A Nevada jury decided on the death penalty for 29-year-old Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, the Associated Press reports. Harris was found guilty last month in a fatal shooting and fiery car crash that left three people dead on the Las Vegas strip in 2013.

Louisiana officials say a six-year-old boy was fatally shot when marshals opened fire on his father’s car while the man fled from an attempt to serve a warrant. The boy was riding in the car’s passenger seat.

Ben Carson, an author running for president of the book tour, is currently on a whirlwind tour of Florida. Today he had three scheduled events. How much of a presidential candidate was Ben Carson today?

A fatal car crash left four children orphaned in Georgia on Saturday, BuzzFeed News reports. A police officer dispatched to the family’s address found himself unable to impart the news, and instead took the children for fast food and then back to the precinct for candy.

Residents of a largely black St. Louis suburb have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their town relentlessly issues egregious code-violation tickets as a means of raising municipal funds, reports the Associated Press. The details of this are beyond bonkers.

Today, friendly Ben & Jerry’s enthusiast Bernie Sanders introduced the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act in the U.S. Senate—a bill that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana nationwide.

“De Bat (Fly In Me Face)” is a song from Carly Simon’s 1978 album, Boys In the Trees. In the version above, Carly’s performance is preceded by a “true story” about how she was once assaulted by a bat.

Sometimes you may wonder, “Hey, are the rich getting richer... still?” My friend—they sure are. Very much so.

Leslie Miley was “the only African-American in [engineering] leadership” at Twitter, a company that employs thousands, and owes much of its success to adoption by non-white users. Then he quit, as he explains in a new blog post, because the company is absolutely brain-dead on race.

Last week was all about Quentin Tarantino at the New York Post—with the number of articles about the Pulp Fiction director skyrocketing literally infinitely over the last year. After the staggering increase, New Yorkers of a certain age can’t help but be reminded of the last time it seemed like the maverick director appeared in the tabloid this regularly.

Citing U.S. intelligence sources, CNN and NBC News report that a bomb planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate was most likely what caused Metrojet Flight 9268 to disintegrate mid-air over the Sinai Peninsula last weekend.

For too long, gay experience was defined by outsiders who tended to condemn rather than empathize. As reporting has become democratized and stigma has eroded, more and more people who actually live the experience—the real experts—have been able to share it. The new documentary directed by BET’s Clay Cane Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church facilitates that sort of modern sharing in interviews with several black LGBT people who have vast experience with having their identities shaped, tested, and sometimes flat-out rejected by their churches. It dismisses the notion that being gay and Christian is paradoxical and it helps explain why it’s hard for even those who feel maligned by the church have a hard time leaving it. You can watch it in its entirety here:

The Illinois police officer whose mysterious death triggered a days-long manhunt and was later ruled a suicide killed himself because he feared that state auditors were about to uncover his years-long scheme to embezzle thousands of dollars from a youth charity, according to police.

It is often said that life is about the journey rather than the destination. OK. If you’re so smart, then, what if the destination is a small clearing in the wilderness wherein a skunk is doing an impressive, seconds-long handstand? What’s more important then?

Today, Senator Marco Rubio held a Q&A for “young professionals” at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. That sounds very boring, and it probably mostly was, except that Rubio gave perhaps the most insane answer possible to the question, “Who would you like to have a beer with who is not a politician?”

The FAA has barred all flights from landing at San Diego’s airport due to an active shooter situation at a nearby apartment complex. UPDATE 5:55 pm: The gunman has surrendered. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the gunman was barricaded inside the building with a high-powered rifle.

On May 5, 2010, Gawker received an unsolicited intern application letter from a woman who billed herself as “The (Potential) Intern From Heaven?” Her name was Leah Beckmann.

A young man reportedly stabbed at least four U.C. Merced students inside a university classroom before responding officers shot and killed him early Wednesday morning.

The scariest thing about ISIS (if, like most Americans, you are in no actual danger of coming into contact with ISIS) is that the more members (or fanboys) you follow on Twitter, the more they resemble you and your friends, in that we are all petty idiots. Today, one militant is taking a break from building the Caliphate to beef with some guy on social media.

The latest cost estimate for California’s high speed bullet train project: $71 billion. Seems like a lot.