At a White House press conference this afternoon, President Obama announced that one American was traveling on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile yesterday over eastern Ukraine. The American has been identified as Quinn Lucas Schansman.

Everyone is curious about Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird. That's why a new book about her—The Mockingbird Next Door, by Marja Mills—is selling briskly. Lee has reportedly denounced the book as "unauthorized."

And on the fifth day of Weird Al Week, Al finally released a video for one of the non-parody tracks on Mandatory Fun. "Sports Song" is an English-to-nerd translation of the classic college fight song, with a clearly articulated message about the relative status of Al's favorite team (great) and the opposing team you support (sucks).

Boko Haram militants attacked Damboa, Nigeria last night, leaving many dead and half the town burned to the ground, according to witnesses.

An Australian woman, Kaylene Mann, tragically lost her brother and her sister-in-law in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappearance in March. In an unbelievable twist of fate, Mann's stepdaughter was killed yesterday when MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Conan O'Brien always wants to grok the groovy things all the kids are doing these days, and the younger members of his staff have turned him on to Tinder. So, accompanied by Dave Franco and a perfectly innocent prowler van full of booze and duct tape, he set off on a vision quest to discover the true meaning of "DTF."

Here you will find a video of a man who works for an agricultural group punching a union organizer in the face.

Happily single Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is taking a break from relationships and focusing on herself for a while. She's into transcendental meditation, experimenting with women, and that most self-improving of all activities, flip cup.

Limp Bizkit dirtbag Fred Durst is now directing advertisements for the EHarmony dating corporation.

Just months after an RT America anchor quit her job during a live televised broadcast, another journalist publicly left the Russian government-funded news network.

A U.S. Defense official told CNN this morning that the missile that hit Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 yesterday was most likely fired by pro-Russian separatists inside eastern Ukraine. This information comes from "a preliminary classified U.S. intelligence analysis."

What if I told you that mozzarella sticks never had to end? That for $10, you could eat for free (for $10) for the rest of your natural life? That there exists a spot in the space-time continuum in which it is always Friday? That there are free refills on all Slushes™ excluding Red Bull® branded items?

As promised, Oprah Winfrey's sit-down interview with Matthew Sandusky, the adopted son of convicted child predator and former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, was brutally explicit. In the Oprah Prime clip above, Matthew recounts the abuse in detail, as well as his resulting shame. In response, Winfrey shared this insight regarding sexual abuse and pleasure: "When you are groomed and seduced by somebody who's really good at it, that the aim and intention of that person is to make it pleasurable so that you will be confused. So it's OK to say that it was pleasurable. And that's part of the shame that you as a little boy develop and carry as an adult because your body betrays you. Because it is pleasurable."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to "significantly widen" Israel's ground operations in Gaza amidst news that 27 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed since troops entered the territory yesterday.

The Justice Department indicted FedEx Thursday on federal charges that accuse the company of having conspired with illegal online pharmacies to deliver controlled substances and other pharmaceuticals purchased by people without prescriptions.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved gender treatment for WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning's gender dysphoria. Manning will be treated while she serves her 35 year prison sentence for leaking national security documents. The decision comes after the Army was denied by the Bureau of Prisons a request to transfer Manning from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to a civilian prison where she could receive better treatment.

TMZ has obtained video from Tim McGraw's concert this past Sunday at Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood in Atlanta wherein a female fan first grabs his leg and then goes for his crotch. McGraw, while singing his song "Truck Yeah," responds by slapping her. People really want to touch Tim McGraw's junk, apparently.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine today—the plane's 283 passengers and 15 crew members are all presumed dead. The White House confirmed this afternoon that the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by an antiaircraft missile, though it continues to be disputed who might be responsible.

A Kentucky man arrested for shoplifting allegedly tried to get back at the cops by pretending to be a police officer and ordering five Domino's pizzas to the precinct.

National security wonks this week are wondering: Which U.S. spooks in Northern Virginia put out a classified ad seeking a chef with a Top Secret security clearance? Two things are known: The hiring agency runs the CIA's cafeteria, and CIA workers don't think much of their cafeteria.