Two Louisville teenagers were killed this past Saturday after the car they were traveling in was hit by an oncoming train. Witnesses say the car ignored flashing warning signs and blaring alarms before speeding onto the tracks. The two passengers closest to the impact were pronounced dead at the scene; two others remain in critical condition.

After a strange 10-day disappearance from public view—time reportedly spent convalescing with the flu—Russian president Vladimir Putin has finally resurfaced, seemingly alive, with the waxy cheeks of a dictator half his age.

America's decades-long growth of economic inequality has plenty of causes. Here's one that doesn't get enough attention.

During a speech to his conservative supporters in Barrington, New Hampshire this weekend, Senator Ted Cruz bashed the "Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind," saying the "world is on fire," to the horror of a three-year-old sitting in the front row.

According to reports, police in Tallahassee arrested Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Nicholas Brendon this weekend—his third convention-related arrest this year.

Look at this dumb turtle chasing after a dog like he's got a real shot at catching up; he'll never catch up. And yet even so, onward he plods, ne'er to abandon his reptilian hope—to be sure, he's a real idiot, but one deserving of some respect.

NYPD officers reportedly discovered a grisly death scene at a luxury apartment complex this weekend after the missing woman's parents called 911 requesting a wellness check.

On Saturday, suspected killer and admitted dismemberer Robert Durst was arrested in New Orleans in connection with an unsolved murder case. But which one? Since 1982, the millionaire real-estate heir has been linked to a number of different deaths and disappearances, recently becoming the subject of HBO docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

A bus plunged off a cliff in southern Brazil on Saturday, The New York Times reports, killing more than 40 people. The death toll could rise as high as 55, including children, police said.

St. Louis County police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of two police officers outside the Ferguson Police Department earlier this week, The New York Times reports.

After two officers were shot outside the city's police station last week, police in Ferguson, Missouri took almost 11 minutes to begin looking for the shooter, The Guardian reports.

Insane liar and murder suspect Robert Durst has been arrested in New Orleans on a warrant issued in Los Angeles County, NBC News reports.

Two bombs exploded outside Christian churches in Lahore, Pakistan's second most populous city, today during Sunday services, killing 14 and wounding 78, NBC News reports.

Kurdish authorities in Iraq say that ISIS used chemical weapons in a January 23 suicide attack against peshmerga fighters, the Associated Press reports.

Two men believed to be connected to Amedy Coulibaly, one of three gunmen who terrorized Paris in January, have been charged with "terrorist conspiracy to commit crimes against people," The New York Times reports.

Since January, over 1,450 sea lions have been found stranded on California beaches, crowding rescue centers past capacity and worrying animal experts, The New York Times reports. According to researchers, this is 5 times greater than the historical average.

After an email containing racist and misogynist language sent to a campus fraternity by one of its members surfaced this week, the University of Maryland announced that it was opening an investigation into the case. The email's author dissuades his fraternity brothers from inviting women of color to a party and not to concern themselves with issues of consent.

It's been nearly a month since a man in Canada successfully evaded police by riding his motorcycle through a shopping mall, but it was only yesterday that footage of the incident leaked online—and oh man is it some wacky, wild stuff.

Previously classified letters between Osama bin Laden and a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative reveal that the Afghan government used a secret fund, bankrolled by the CIA, to facilitate the release of a senior Afghan official kidnapped by the terrorist organization in 2010, The New York Times reports.

Five patients at Via Christi St. Francis hospital in Wichita, Kansas developed listeriosis after eating ice cream products from the Blue Bell creamery in Brenham, Texas, the Associated Press reports. Three are dead.