Mormon leaders have issued a rare public statement to the church’s 15 million members, advising that the confluence Sunday of a lunar eclipse and a supermoon (a “blood moon”) should not be taken as a sign of the apocalypse: “Avoid being caught up in extreme efforts to anticipate catastrophic events.”

He stared at me like he knew me. Like, if we lived in the same hood, we would kick it. We probably would. Hennessy is my favorite drink, too.

Japanese mobile phone company SoftBank, which sells a humanoid robot named Pepper, has reminded its customers not to have sex with their robots, Agence France-Press reports. “The policy owner must not perform any sexual act or other indecent behaviour,” the user agreement reads.

The Moon is shrinking, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

While covering a protest in the West Bank on Friday, a pair of Agence France-Presse journalists were beaten by Israeli troops, the Associated Press reports. The “unprovoked attack” was caught on video. The Israeli military said Saturday the soldiers will face “disciplinary measures.”

Three women filed a civil lawsuit Friday in L.A. County Superior Court claiming that the Saudi prince accused this week of forcing a female employee to perform oral sex on him assaulted them as well, the Los Angeles Times reports.

This Sunday, in a special hourlong episode of Vice’s HBO show, Barack Obama speaks with inmates at a jail in Oklahoma during a roundtable interview hosted by Vice’s CEO Shane Smith. It is both the first time that a sitting president has visited a federal prison, and the first time that a sitting president has visited a federal prison accompanied by a man who boasted of fucking cougars, synchronized masturbation sessions with co-workers, and participated in sword-crossing threesomes.

Earlier this week, TMZ reported on the strange case of a 17-year-old girl who claimed that the youngest and most popular Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, had been stalking and harassing her, and even staged a car accident in an attempt to kill her. The teen went as far as filing a temporary restraining order against Kylie and signing to affirm her allegations are true.

Celebrities—they’re just like us: risking life and limb for the taste of a truffle fry.

Nobody in journalism really knows exactly what’s ethical or unethical, but a standard that we could perhaps come to some sort of consensus on is if a reporter is moved to the point of tears by a person, she shouldn’t write about that person in her capacity as an impartial news reporter.

Sunday night (in the Western Hemisphere) the shadow of the the Earth will fall on the face of the full moon, darkening it. This is the uncommon, but not too uncommon, phenomenon called a “lunar eclipse.”

We can apparently credit Pope Francis for at least one good deed on his American tour: He has ended the suffering of an unhappy man. The miserable speakership of John Boehner is over.

The reality TV industry has been the target of union campaigns recently, thanks to its well-documented and widespread awful working conditions. Now, a new survey shows just how much reality TV workers are earning.

“Have you ever seen a ghost up here?” I asked one of the men guarding the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. It was 1:30 a.m., the air was crisp, and the city’s lights were doing little to break the darkness—the perfect setting for a ghost story.

A real life nightmare unfolded Wednesday night in Baltimore when a baboon tarantula crawled free of its carrier container while onboard an Atlanta-bound Delta flight, forcing the plane to be grounded overnight.

Llama drama at the London Zoo holiday party! In what may be my favorite story of the year, two female zookeepers reportedly got into a bloody brawl over their co-worker, who was apparently playing the field when he wasn’t tending the cages.

“Investing in the water industry is one of the great opportunities for the coming decades,” says a New York money manager. “Water is the scarce resource that will define the 21st century, much like plentiful oil defined the last century.” Oh goodie. The 21st century is gonna be great.

In response to a question from a white guy yesterday about how the Republicans planned to win more black votes, Jeb Bush said that it would not be by giving them “free stuff.” You’re doing great, Jeb!

Last week, I took cover when I spotted what turned out to be a feather fluttering down from a locker to my gym’s floor. At home, my eye caught a loose thread swaying on a cloth bag in one of my cabinets, and I flinched. A green pepper seed stuck to a FedEx envelope on my coffee table turned my stomach. I freaked out as a drop of water ran down my chest. I was cooking dinner the other night and I realized that I did not like the way that the flame on my one burner was dancing. I did not like it one bit.