This morning, after a few hiccups yesterday, NASA sent its Orion spacecraft into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The test flight will see Orion orbiting Earth twice and landing off the coast of Baja, California four hours after taking off.

Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed black father of four, was shot to death in Arizona Tuesday when a police officer apparently mistook his bottle of pills for a gun.

The shrouded killer who stabbed an American mother of three to death in a shopping mall bathroom this week targeted other people too, police say.

Navy officials say at least three female officers may have been secretly filmed showering and changing clothes aboard a Navy submarine in tapes that were later distributed to other crew members.

"I was thinking, 'There's no way they can do "Ugg-A-Wugg,"'" Alanna Saunders, the actor of Cherokee Nation descent who plays Tiger Lily in Peter Pan Live, told the New York Times. "Because the lyrics are gibberish, and they're pretty offensive in terms of trying to be any sort of authentic Native American reference."

Brennan Clay is a free agent NFL running back who this week alleged that his wife is cheating on him with star Dallas Cowboys running back Demarco Murray, pictured above, who was also Clay's teammate at the University of Oklahoma. Tonight, Clay posted naughty text messages he says show Murray asking his wife if they can fuck in her bed.

Allison Williams as Peter Pan is bad; Christopher Walken is far worse as Captain Hook is an abomination. He's giving here, what? Fifteen percent? Ten?

"I've Gotta Crow" is a bad song in a bad play, and yet, this is somehow dreadful beyond my imagination and understanding.

Thousands of protestors shut down swathes of downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn in the second night of protests sparked by a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold this summer.

No longer content to rule the sky, the owl has extended its terrible dominion into another element of the wondrous universe: Earth's hydrosphere.

Just as Japan launches a space probe that will rendezvous with an asteroid, a global group of scientists warns that unless we do a better job of tracking asteroids, the entire human race could well be wiped out. Should you be worried? Yes. Death is certain.

The German government has been taking good care of musical skid mark Justin Bieber's former pet Capuchin monkey, Mally, since the Biebs abandoned him last year.

Lifetime has released a trailer for its upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, which couldn't possibly be as bad as its Aalyiah biopic...I mean, could it? Looks pretty tepid, and again, not nearly enough eye-crazy going on.

Today, former Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder was named the new editor-in-chief of The New Republic, which was once "the in-flight magazine of Air Force One," according to a movie about the most famous person who worked there, who was a fabulist. Congrats, Gabe! We are very proud of you.

Paul McCarthy's Tree is the holiday gift that keeps on giving. First, the massive inflatable butt plug sparked right wing outrage and vandalism; then, it inspired French president Francois Hollande to pen an impassioned butt plug defense. Now, the giant butt plug is gone, but hundreds of ordinary-sized butt plugs have sprung up in its wake.

After a party at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on September 12, three female students and one male student went the hospital for severe intoxication. The women believe they were roofied; the man drank from one of the women's cups. So UWM finally shut TKE down, in part because the brothers have apparently shown "no remorse" over the incident.

Usher was in Miami for Art Basel last night, where he took in an exhibition put on by something called Vector Gallery. And by "took in" I mean "charged his iPhone inside a woman's vagina."

By "looks like," I mean "when he had that haircut in 2009," and by "Peter Pan," I mean...

Shit is fucked up.

Something is afoot at The New Republic. Though no official announcements have been made, we’re told by staffers that the office is buzzing with rumors that Gabriel Snyder, a digital advisor at Bloomberg Media and former editor of The Atlantic Wire and Gawker, has been hired as its new editor-in-chief—replacing Franklin Foer in the magazine’s top spot. (Update: Foer has resigned.)