As Holden Caulfield once said—and I'm approximating here—"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and and fuck with the mason jar right under your little kitten nose!!!"

Freezing rain and icy roads contributed to several large pileups and fatal accidents across the northeast Sunday, leaving at least five motorists dead and dozens more injured.

Greg Plitt, an actor, model and Bravo TV personality, died Saturday after he was hit by a train in Burbank, CA. According to reports, he was shooting some sort of fitness video at the time.

Two high school teachers in Orange County, CA were arrested this week after they allegedly threw an alcohol-fueled overnight sex-on-the-beach party for a group of male students.

In Tuesday's State of the State address, New York governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce that he will lead a trade mission to Cuba, The Wall Street Journal reports. It's been a tough year for Andrew! He's earned it.

At its best, the Miss Universe contest is like a (more) superficial United Nations, complete with flawed solutions to tough policy questions. Just like the real UN, however, sometimes there's just no seeing eye to eye, as was the case with this week's spat over a controversial selfie showing Misses from warring Israel and Lebanon.

Fighters suspected of being members of Boko Haram kidnapped around 80 people Sunday in an attack on villages across the border from Nigeria in Cameroon, Reuters reports. Many of those taken were children.

A$AP Yams, the founder of A$AP Mob—a hip-hop collective whose most famous members include A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg—has passed away, The Fader reports. He was 26 years old; the cause of death is unknown.

On Saturday night, multiple shots were fired from a road outside Vice President Biden's home in Greenville, Delaware, The Washington Post reports. According to the Secret Service, the shots were fired from inside a vehicle that then fled the area. No one was injured.

Pope Francis, at the end of his week-long tour through Asia, delivered a speech Sunday morning at a Manila university in which he declared that man has a God-given responsibility to protect the environment, The New York Times reports. In shirking that duty we betray God.

Did you know there are "actually Muslim religious police" in London and some English cities are "totally Muslim" "no-go-zones" where "where non-Muslims just simply don't go in"? Neither did England until last Sunday, when resident Fox News "terrorism expert" Steve Emerson dropped these ignorance bombs on live television.

President Obama will call on the Republican-controlled Congress to raise taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers and the largest financial firms in Tuesday's State of the Union Address, The New York Times reports.

For most of the 100 or so people involved in Saturday's massive highway accident in Eastern Oregon, the 26-car pileup was surely a harrowing ordeal, but one man found a cute new place amidst all the chaos, wedged safely between two big rigs.

The white man who shot Sentinel, Oklahoma's black police chief three times in the chest and once in the arm on Thursday morning was released after questioning, The Oklahoman reports.

Police in Athens have detained several people in connection with a thwarted plan to kill Belgian police officers, Reuters reports. According to a CBS News source, a man suspected of leading the group is among those being held.

Saïd Kouachi, one of the two gunmen who attacked the offices of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, was buried last night in an unmarked grave in the city of Reims, where he had lived, The New York Times reports. The burial took place over the protests of the mayor and others.

Was this officer's Taylor Swift lip sync truly spontaneous, as the video's introduction suggests? Can its seated star really said to be dancing, as numerous media outlets have claimed?

Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin, who were once allegedly dating, have, since they allegedly stopped dating, been seen together, repeatedly, eating food. On Thursday, for example, they ate food in Los Angeles. They were also, the New York Post reports, "laughing and giggling."

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whose penis is allegedly shaped like an egg, does not like having sex with black women, the New York Post reports.

To some, a pentagram might just be the thing behind that naked guy in the Rush logo, but looking at this school bus's brake lights, one concerned parent in Tennessee saw something far more sinister: a Satanic conspiracy against our precious children.