A car bomb rocked the French Embassy in Tripoli today, injuring two guards in what's presumed to be the first terrorist attack on a diplomatic outpost in the Libyan capital since the deposition of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011. The blast was also the most major strike at a foreign government's compound since a cadre of assailants stormed the U.S. Consulate in September 2012 and killed four, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

CNN's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week was great news for Jon Stewart.

Senator Max Baucus (D - Mon.) plans to retire rather than seek re-election next year. And yet he still voted against background checks on gun sales last week.

In addition to knowing every detail of your cultural taste, Netflix also knows you're sharing that password with your old roommate's best friend's brother. So in the name of offering a family plan, Netflix announced that a $4 monthly hike will allow four simultaneous video streams, up from the two allowed now.

While reporting from Boston on new bombing investigation details, Fox News reporter Mike Tobin — or, rather, his cheeks — were abruptly ambushed by two pursed-lipped live-shot invaders.

Florida is more scared of Islamic theocracy than anything else in the world, except maybe your Aunt Ethel in Boynton Beach. Fortunately, Florida has figured out how to neutralize both threats with a single proposed law.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old student who, along with his brother Tamerlan, allegedly detonated two explosives at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week, has indicated to authorities that the pair acted alone, with no connection to overseas terrorist groups, CNN and AP both report.

France is expected to legalize gay marriage today, despite a series of large and increasingly more vehement protests against equality. It would be the 14th nation to do so.

When you think about terrible Michael Bay movies, you think of...well, all of them, except for maybe the first Bad Boys, which the 15-year-old me remembers as being entertaining enough. But if you were to name the worst Bay film, it'd have to be one from the Transformers trilogy, right? Not according to Bay. In a recent interview with the Miami Herald, the director opened up about the one movie he regrets making.

We've already covered some of the “Tragedy for Sale” opportunistic douches who waited almost an entire day before attempting to profit from last week's bombings in Boston. On Monday – as the Huffington Post was the first to report – news broke that a second round of apparent tragedy opportunists attempted to cash in just two days after the attack. On April 17, two separate people/corporations filed trademark applications for the phrase and post-bombing rallying call "Boston Strong."

Bad news for those of you hoping to see Reese Witherspoon discuss her fancy new police report with Jimmy Fallon: The recent jailbird has cancelled all of her scheduled TV appearances this week, including visits to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and Good Morning America.

Early Monday afternoon, Reuters fired its deputy social media editor Matthew Keys, who, five weeks ago, was federally indicted for allegedly collaborating with Anonymous to hack news sites run by the Tribune Company. In a twist that fits the strange nature of the story (and Keys's bizarre internet past), it was Keys himself who broke the news this afternoon in an announcement on Twitter.

Until last week, the Boston Bombers were the city’s only semi-pro women’s basketball team, one of more than 40 national organizations affiliated with the Women’s Blue Chip League. They held tryouts in Jamaica Plain, fostered regular player-development clinics, and maintained a summer league. They also, like any sports club, had an aggrandizing logo of cartoony power, a lit-fuse Wile E. Coyote bomb with basketball grooves.

During an interrogation that took place in his hospital room today, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly told authorities that he and his brother acted alone in last week's attacks.

Richie Havens, the legendary folk singer who opened Woodstock in 1969, died of a heart attack at his home in New Jersey today. He was 72.

Think making eye contact with people on the subway is awkward? Try making eye contact with their O-face.

Cool, edgy parents who hold their babies with one hand have been observing for years that infants are like drunk people. They can barely hold their heads up! They’re always bursting into tears! They’re steady tryin' to suck on titties in public! Now, New Yorkers have found a way to make their children even more like drunk people: They’re teaching them to pee on the street.

The New York Times just torched Times reporter Brian Stelter's new book Top of the Morning, calling it "overblown" and "silly" and comparing it unfavorably with the work of Stelter's partner on the TV beat, Bill Carter. The upside? "Mr. Stelter is just 27, so there’s ample time really to get the hang of this."

Comedian Will Sasso, previously known as the best thing about MADtv, is quickly conquering yet another medium: The Internet.

At a press conference this afternoon, Canadian police revealed they had thwarted a terrorist plot to derail a passenger train operating somewhere in the Toronto area. Calling the bust a "multi-jurisdictional" effort, one which involved both Canadian and American law-enforcement agencies, authorities with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police offered few details but said they had taken into custody two men: Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, neither of whom is a Canadian citizen.