspect's favorite show.

Williamsburg, which our nation's greatest newspaper has scientifically determined to be the only neighborhood in New York City that really matters, is responsible for the invention of the swimming pool, the cocktail party, and the man bun. What will the hip young creatives in this hot and happening area give to society next?

An IRS contractor who has been using a minor, possibly non-existent injury from his prep school days 27 years ago to secure government contracts for his company was publicly shamed by Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in such a magnificent way that it almost made his fraud worthwhile.

A newly released 2011 report from the CIA's inspector general reveals that the CIA embedded four officers inside the NYPD's intelligence division after 9/11. The CIA, of course, is not allowed to spy on Americans. And they didn't, according to the CIA!

President Obama says that he won't be scrambling military jets to extradite NSA leaker Edward Snowden to the U.S. He also dismissed suggestions that he should order the Air Force to intimidate the plane that will carry Snowden from Russia to his next location.

Now that the Supreme Court has struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and punted on Proposition 8, allowing California to continue licensing gay marriages, the two largest legal battles for gay-rights advocates have essentially ended. So what comes next?

Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the Edward Snowden story, found himself in the spotlight on Wednesday as two very different articles about him were published. The first, from the New York Daily News, focused on Greenwald's involvment with a porn company in the early 2000s and his substantial tax debt. The other, a more detailed and flattering profile in BuzzFeed, covered Greenwald's life and his unusual career path, touching and expanding on some of the more salacious details from the Daily News story.

It's safe to say that when 25 police officers gathered in a park outside of Philadelphia to participate in a bike school for cops, they weren't expecting to find two people having sex on a bench at 4 pm. And likewise, when Richard McBride and Jennifer Harvey (allegedly) stripped off their clothes for some mid-park sex, they probably didn't think they'd get busted by a bike cop, much less 25 of them at once.