A court in Russia’s Novorossiysk district has sentenced a 19-year-old and two women in their 20s to 15 days and 10 days in jail, respectively, for twerking in front of a World War II memorial, the Associated Press reports. The dancers were found guilty of hooliganism. The twerking was recorded in a music video, which was posted to YouTube.

Tour buses carrying Lil Wayne and several other Young Money artists were hit with multiple gunshots while leaving an Atlanta nightclub on Sunday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Authorities say no one was injured in the in the shooting, which occurred at around 3:30 a.m.

Late Saturday night, while covering the over the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was tackled and beaten by Baltimore City police.

Today, the New York Times named, against the CIA’s wishes, Michael D’Andrea, the former chief of the agency’s counterterrorism center, in a story about support in Washington for the lethal drone program. The Washington Post reported on D’Andrea’s reassignment last month without using his name, which Gawker then published.

Following a day of peaceful demonstration over the death of Freddie Gray, who died of a broken neck while in police custody last weekend, 12 of an estimated 1,200 protesters were arrested in Baltimore Saturday night after a breakaway group smashed windows, damaged cars and battled with police, The New York Times reports.

An aftershock of magnitude 6.7 followed the main earthquake in Nepal yesterday, causing further damage and spreading fear amongst people already too scared to return to their homes, the New York Times reports. Thousands residents of Kathmandu slept outside as the death toll rose above 2,200.

On Wednesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro promised to fulfill the housing request of a woman who beaned him with a yellow mango, The Guardian reports. The woman had written her phone number on the fruit, which she then threw into Maduro’s passing bus, striking him on the head.

NYPD officers shot and killed a man as they tried to arrest him Saturday afternoon at a halfway house in the East Village, the New York Post reports. Police said the man was wanted on a robbery charge.

A Michigan woman has been arraigned on murder and child abuse charges after giving birth at her office and putting her newborn child in a plastic bag in her desk, the Detroit Free Press reports. Kimberly Pappas, 25, told police that she had had a miscarriage, but the autopsy concluded the death was a homicide by suffocation.

Did you see Bruce Jenner’s coming out interview last night? Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband Kris Humphries apparently did, writing this bad tweet in response: “Man, I’m glad I got out when I did. #Gottadoyou”

With Brooklyn’s spring thaw in full effect, I’m having lots of conversations with my girlfriends about warm weather activities: like long bike rides, picnics in Prospect Park, and, unfortunately, the inevitable uptick in sexualized street harassment. Just last week, I heard myself saying, “I want to be respected in the street no matter what I’m wearing. Even if I’m out on the Parkway in my mas costume. I want respect, dammit.”

Snowbound in remote Michigan for 13 days, two women lived the American dream this month, surviving solely on Girl Scout Cookies and cheese puffs before being “rescued” by state police on Friday.

Tennessee gun owners with handgun carry permits can now bring their weapons into nearly any park, playground, or sports field in the state. The controversial bill only passed after legislators agreed to remove the state Capitol building from the list of places where permit owners could be armed. Sensible, really.

In a pitiful display of man’s compulsion to impose his puny will upon nature—by which he is of course always surrounded and subsumed—the NYPD Emergency Service Unit captured a coyote on Saturday morning in Battery Park City.

Given several opportunities to get medical care for Freddie Gray—the Baltimore man who died of a broken neck while in police custody this week—officers failed each time, Commissioner Anthony W. Batts admitted at a press conference Friday.

An internal NBC News investigation into the dissembler Brian Williams has identified a half-dozen cases in which the anchor is believed to have misrepresented his account of events, including at least one previously unreported episode involving Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the New York Times reports.

An earthquake with an epicenter about 50 miles outside of the Nepali capital of Kathmandu killed at least 1,400 people Saturday, leveling city structures, and leaving hundreds more trapped in collapsed buildings.

Bruce Jenner came out as a woman Friday night, confirming months of gender identity speculation.

According to Twitter, Starbucks stores across the country are all having a major computer system failure right now—and they’re giving away all the drinks for free.

Late last year, I deleted my Twitter account after deciding that it did not work well with my high-strung and overly anxious personality. Also, the service was basically a stream of toxic refuse. No shade to anyone who uses it (everyone), I just found I was using it too much and that I’d fallen down the rabbit hole of cliquey-microconcerns one too many times to make it worth it.