Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily ran a full-page ad in its Thursday edition that was an obituary for the founder and owner of its main rival, the Beijing-critical and pro-democracy Apple Daily. The fake obituary, in giant Chinese characters, said Jimmy Lai had died of AIDS.

Jan Harding and her husband stopped at a Dickey's Barbecue Pit in South Jordan, Utah last Sunday for lunch. The 76-year-old grandmother filled her cup with sweet tea from the restaurant's self-serve drink station. After taking a drink, she immediately spit it out, telling her husband, "I think I just drank acid."

Carrying signs that read "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," protesters numbering over 1,000 strong peacefully marched in New York's Times Square and across over 90 cities earlier this evening to call attention the police shooting of unarmed Missouri black teenager Michael Brown.

After a particularly harrowing night of tear gas, rubber bullets and false arrests, a relative calm has settled over Ferguson, Mo., thanks in large part to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which wrested control from the local police force earlier today.

A cat named Cuppy was a beloved family pet for about 14 years. But after holding his owners hostage in their bedroom earlier this week, his days at the residence might be numbered.

Twitter executives promised to improve their user policies after grief-stricken Zelda Williams was harassed online about her father's suicide earlier this week.

Look, kids. If you're going to do something that is morally reprehensible (not to mention illegal) maybe don't film it?

Everybody knew there would be repercussions if "Anonymous"—or whoever runs the now-suspended @TheAnonMessage Twitter account—released the name of the police officer it thought killed Michael Brown and turned out to be incorrect.

On Tuesday, Gawker reported that BuzzFeed had quietly removed from its site nearly 5,000 posts in April, a discovery the viral news conglomerate’s editor-in-chief refused to address before publication. Now BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti is explaining—or trying to explain—why his site disappeared those articles.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol will take control of policing protests in Ferguson, Mo. from the St. Louis County Police Department, Governor Jay Nixon announced today.

Yesterday, just shy of a month after Eric Garner was choked to death by an NYPD officer on Staten Island, Mayor Bill de Blasio sent a message to New Yorkers, in the event that they come into contact with the cops sometime soon: stop resisting.

In covering the Ferguson, Mo. protests against the police killing of Michael Brown, Fox & Friends decided to ignore the problems with a heavily-armed police force marching against civilians and criticize the protesters instead.

Salt: good? Bad? Both! It will kill you no matter what you do.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will finally step aside in favor of his rival, Haider al-Abadi, according to the Associated Press. Four senior Shiite lawmakers told the AP that "Maliki has agreed to endorse Haider al-Abadi as the next prime minister following a meeting of Dawa party members in Baghdad."

As sneaky as Russia's spooks are, they couldn't keep hackers from commandeering the Twitter account of Dmitri Medvedev, Russia's former president and current prime minister, and tweeting a mock resignation and sundry other jokes in the longtime Putin ally's name.

Backdoor Teen Mom Farrah Abraham is reportedly working as a dancer at an Austin, Tex. strip club, but she swears it's not what it looks like. She took the gig for "research" purposes, "in the same way Jennifer Aniston researched her role as a stripper."

At a press conference today, Ferguson, Mo. Police Chief Thomas Jackson addressed the days of violent protests that have roiled in the city and escalated Wednesday evening, when police officers reportedly fired tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters and journalists. "What's happening now is not what any of us want," Jackson said. "We need to get everyone to calm down, bring some peace to this."

An Arizona high school teacher was removed from the classroom and cited for public intoxication Wednesday after students said she was drunk and yelling at them during math class.

The relentless social chair of this sorority five semesters running, Reese Witherspoon, went to a party in Capri, Italy last night and had a stupendous time. Who wouldn't?

As last night's institutional violence unfolded in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, an old trope came back to life: America's police have been militarized. Like most tropes, it holds a grain of truth, but it's off-base in one critical respect: The U.S. armed forces exercise more discipline and compassion than these cops.