Police in North Charleston, S.C., have arrested the man they believe wrapped electrical tape around the muzzle of Caitlyn the dog, a chocolate Staffordshire, and left her for several days with her tongue stuck between her teeth, unable to eat or drink.

Apple is the biggest company in the world. Apple is worth $725 billion. How big is that, exactly?

Four teenagers were airlifted to hospitals Tuesday afternoon after two cars on one of England’s best-known roller coasters collided, stranding passengers 25 feet off the ground.

In an attempt to expose the absurdity of treating other human beings with respect, prophet and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told the crowd at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee in February this:

Promposals: a cool teen trend where kids come up with flashy, public ways to ask each other to fingerbang and drink vodka from covert flasks on a crowded dance floor. Sometimes they go according to plan, and sometimes they very much do not.

Bangladeshi authorities have charged 42 people with murder in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,100 garment workers. If we see an international minimum wage in our lifetime, they won’t have died in vain.

A Swedish woman was taking the A train to JFK Airport yesterday evening when a man attacked her and sliced her neck with a sharp object, according to the New York Post.

We all know why people choose to work for big Wall Street banks: “the money.” But is it “worth it?” It’s hard to imagine that it is.

Only 15 passengers have been rescued from the cruise ship that capsized yesterday in China’s Yangtze River. Five bodies have been recovered, and at least 440 people remain missing.

Early Tuesday morning, Chester Hanks, the son of beloved white millionaire Tom Hanks, posted an Instagram video to explain that “hip-hop isn’t about race” and it’s actually extremely fresh that he says “nigga.”

A man who posted graphic Facebook updates describing the myriad ways he might torture and murder his wife didn’t actually threaten her within the legal meaning of the term, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The decision is at once a victory for free speech and a significant hurdle for victims of online harassment.

Officials in India announced today that more than 2,330 people have now been killed by the country’s blistering weeks-long heatwave, CNN reports.

According to Phys.org, researchers have discovered two new species of antechinus, a marsupial whose breeding period is characterized by weeks of frenzied, 14-hour fuckfests until the males get so stressed out they literally die.

From time to time the Department of Homeland Security sends undercover investigators to airports, armed with fake explosives, firearms, and other contraband, just to test the TSA. The results are not reassuring.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced on Monday that it is opening a formal inquiry into the sheriff’s office that oversaw Robert C. Bates, the 73-year-old reserve deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris in April, the Associated Press reports.

A woman says her dog died during a routine grooming at Petco because the technician had other plans that day.

A county judge ordered Gemma Wale, of Birmingham, U.K., to stop having raucous, neighbor-waking sex with her boyfriend (more like “Gemma, don’t wail,” amrite?), and I’m sure you’ll never, ever guess what Wale did next and why she went to jail for two weeks.

According to the AP, only seven people have been rescued from a large passenger ship that capsized in China’s Yangtze River last night.

The prestigious magazine Science has deleted an advice column in which CalTech scientist Alice Huang advised a woman whose academic adviser was constantly leering at her breasts to “put up with it” because such behavior is “common in the workplace.”

While Lil Wayne waits for the interminable legal battle over Tha Carter V to wrap up, he’s killing time by showing up hours late to concerts, having his tour bus shot at by rival Blood factions, and participating in charitable activities. Like this “Stop the Violence” celebrity basketball game, where he nearly incited a brawl by spitting on the ref, according to TMZ.