According to a report published by the Miami Herald on Sunday, officials at Florida's environmental protection agency have been banned from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming" since Republican Governor Rick Scott took office in 2011.

The Iraqi government is investigating reports that ISIS have descended upon an ancient archaeological site at Khorsabad, according to the Associated Press. A Kurdish official from Mosul said that eyewitnesses reported that militants had begun demolishing the site on Sunday.

The hideous waking nightmare of Hoboken, New Jersey's day-long St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl was briefly interrupted on Saturday night when a homeless man set himself on fire in the middle of a street, NJ.com reports.

Last night, the investigation of Russian opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov's murder took another bizarre turn when one of six men believed to be connected to the crime "blew himself up" during a standoff with police.

A new investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished off the coast of Vietnam a year ago this weekend, has found that all members of the crew were behaving normally before the incident, the Associated Press reports.

Standing on things can be fun! For millennia, people have been standing up high for pleasure and amusement. But standing on things can also be a mistake if those things weren't meant to be stood on, like the disappearing garage seen below:

President Barack Obama delivered a speech on Saturday from the Edmund Pettus Bridge—named for a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and site of what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday"—addressing race in America. "What happened in Ferguson may not be unique," he said, "but it's no longer endemic. It's no longer sanctioned by law or custom, and before the civil rights movement, it most surely was."

At first, it went pretty well, as far as Internet dates with men named "Gooch" go. After meeting at Racks Restaurant and Sports Bar in Atco (sample review: "I guess its cool for Atco"), a New Jersey woman took OkCupid match Gennaro "Gooch" Aladena back to her home.

A day after ISIS militants in Iraq destroyed the remains of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, fighters from the Islamist group have begun looting the ancient city of Hatra, the Associated Press reports.

Oregon high school student Austin Moore had a simple dream: to take his friend's hot cousin to prom. So, like any plucky 17-year-old, he reached out to the Las Vegas showgirl on Instagram, who agreed to do it for 10,000 retweets, just slightly under the current going rate for stunt prom dates.

Three months ago, I sat in my bed frustrated with myself. I was upset at all the life choices I'd made up until this point. Physically and mentally exhausted, I ran out to get an energy drink; I'd needed a caffeine-enriched charge to help meet a deadline. And then it happened: later, rushing to the bathroom, I tripped and went hip-first into my desk, knocking the energy drink onto my laptop, its red liquid bleeding into my keyboard.

On Friday, Jon Cruz, a social studies teacher and debate coach at the Bronx High School of Science, was arrested on child pornography charges, the New York Times reports. According to the criminal complaint, Cruz offered underage boys money to send him nude and otherwise suggestive photos using the messaging app Kik.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the first of three marches that would spur the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Voter suppression among the black community was an unwritten law across the Jim Crow south in the first half of the 20th century, and Selma, a small town in the heart of Alabama, became a pivotal battleground in the fight for civil rights.

Five suicide bomb explosions tore through the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an official told the Associated Press. At least 54 people are dead and 143 wounded.

At around 10 a.m. this morning, there was "a loud noise" heard outside the White House. Shortly afterward, the White House went on lockdown. Additionally, at around the same time, a nearby food truck caught on fire and a bomb-sniffing dog detected "something" on a suspicious vehicle. Which, if any, of these events are connected? Reports differ.

On Saturday, Russian authorities announced that they had detained two suspects in connection with the brazen slaying* of former deputy prime minister Boris Y. Nemtsov, The New York Times reports.

On Friday night, a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin shot and killed a black 19-year-old named Anthony "Tony" Robinson, Reuters reports. An initial search of the scene indicated that Robinson was unarmed.

Cathy Woods, a 67-year-old woman who was charged with the 1976 Reno, Nevada, stabbing murder of Michelle Mitchell, will go free thanks to new DNA evidence. Woods was imprisoned for more than 30 years.

A new lawsuit in the Bronx claims that two cops in the 52nd precinct forced a mentally handicapped janitor, who had been working at the station for 23 years, to wear a shirt that said "I'm dope" so they could photograph and ridicule her. In a deposition, the woman says that she didn't know what the shirt said.

For the second time this year, a young woman is in trouble for being naked in a library in exchange for money.