Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post from 1968-1991, has entered hospice care. Bradlee became "one of the best-known editors in the world" after All The Presidents Men, the movie adaptation of the Watergate scandal, was made. He is also a descendant of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

As any American looking to eat out on a budget, I'm not one to pass up a great deal, and this one is arguably better than the McDonald's value menu: Bring your gun to Bergeron's Restaurant in Port Allen, La. and get 10 percent off your order for making the owner feel "safer." "I just need to see a weapon. I need you to be carrying a gun," Kevin Cox told NBC33.

The mother of Alton Alexander Nolen—the Oklahoma processing plant employee accused of stabbing two of his co-workers and beheading one—has released a statement through her Facebook page in which she expresses her dismay at her son's terrifying behavior. "On behalf of my son, Alton Nolen, my heart is so heavy right now," Joyce Nolen says on video. "I know my son. He was raised up in a loving home. I know what they are saying that he done. But I'm going to tell you this, that's not my son."

Back in July, Zack Brown asked Kickstarter for $10 to make potato salad ("I don't know what kind yet") He ended up with $55,000, and his modest project sparked a debate between people who found it harmless and fun and those who say it reveals a privileged internet class with too much money and not a clue how to spend it.

Keep one eye on the Supreme Court today and tomorrow, as it holds its "Long Conference" about all the petitions it got over the summer. In the mix are five cases asking the same question: Are bans on same-sex marriage constitutional? Join me below as I split into multiple personalities to explain it.

A gunman has reportedly taken a guest hostage at the Saint Peter Hotel in Brasilia, Brazil, walking a man with what appears to be explosives strapped to his chest out onto a 13th story balcony.

Fashion-conscious Feguson cops will have to do without the season's hottest piece, according to a letter to the city from the U.S. Department of Justice—which, among other things, asks officers to stop wearing "I Am Darren Wilson" bracelets while on-duty.

We can't take our boyfriends anywhere, but guess where they can take us? A dumpster. Like centuries of women before us, Salon writer Clara Bensen reflects today on standing by her man, who lives in a waste receptacle.

In the latest installment of Last Week Tonight's "How Is This Still a Thing?" John Oliver investigates the ongoing popularity of pernicious pseudo-philosopher Ayn Rand, whose works have experienced a resurgence among non-high-schoolers—especially CEOs and members of Congress—during the past decade.

Gaping mouth with hairpiece Donald Trump spends most of his time on Twitter railing against those he perceives as "losers," but he'll occasionally take a break to give his own ego a nice rubdown. A prankster exploited that vanity Monday, tricking Trump into retweeting a photo of a sweet married couple who also happen to be convicted serial killers.

Kuntal Patel, 37, is currently on trial in the UK for the attempted murder of her mother, whom she allegedly poisoned with abrin after seeing a similar stunt on Breaking Bad. The ricin-esque substance was purchased with bitcoin on a dark web site and delivered to a friend's home, disguised in a candle.

I'm not sure, but it seems like the spiritual benefits of rejecting narcissistic impulses by deleting your Facebook account are somewhat canceled out if you publish a New York Times op-ed about everything you've been doing since you stopped posting Facebook updates.

Last week, the Daily Show's Jason Jones brought a panel of die-hard Washington Redskins fans face-to-face with some of the many Native Americans offended that the team won't stop clinging to its racist branding. It went exactly as you would expect.

This week, rich and famous human Lena Dunham will begin her 12-city book tour. Several dates will feature regular people performing. They will not be paid. Let's do the math on that. (Updated below.)

Internet K-Hole, the last good blog on the internet, has moved from Blogspot to Tumblr. It "sucks, but i'll update it daily!," K-Hole's curatorial genius Babs writes.

Do you understand how exactly the United States' drone program works? The genuine, terrifying answer is that barely anyone has a complete picture of not only who we are targeting, but also who we're killing. "Perhaps the most incredible thing about our drone program," Oliver says, "which again, a majority of us support, is not how little we know about who the government is killing, but how little they themselves seem to know."

U.S.-led airstrikes continued in Syria overnight, with attacks launched across four provinces in the northern and eastern regions of the country. Appearing on 60 Minutes last night, President Obama told Steve Kroft, "[Director of National Intelligence] Jim Clappper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," pointing to instability in the country caused by civil war as the opening the militants needed to gain their foothold.

A group of Swedish scientists with a lot of time on their hands have spent the last 17 years competing to see who can sneak the most Bob Dylan lyrics into their research papers.

Stevie Nicks is on a publicity blitz for a new album, and she didn't hold much back during a recent Billboard interview, confirming stories of prodigious cocaine use and an unplanned pregnancy with Eagles frontman Don Henley.

TMZ published video today of the infamous couple from Kitchen Nightmare chasing a patron out of their restaurant with what appears to be a large knife.