Police say a 20-year-old driver struck and killed an 89-year-old woman because she was too busy looking through Facebook pictures on her phone to pay attention to the road.

Officials say ISIS's social media consultant is a 33-year-old Boston man who made the Dean's List at Northeastern University before becoming a Most Wanted Terrorist.

The Daily Mail reports a delightful Royal Guardsman will likely be punished for daring to dance through a recent Buckingham Palace shift.

Officials at Canada's apparently infamous Bordeaux jail are reportedly refusing to comment after an inmate posted party pictures from inside his jail cell this week.

Politico Magazine is a magazine edition of The Politico—America's worst publication—whose mission is "to pull back from the flood to understand what it's all about." The flood, in that metaphor, is supposed to be the tremendous churning hourly volume of vacuous meta- and meta-meta-political Narrative and Controversy that sustains The Politico and is sustained by The Politico.

Middle school is a nightmare, and any impulse to avoid it is totally understandable. A Florida teenager who had the courage to fight back, however, was rewarded for his bravery this week with a pair of handcuffs and a trip to the St. Johns County jail.

Trailblazer Joan Rivers is dead, and over the next few days, you should expect to see various takes on what her life and career meant. These takes will probably fall on one of two sides: "Joan Rivers was fearless!" vs. "Joan Rivers was bigoted!" Supporting evidence abounds for both, which is to say that the truth is more complicated than what an outsider's summation of a person's life work can provide.

Meet the new King of Wales, Will Williams. He recently consumed an entire bottle of Jack Daniel's in just shy of 15 seconds, which, I'm given to understand, entitles him to some kind of sword-in-the-stone style claim on the monarchy that supersedes the current hereditary system. And makes Wales independent, for some reason. Congratulations/sorry, Wales!

Fading magazine empire Time Inc. is currently trying to negotiate a new contract with the Newspaper Guild, a union that represents several hundred of the company's editorial employees. Time Inc. would like the right to eliminate most of their jobs.

A new analysis of air traffic patterns by researchers shows that there's up to an 18 percent chance the Ebola virus will reach the U.S. by late September. Lead researcher Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University told NPR, "What is happening in West Africa is going to get here. We can't escape that at this point."

Ex-Virginia governor Bob McDonnell was found guilty of 11 corruption charges in a case that centered around his allegedly exchanging political favors for cash and gifts, the Washington Post reports. Maureen McDonnell, his wife, was found guilty of eight corruption charges and obstruction of justice.

Legendary comedian Joan Rivers died this afternoon, her daughter Melissa announced. She was 81.

This is a video of dog chasing people through the dark in a giant spider costume, set to over-the-top horror film music, but that knowledge doesn't make it not fucking terrifying. You can hardly blame the victims for failing to waste precious seconds confirming whether that dog-sized spider is actually a dog-sized dog.

Thirteen people, including eight children, suffered burns after a methyl alcohol and boric acid tornado demonstration caused a chemical flash at the Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum in Reno yesterday. The burns were originally believed to have been the result of an explosion, but a city spokesperson explained to the Associated Press that it was actually more like "if someone threw gasoline on a fire," which is not exactly reassuring.

Justin Ross Harris, the father who allegedly left his 22-month-old son to die in a hot car in June, was indicted for murder today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Harris, who received eight charges total, potentially faces the death penalty.

After news broke that first openly-gay NFLer Michael Sam had signed to the Dallas Cowboys practice squad, Houston's Fox 26 apparently snuck a dumb gay joke about Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo into its news crawl: "Tony Romo, still the gayest player on the Cowgirls."

On last night's episode of Conan, Conan O'Brien got right to the meat of The Leftovers/Justin Theroux's career and asked about the actor's much-discussed bulge.

Snapchat: cool among teens, even cooler among high school teachers trying to send underage girls pictures of their dick without getting caught. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Stoughton High School teacher and assistant football coach Brandon Amato, 24, admitted yesterday to sending explicit Snapchats to one 16-year-old student and one 17-year-old student.

Police are investigating after a group of teens in Bay Village, Ohio, allegedly tricked an autistic 15-year-old into creating an ice bucket challenge video, then dousing him with urine, feces, spit, and cigarette butts.