An off-duty city officer shot and killed an 18-year-old Wednesday night in St. Louis, Mo., after the teen allegedly opened fire on the officer, police said. According to a witness in the report with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the officer then shot the teen 16 times.

According to the Washington Post, Secret Service agents weren't the only ones hiring hookers in Cartagena—a fact the White House reportedly tried to keep quiet.

The family of a Brooklyn teenager is suing the NYPD, claiming an officer knocked their son out and gave him brain damage after mistaking his cigarette for marijuana.

An Arizona man died and another was injured when a swarm of 800,000 angry bees escaped an attic and began attacking them.

Jennifer Lawrence spoke to Vanity Fair recently about having dozens of nude selfies stolen and put on the internet. You will be surprised to find out that the users of Reddit had obscenely dense reactions to this interview.

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal (subscription only) touches on a new breed of startups that aim to make eating in the future an easier, healthier, and more vegetarian experience for you. Hold up, techies! What about those of us who still want to eat delicious meat?

An Oregon man taking advantage of the state's open carry laws had his new semiautomatic pistol stolen at gunpoint early Saturday morning, and apparently didn't put up a fight.

In his most recent dispatch, The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks with Lucia McBath about the death of her son, Jordan Davis. "It's very difficult to know that it doesn't matter what morals you instill in your children," she said. "That there are certain people who will never see the value and known who they are."

Daily hazing on a New Jersey high school football team allegedly involved seniors shoving fingers up the rectums of younger players, NJ.com exclusively reports. Sayreville War Memorial High School's entire football season has been cancelled as a result, Sayreville's superintendent, Richard Labbe, told the press on Monday night.

Despite the fact that British toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared seven years ago while on vacation with her family in Portugal, the heavily covered British tabloid case still captivates a certain subset of Twitter trolls. This weekend, one of these alleged trolls was found dead in a hotel room after information about her was exposed online.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case about whether or not Amazon employees should be paid while company security people search them after their shifts. Paid?? When being searched by company security is so fun?

Rumors that Bridesmaids director Paul Feig was set to direct a female-led Ghostbusters 3 started ramping up in late August, and today Feig confirmed on Twitter that it's really happening.

A black teenager in Fuquay-Varina, N.C. was pepper sprayed by police inside his own home earlier this week after neighbors reported him as a burglar.

Louis C.K. has a feeling he's discovered "the origin of the basic despair that we all feel in the pit of our being, that one thing we all share." And it's not, as he previously posited, the knowledge that each of us will be forever empty and alone. It's that Earth is a Martian graveyard, and we're all "seeded by marsian corpse DNA."

An innocent four-limbed creature succumbed to Ebola this afternoon after days of intense public outra—wait, wait a second, we're not talking about an African person here. Open that tab back up. Can you hear me? It was a dog. A DOG. A poor, adorable, defenseless pup who never did anything wrong in this cruel world.

An appeals court in New York state will begin addressing the question that has been on the forefront of everyone's minds for years: Are chimps actually people?

It's impossible to get a sexually transmitted infection through "biblically correct sex," according to a new study from reliable scientific source Dr. That Homophobic Idiot with the Beard from Duck Dynasty No the Other One.

Symbols fade with time. In 2008, when Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency, attempting to become the first black man to hold the the nation's highest office, his run was "historic" and "generations in the making." It was, by most accounts, a big win for the Democratic party, which had lost ground and political leverage during the Bush years. And though Obama endured a rocky first term, his run for re-election in 2012 was again seen as a sign of hope that America would continue to move forward.

Man has long grappled with the question of what to do with women once they step outside the sexually desirable age range of "eighteen" to twenty-six. They're around for some time after [fact-check this claim, please — Ed.], but why?

He had a much kinder response to Ellen Grossman's similar question, but this, "Who are you?" is raw and real.