Mo Brooks has been a congressman ever since 2011, after the then-56-year-old was named one of the Republican National Committee's "Young Guns." He's one of the House's most conservative members. Also, he believes immigration is "part of a war on whites" in America, according to a radio interview today.

Nibbles, a beloved beagle mix, passed away in July at age 14. His family says he was killed by chewing on pieces of razor blades concealed inside Canadian bacon. Next-door neighbor Robert Hamme, 60, later confessed to booby-trapping the meat and throwing it over a fence into Nibbles' yard.

Does fish oil actually prevent heart disease? "By 2018, there will be an answer." Okay. Thanks for nothing.

ZMapp, an experimental treatment never before used on humans, may have saved the two American aid workers infected with the Ebola virus. Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol have showed marked improvement since receiving the serum, which the National Institute of Health transported to Liberia last Thursday.

Partway along his journey from writing two Scooby-Doo movies to directing Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn made a quick stop to do some porn with Sasha Grey. Sort of.

After two years of recriminations and investigations, the Republican-led House intelligence committee is reportedly set to release the results of a Benghazi investigation that found no wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the lead-up and response to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.

Police said Sunday that Ramsey Orta, the 22-year-old who recorded brutal footage of NYPD putting Eric Garner in a chokehold, was arrested on weapons charges this weekend. He was picked up just blocks from where he recorded Garner's deadly arrest. Orta's wife claims police have been following him.

When most people think of shady, predatory "debt collectors," they probably imagine a dingy, smoke-filled boiler room with workers haranguing hapless victims on the phone. In fact, there are law firms that are every bit as perfidious.

The Bay Area is flooding—with tears. A torrent is pouring from the home of writer Ayelet Waldman and her husband Michael Chabon (whom she loves more than her children), where, Waldman writes, the couple's 11-year-old son has been robbed of $120 by "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood," a cartoon game that one plays for leisure on his cellular or tablet device.

Kyle Tasker has dedicated his four-year career in the New Hampshire statehouse to channeling Chris Farley, only with more guns, selfies and woman-beating jokes. So maybe it's no surprise he's got one-liners about the state's black caucus.

Taylor Swift, gardener and cat enthusiast, killed you Sunday when she visited a 7-year-old cancer patient and offered to sing him any song he wanted, or just do some of her favorite things, like playing with Play-Doh or talking about Spider-Man or whatever. Authorities say the cause of your death was drowning in a flood of your own tears.

Early Saturday morning, a music video shoot at a Bronx bodega turned violent after one member of a rap duo reportedly opened fire on his partner, wounding him in the head, legs, and chest. According to the bodega's owner, the shooting was triggered by an argument over who was the video's star.

John Oliver's big topic on the latest Last Week Tonight was the crumbling wall between news and advertising, an invisible ethical forcefield that used to be known as the "separation of church and state."

Over 100 people are missing and presumed dead after a ferry crossing the Padma River in central Bangladesh capsized Monday morning. Local media outlets estimate that there were at least 250 people on board when bad weather struck the river, causing the vessel to overturn.

Car alarms.

Major thunderstorms in Southern California have caused mudslides that are "the worst we've had since at least 1969," according to resident Michael Scully. At least 2,500 people have been stranded since Sunday, and one person has died.

Ersula Ore. Eric Garner. Jahmil-El Cuffee. Rosan Miller. Marlene Pinnock. Al Flowers. Alonzo Grant. This is just a sample of the men and women who have been savagely, and unnecessarily, beaten by police officers this summer. Garner’s case, in which an NYPD officer used a chokehold to restrain the 43-year-old Staten Island father, resulted in death (On Friday a medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide at the hands of the NYPD). Since then, the topic of “police brutality” has gained momentum nationwide and has sparked outcry from elected officials and community members asking for police reform. Just last week, in a meeting at New York City Hall, Rev. Al Sharpton told Mayor Bill de Blasio of his biracial son: “If Dante wasn’t your son, he’d be a candidate for a chokehold.” And it’s true. But why? How, in Obama’s America, did we end up here?

Veteran foreign correspondent, well-loved war reporter, and author of the extraordinary Iraq War book Black Hearts Jim Frederick died suddenly last week of a heart attack in Oakland, California. He was 42 years old.

According to an investigation by the Associated Press, the U.S. sent Latin American youths to Cuba to provoke rebellion, beginning in 2009. The workers—all Venezuelan, Peruvian, and Costa Rican—entered the country by posing as tourists, and in some cases, HIV educators.

Moira Cameron, the first woman to join the Yeoman Warders, walks past the ceramic poppy art installation in the dry moat of the Tower of London, Sunday. "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" opens Aug. 5 and features 888,246 poppies, each representing a member of the British military that died in World War I. Image by Matt Dunham via AP.