Two suicide bombers killed at least 41 people and injured 200 more Thursday evening in Beirut neighborhood considered a Hezbollah-stronghold, according to the Lebanese health minister.

Perpetual former candidate for president and (occasionally) vice president Bob Dole has a few opinions about what will soon be the latest crop of former candidates for president. Namely, that he thinks they’re all real swell guys. Well—except for one.

Nouman Raja, the Palm Beach Gardens police officer who fatally shot Corey Jones in October, has been fired. A criminal investigation into the shooting is ongoing, according to a Palm Beach Gardens spokeswoman.

In recent weeks, calls for widespread institutional change at some predominantly white colleges and universities have captured the nation’s collective attention. On one side, free speech fundamentalists at schools like UCLA, Yale, and the University of Missouri insist that one’s First Amendment right outweighs issues of racial insensitivity. Nobody ever guaranteed a hostile-free learning environment, they say. On the other side, black students feel unsafe as a result of unregulated free speech masked as open intellectual exchange.

Yesterday, a large group of workers at an IKEA store in Massachusetts told the company they want to unionize. IKEA’s response so far? Nothing.

A Scottish chief councillor who voted earlier this year to shut down all public toilets in his district of South Lanarkshire was fined by police Saturday morning for hmm guess what pissing in the street. It’s a shame there were no public restrooms around for him to use.

A University of Missouri professor who encouraged his students to stand up to the “bullies” threatening to kill black students on campus by taking a scheduled exam Wednesday has offered his resignation. Dale Brigham’s email about the exam was met with immediate backlash from some of his students, who accused him of not caring about their safety.

Behind the wealthy and famous people who appear to control global socioeconomic forces, there’s a secretive power elite hiding in the shadows, pulling the strings, and eating free food at McDonald’s. Last night, actor Rob Lowe publicly revealed himself as one of them.

Billionaire Hollywood mogul David Geffen announced another large philanthropic gift this week—one that could fully cement him as the most narcissistic and least useful philanthropist in America.

Police officers in Missouri say they’ve arrested a second college student in connection with threats posted on the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak.

This thing is never, never going to leave your nightmares.

On Tuesday, a grand jury handed down 106 felony indictments in the Waco, Texas, biker shootout that left nine people dead and 18 wounded, the New York Times reports. Central Texas prosecutors say they will seek to indict the rest of the 177 people arrested that day.

Eight ex-policemen who dragged a Mozambican cab driver behind a police van and then beat him to death inside a jail cell were each sentenced to 15 years in prison, reports the New York Times.

The US Navy has chosen Facebook COO and corporate feminism brand ambassador Sheryl Sandberg to christen its newest attack submarine, the Virginia-class USS Massachusetts. “According to navy lore, sponsors are said to imbue a ship with their personalities,” the Associated Press reports. Lean in, sailor!

A Utah family court judge has ordered that a one-year-old child must be taken away from the foster parents who’ve been raising her because the foster parents are lesbians, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Tennessee attorney Fred Wortman apologized to his wife Staci on Tuesday for trying to kill her three different times, WMC Action News 5 reports. He was in court to accept a plea deal.

Darius McCollum, a legendary thief who has been arrested 29 times for transit-related offenses, was picked up again in Brooklyn Wednesday, the New York Post reports—this time for stealing a Greyhound bus from the Port Authority depot.

Russia’s secret plans for a nuclear torpedo are no longer secret, reports The Guardian. In fact, they’ve been broadcast on two Russian television stations. Generally—and here I will admit I don’t know how they do things in Russia—this is not how you keep a secret.

The Canadian Judicial Council announced Monday that it will review a Federal Court judge’s behavior in a case involving the alleged sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman, the CBC reports. At one point, Justice Robin Camp asked the complainant, “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?”

A new study presented this week at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting in Orlando shows that wealthy organ transplant candidates can and do use their resources to game the system and jump in line on transplant wait lists, reports the Washington Post.