In July, a man was assaulted by police offers for allegedly falling asleep on the train on his way home from work. "For what?!" the man yells repeatedly, as officers attempt to cuff him. "I ain't do shit...I just wanna go home." The pain and distress in his voice are audibly clear, and the reasons for which he is being arrested seem arbitrary at best. "Record all of this, please!" he says to others on the subway car. This incident would seem outrageous if the occurrence of police officers abusing their power—a power, we should not forget, that is entrusted to them by the public—weren't so commonplace in New York City.

A Minnesota hardware store employee has been arrested after admitting that he repeatedly jerked off on a coworker's desk, ejaculating into her coffee, because he was attracted to her and wanted her to notice him.

Forever kid sister Ashlee Simpson got married this weekend, and her wedding photos, having escaped the interest of People, are still up for sale. Gawker.com has declined to make an institutional offer for the pics. In light of that decision, I'd like to say now that I'll personally pay $20 for them.

Ida Parker and Kristin Orr were kayaking and taking pictures of seals off Plymouth, Mass., last night when a shark bit one of their boats, sending them both tumbling into the water. Both women escaped without injuries.

Late last night, Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington announced that her company had hired 33-year-old Donté Stallworth, the former NFL wide receiver, to cover national security as a paid editorial fellow. One problem: Stallworth apparently believes that the September 11, 2001 attacks were an inside job.

In May, The Huffington Post announced that 29-year-old managing editor Jimmy Soni would step down to focus on launching the progressive website’s India edition in New Delhi. As of last month, however, he was no longer employed by the company. What happened?

At 7 weeks old, baby Lachlan had never heard the sound of his parents' voices before. But thanks to his new hearing aids, we get to see this moment of shock that quickly turned to delight. And that's just mom and dad's reaction. The baby was pretty happy, too.

Now that NBC has dumped David Gregory as host of Meet the Press, some radical changes are in store. What was once a subpar Sunday political talk show will now be a landfill, full of the most useless NBC News personalities.

Chaumtoli Huq was waiting outside the Ruby Tuesday's in Times Square for her husband and children to use the restroom when she was arrested by police. Huq claims she was targeted by police for being Muslim and South Asian; when she was arrested, she had just come from a pro-Palestinian rally and was dressed in a traditional Indian tunic and pants.

Terry Crews is more than just an actor, a former NFL player, and a paragon of pectoral muscle control. His first college scholarship offer wasn't for football; it was for art. Crews is a wizard with colored pencils and an airbrush.

Just days after announcing a $250 million investment from A&E Networks, Vice Media today announced another $250 million investment, this one from the venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures. That's half a billion dollars they can use to pay their employees a living wage, theoretically.

In February, a veterinarian in Portland performed surgery on a three-year-old, 140-pound Great Dane to remove a mysterious blockage from its stomach. It didn't take long for the doctor to determine the source of the obstruction: 43 and a half undigested socks lodged in the dog's belly.

Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo. police department this week, the Washington Post reports. The probe is expected to determine "whether the department employed policies and practices that resulted in a pattern of civil rights violations," and stems from the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

[A candlelight vigil at the University of Central Florida on Wednesday night honored Steven Sotloff, a journalist and alumnus of the university who was beheaded by ISIS in a video released earlier this week. Image by John Raoux via AP]

That girl who was famous for a while in the mid-aughts got married to Diana Ross's son this weekend, and despite the presence of several recognizable celebrities, they apparently couldn't get anyone to pay for their wedding photos in the time-honored Hollywood tradition.

After years of declaring he'd never return full-time to Bloomberg LP, Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that he's returning full-time to Bloomberg LP.

Getting lucky turned out to be fairly unlucky for one Texas man who started his birthday in bed with two women and ended up alone in a hospital bed.

CVS abruptly quit smoking last night and with one day clean, they're trying really hard to project an image of healthy living.

The NYPD is very, very bad at Twitter, and yet for some reason, lately, it has only been encouraging hapless cops to tweet even more. If all those grizzled old Lennie Briscoe types are going to be trusted to navigate the world of hashtags and favs, they'll need some education.

Will Smith is many things: award-winning actor, rapper, devoted husband, advice giver, and father to teen mystics Willow and Jaden. We can now add to the list, Burning Man 2014 attendee. Three days ago, Smith, donning a black gas mask and brown top hat (because that's totally normal), posted a photo to his Facebook account with the caption: "Headed to Burning Man!!"