Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. So goes the old axiom, apparently taken to heart by Melissa Jacobson—a woman whose current occupation is unknown, but who evidently aspires to the title of “lady who poops and pees inside cardboard boxes at Kmart.”

Pope Francis longs for many things in life, surely: World peace, the Parousia, the latitude to say that women can be priests...you know, stuff like that. The one thing he wants for himself? Pasta. And now Vatican doctors are telling him he can’t have it, because he’s gained a little weight since moving to Italy.

Only yesterday did we say goodbye to Misao Okawa, the 117-year-old woman who was formerly the oldest person alive, and her runner-up is already out here staking claim to the top spot, making demands and getting fired up. Damn, girl—Okawa’s body isn’t even cold.

As part of a longterm, undercover FBI operation, federal authorities arrested two women allegedly planning to detonate a bomb in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State, ABC News reports.

Three KKK members who are current or former employees of the Florida Department of Corrections were arrested Thursday for allegedly plotting to kill a black inmate.

In 1983, a statue of the Buddhist deity Samvara like the one above was stolen from Kathmandu’s Itum Bahal Temple, a structure that dates to the 13th century AD. Thirty years later, a Brooklyn art dealer may have unloaded the plundered artifact for $370,000.

A new study finds that the oceans can take thousands of years to recover from the sort of damage climate change is doing to them now, so at least when the sea swallows us it won’t be full of sharks.

In the days before he intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps, co-pilot Andreas Lubitz reportedly searched online for information about suicide and the strength of cockpit doors.

Memories Pizza, the Walkerton, Ind. pizzeria that took a brave stand against delivering its pizza to gay weddings this week, is closing its doors for the time being after the store and its owners were flooded with ridicule and threats.

Recently, my sister forwarded me a picture taken of me in the summer of 1986. I'm standing in front of my parents' pool, holding out a fish I had caught earlier that day. I have one hand on my hip and I'm leaning to the side so as to keep the fish up. What most struck me about the picture were my socks. They cover my entire calf, ending just below my knee. Later that evening, I would sell those same socks for $10 to a guy who lived around the corner.

al-Shabab gunmen led a rampage on the Garissa University College campus in eastern Kenya Tuesday morning, killing at least 15 people and taking an unknown number of hostages. The National Disaster Operation Center of Kenya told the New York Times that 65 people were admitted to a local hospital, “most with gunshot wounds.”

Hey Robert Durst kind of loves talking about his dead wife—long before The Jinx premiered, he apparently provided DVD commentary for All Good Things, the 2010 movie about him murdering three people.

More than a month after discovering the body of an up-and-coming young D.C. attorney in an upscale hotel room, police believe they have a lead: a 21-year-old woman caught on surveillance cameras the night of the murder.

The New York cop caught on camera insulting and yelling at an Uber driver who dared to suggest he use his blinker is being transferred from his current position on an elite joint terrorism task force, officials said Wednesday.

Wow Chris Rock must be a terrible driver, or something.

When Banksy lands in a city and begins a street art-making spree, there's a routine that usually follows. First, the stenciled paintings are ignored, then, after people realize what they are, they are gawked at and occasionally vandalized. Eventually, they are cordoned off and protected from the public, and finally, they are physically removed, and someone makes a lot of money, or hopes to. An extreme version of this complex lottery played out for one unlucky family in Gaza recently.

The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi wants to talk to Sidney Blumenthal, the former Hillary Clinton aide who ran a private intelligence network for the former secretary of state, Gawker has learned.

Are you a parent? Have you hired a nanny? Have you given that nanny a written "job description?" Is it 22 pages long? You monster.

Senator Robert Menendez, (D-N.J.), was indicted on 13 counts of corruption—including eight counts of bribery—on Wednesday, with federal prosecutors alleging he used his position to do favors for a South Florida ophthalmologist who was also a longtime campaign donor.

After years of protests by its low-paid employees, McDonald's said today it "will pay at least $1 per hour more than the local legal minimum wage for employees at the roughly 1,500 restaurants it owns"—which does not include the 90% of McD's that are franchisee-owned. Still, it's something.