In a strident display of bad taste, Urban Outfitters was selling a $130 "vintage" Kent State sweatshirt with fake blood splatter this weekend as an apparent homage to the 1970 shooting that left four dead. The sweatshirt is now listed as "sold out" in Urban Outfitter's online store. The shirt appears to have been a one-off sale, the site imploring customers, "We only have one, so get it or regret it!"

On the heels of a third video released by ISIS depicting the beheading of a prisoner, 26 nations and representatives from the United Nations, European Union, and Arab League have assembled in Paris to formalize a battle strategy against the militants that have seized much of northern and western Iraq. "We must not allow them to have sanctuaries," Iraqi President Fuad Masum told the conference. "We must pursue them wherever they are."

An attorney for the family of the 22-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Utah police last week says the evidence suggests he was running away—contradicting earlier reports that he had "lunged" at the police officers.

Because behind every young girl screaming her little lungs out at a One Direction concert there's a dad, suffering in silence.

Dave Benton, an Illinois news anchorman, made a heartbreaking on-air announcement Thursday that his doctors believe he only has four to six months left to live.

A Florida man convicted of murdering two people reportedly dared a judge to sentence him to death, claiming he doesn't believe that the Supreme Court would actually allow an innocent man to die.

Dutch men and women threw a shit-ton of overripe tomatoes at each other in Amsterdam's central Dam square on Sunday, the AP reports, to protest against Russian sanctions blocking the import of European produce.

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The AP reports Amy Winehouse was honored with a life-sized statue on Sunday, Sept. 14—what would have been her 31st birthday—in Camden Town, her neighborhood in north London.

Martha Stewart shared a stunning, easy, one-step life recipe in Net-a-Porter's Porter magazine for Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow and other actresses who might want to venture into lifestyle blogging: shut up.

Cool Pope marries 20 couples, some of whom are already living together and one couple who already has a child, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Image by Alberto Pizzoli, via AP.

The AP reports North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced 24-year-old American Matthew Miller to six years of hard labor on Sunday, charging him with "entering the country illegally to commit espionage."

Danièle Watts, an African-American actress who played Coco in Django Unchained and appears as Martin Lawrence's daughter on FX's Partners, says she was handcuffed and detained on Thursday by police in Los Angeles who suspected she was a prostitute.

ISIS released video Saturday evening that shows the beheading of David Cawthorne Haines, a British aid worker. Haines' death comes just weeks after the execution of two American captives, James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

Kanye West allegedly pulled a real Joe Biden at a performance in Melbourne last night when he threatened to stop a performance if a wheelchair-bound fan—whoops!—didn't stand up.

The rare respiratory virus that has already sent hundreds of kids the the hospital has spread to New York, reports CNN. More that a dozen cases of Enterovirus D68 have been confirmed by the CDC.

Last night, the cast of The Simpsons gathered at the Hollywood Bowl for "The Simpsons Take the Bowl," a musical event celebrating the show's 25th anniversary. A number of the show's most memorable musical moments were revisited, but perhaps the most exciting was Conan O'Brien's performance of "The Monorail Song," from the episode "Marge vs. The Monorail."

This post contains some information about the movie The Skeleton Twins that could be considered spoilers. It's a great movie, and you should see it without knowing too much about it, so enter at your own risk.

I am an angel in this nation.

The AP reports two troopers in Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania were ambushed and shot late Friday night during a shift change outside of a state police barracks. One trooper was killed and the other was injured.