South African track star Oscar Pistorius, 27, was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for the shooting and killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. "I'm just glad it's over," June Steenkamp, Reeva's mother, told reporters after the sentencing.

Being friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg apparently means a lot of free T shirts—the Supreme Court justice of fun says she stockpiled those Notorious R.B.G. shirts and gives them out to people as gifts.

The FCC says a software glitch that made it impossible for the entire state of Washington to call emergency services for six hours "could have been prevented."

According to reports, legendary designer Oscar de la Renta died Monday at age 82.

Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the abduction of UVA student Hannah Graham, was indicted by a grand jury today for a separate sexual assault case dating back to 2005.

On Sunday morning, one of New York's carriage horses escaped from its reins and went for a leisurely stroll up Eleventh Avenue. Look at the horse, gaily trotting along, and you'd hardly know the police were in hot pursuit.

During his stand-up show in Philadelphia Thursday night, comedian Hannibal Buress addressed the multiple sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby. "…You raped women, Bill Cosby," Buress said. " So, [that] brings you down a couple notches."

King Tut, the man inside the golden tomb, was previously understood to be handsome and majestic based on the artistic rendering of his face that appears on his ancient burial mask. But a brief pause before you once again fall asleep fantasizing to King Tut rescue fantasy: A new "virtual autopsy" reveals that the Egyptian teen monarch had buck teeth, a club foot, and just generally looked like an enormous doofus.

Mixed martial arts competitor Jonathan "War Machine" Koppenhaver, currently facing attempted murder charges for attacking former girlfriend Christy Mack, attempted suicide by hanging in his jail cell last week. TMZ has obtained a copy of the note he left behind, in which he quotes famous moral skeptic Friedrich Nietzsche and explains that he's ending it all so he doesn't have to see Mack "tell painful lies about me" at trial.

Susan Schrivjer is fed up. The Fort Myers, Fla. mother has started a petition to get Toys 'R Us to remove Breaking Bad action figures from their shelves. "Kids mimic their action figures, if you will," she told WFTX. "Do you want your child in an orange jumpsuit?"

Today I saw the following Burger King (@BurgerKing) tweet promoted into my Twitter feed.

After weeks of close contests and national debate, the fraught competition to decide America's ugliest accent has finally come to a dramatic close. And the winner is that moonlit, magical city—the Paris of Allegheny County, the Venice of the Ohio Valley—Pittsburgh, City of Jagoffs.

It's not often that a police officer will explain to you why what you're doing is perfectly legal just before he puts you in handcuffs, but that's exactly what happens to a New York City subway platform musician in the video above.

TV coverage of the Supreme Court is hampered by the longstanding ban on cameras inside the highest court in the land. News shows have been forced to make do with sometimes-shoddy artists' renderings of the Justices, and John Oliver's sick of it. So here's his alternative proposal: Let's just use this footage of dogs in robes instead.

By law, the heat should be turned on in New York City apartments by now. Is the heat on in your apartment yet? Ha.

An up-and-coming fiction writer from California named Tom Hanks has his debut short story in the New Yorker this week. Good for Tom, who at 58 is getting a late-in-life start on his fiction career. It's never too late!

Gamergate is substantively about nothing; ask a hundred of its angry, anonymous backers what it's fighting for, and you'll get a hundred different, zany answers. But a few internet opportunists are using the chaos to make themselves celebrities.

It's a classic tale of boy-meets-girl, girl-tries-to-break-into-boy's-house-through-the-chimney. Firefighters came to the aid of Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 28, after she became lodged in the flue at the Thousand Oaks, Calif., home of a man she said she met online.

A craft brewer in Fort Collins, Colorado caused quite an uproar among seasonal cereal fans when it bought a grocery store's entire supply of Count Chocula cereal earlier this month

There is—if this overheard-in-a-taxi "@NYCTaxiCabTales" is to be believed—a video of "Rachel Maddow and Rush Limbaugh danc[ing] Salsa all night" at a "private club on 5th Ave." If you are the security guy who has the tape, we'd love to watch it.