Middletown, Conn. police arrested four Wesleyan University students in connection to the apparently bad batch of MDMA—aka Molly—that put a dozen people in the hospital over the weekend.

In an investigation published Tuesday, the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman reports on the existence of a warehouse in Chicago called Homan Square, where police take suspects to keep them out of official databases, deny them legal counsel, and beat them.

Daniel Rosen, director of counterterrorism programs and policy at the State Department, has been charged with soliciting sex with a minor, Fox News reports. Rosen allegedly sought to arrange sex with a female detective posing as a minor in online exchanges with State Department official.

A Texas jury has found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of the 2013 murder of Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who inspired the film American Sniper, rejecting the defense's claims that Routh was legally insane at the time, the New York Times reports.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has reached an agreement with New York City's Jewish leaders over new regulations governing Metzitzah B'Peh, a ritual in which a specially-designated rabbi sucks blood from a child's circumcised penis, Capital New York reports.

The NYPD has been showing a scene from Patrick Swayze's underrated 1989 classic Road House as part of a mandatory, three-day retraining course for 22,000 cops, the New York Post reports. It's the part where Swayze tells a bunch of tough guys to "be nice."

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote on Thursday to regulate the Internet as a public good, the New York Times reports, and Republican lawmakers who have opposed the impending decision are backing down.

Former UFC combatant and current professional MMA fighter Josh Neer got so fed up with a troll harassing and challenging him to fights on Facebook, that he finally invited the guy to come by his gym, where he delivered the vicious, relentless beating you see above.

The three London students believed to have run away from home last week to join ISIS crossed into Syria "four or five days ago," police say. Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, are allegedly following the lead of their friend who took off last December for the Islamic State.

Page Six reports that an arrest has been made in connection to the stabbing of two members of Nicki Minaj's tour crew, which left one man dead and another severely injured. Pierce Boykin, 31, was arrested on Monday on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and related offenses.

Anyone obsessed with the disappearance of Flight MH370 knows the name of Jeff Wise, a private pilot and science writer who has frequently appeared on CNN to track new developments in the search for the missing plane. Today he’s here to chat with Gawker readers about his personal theory—detailed in a 95-page Kindle Single and excerpted in New York magazine—for how the passenger jet vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014. It involves bogus flight data, Russian hijackers, and a remote facility in Kazakhstan (among others things).

In a car crash straight of your worst childhood fears, a pickup truck heading north on the top level of Interstate 93 near Boston hit a snow bank and flew off the freeway, landing in the southbound lane of the lower deck.

The Justice Department announced today that it will not file federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin.

As you may have heard, Americans are living longer these days, and that is a huge pain in the ass for pension plans, which would greatly prefer if you died young, for financial reasons. The scope of this "staying alive" problem is now coming into clear view.

Tiny, hyperactive Oakland rapper Chippy Nonstop—probably best known as the Kreayshawn of 2013 and for being friends with the Kreayshawn of 2012, Kreayshawn—has been deported to Canada and forbidden from reentering the U.S. for five years.

For centuries, mankind has lived in harmony with the gerbil, welcoming it into our homes, allowing it run inside our smallest wheels, and encouraging it to raise our human children as it saw fit with little to no outside interference. Now, a new study has found that gerbils have been trying to kill us for 700 years.

At least 30 people were injured early Tuesday morning after a Metrolink commuter train crashed into a truck—reportedly a tractor trailer—near Oxnard, California, causing five train cars to derail and the truck to burst into flames. No fatalities have been reported, though two people are reportedly in critical condition. The truck's driver fled the scene but was captured about a mile away.

Mama, please. Hear my pleas. Feed your babies peanuts.

A University of Illinois at Chicago student charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old classmate reportedly told police that he was inspired by the recent film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey.

The story of what led to Las Vegas mother of four Tammy Meyers being shot and killed in front of her home has changed again.