Universal Pictures is hard at work on the film Straight Outta Compton, an N.W.A. biopic set for release next year. The movie is happening with the cooperation of heavyweights like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. Here is a casting call for the film that went out yesterday.

Here's a story to boost your confidence in airport security and the overall safety of women everywhere: An apparently drunk, 53-year-old man was arrested at the San Francisco airport Tuesday after allegedly convincing two women he was a TSA agent and ushering them into a private area to give them pat downs.

As "Weird Al" Yankovic celebrates the release of what's probably his final major-label album, everyone's looking back on his nearly 35 years in music and either lamenting or sighing with relief that some things never change.

A new study finds that nearly two-thirds of scholars (particularly women) doing field studies in disciplines like archaeology and anthropology say they have experienced sexual harassment, which makes field studies almost as perilous as working at a college.

Bank robbers driving a stolen car and carrying at least one AK-47 led more than 50 police cars on a chase through Stockton, California yesterday after robbing a Bank of the West branch. A hostage and two of the robbers were killed in a shootout with police after the chase.

Your mission, young GOP staffers: Infiltrate a fundraiser for Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer, wearing a spy camera mounted to your glasses, and record everything you see there. Whatever you do, don't let the footage get into the wrong hands.

Earlier today, Israel stopped airstrikes on Gaza for a five-hour "humanitarian window." Now, an Israeli official tells the BBC that an actual cease-fire deal has been reached with Hamas in Gaza. Update: Israel's Foreign Minister says that reports of a cease-fire deal are "as of now incorrect." According to the BBC, the supposed cease-fire would start at 6:00 a.m. local time on Friday.

A woman takes a photo on the flooded streets of Quezon City in the Philippines, Wednesday. Typhoon Rammasun struck the country late Tuesday, leaving at least five dead. Photo by Aaron Favila via AP.

Texas actress Shannon Guess Richardson, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Mark Glaze, the former head of Bloomberg's anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Then-pregnant, she sent the letters and was arrested by police last year after trying to implicate her husband.

North Carolina State Police are on the hunt for two twentysomethings with an apparent affinity for fake, expensive dinosaurs. The couple can be seen in security footage from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh jumping a barrier, snatching the $10,000 Edmontosaurus hatchling replica, and running off with it in a bag.

A federal judge in Southern California ruled Wednesday that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney wrote that the "dysfunctional administration of California's death penalty system" has led to years-long delays for executions. According to the Los Angeles Times, 900 people have been given the death penalty in California since 1978—only 13 have been executed.

President Obama announced today that the U.S. will be expanding its sanctions against Russia for the country's intervention in Ukraine. The sanctions target banks and energy producers, as well as several defense firms.

Israel has agreed to halt its attacks on Gaza for five hours Thursday in accordance to a deal brokered by the United Nations' special envoy to the Middle East, Robert H. Serry. The temporary break from assaults for a "humanitarian window" comes after days of airstrikes between the Israeli military and Hamas and the death of more than 200 Palestinians.

Thailand's Kalasin Rajabhat University is investigating a lecturer who allegedly gave students A's in exchange for collectable stamps good for discounts and gifts at 7-11. The teacher was caught on video offering a grade bump for every 25 stamps, the Bangkok Post reports.

BuzzFeed publishes nearly 400 posts per day. Earlier this year, however, the viral giant began quietly deleting an unknown number of three- and four-year-old listicles that “no longer met our editorial standards.” So what exactly are those “editorial standards”?

Huge media conglomerate Time Warner rejected an $80 billion takeover offer from News Corp today, but the company may still be "in play," so it's not too late for an even more enormous portion of the U.S. media to fall under the control of Rupert Murdoch, a rich old climate change denier.

Summer jam alert! As long as you live in New York's great borough of Brooklyn, that is. Someone has finally written a song about us—well, Brooklyn girls to be exact, but doesn't everyone in Brooklyn love dancing on the street and "waiting for the L train" (North Brooklyn's main subway line)?

These five dogs in wheelcarts prove they're just as into chasing sticks as any "normal" mutt. Although some of them have survived awful, traumatic lives, a typical day now consists of walkies (wheelies?) with friends, writes Gritta Goetz, who operates an animal sanctuary in Lanzenhain, Germany.

James Lacroix, 53, is perhaps the nicest, most confused home intruder in recorded history. After reportedly sneaking into the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport on Tuesday night, having a lovely chat with Ted Kennedy Jr.'s son, and relaxing with a book, he told cops he was just looking for Katy Perry.

Since the Great Recession of 2008, the political focus has shifted in turn from widespread unemployment, to acute long-term unemployment, and, now, to the perils of widespread part-time underemployment. Does part-time work have to mean full-time poverty?