A ceremony at Madison Square Garden yesterday morning marked the graduation of 884 new officers into the New York Police Department. When Mayor Bill de Blasio took the podium to address the graduating class, praising them for their courage and determination, he was greeted like an unpopular high school principal: with boos, jeers, and the turning of backs. When he talked about the officers facing "problems [they] don't create," someone in the audience called back: "You created them!"

A college student is suing his fraternity for punching, kicking, and slapping him during the pledge process, then ostracizing him for revealing his injuries outside the frat.

What is it like to work at an Amazon warehouse during the annual holiday rush? One Amazon warehouse employee kindly narrated the "nonstop chaos" for us over the past month.

Big Borp Show star Kaley Cuoco is not a feminist, according to Kaley Cuoco. The actress tells Redbook magazine that in addition to eschewing the shadowy cause that is feminism, she likes "serving" her "man," tennis player Ryan Sweeting.

Whoops. The icing maker that comes with Play-Doh's Sweet Shoppe Cake Mountain Playset (retail price: $20) looks 100 percent like a veiny dick.

What upset this kid—or "jit," in the parlance of our narrator—so much that he had to walk through a dollar store, aisle by aisle, and rip every affordably priced item off the shelves? Why was shorty going HAM in the Dollar General?

Thanks to energy drilling operations, northern New Mexico is now covered by "a permanent, Delaware-sized methane cloud."

The above left photo depicts the actress named Keira Knightley. You know the one—British accent, British teeth. You could refer to her as Keira, or Ms. Knightley, or, if you're feeling retro, Mrs. Righton (she married last year). What you should not call her is Anne Hathaway, who is pictured above right.

The Indonesian rescue team searching for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 has recovered debris from the plane and 40 bodies floating in the Java Sea off the coast of Borneo. The plane carrying 162 people disappeared from radar Sunday flying from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.

According to a police autopsy first obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Ezell Ford, an unarmed black man, was shot three times by police: once each in the right arm, back, and side. The skin surrounding the fatal gunshot wound to his back shows a "muzzle imprint."

A hunter shot and killed a gray wolf in Utah this weekend. Apparently he mistook it for a coyote. Wolves, however, are much larger than coyotes. Please, don't shoot wolves.

According to the New York Times, federal authorities are investigating State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver for payments he received for about a decade from a law firm that were not listed on his financial disclosure forms as required. The investigation grew out of the short-lived Moreland Commission.

Representative Michael Grimm, the Republican from Staten Island who plead guilty to tax evasion and threatened to break a reporter in half has decided to resign from Congress, the New York Daily News reports.

New York City's homeless population has hit a record high of 58,913, WNYC reports.

A New Jersey man was arrested this weekend after he made a false emergency call and asked responding officers for a ride to the convenience store, the Burlington County Times reports.

In his last communication to air traffic control, the pilot of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 made a request to take the plane above threatening clouds, the Associated Press reports. By the time his request was granted, the plane had disappeared.

An 84-year-old man died today after a woman found him floating and unresponsive in the rooftop hot tub of College Point, Queens's Spa Castle, NBC 4 New York reports.

"I messed up and accidentally sold my girlfriend's cat," a Portland, Ore., man named Roy Dufek posted on Reddit earlier this month. "While she was at work I helped her out by selling the two beds she had in her apartment because we were going to use my better beds that I had at my house. Little did I know when the cat is scared it hides inside the box spring."

As previously promised, Baltimore County's key witness in their case that led to the conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee finally spoke to the media on-record about his role in the day Lee was killed in 1999—just not with Serial, the podcast that documented his elusiveness and problematic account of the day.

The public newspaper isn't often used to interrogate private matters, unless you're Sally Quinn. But sometimes, curiously, men try to write about their failed love lives like sullen teenagers, and the results are humiliating (for them).