Kayla Mueller, the 26-year-old American held hostage by ISIS, was confirmed dead this week after ISIS operatives reportedly emailed her family a photo.

Miley Cyrus's short, light-bondage video "Tongue Tied"—Get it? Because you see her tongue, and she's tied up? It's subtle—is now an official entry in the NYC Porn Film Festival, the New York Post reports.

Presidential campaigns have no shortage of factually empty platitudes and gross hypocrisy deployed for political gain. It's early still, but I'll wager that the 2016 campaign will see no more scoff-worthy talking point that the Republicans' sudden concern about economic inequality.

Sources tell the CBS affiliate in Richmond, Va. that Jesse Matthew Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Graham went missing after attending an off-campus party Sept. 13; her body was found on an abandoned property a month later.

Papa John's tried to squash the softest beef in the history of hip-hop on Monday, announcing they had disciplined the pizza dude Iggy Azalea publicly tattled on for giving out her phone number.

Earlier today, Time magazine reported that Jeb Bush was bringing on Hipster.com co-founder Ethan Czahor as his new Chief Technology Officer, hailing the hire as a savvy move by a party that often struggles with social media. And they weren't wrong—by Monday afternoon Czahor had already made his mark on the web, thanks to his awful, awful tweets about sluts and gay people.

On Monday evening, an armed man led LAPD on an insane chase involving four accidents, two escape vehicles and a carjacking before police finally shot and subdued the suspect while he tried to steal a third car.

Citing sources close to the case, a reporter with Atlanta's WSB-TV says police are now investigating injuries to Bobbi Kristina Brown's face and boyfriend Nick Gordon's hands.

Instead of an efficient future secured by the Three Laws of Robotics, we've got a disappointing one with all of the robotics and none of the laws. Robots now injure human beings, allow them to come to harm, and try to eat all their hair while they sleep. We're fucked.

When was the last time Coca-Cola did anything nice for you?

A Pennsylvania college student—who cops discovered giving CPR to his dead girlfriend while covered in her blood—was arrested this weekend in connection with her violent death.

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The Ohio state medical board has moved to strip Dr. Kurt Froehlich of his medical license after he admitted to having inappropriate relationships with two patients. According to state records obtained by the Smoking Gun, Froehlich had sexual encounters with both women after showing them where their G-spots were.

A North Carolina woman who adopted a cockatoo parrot named Peaches also gained a fun party trick: a daily, aggressive reenactment of your parents' divorce.

Two Philadelphia cops who allegedly beat a man senseless before arresting him for assault are now facing jail time themselves after the man's sister found surveillance footage of the attack.

A Texas teen named Cella wasn't looking forward to starting her fuck ass new job taking orders and making subs at Jet's Pizza over the weekend, because she'd heard it was a terrible place to work. Ew. Fortunately, she didn't have to: her boss found out she had complained about the job on Twitter, and fired her before her first day even started.

As we established on Wednesday, art is for everyone and art "belongs to all of us." But what about dick art? Is this art for all of us?

Arguably Kroll Show's most underrated sketch revolves around dueling pawn shops in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where the accents are sharp and the deals are dirty. In the latest sketch, Murph and Don team up to make some cash for Murph's forthcoming wedding to Teresa. But there are troubles in the Schuylkill River.

What do you do when people find out your frat hosted a racist "border patrol" party, during which guests donned ponchos, sombreros, and construction gear replete with "Pablo Sanchez" name tags? Claim the event was "western-themed," as certain members of the Fiji fraternity at the University of Texas-Austin have done.

On the eve of the first legal gay marriages in Alabama, the state's chief justice, Roy S. Moore, issued an order to the state's probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A federal judge struck down Alabama's ban on and constitutional amendment against gay marriage last month.