David Sweat, the surviving Clinton Correctional Facility escapee, was reportedly shot twice by a state trooper on Sunday near Constable, N.Y, just south of the Canadian border. According to CNN, Sweat is in custody and in critical condition. From The New York Times:

“By... October, Alex was communicating with more than a dozen people who openly admired the Islamic State. Her life, which had mostly seemed like a blurred series of babysitting shifts and lonely weekends roaming the mall, was now filled with encouragement and tutorials from her online friends.”

In February, three Massachusetts high schoolers building a website about James “Whitey” Bulger for a National History Day competition on leadership and legacy wrote a letter to the Boston crime boss, serving two consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary in Florida. And guess what! He wrote back.

In this AP file photo from May 2000, activists watch, in front of the South Carolina Statehouse, as the Confederate flag burns; on the left, a Nazi flag has already been burned. The Confederate flag flew atop the statehouse’s dome until later that year.

For reasons that were not immediately clear, Turkish police in central Istanbul used water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd gathered for the city’s annual gay pride parade, Reuters reports.

NASA has confirmed that, after a successful liftoff, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded in midair this morning. Pieces of the rocket could be seen falling into the Atlantic ocean, the Guardian reports.

On Sunday, authorities in Kuwait announced on Sunday that they had detained a young Saudi Arabian man, Fahd Suliman Abdul-Muhsen al-Qabaa, who they accused of carrying out a bombing attack at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque, Reuters reports. The attack on Friday left 27 people dead.

“People who are living in lower-income housing are not necessarily people who are committing crimes.” Ah, okay, thank you for clarifying.

The Associated Press reports that French officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say that Yassine Salhi, suspected of beheading his employer and attacking a U.S.-owned chemical warehouse in Lyon, has admitted to police that he carried out the killing.

While rest of the country took the day to celebrate yesterday’s historical win for inclusiveness and equality, a bunch of racist idiots in the South decided to fight for their allegiance to a fallen, unrecognized confederation whose founding principle was the ability to own other humans as slaves.

In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an “ISIS flag” is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS.

“History moves fast,” Stephen Colbert says in this short monologue critiquing the dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision. “It’s hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full, Constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did.”

Because there is nowhere to live, the Clinton campaign asked the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to help its young staffers out. “The chamber suggested Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, but has not made much progress in convincing staffers to consider these less gentrified neighborhoods.”

On Saturday night, an explosion onstage at a concert at Formosa Water Park, in New Taipei City, in Taiwan, started a fire that spread into the crowd, injuring at least 500 people, the Associated Press reports.

I first applied in 1997 with an application filled out in chalk on the sidewalk of East 128th Street in East Cleveland. I don’t remember exactly what I wrote in my personal essay, but it involved a game with squares and a basketball.

Yassine Salhi, who was arrested this week on suspicion of decapitating his boss, is alleged to have sent a selfie with the dead man’s severed head, Agence France Presse reports.

On Saturday afternoon, a fire could be seen raging in The Avery, a high-rise building on the Upper West Side, near Riverside Boulevard. NBC News reports that one person was injured, and the fire has been contained.

Islamic State fighters have killed more than 150 people in Kobani and nearby villages in the past two days, the New York Times reports. After sneaking into the town disguised as local rebels. ISIS militants set off car bombs and gunned down civilians in the street.

The winner of this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is a 10-year-old pit bull-Dutch shepherd mix from Loxahatchee, Florida named Quasi Modo, the Associated Press reports. Quasi Modo has a spinal birth defect and a positive attitude.

On Saturday morning, a North Carolina woman climbed the flagpole outside the South Carolina statehouse and temporarily removed the Confederate flag flying there.