Here we go: Vince Vaughn is the latest actor rumored to be in contention for one of the four leading roles in the second season of True Detective. Deadline is reporting that Vaughn is being eyed to play the season's main villain, a role creator Nic Pizzolatto specifically wrote with the actor in mind.

According to a police affidavit released today, a Wichita, Kan. foster parent was reminded of the 10-month-old girl he left in his car after seeing a crying child on an episode of Game of Thrones. The foster parent, Seth Jackson, 29, has been charged by police with first-degree murder. Jackson was smoking weed, eating pizza, and watching TV with his partner for about two hours while the child was in the car on a 90 degree day.

The New York City Health Department announced that the man admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms "is unlikely to have Ebola" and that "specimens are being tested for common causes of illness and to definitively exclude Ebola." The department's determination was made in consultation with the CDC and Mount Sinai doctors.

After a two day search, police arrested Jessica Smith late Sunday on suspicion of aggravated murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter Isabella. The toddler was found in their Cannon Beach, Ore. hotel room Friday with her severely injured 13-year-old sister Alana.

Israel and Hamas agreed today to a three-day cease-fire plan proposed by Egypt to begin at 5 a.m. local time Tuesday. The agreement includes an invitation for delegations from Israel and Palestine to travel to Cairo to discuss a potential long-term peace deal.

"This isn't a race issue." That's the most common response I've gotten in the past three weeks when talking about police brutality. And while that is partially true —this isn't just a racial issue—blacks and Latinos do face a greater threat from the police force here in New York City. That the most recent incidents of police brutality circulating in the media—Eric Garner, Stephanie Maldonado, Jahmil-El Cuffee, Rosan Miller, Denise Stewart—involve people of color is no coincidence.

The slightly-dotty-but-kind grandmother who inhabits the lithe, nubile body of 24-year-old Taylor Swift is up to her old tricks again. What's she gone and done now? Pulled $90 out of her pocketbook and given it to a stranger who didn't even ask for it, is all. Thanks for the money, Nana. Got any peppermints?

Happiness: what is it? A new study has found the answer: it is a mathematical equation based on your own expectations. You are so very predictable, humans.

A hotel in Hudson, N.Y., is under fire for attempting to charge guests a $500 fee if anyone in their party left a negative online review.

Please, Sigourney Weaver, do not star in The Expendabelles, Sylvester Stallone's proposed woman-centered Expendables spin-off movie. Based on the name alone, you are much, much better than it.

A 13-year-old Florida boy has been charged with the murder of Thomas J. Bergstrom, 51. Bergstrom was found stabbed to death at a homeless camp on Saturday near Cape Coral.

Over at The Nation, Katha Pollitt proposes a solution to the ongoing rain of fire, brimstone, rubber and glass that followed the Supreme Court's June decision in Hobby Lobby. Repeal the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, she says, and be done with it. Ayup.

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson launched strikes against North Vietnam for attacking U.S. warships without provocation in the Tonkin Gulf. Six days later, Congress passed a "Gulf of Tonkin resolution" giving Johnson carte blanche to make war in Vietnam. It was a thin pretext for protracted conflict.

Someone trying to prove a point about the nature and value of art—or about the remarkably steady birth rate of suckers (still approximately one per minute!)—has printed out a screenshot of a 4chan post and sold it on eBay for nearly six figures.

James S. Brady, a former press secretary for Ronald Reagan, died today in Alexandria, Virginia. He was 73. Brady became a tireless advocate for gun control and founded the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence after getting shot by John Hinckley Jr. in an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981.

The least likely place to give a handjob in New York City is at a live alligator demonstration at the American Museum of Natural History.

As oversaturated as YouTube has become with GoPro videos, it's tough to muster any cynicism for Matt Stanley's footage of a curious baby seal who jumped onto his surfboard off the coast of Northumberland, U.K., and got some free lessons.

A federal judge ruled today that Alabama's abortion clinic law is unconstitutional. The law, passed last year, mandates that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and it would have closed three of the state's five abortion clinics. The law never went into effect, so the clinics have stayed open.

Three children and their parents were found shot to death Sunday night in the family's home in Culpeper, Va. Police believe the shooting was a murder-suicide.

In the movie First Kid (1996), President Paul Davenport's son Luke is known as a brat who rebels against his protection detail. That is, until Secret Service agent Sam Simms (Sinbad) befriends him by teaching him how to be cool. This weekend, Malia Obama went to Lollapalooza.