As it turns out, this whole "evolution" thing isn't just a phase. And now Louisiana has to figure out whether we should be teaching it in our schools.

What began as a simple post on Subway Australia's Facebook page demanding to know why the company's Footlong sandwiches were coming up an inch short has spiraled into a full-blown lawsuit.

Did you know that Shakira has a last name? And also a baby boy, now; congratulations Shakira.

Concerned that his poor grades might get him in trouble, an 11-year-old Spanish boy did what any kid his age would do when faced with the prospect of getting yelled at by mom and dad: He faked his own kidnapping.

There was a time when Oprah Winfrey was the most important voice in America. She created careers with a warm embrace. She ended them with a disapproving head shake. And she selected presidents with arms outstretched.

New York mayor Mike Bloomberg's crusade to ban large-sized sugary drinks has some surprising new foes: the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation, two large nonprofits ostensibly dedicated to advancing the rights of minorities. In this case, they are advancing the interests of their own corporate backers at the expense of the people they are supposed to serve.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is lifting the ban on women serving in combat roles, following the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and overturning the 1994 regulation that prevented women from serving in combat units. Our endless war machine is almost officially gender-neutral!

After accepting his award for "Class Actor," a high school senior from Parsippany, New Jersey, bravely pulls back the curtain in front of over 300 students, parents, and faculty members, and reveals that he is gay.

Gilda's Club Madison has decided not to rename itself after all.

If your idea of a perfect Sunday is one that opens with you going temporarily blind following a fit of frothy, incoherent rage, The New York Times real estate section is your jam.

Expensive "whole-food juicers" chop produce "into a high-fiber drink." Not to be confused with blenders, which they are.

We're seeing the first previews of Manti Te'o's interview with Katie Couric, set to air tomorrow. In the clip, Couric flat out asks Te'o why he ran with the story about his dead girlfriend, even after learning the whole thing was a hoax on Dec. 6.

Report: SXSW has rejected the Lohan vehicle/Sundance-reject The Canyons. Now I really want to see it.

For the past five years, Denmark's most popular fishing magazine has been attracting readers with weekly Page Three-like pin-up photos of birthday-suited women getting frisky with fish.

"Want to start a book club or find a gym buddy? Connect with friends who like the same activities — and meet new people, too," Facebook's brand-new, would-be revolutionary Graph Search promises. Of course, you can also find out which Muslims in Tehran are interested in men, and which Chinese citizens have relatives interested in Falun Gong. Or which married people like prostitutes!

Survey: Almost half of gay hook-up app users admit to having unprotected intercourse at least "sometimes." So stop.

Some went through the stages of grief when word emerged that Beyoncé lip-synched "The Star Spangled Banner" at Monday's Presidential Inauguration. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and Saying Weird Things in Public from Time to Time (remember the Kathie Lee beef of 2012?), however, was tickled by the news and may emulate Beyoncé going forward. Or something. Franklin told ABCNews.com that she thought King Bey "did a beautiful job," adding (and here's the weird part):

Firefighters in Naples, aided by a crew from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, helped a bald eagle untangle itself from a fishing line that had left it dangling from a tree some 70 feet above ground.

Practically every literate human has entertained the idea of writing a novel. For most of us the idea fades as soon as something good comes on TV. But imagine if you wrote short stories for a living. Imagine if you wrote dozens of incredible short stories over almost twenty years and became the world's most famous living short story writer, but still never published a novel. Wouldn't you really really want to write a novel? In other words: Why the hell hasn't George Saunders—New York Times-certified "Writer of Our Time"—written a novel?

An infant in Russia came thisclose to getting crush beneath the wheels of a truck after being tossed onto the icy pavement following a collision between her family's Mitsubishi and a big rig.