Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, died Wednesday of cancer, her only son Julian confirmed on his website and Twitter. Cynthia, whose maiden name was Powell, met Lennon in art school in Liverpool in 1957, right before the Beatles formed.

The teenager who accidentally shot himself in the head Monday night after dropping his handgun as he was playing with a cat in a Nashville park has died.

You're a discerning and fashionable gentleman. You have money, power, and an insatiable appetite for breasts and other sex-type stuff. You know what time it is. You wear a watch—but you need a new one. Which watch is the watch for you? Think fast: The insufficiently manly timepiece on your wrist is ticking.

When questions of civil rights, or inequality, or discrimination arise, we are often reminded that we are supposed to be striving for an ideal: the ideal of meritocracy, where everyone rises and falls on their own merits. Take a moment to consider the problems with our ideal.

This painful video is going around today as a story about a teacher who lost his job after accidentally bashing a student in the nuts with the flat side of an axe during a classroom demonstration. But according to someone who was there, it was actually the teacher with his sack on—or rather, just a little too close to—the chopping block.

At a press conference today, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced that he will not sign the anti-gay religious liberty bill passed by state legislature on Tuesday. Instead, Hutchinson—whose own son signed a petition against the act—asked lawmakers to recall the bill and alter it to make it more similar to a federal one passed in 1993.

The FBI has identified the person killed while trying to ram the security gates outside of NSA headquarters as Ricky Shawatza Hall, a 27-year-old Baltimore resident with prior arrests for robbery, assault, and prostitution.

With 1.3 million American employees, Walmart has the ability to influence retail wages in a way that no other company does. A new report says Walmart is still stealing from the public treasury.

Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, died on Wednesday at the age of 117. Members of her family told the Associated Press that Okawa died of heart failure and stopped breathing at her nursing home in Osaka, Japan.

Crystal O'Connor of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana, has her finger on the pulse of what gays want at their weddings: pizza. But thanks to her home state's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, she can deny those carb-loving queers the sauce and cheese that they're just probably going stuff up their butts, anyway.

Indiana just passed its own version of a federal law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, due to take effect July 1, making it one of nearly 20 states (and the U.S. Congress) to have enacted such a bill. But while other RFRA bills range from the righteous to the innocuous, Indiana's is pernicious and scary—and anyone who tells you it's exactly the same is lying to you.

"How many times you should be having sex each week." As A) an unanswerable question B) about sex C) that people will argue about, this constitutes a story that will never stop being written despite its nonsensical premise, because all of you are too insecure to resist checking. So—how many times???

Philadelphia police are searching for a teenager caught on surveillance camera knocking a 60-year-old man out cold on the platform of a SEPTA train station Monday.

According to a new report from The New York Times, an attempt at concealing illicit gas siphoning may have immediately preceded the building explosion that killed two people and injured 22 more in the East Village last week.

Of the few checks on the unrelenting sociopathy of teens, one of the most effective is the tattling little brother. The power of the squealer was recently demonstrated in Birmingham, Alabama, where it allowed a woman to publicly apologize to the people her noxious spawn had wronged.

An Uber driver in Denver was arrested this week after he allegedly drove a woman to the airport, then drove right back to her house to rob it.

A Philadelphia-area couple was discovered dead in their home by their teen son on Tuesday, bearing what authorities say were "severe" cuts from a chainsaw, the Associated Press reports.

According to reports, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was hospitalized in the intensive care unit Tuesday after someone found her unconscious at her home in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, the Arkansas legislature passed a near-copy of Indiana's widely criticized "religious freedom" bill—believed by many to allow discrimination against gays and lesbians—drawing staunch criticism from an unexpected source: Walmart.

Law enforcement officers are investigating after Andrew Rork Getty, an heir to the Getty Oil fortune, was reported dead Tuesday by a former girlfriend against whom he had recently obtained a restraining order.