Akein Scott, a 19-year-old New Orleans man, was arrested last night as a suspect in the Mother's Day shooting of 19 people. Scott's apprehension seems to be receiving somewhat less attention than that of other purveyors of terror.

You can't easily wipe away the gains of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, but can it continue to roll on despite commodity shortages?

Sean "P.uff Di/addy" Combs took to his Twitter account yesterday to announce that, incredibly, he had been cast as the first black cast member of the popular Masterpiece Classic series Downton Abbey.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one-half of the alleged Boston marathon bombers, left a note in the boat he was hiding in during the final hours of the April 19th manhunt, CBS News is reporting.

A tornado outbreak ripped through north Texas last night, killing at least six, and leaving hundreds injured. Particularly hard-hit was the small town of Granbury, Texas, which saw two neighborhoods leveled by a single tornado.

National Review writer Kevin Williamson has an interesting post up at The Corner right now. The post describes his trip to the theater Wednesday night, which was disrupted by a woman next to him who kept using her phone throughout the performance. He asked her several times to stop, and she refused, telling Williamson to mind his own business. So Williamson did what any petulant child or criminal would do: he grabbed the phone from her hands and threw it across the room.

According to local officials, several people were killed and over 100 were injured in a powerful storm in north Texas. The National Weather Service said there were reports of a mile-wide tornado in the area.

If you’re in a tropical country and looking to avoid malaria, the scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have an easy pro-tip for you: wash your damn socks.

Google has been trying to get its electronic payment service, Google Wallet, off the ground for years now, but as the months dragged on Wallet was getting about as much traction as its sister service Google Plus. That all might change with Wallet's latest development, introduced today in the video above. If Google has its way, you'll soon be able to send and receive money via your Gmail account in the length of time it takes to send any other email.

Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old high school student who made news earlier this month after her misguided science experiment created a small explosion on school property, will not face felony charges for the incident after all.

This Benghazi shit just won't stop: On Wednesday, the White House released more than 100 pages of emails showing the modification of various talking points by Obama administration officials, the CIA, and the State Department in the immediate aftermath of last September's attack. The emails reportedly suggest that the CIA took the lead in shaping the talking points to describe the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

President Obama just announced in a press conference that IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned amid accusations that the tax body unfairly targeted conservative groups for scrutiny.

Grandmothers. Grammas, Nanas, Meemaws, and Grammys. She's a lot older than you and you love her for it. The next time you've got a little down time to spend with yours, assuming you're lucky enough to have one or know one or know where a bunch of them like to hang, maybe flip on My Grandmother's Ravioli on the Cooking Channel. In the show, Mo Rocca travels around the U.S. visiting kitchens and learning to cook family recipes like chicken kiev and paprikash from old people with "big personalities."

A Pennsylvania bus driver survived a terrifying encounter with a wild deer that burst through the windshield before frantically jumping around looking for a way out. The driver had some minor cuts on his hands from the broken glass but otherwise just wanted a copy of the security video "before it went viral."

Physicists say they have discovered a new type of friction. Yeah right.

Are you married to a man who committed the ultimate act of betrayal and cheated on you? Are you finding it impossible to forgive him because he ruined your relationship and destroyed the sense of trust you thought you shared? Not sure how to move on? Well, Pat Robertson has some advice for you: Get over it because men can't help but cheat and it's probably your fault anyway.

The Politico, America's worst news outlet, is all over the news that President Obama ordered IRS agents to murder Americans in Benghazi or whatever exactly is going on with these very big scandals: "D.C. turns on Obama"! "Obama's dangerous new narrative"! "Scandals could roil 2014 elections"!

Attorney General Eric Holder, who is currently embroiled in the Justice Department's AP phone records controversy, was having none of it today when Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) got a little acerbic during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Former future dirty old man/cross-singer Prince granted a "rare and far-ranging, two-hour-plus interview late, late on Monday night" with his hometown paper The Star Tribune. One thing he wouldn't discuss? Minnesota's recent passage of marriage equality. Says the paper:

As temperatures continue to skyrocket into the low to mid-sixties up and down the East Coast, many beautiful and strange-looking women will soon find themselves faced with the eternal conundrum of summer: how to deal with a too-hot boob. Luckily for some, the NYPD is here to remind us that anything goes in New Boob City! Whip off that top. Wipe off that top-colored body paint. Awkwardly unhook that bra with one hand unless the hook is stuck in which case pull it over your head but be careful not to stretch it. You cannot be detained, arrested, or fined for going topless in public in New York.