A 5-year-old boy whose family's home was destroyed during last month's tornado in Oklahoma was killed by a bull mastiff over the weekend. The dog belonged to a family friend, who the boy had been staying with since the tornado.

Despite all the bluster of the past couple weeks, a new Pew poll shows that most Americans favor terrorist investigations over privacy: "Currently 62% say it is more important for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, even if that intrudes on personal privacy."

Midtown Manhattan sushi joint Sushi Yasuda, acclaimed for its authentic Japanese dining experience, is taking its Far East ambiance a step further — by eliminating tips.

On Sunday, the New York Times ran an uplifting story about a brave California teen who doesn't go to regular school anymore and one time she spilled spaghetti on the carpet. It's Kendall Jenner!

Nike, Microsoft, Dell, and plenty of other Fortune 500 companies are just as enthusiastic about using offshore tax havens as Apple is.

Our old friend Stephen Marche takes on our old friend Marie Calloway, and... my god [shields face with hands] no... [face begins to melt] nooooo........

A Polish news crew reporting live from outside an apartment complex in the north-eastern city of Łomża unwittingly captured some breaking news as their cameras inadvertently recorded a crime in progress.

The always hermetic Bilderberg Group is currently holding its annual meeting in England, thus making it the perfect time for the BBC to host America's foremost raving lunatic, Alex Jones, purveyor of foil-hat-making message board Infowars.com.

There are plenty of nuts you can purchase if you want to. But imagine that all nuts were the same price. What nut would you buy then? If the person in question is me, one of my top two choices would be the cashew.

Erykah Badu has mastered the modern art of giving interview. A mixture of wit and earnestness, of insight and leftfield references, hers is the kind of rare personality that should earn an open invitation to the talk-show circuit regardless of promo and just 'cuz, a la Amy Sedaris on Letterman. Badu is cool to death, she makes music that is cerebral, challenging and sometimes extra-terrestrial. But make no mistake, this woman is a star's star.

Psychic medium to the Stars Derek Acorah has made quite a career for himself being a glorified Ouija board and OK! magazine's go-to prognosticator of vague celebrity tattle.

Despite being founded by the co-creator of alt-porn site Suicide Girls, Let's Date promises its users an entirely safe-for-work environment to find and connect with their One True Soul Mate or whatever.

Drunk people are good at lots of things. They are good at ordering drinks. They are good at cajoling other drunk people into dares. They are good at chasing adventure. They are good at combining all three of these talents to work in frenetic, exciting concert. They are less good at piloting helicopters.

America's official unemployment rate edged up to 7.6% in May; a more accurate measure is closer to 14%. Either way, millions of Americans are unable to find decent jobs. Each week, we hear from some of them in our "Unemployment Stories" series. This is what's happening out there.

Police in Houston say a 44-year-old woman stabbed her 59-year-old boyfriend to death with a stiletto heel during an altercation early Sunday morning.

Donald Trump called in to Fox and Friends this morning to comment on Miss World's decision to nix bikinis in the Indonesian competition so as not to offend the country's large Muslim population:

Granted, it's only Monday, but there is no way this week is producing a worse human than this Dunkin' Donuts customer who filmed herself demanding free food because she didn't get a receipt.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden was apparently staying in this swanky hotel in Hong Kong—until this morning, when he checked out for places unknown.