In the wake of the MH17 crash, U.S. intelligence officials have been building their case that Russia and the pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine have been working together during the Ukrainian conflict. On Sunday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released overhead images taken last week as evidence that the Russian military has fired into Ukraine.

A lightning strike in Venice Beach, Los Angeles yesterday killed a 20-year-old man and injured 13 others, one critically. Firefighters believe lightning struck the ocean and spread through the water, ABC reports.

The AP reports that earlier this week a toddler in Oregon climbed into a Jeep, knocked it out of gear, and crashed it into someone's house. Don't worry, though—he got back home in time to watch cartoons.

Are you tired of "the media filters"? Sarah Palin is! She always has been.

Officials report that a family of five, including three young children, were found on Sunday shot to death inside a southern Maine apartment.

A 64-year-old woman was struck by a car on Saturday night in San Diego during the city's annual ZombieWalk. Police say the driver was a deaf man trying to escape the faux-zombie horde with his deaf children in the backseat.

Family Guy's Comic-Con panel began with a peek at the show's upcoming crossover episode with The Simpsons, which airs on September 28th. The four-minute clip has somehow made its way onto the internet, and you can watch it now! If you want to!

British inventor and YouTube celebrity Colin Furze—previously known for creating a jet-powered bike and the "world's fastest toilet"—recently created a big metal butt with a butthole fashioned to fit a gigantic pulsejet. Why? To fart at France, of course.

2014 Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali, of Italy, stands with Slovakia's Peter Sagan, best sprinter, Poland's Rafal Majka, best climber, and France's Thibaut Pinot, best young rider. Image by Laurent Cipriani, via AP.

A set of cooling towers in the southeastern British town of Oxfordshire were destroyed early Sunday morning, and despite protests to move the demolition until later in the day so that everyone could enjoy it (perhaps a BBQ?), residents stood out at 5 a.m. anyway in their pajamas and with their camera phones in tow. Some had been there waiting all night.

Richard Plotts, the 49-year-old suspect accused of killing his caseworker and injuring his psychiatrist at a Philadelphia-area hospital on Thursday, will be charged with murder, authorities say. Plotts reportedly had a long history with guns and mental illness.

It's been three days since two carjackers drove a stolen SUV into a family selling fruit in north Philadelphia, resulting in the deaths of three children, but police still have no leads on the suspects' whereabouts, who disappeared on foot after the accident. The reward stands at $110,000 for their capture.

A lot of crazy stuff seems to occur at San Diego's Comic-Con ever year, but color this the least likely. Channing Tatum, who does the voice of "Joaquin" in an upcoming animated film called The Book of Life, joined Biz Markie in a stirring (strange?) rendition of "Just A Friend," a song that appears in the film.

Boko Haram, the extremist group responsible for kidnapping over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April (who still have not been returned), has now kidnapped the wife of the vice prime minister of Cameroon, officials say, in a wave of militant extremism across Nigeria and Cameroon.

The Skyhawk ride at Ohio's Cedar Point amusement park was responsible for injuring two patrons on Saturday after a cable snapped and then came into contact with the two guests, ABC5 in Cleveland reports.

The New York Times unveiled in the Sunday Review today the first editorial in a series emphatically encouraging the legalization of marijuana in America.

A man who had been dressing up as Spider-Man in the legendary costumed characters area of legendary Times Square has been charged with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest after an NYPD officer reported that the man slugged him and tried to run away.

He would have been my first, I suppose—a Korean student at some other school in Beijing's Wudaokou university district.

Police on Long Island say that a woman who feared her friend was too drunk, and had gotten out of his car to walk home, was then struck and killed by the same man in a drunk-driving accident only minutes later early Saturday morning.

The BBC reports that a Manchester Crown Court judge is undergoing investigation after being accused of falling asleep during a child rape trial, forcing the jury to be dismissed.