The Islamic State released a video on Sunday appearing to show the killing of two groups of Ethiopian Christians captured by ISIS’s Libyan affiliates, the Guardian reports. The 29-minute-long video shows a group of around 15 men being beheaded in one location and another 15 being shot in the head elsewhere.

A Texas veterinarian has been fired and is under investigation after posting a photograph of herself holding up a dead cat to Facebook, My San Antonio reports. The woman also bragged about having killed the cat with a bow and arrow.

On Saturday, The Guardian published a story titled “Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show,” the result of a two interviews between the retiring host and writer Hadley Freeman. In it, Stewart offers a number of clear (if not particularly surprising) reasons for stepping down, including election cycle fatigue, diminishing personal returns from the show and a desire to spend more time with his family.

A gas line at the Fresno County Sheriff’s gun range exploded Friday afternoon, injuring at least 11 people and bringing traffic on the nearby Highway 99 to a halt, the Associated Press reports.

Seriously, Channing Tatum left his black backpack in a cab near New York City’s 42nd Street.

After almost 40 years apart, an adopted Ohio woman was reunited with her birth mother on Tuesday, discovering she worked in the same office and lived just six minutes away, the New York Daily News reports.

There has been much ado about the newfound notion of “black gay privilege.” In numerous tweets, blogs, and a certain Huffington Post article, it has been articulated as a special benefit enjoyed by black gay men. This “privilege”— produced by white anxiety and white supremacy—supposedly enables us to evade the traditional economic struggles experienced by straight black men.

Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman are, amongst other things, co-founders of the website formerly known as Rap Genius. They are also best friends. Sometimes it is hard to be these things, and sometimes they have fights. Now, they’re in couples therapy. That’s good!

Sleep easy, shrub lovers: After years of terror, authorities in Boston have finally nabbed the infamous arboreal assassin known as the “Brighton Tree Ninja,” The Boston Globe reports.

Last year, a Tibetan mastiff reportedly sold to a Chinese businessman for $2 million. Now, the New York Times reports, surplus mastiffs are being sold to slaughterhouses for $5 each.

After conducting an analysis of more than 10,000 bicycle tickets issued by the Tampa police over the past 12 years, the Tampa Bay Times has found that 79 percent of those ticketed are black. Blacks make up about a quarter of the city’s population, the Times reports.

As a guest on PBS genealogy program Finding Your Roots, Ben Affleck discovered one of his ancestors owned slaves and asked producers to suppress that fact, hacked Sony emails uploaded by WikiLeaks this week show.

A suicide bombing in Jalalabad on Saturday killed at least 33 people and wounded another 105, the Associated Press reports. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that the Islamic State had taken responsibility.

Subway hero? More like subway hoagie! A man walking in a SEPTA station in Philadelphia on Wednesday fell right onto the tracks. From the video it looks like he was looking at his phone when he slipped. Who came to the rescue in the nick of time? A hero, man, a hero in an Eagles jacket.

The huge, hemorrhaging Sony leak went down late last year, but even now we’re still discovering new tidbits. Since it’s now very easy and very safe to peruse the archives on your own, let’s see what we can can find together.

Three zebras with a cool Friday feeling escaped from a ranch and nonchalantly hit the streets of Brussels today.

“It so happens that I have been ganged up on online, and I have also been beaten up by actual gangs of men on the street,” writes ancestral Gawker editor Choire Sicha in the New York Times Book Review, locating the true shame in Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.

Spring sprang about a month ago, but it finally feels like it. My iPhone tells me that it’s going to be 75 and sunny tomorrow in New York. That’s crazy! People are going to be walking around butt-ass naked in response, and won’t that be fun to see? There’s nothing like a solid spring day to undo four bullshit months of shitty winter misery.

A New Hampshire-bound Southwest Airlines flight was forced to return to the terminal Thursday at Chicago’s Midway Airport before takeoff to remove a woman “poking her seatmate with a pen to stop him from snoring.”

A deli owner claims the backlash against the “white history month” sign he displayed in his store window during March has put him out of business. So he’s following in the footsteps of that anti-gay-marriage pizza place by asking for money on GoFundMe.