On the heels of ExxonMobil's really tough couple of weeks sopping up that grievous oil tar sands spill in suburban Arkansas, America's largest, most profitable corporation is now trying to stop a different leak: a novel attack-ad campaign from an environmental group.

The NC A&T campus is on lockdown after a man with a weapon was reportedly seen near the general classroom building.

When police officers first became a common fixture in high schools in the 1990s, school districts presumably had expectations that the law enforcement would protect students from violence. Instead, the police have found themselves mired in problems usually reserved for a constantly exasperated Vice Principal: disciplining trouble-makers, chasing after scofflaws, scolding ruffians, and tracking down truants. As a result, the number of kids sent to court has increased in school districts where police are present at schools. A criminologist at the University of Maryland and expert in school violence, Denise Gottfredson, said:

Last night's especially very special episode of Glee took on the hot-button topic of school shooting. A series of gunshots put everyone in William McKinley High School in lock down. No one was actually shot, so the episode was kind of inert and lacking the sort of catharsis that would come from watching people on Glee die.

A recent military intelligence briefing for members of Congress states for the first time that North Korea can launch a nuclear missile at its enemies, but there's plenty of reason for skepticism about the assessment.

Today, the French senate voted to legalize gay marriage after a week of heated debate. The bill, which won a 179-157 majority vote, will now return to the National Assembly for a second reading before expected approval in May. The second reading is seen as a technicality as the members of the National Assembly approved the move on February 12.

A massive storm system, spanning from Maine to the Dakotas and from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, bore down on half the continental U.S. yesterday and today, unleashing tornadoes, snow and ice and killing three people on Thursday. One was killed in far eastern Mississippi, where a tornado touched down yesterday afternoon; Derek Cody, an amateur storm chaser, watched it from his car: "I kind of sat there and hoped it would cross right in front of me," he told the AP. "It was just a black mass that moved across the road." In Missouri, another tornado ripped the roofs of some houses, and a pharmacy technician in Hazelwood told USA Today he saw "'a wall of bright light' before the storm lifted products off shelves and tore holes in the roof." Nearby, a utility worker was electrocuted, and later died. The storm system's third victim was killed in Nebraska, where the dangerous weather effect wasn't a tornado but a blinding snowstorm; elsewhere in the upper midwest, states were hit hard by rain and ice. The system now moves out to the east coast, where it'll be dumping rain in the north—and maybe more tornadoes in Virginia and the Carolinas. [USAT | CBS | NBC]

The last time Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) made news for tweeting, it was just after this year's State of the Union. Those tweets, which were quickly deleted, were aimed at 24-year-old model and seemed flirtatious in nature. As it turns out, Cohen was tweeting at his secret daughter, not his secret mistress, and what seemed like a standard sex scandal instead turned into one of the more bizarre ones in recent memory.

If you're going to rob a store in Chicago, it'd probably be smart to make sure it's not one owned by Luis Quizhpe. In the video above, you can see the 62-year-old Quizhipe absolutely wrecking shit as he successfully fends off two gunmen armed only with a baseball bat.

The popularity of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" since Margaret Thatcher's death has created problems for the BBC.

Security screeners at a court in Honolulu were having a regular, run-of-the-mill day earlier this week when they noticed something unusual as they X-rayed a man's bag – an object appeared to be moving inside. When the guards asked the man, Michael Hubbard, to open his bag, he initially refused. The screeners insisted.

Michael Arrington just issued an info dump on his personal blog to go after his ex, Jenn Allen, who accused him of rape.

On Tuesday, Dylan Quick, 20, allegedly went on a stabbing streak at Lone Star Community College near Houston, Texas. In total, 14 people were injured, including one person that remains hospitalized.

Police in San Diego are investigating the redditor who claimed that he murdered his sister's abusive ex-boyfriend.

Is Mark Zuckerberg's new immigration-reform group going to fight for janitors the way it does well-educated engineers?

Here's your latest in identity politics and victimology: One day not quite three years ago, Thomas Klingenstein, a rich white man, found himself playing golf with Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College. They were reportedly discussing the state of higher education and Klingenstein, by his own account, told Mills that he believed today's colleges provide "too much celebration of racial and ethnic difference (particularly as it applies to blacks), and not enough celebration of our common American identity." After that encounter, Mills went on to tell the story in a convocation speech, without using Klingenstein's name, to describe the estrangement between contemporary conservatives and liberal academia.

News from Iran about a Tehrani scientist who claimed to have invented a "time traveling machine" capable of seeing into people's five-year-plan with 98% accuracy made headlines yesterday in nearly every country besides Iran.

As the internet watched the value of Bitcoin, the anonymous techno-libertarian dweeb-currency, drop by more than half yesterday, a collective wondering went up: Who could be dumb enough to put a significant amount of money in a currency this new, useless and volatile?

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Robert Rodriguez knows a thing or two about villains and monsters. With a resume that includes films like Sin City, Grindhouse, and Predators, Rodriguez knows that to make a good villain, you need to dig deep and develop a great monster. But now, he wants you to help him create the monster that will be featured in the upcoming Project Green Screen film he's making in conjunction with BlackBerry, Two Scoops.