Officials said they have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of Germanwings flight U49525, the New York Times reports. All 150 people on board were killed.

Police say a Vermont woman who went missing in 1971 was last seen eating a bag of dried prunes at the health food store accused murderer Robert Durst co-owned with his presumed-dead first wife.

On Tuesday, a Hummelstown, Pennsylvania police officer was charged with homicide in the shooting death of an unarmed man, The Associated Press reports. Officer Lisa J. Mearkle stands accused of shooting David Kassick, 59, twice in the back as he lay on the ground after a traffic stop.

An electrician conducting a pre-sale inspection on a Massachusetts home discovered the entire house was wired to explode when someone flipped a particular light switch.

Mad Men star Jon Hamm just finished a 30-day stint in rehab for alcohol abuse, TMZ reports.

Longtime White House florist Laura Dowling was mysteriously fired last month, the Washington Post's Reliable Source reports. Were her "fussy" floral arrangements too "French" for the newly "modern" first lady? Sounds like it!

On Monday, a judge formally dismissed the case against Debra Milke, who spent 22 years on death row after being convicted of conspiring to murder her 4-year-old son, The Associated Press reports. The case relied heavily on the work of a detective who has since been discredited. Prosecutors lost their final appeal last week.

Despite promises to clean the Rio de Janeiro bay in time for the 2016 Olympics, mayor Eduardo Paes was forced to admit this week that some of the athletes are just going to have to deal with competing in the raw sewage expelled by a large, poorly managed city.

Here is a picture from the Internet of a man face-fucking what appears to be a Lincoln memorial—not the Lincoln Memorial, which is marble, and enormous—with his socks on.

Dartmouth College, an Ivy League school famous for its bizarrely powerful Greek system, is having a pretty tough year. Today it gets even worse. Dartmouth has confirmed to Gawker that it extended the suspension of one of its most notorious fraternities, Alpha Delta, over allegations of branding—that is, pressing a piece of hot metal into a fraternity pledge’s skin. If that sounds unpleasant, you might want to prepare yourself for the rumored details of what exactly transpired.

New Jersey, a state known for its equal number of local heroes, sheroes, and zeroes, has gained itself another member of the boss-applesauce community when a councilwoman from Mahwah flipped two middle fingers to the mayor of her town, calling him a "piece of shit" at a council meeting. Now that's how to get things done.

Can we please find a 29-year-old to reveal the 29 Things They've Learned in 29 Years?

In this life, you flail blindly, pummeling your way from one day to the next through alternating periods of heroic effort and helpless inertia, unwilling or unable to behold the world beyond the lonely confines of your own ego. In this way, you resemble an idiot kangaroo with a watering can stuck on its head.

In a disturbing story published today by Philadelphia magazine, a woman alleges that the Uber driver that picked her up in Philadelphia's Old City last month "held her arms down, ripped her pants, and raped her."

A group of children at a playground in Greenacres, Fla., all younger than age 10, witnessed a couple in the throes of passion last Friday as their copulation travelled from tree-side to inside a truck.

San Francisco is opening a forward-thinking new homeless shelter designed to house entire communities of people who have long lived on the streets. If you would like to be pessimistic about this nice development, consider the big picture.

Two years after Elisa Lopez was filmed being sexually assaulted while sleeping on a 4 train, the NYPD has arrested Carlos Chuva, 43, whom after being shown a still from the video told police, "That is me."

Dr. Seuss, the guy who rhymed everything in all those books you read as a kid (or as an adult, no judgment), will be honored with a museum to his work in Springfield, Massachusetts set to open in mid-2016. According to a press release, the museum will be called The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, which is a huge stupid mistake.

Rapper Rich Homie Quan, feeling some type of way, allegedly punched a security guard who wouldn't let him through the backdoor VIP entrance of a packed club early Monday morning, even though Quan is a rich millionaire, bitch.

Companies will spend $540 billion globally on advertising this year, an amount greater than the gross domestic product of Argentina. Monetize yourself better, Argentina. You're an embarrassment.