Two cops were shot early Thursday morning during a protest outside the police station in Ferguson, Mo.

An Arkansas politician is defending his decision to "re-home" two of his young adopted daughters by sending them to live with a man who ended up molesting one of them last year.

In what can only appropriately be described as a heavy metal fight, the lead guitarist of Slipknot was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after his own brother stabbed him in the head with a knife.

The problem with lending your home out for TV productions is someone still has to live there afterwards.

They may not be very good at their jobs, but at least they're not boring? Yet another pair of Secret Service agents had to be pulled off the rotation this week after they allegedly got drunk and crashed their government vehicle into a White House barricade.

According to ISIS, an Australian teen named Jake Bilardi, who defected and joined the rebel group sometime late last year, drove a van containing a suicide bomb into an Iraqi army outpost yesterday as part of a series of attacks that killed 17 and injured 38 in Iraq's Anbar Province.

Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned today from the Ferguson Police Department, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Jackson's resignation comes one day after the city's chief executive quit and a week after the DOJ released a report exposing the police department as deeply racist.

It is less accurate to call California "a U.S. state" than it is to call it "a future earthquake-induced rubble pile." As happens quite often, scientists have once again made their doomsaying forecasts about California's disastrous future even worse.

This Saturday, hundreds of people are expected to march through Greenwich, Connecticut, the epicenter of hedge funds, protesting hedge funders' corrupting political influence. Please send us a photo, if you spot any hedge fund managers diving into the hedges.

A call to police claiming that a shooting had taken place at Lil Wayne's Miami Beach home was a hoax, and no such shooting took place, according to local law enforcement. A SWAT team responded to the rapper's home after the call this afternoon.

Sorry, patrons of Hungry Howies Pizza—a $85,000 shipment of shredded mozzarella on its way to a distribution center in Lakeland, Fla. was stolen.

A new study of America's woefully inadequate parents finds that many of you have mistaken beliefs about nutrition that will—in all likelihood—one day kill your kids. Allow us to help you with a useful public health guideline.

Several more cultural institutions have taken measures to ban selfie sticks, adding to the growing list of public places where the wand of idiocy will not be tolerated. The Palace of Versailles, Britain's National Gallery, and the Colosseum are among the newest institutions to impose the selfie stick ban.

Newly-released video shows the terrifying final seconds before a freight train slammed into the film crew of a Gregg Allman biopic last year, killing a 27-year-old camera assistant. Midnight Rider's director, Randall Miller, was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Broken retail megalith Target is now just trying to reach its bottom, so that it may one day rise again. Yesterday, the company laid off 1,700 workers at its headquarters—not a big surprise, if you've been paying attention.

After SAE brothers at the University of Oklahoma were caught on tape gleefully chanting racist slurs this weekend, you might have thought, who would defend these men? Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough answered that rhetorical question this morning by suggesting that rappers are actually to blame for SAE's behavior.

Seven marines and four soldiers from Eglin Air Force Base are feared dead after a helicopter taking part in a training exercise crashed over the water Tuesday night off the Florida Panhandle.

McDonald's has decided to pay the artists participating in its SXSW showcase. No word on where they will find the money.

Police say a violent confrontation on the New York subway turned deadly Tuesday night when a 32-year-old man was shot and killed by a former corrections officer, the New York Daily News reports.

Ferguson City Manager John Shaw, named by the Justice Department as one of the men responsible for the city's troubling policing practices in its damning civil rights report, has resigned, The New York Times reports.